WASHINGTON - Best-selling right-wing author Ann Coulter shocked an audience at the American Conservative Union's Political Action Conference and left some members in tears last night when she called flamboyant musician Liberace, D-Nev., a "faggot."
"Oh, no!" cried an elderly member of the audience. "You're breaking our hearts. Say it's not true, say it's not true!"
Coulter tried to speak over the wailing in the room. When the noise had died down, she assured the crowd, "It's just a joke, it's just a joke."
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that Coulter showed "extremely poor taste" in joking about Liberace's sexual orientation.
