DUmmy "babylonsister" posts a message to Ann Coulter from a Special Olympics guy

[Tess Anderson]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024419735

I guess babbleonsister forgets what Obama said a few years back - posting the letter because there's no way he wrote that:

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 09:57 AM

 babylonsister (146,252 posts)


Dear Ann...



 He touched my heart.

After Ann Coulter referred to President Obama as a retard in a tweet during Monday night's presidential debate, Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens penned her this open letter:

Dear Ann Coulter,

Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren't dumb and you aren't shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult? I'm a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public's perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night. I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have. Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next. Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift. Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more. After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV. I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash. Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor. No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much. Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.
 
A friend you haven't made yet,
John Franklin Stephens
Global Messenger
Special Olympics Virginia

He doesn't even want to be compared to Obama.

[Purple Sage]

  

[Big Dog]

babbleonsister's OP is about a two year old tweet.

That's like telling a Lee Iacocca joke.

 

[dane]

babbleonsister's OP is about a two year old tweet.

I just read all the responses posted over there thus far, and no one asked BabbleonSister about the date of that presidential debate.

One of them does link to a 2012 Huffpo article however in s/h/it's response.  That might count.

[Dori]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024419735

I guess babbleonsister forgets what Obama said a few years back

I just did a DU search for "Obama, Special Olympics" and all I got was a processing error. 

Amazing the lengths the left will go to protect their Messiah 

 

[GOBUCKS]

John Franklin Stephens is a retard.

The jug-eared muslim is a full retard.

[JohnnyReb]

A Special Olympics retard writes better than most DU DUmmies........how can that be.    

[Chris_]

A Special Olympics retard writes better than most DU DUmmies........how can that be.    

John Franklin Stevens should write cover letters for rsmithnumbers.

[RayRaytheSBS]

Wow.. to all the DUches, this is what you just did..

[Ptarmigan]

One of the most prolific posters at DU.   This has been under the radar.

[FiddyBeowulf]

Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says

Yep, when he is not reading from script. Uh, uh, um, uh...

[JakeStyle]

What a bunch of regards.

[Splashdown]

She's also pissed off that "Friends" went off the air.

[98ZJUSMC]

Dear Ann Coulter,

Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren't dumb and you aren't shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult? I'm a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public's perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night. I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have. Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next. Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift. Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more. After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV. I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash. Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor. No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much. Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.
 
A friend you haven't made yet,
John Franklin Stephens
Global Messenger
Special Olympics Virginia

Complete and utter bullshit.  My sister is high-functioning Downs Syndrome.  There is no way in hell that letter was written by one afflicted with Downs Syndrome without lots of help.

[Wineslob]

Complete and utter bullshit.  My sister is high-functioning Downs Syndrome.  There is no way in hell that letter was written by one afflicted with Downs Syndrome without lots of help.

This.

[dane]

When it is pointed out to B.S. that it is two year old tweet, she defends herself thusly

babylonsister (146,256 posts)

61. I didn't know when it happened-saw it on
FB and loved the letter. Is that okay with you?

But in the OP she mentions the Monday night presidential debate.  Is she *really* so out of touch she doesn't realized there wasn't a presidential debate Monday night - not even for the last many, many Monday nights.

It must be a burden being one of a group of people who tout themselves as smarter than the rest of us, and still not have a clue.

[MoshMasterD]

Complete and utter bullshit.  My sister is high-functioning Downs Syndrome.  There is no way in hell that letter was written by one afflicted with Downs Syndrome without lots of help.

I agree, I call shenanigans on this too.

[GOBUCKS]

Complete and utter bullshit.  My sister is high-functioning Downs Syndrome.  There is no way in hell that letter was written by one afflicted with Downs Syndrome without lots of help.

It's like reading nadin's entries on Crazy Miriam's blog, and finding no word salad or nadinisms. Someone else did the writing.