Elizabeth Edwards To Coulter: Stop Attacks
Plea Comes After Commentator Says She Wishes John Edwards Had Been Killed By Terrorists
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Edwards-Coulter Showdown
CBS News RAW: Elizabeth Edwards told Ann Coulter on a recent edition of MSNBC's "Hardball" that the conservative commentator was lowering the level of political discussion in the U.S.
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Elizabeth Edwards, left, and Ann Coulter (CBS/AP)
“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.”
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See all 292 CommentsTo people like her and today, Ann Coulter, arguing with them is a waste of time. The only way they will believe otherwise is when it is their turn to take a one-way trip to Gitmo, or face a firing squad.
SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!
Sowing hatred is the only way that Ann has ever gotten attention.
Hey, don.......had enough to drink tonight? good grief. Talk about abuse.
A quote that made me think of you:
"BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP.
BUT UGLY IS TO THE BONE."
Regards,
emhawks
end of story.
Ratings ?
Sure, but he seemed to be above such trash.
Ann, you are a human of little class and respect. When only death is your last resort to try to stay alive, you need to hang it up. The republican party is imploding anyway. I know you are upset because of that, but that is no reason to wish death upon someone else. I have to say even Maher was also in the wrong, even though I am no Cheney fan.
Just remember all you foolish republicans or anyone who agrees with Coulter's rant - the evidence exists to impeach Bush and to try him and Cheney for war crimes and crimes against humanity. All the Democrats need to do is begin the Articles of Impeachment. Will it happen? No, but if it did, it would only be a meaningless political move.
Dude!
Posted by ainttaken
Well, nobody's perfect.
Posted by donnie900 at 01:46 AM : Jun 27, 2007
Oh dart board donald, Annie Hoe is gots her legs spread wider than the Manhattan and a whole bigs as de grand o canyon. U buth gots a bulls eyes 4 u big snoozes ready 4 de darts.
Posted by donnie900
Annie Hoe is a huckster sells books to the mind numbed masses peddled as truthh and speaks like she mads at God 4 bringing her smelly whole into this world. If she sole tooth why she nots sells di wrold trd towers when they be blown ups. HA tell me tat u wise foookkking dart board.
Posted by ainttaken
Well, nobody's perfect.
Posted by sparks224 at 01:53 AM : Jun 27, 2007
She's lower then donnie900......
CBS translation department reports this last page of mindless gibberish is actually Coulter supporters defending her position.ed
Posted by RandalDS
when he's drunk or sober? On this site he seems totally hammered all the time, probably shooting up drano too.
Gawd what a loser.
Why does cbs allow such hammerheads to undermine these posts ?
Otherwise they can be really interesting and thought provoking. Shame.
Give them Hell, Coulter. They arrogantly ignore the will of the people and then pretend they care about the dialogue and the process. What a bunch of garbage.
Gawd what a loser.
Why does cbs allow such hammerheads to undermine these posts ?
Otherwise they can be really interesting and thought provoking. Shame.
Posted by yamuttya at 02:27 AM : Jun 27, 2007
I do apologize to those I offend with my post but in my opinion, donnie900 is just speaking that way to get his point across he%u2019s not that crazy or dumb it%u2019s an act. Nevertheless, of course, it%u2019s not justification; such is the days of our times. The facts that people like Coulter think that others will shrink if she out gutters them. In addition, she does create a huge distraction from the real issues in this country. She%u2019s a gutter media hoe and if Democratic Leadership doesn%u2019t find a pit bull of their own to rip that foul mouthed, scummy act away from her Coulter will continue to rage on all the way to the bank. This country has slid into the abyss; all great nations have peak and valleys no doubt the US is heading down hill without any brakes.
Maybe that's the point. The mind set of right wing fascists have not infiltrated the majority of human thought so as a minority they have to fight with their claws like a rabid filthy cat having just waded through a heavy layer of kitty poo.
Anyone who listens to Coulter is a waste of bio mass.
Posted by drivelphobe at 02:29 AM : Jun 27, 2007
This is the problem with Fascism and those who practice it. They think THEY are superior and only THEY have an opinion. They always talk about the will of the people but when the People go to the polls, tell their leaders they want an a War that isn't necessary stopped, it's pushed aside for attacks like Coulters. These Nazi's have been attacking anyone and everyone who does not agree with them for how long now? What good has it done the American People. We are NOW looked upon by the entire world as a fascist society at a time when our enemy is Terrorism. Anyone who thinks that is a good thing is in outer space with our Vice President.
Coulter has never been married because no man can ever stand her. She will die an old maid one day, alone, bitter and very lonely.
But her object is to win...by whatever means possible.
The problem is: we actually expect the truth from our pundits: the WHOLE truth. Coulter will only publish the truth that supports her latest hatchet job, and that makes her 'facts' untrustworthy.
It's a shame, that such a well-financed, highly-trained team should be ignored over their one-sidedness, but that's the way it goes.
I understand their claim, that the mainstream media is somewhat tilted to the left. But their wholesale pandering to the right is hardly a remedy. It's more like a warning...of what not to do...
Edwards wasted her time even addressing her, not worth the 2-seconds to think about a word out her mouth.
There was like 10 people around her during the interview. One grinning fool with a "marry me ann" sign and a girl that looked to be about 12 grinning and laughing at comments that I doubt she could even comprehend. Very inane, you have to wonder why our media even covers this - considering the true state of our country. Hmm- she is momentarily distracting, other than that hand her a finger nail file and move on.
Posted by MEBoard
Truer words never spoken, amen
Posted by ramos937 at 04:32 AM : Jun 27, 2007
No she is like creamy peanut butter her legs spread real easy would you share with 2 other men at the same time?
i know that's hateful and spiteful but that's what she does to me - makes me hateful & spiteful!
How does America ever expect to " EXPORT DEMOCRACY" when it's obviously just a snakepit of venom and bile.
People living under dictators look at Rove, Cheney and Coulter and say " well at least the trains run on time ".
America you got some 'splainin' to do.
"Go *** yourself"! Yours in christ...
Posted by neoconRcrazy at 06:37 AM : Jun 27, 2007
Coulter is beating the drum for a dying ideology. The neocons have been discredited beyond repair.
No amount of her nastiness will resurrect it.
Posted by janem4 at 06:29 AM : Jun 27, 2007
Go ahead janem4, tell us how God cursed Edward's wife with cancer because she isn't a neocon and God is......
Posted by ozilot at 07:02 AM : Jun 27, 2007
Good one! Can you imagine trying to live with that nasty broad?
Nothing but unaldurated hate with not a scintilla of humanness......
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