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November 5, 2012
After pundit Ann Coulter called Barack Obama a "retard" on Twitter, John Franklin Stephens, a Special Olympian with Down syndrome, responded with an open letter in which he wrote, "You, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor."
