Elizabeth Edwards To Coulter: Stop Attacks

Plea Comes After Commentator Says She Wishes John Edwards Had Been Killed By Terrorists

(AP)  Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to “stop the personal attacks,” a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards' husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.

“The things she has said over the years, not just about John but about other candidates, lowers the political dialogue at precisely the time we need to raise it,” Edwards said by phone on MSNBC's “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” where Coulter was a guest.

Elizabeth Edwards said she did not consult her husband before confronting Coulter on the air, adding that she felt the pundit's remarks were “a dialogue on hatefulness and ugliness.”

“It debases political dialogue,” Edwards said. “It drives people away from the process. We can't have a debate about issues if you're using this kind of language.”

Coulter responded with a laugh, and charged that Edwards was calling on her to stop speaking altogether. She questioned why Elizabeth Edwards was making a phone call on behalf of her husband, and criticized John Edwards for “stealing doctors' money” during his successful career as a trial lawyer.

“I don't think I need to be told to stop writing by Elizabeth Edwards, thank you,” Coulter said.

Coulter appeared Monday on ABC's “Good Morning America,” where she was asked about her March speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. During that talk, Coulter used a gay slur to refer to Edwards.

“If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot,” Coulter said Monday, riffing on remarks made by HBO's Bill Maher.

He suggested in March that “people wouldn't be dying needlessly” if Vice President Dick Cheney had been killed in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan.

With the close of the second-quarter fundraising period approaching Saturday, the Edwards campaign quickly turned Coulter's comments into fundraising fodder. Edwards adviser Joe Trippi sent an e-mail to supporters Tuesday, saying critics “will stop at nothing to tear John down.”

“We are fighting back, but we need your help,” Trippi wrote. “Give what you can today.”

During the brief “Hardball' segment, during which both Edwards and Coulter frequently interrupted and talked over each other, Coulter criticized the Edwards campaign for using her comments to raise money.

“I'm raising money on him,” Coulter cracked. “And from what I've read, I'm raising more money than he is.”

[da3rd1]

Ann Coulter is a joke...she is the GOP media's answer to Paris Hilton....she is talentless and will do or say anything for attention...C U Next Tuesday, Ann....

[da3rd1]

Ann Coulter is a joke...she is the GOP media's answer to Paris Hilton....she is talentless and will do or say anything for attention...C U Next Tuesday, Ann....

[da3rd1]

Ann Coulter is a joke...she is the GOP media's answer to Paris Hilton....she is talentless and will do or say anything for attention...C U Next Tuesday, Ann....

[slipster01]

"The GOP's favorite Transgender Spokesmodel, mANN Coulter
Posted by veteran71 at 06:32 PM : Jun 27, 2007"

Kinda like Billary Clinton, or Barbie Girl Edwards, or bottom-of-the-lake Bed Kennedy?

What's the point in name calling?

This story is all about free-non regulated publicity for the Edwards campaign. Ann Coulter is not a political strategist, yet, to give this story legs, she is made out to be one.

You can take it to the bank that the response from Elizabeth Edwards was well rehearesed, thought out, scripted, and planned by the Edwards campaign machine to milk this story for all it's worth in the press for free publicity for them. Why else would they immediately send out e-mails asking for money based on Ann Coulters remarks? What is money supposed to do about it? Fill the coffers of teh Edwards campaign, and not do a thing against Coulter.

[slipster01]

"The GOP's favorite Transgender Spokesmodel, mANN Coulter
Posted by veteran71 at 06:32 PM : Jun 27, 2007"

Kinda like Billary Clinton, or Barbie Girl Edwards, or bottom-of-the-lake Bed Kennedy?

What's the point in name calling?

This story is all about free-non regulated publicity for the Edwards campaign. Ann Coulter is not a political strategist, yet, to give this story legs, she is made out to be one.

You can take it to the bank that the response from Elizabeth Edwards was well rehearesed, thought out, scripted, and planned by the Edwards campaign machine to milk this story for all it's worth in the press for free publicity for them. Why else would they immediately send out e-mails asking for money based on Ann Coulters remarks? What is money supposed to do about it? Fill the coffers of teh Edwards campaign, and not do a thing against Coulter.

[slipster01]

"The GOP's favorite Transgender Spokesmodel, mANN Coulter
Posted by veteran71 at 06:32 PM : Jun 27, 2007"

Kinda like Billary Clinton, or Barbie Girl Edwards, or bottom-of-the-lake Bed Kennedy?

What's the point in name calling?

This story is all about free-non regulated publicity for the Edwards campaign. Ann Coulter is not a political strategist, yet, to give this story legs, she is made out to be one.

You can take it to the bank that the response from Elizabeth Edwards was well rehearesed, thought out, scripted, and planned by the Edwards campaign machine to milk this story for all it's worth in the press for free publicity for them. Why else would they immediately send out e-mails asking for money based on Ann Coulters remarks? What is money supposed to do about it? Fill the coffers of teh Edwards campaign, and not do a thing against Coulter.

[slipster01]

"The GOP's favorite Transgender Spokesmodel, mANN Coulter
Posted by veteran71 at 06:32 PM : Jun 27, 2007"

Kinda like Billary Clinton, or Barbie Girl Edwards, or bottom-of-the-lake Bed Kennedy?

What's the point in name calling?

This story is all about free-non regulated publicity for the Edwards campaign. Ann Coulter is not a political strategist, yet, to give this story legs, she is made out to be one.

You can take it to the bank that the response from Elizabeth Edwards was well rehearesed, thought out, scripted, and planned by the Edwards campaign machine to milk this story for all it's worth in the press for free publicity for them. Why else would they immediately send out e-mails asking for money based on Ann Coulters remarks? What is money supposed to do about it? Fill the coffers of teh Edwards campaign, and not do a thing against Coulter.

[wayfedup]

I personall speaking, would like to see MS. Coulter A$$-RAPED by a band of diseased gorillas.

[yamuttya]

Ann Coulter is the BEST
Posted by b48151

If this is the right wing zealot position in 08,the dems would appear to win in a cakewalk.

[taylpatr]

Ann Coulter is just the female version of Rush Limbaugh. He's just an entertainer, just like her. Anyone who thinks that either one has a valid, informed opinion needs to start looking at legitamite sources of information. Opinions are like a*s*sholes-everybody has one. I just don't think that clowns like Coulter or Limbaugh should be paid for showing theirs.By the way, Ann, you look like a speed freak.If you looked a little healthier, maybe you could get laid.Then you might be a happy person!

[jacksteen1]

Ann Coulter is not about political correctness or fairness - she is about revenge, gossip, rumour-mongering, name-calling, mud-slinging, slander, and defamation...exactly the attributes that have won her selected "party of Lincoln" the seat of government since Ronnie Ragoon took over in the '80's...with a brief respite from the lies and thievery during Clinton's bright years.

Her vituperative and slanderous remarks about Edwards, calling him the common barnyard epithet that her party revels in using in shorthand (sparing their "Log Cabin Repuublicans", Kweers that are as silly an idea as Jewish Nazis) showed her true side - that of a divisive, ignorant Daugter of Priviledge that envisions herself as some sort of Guardian of the Gate, keeping those deemed 'unclean' or 'unworthy' away from the table of Democracy and Freedom.

This vision, friends, is why the entire Republicunt Party is so dangerous to America...they seriously believe THEY are the arbiters of who shall and who shall not enjoy America's basic freedoms.

The Republicrap Party's current front runners for the Presidency include a serial-marriage addict, a mormon zealot who is the spawn of at least 13 incestuous generations of cross-eyed, inbred cousins, brothers, and sisters, and a failed actor and former Senator who makes a basset-hound look downright pretty (and whose current wife is younger than his youngest daughter)...

[xzavierbrown]

I will try this all so popular liberal retort to everything:

"but Elizbeth..your husband does it..the liberals all do it..the DNC politicans base thier arguments on it..so if you guys do it all so feverishly, then why cant others"

[jegibbons]

Ann Coulter's rhetoric is too inflammatory for my comfort and yet she's not THE candidate running for President.
If by some, quirk, Mr. Edwards were EVER to be elected, the ENEMIES of the United States will have a lot worse and NASTIER in store for him.

If this dizzy, bony blond is too much for him we, the voters, should know that now.
It appears he,(Mr. Edwards)needs to toughen up his pampered, pretty self. He's in for a long dog fight and the tough job he is seeking is not for the queasy or faint hearted.

John Edwards is a preposterously, pretentious namby-pamby. Elizabeth Edwards appears to be a loving wife who chooses to defend her husband.
It is my sincerest hope that Mr. Edwards isn't asking his sick wife to do his scrapping for him.

I happen to believe Mrs. Edwards is correct. Civilized rhetoric has vanished from the current political dialogue and is the cause for much of the contentious and dangerous division among American voters.

I don't believe this started with Miss Coulter and I do not believe her ill considered remark has hurt Mr. Edwards. If anything, it appears to have boosted his campaign coffers. There you have it! NO HARM DONE, NO FAULT, NO FOWL! It's more of that nasty business of presidential politics, 2007.

[geezer62]

I feel that it would benefit the GOP to put a muzzle on Ms. Coulter. I think she does them much more harm than good. As an independent voter, I am interested in getting as much information as possible in order to base my decisions about whom I will vote for. Her comments are SO offensive to me that I find it difficult to vote for a republican. I love to listen to lively political debate but she offers nothing to the debate process. She is, in a word, disgusting. I have tried to keep my comments clean in accordance with your posting rules but it has been difficult. Better stop now before the profanity starts to emerge.

[actornaught]

lilv'b, where do you get your 'facts' to claim (laughing here) that having time to listen to radio means you're so much more often employed?

[superdem]

Let Coulter talk, she does more to undermine her side's legitimacy than any reasoned argument a progressive might offer. Wishing someone dead from a terrorist attack - nice, Ann. Bin Laden agrees with you. No real American could.

[randalds]

What, no one seems to be offended when Harry Reid calls the sitting commander in chief a loser.

Posted by lilvinnyb at 04:32 PM : Jun 27, 2007

Um...that would be because Bush is...a loser, I mean. Much worse then that actually.

[lilvinnyb]

What, no one seems to be offended when Harry Reid calls the sitting commander in chief a loser. Where is Edwards on that issue.

On the fairness doctrine, another exmaple of liberals trying to FORCE people to listen to their ideas.....how american.

didnt air america just file for bankruptcy. Fact is no one wants to hear liberals whine and tell us how bad our country is.....thats all they seem to do.

Face is, talk radio listeners are higher educated and have higher incomes. We listen to talk radio on our way to work and back home. We cant help it if soooo many dems simply dont have jobs.

[randalds]

I don't think that Elizabeth Edwards should lower herself to the point of even acknowledging the existence of this germ, this disease named Coulter.

[realpatriot1]

mocaleo,

The real irony for the right wing is that Hillary and Boxer would never be able to generate much interest in the fairness doctrine on their own but Coulter has given new life to it.

Ed Schultz is beating the *** out of Hannity in every market where they're head-to-head but Clear Channel and the other handful of mega corporations
monopolizing the airwaves won't allow them entrance into any more markets. Schultz is in about 6 markets and hannity in almost 300.

This legislation is clearly needed. Thanks for the heads up!