Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder This piece of trash is at it again. <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/" target="_blank">http://politicalticker.blogs.c nn.com/</a> From the link: "..on Tuesday Elizabeth Edwards directly confronted the best-selling author and asked her to “stop the personal attacks.†“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,†Elizabeth Edwards said in a phone call to MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews as Coulter, a guest on the program, listened. “It debases political dialogue,†Elizabeth Edwards added. “It drives people away from the process. We can’t have a debate about issues if you’re using this kind of language.†"Elizabeth Edwards’ husband, former Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Coulter responded that Elizabeth Edwards was asking her to stop speaking completely and suggested it was hypocritical for the Edwards campaign to criticize her comments after promoting them in fundraising solicitations." The on-air clash came one day after Coulter, appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, joked “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.†On that program, Coulter was referencing the firestorm following her March comments, in which she referred to the North Carolina Democrat as “a faggot†at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference held in Washington. She claimed that, during the same period of time, liberal television host Bill Maher “was not joking†when he said that “he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack.†According to Coulter, Maher didn’t take the same heat for his comments that she did for hers." She's impossible to defend. I dare anyone to try. Thankfully, her kind is fast becoming a dinosaur on the political landscape. At best, she's a national laughingstock.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Thankfully, her kind is fast becoming a dinosaur on the political landscape.<< They really are. And they know it. That's why they have to belch and bleat increasingly outrageous things to get any attention at all. It's not about ideas with them anymore, just burping up something to make grown ups pay some attention to them. But the parade has moved on, leaving her and the fantatics who love her, wondering what happened. They had fooled themselves into believing that they were the "real" America. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I have pretty much given up on television news, in part because they support her kind...on both sides of the aisles. I don't think they are what our forefathers had in mind when they gave away the airwaves. I will say, she often does point out hypocrisy from on the liberal side of the aisle (just as there are those pointing out the other side of that) but she is a victim of her own supposed success). She has to say more outrageous things every time she talks in order to garner attention...not unlike Michael Moore. I have no patience for any of them.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I will say, she often does point out hypocrisy from on the liberal side of the aisle<< Which would be fine if she weren't blind to the hypocrisy of her own party. She's an empty cocktail dress, zero credibility.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF I saw the news clip of this exchange. The demented Barbie was clearly uncomfortable and trying in vain to take control, nervously flipping her hair. She said, "OK, I'll stop writing books." We can only hope...
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Tell ya what. I'll say its wrong for Ann Coulter to say she wished Edwards was dead if you all agree that its wrong for Randy Rhodes to say she wished the President of the United States was dead twice on national Democratic Radio.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Well said. Here's the full transcript, by the way. Note the way Coulter dodges, and then at the end tries to claim that Mrs. Edwards wants her to "stop speaking" entirely. Something, of course, Edwards never said. <a href="http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/26/236510.aspx" target="_blank">http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.c om/archive/2007/06/26/236510.aspx</a> At the end of the show, Matthews said "Ann Coulter, the name of the book is “Godless.†We have sold a lot of her books tonight. I don‘t know if I can go to confession fast enough. " You could see he was actually embarrassed by devoting a whole hour to this woman. I hope the tide is finally turning against this sort of poisonous stuff. It seems to be, at least a little.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The "well said" was for 2oony (I just had a half hour outage of internet), and RT, I love the beneath contempt thing. Very clever.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I'll say its wrong for Ann Coulter to say she wished Edwards was dead if you all agree that its wrong for Randy Rhodes to say she wished the President of the United States was dead twice on national Democratic Radio.<< I think its wrong for anyone to be wishing political foes dead. That isn't political debate, and it only illuminates a lack of ideas to stoop to that. So, where's the double standard? Understand that just because someone is calling out Coulter for her nonsense doesn't mean that they automatically give a pass to someone on the other side employing similar tactics. >>Note the way Coulter dodges, and then at the end tries to claim that Mrs. Edwards wants her to "stop speaking" entirely. Something, of course, Edwards never said.<< Yes, she's a terrible debater. She thinks by getting shriller or throwing out red herrings, she's winning. Of course, if she allowed that Elizabeth Edwards was making a valid point, then she'd quickly realize that snarky comments and shallow insults are all she brings to the party.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger If all Coulter can do is make personal attacks, if that's all the ammo she's got, then asking her to stop making personal attacks is, in effect, asking her to stop speaking entirely.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "If all Coulter can do is make personal attacks, if that's all the ammo she's got, then asking her to stop making personal attacks is, in effect, asking her to stop speaking entirely." LOL. Good point.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Tell ya what. I'll say its wrong for Ann Coulter to say she wished Edwards was dead if you all agree that its wrong for Randy Rhodes to say she wished the President of the United States was dead twice on national Democratic Radio." Not that Rhodes isn't ccompletely wrong as well, but why? We're talking about Coulter here, not anyone else. Condemning her for this in no way should be conditional on condemning someone else. That's ridiculous. She's about as anti-social, anti-progress, anti-gay, anti-decency as there is out there. Calling Edwards a faggot a while back was her bringing out her big guns. It's like saying one won't condemn Hitler until we agree to condemn Mussolini too. What a joke.
Originally Posted By gadzuux As luck would have it, I managed to hear coulter on a local talk radio show this morning (ronn owens - KGO). She was trying to explain the "joke" about edwards being killed by a terror attack. Her rationale (if you can use that word with her) is that it was a reference to bill maher's comments about cheney. Except in maher's case, there actually WAS a bomb set off within a mile of cheney's location in the middle east - about six months ago, when maher made his comment. She went on to say that liberals have no sense of humor, and that there are more people who like her than hate her - they "get it" and everybody else doesn't. Of course I agree that she's an odious harridan, but at least now I understand what she was thinking.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "She went on to say that liberals have no sense of humor, and that there are more people who like her than hate her - they "get it" and everybody else doesn't." When she has to go to such lengths to explain yet another "joke", then likely not as many people "get it" as she thinks. Here's a joke- Ann Coulter walks into a bar. She gets shot in the head, brains oozing everywhere. The punchline- who knew she brains? See, not all that funny, is it?
Originally Posted By HyperTyper >>> Not that Rhodes isn't ccompletely wrong as well, but why? We're talking about Coulter here, not anyone else. Condemning her for this in no way should be conditional on condemning someone else. That's the problem. The left only wants to discuss the ugly remarks from Coulter. It forbids discussion of the inflamatory, obscene marks of liberals ranging from Bill Mahar to Howard Dean (and everyone in between.) The media is in on it, too. They'll remind us again and again about Awful Ann, but turn the other way and whistle when a prominent Democrat personality (much more relevant than Coulter) accuses Bush of being worse than Hitler, says Republicans are evil, wishing death for Bush, Cheney and Tony Snow ... I've heard many conservatives denounce Coulter's invective. Democrats don't do that with their own embarrassing big-mouths. But they don't have to, because the media doesn't press them on the issue. Whether we are conservative or liberal, politicians or otherwise, it is our obligation as decent human beings (assuming that's what we are) to stand-up for what's right, and speak out against cruel, dishonest or irresponsible speech, however protected. Frm what I read here, though, I think many people on this board (left and right) get it. It's a pity more public personalities think there is too much face to lose in admitting they or their colleagues have a serious civility problem.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "That's the problem. The left only wants to discuss the ugly remarks from Coulter. It forbids discussion of the inflamatory, obscene marks of liberals ranging from Bill Mahar to Howard Dean (and everyone in between.) The media is in on it, too. They'll remind us again and again about Awful Ann, but turn the other way and whistle when a prominent Democrat personality (much more relevant than Coulter) accuses Bush of being worse than Hitler, says Republicans are evil, wishing death for Bush, Cheney and Tony Snow ..." Somebody should post awful remarks from the left. I don't listen to Air America and rarely watch Bill Maher. When I have seen Maher, I cringe whenever he gets too smug with the comments, which is practically every show I've seen.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Maher's comments, while deplorable, were at least delivered within a context - the news about cheney's near-miss was in the current cycle at the time of his statement. So if it was a "joke" (I never heard it) people at least understood it, as it was relevant to current events. What seems to be happening here is that all these months later coulter is still fuming about the flak she got over her calling edwards a 'faggot', while she perceives that maher "got away" with his comment. So now when she's questioned again on her earlier comment she states "I'll just stick to saying edwards should be killed in a terrorist attack" which now seems not only vicious and uncalled for, but a complete non sequitor because nobody knows the reference to the maher comment - except coulter fans, who laugh their fool heads off. What I still don't get is why she's singlng out edwards for her contempt. He's a second tier candidate who's not particularly threatening - at least any more so than any democratic candidate. Seems like some kind of vendetta.
