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Don Pogreba thinks the Dems should nominate Liz Edwards because she took on Ann Coulter (rhymes with “runt”). He links us to Ann’s latest offensive behavior via Think Progress which states:
Yesterday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Coulter said, “[I]f I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.â€
I have no love for Coutler. None! But I have to think about Edwards’ shop and its intellectual integrity too. Apparently Think Progress (actually Howard Dean in this case) got the bit from Edwards campaign site which says:
This Monday, Ann Coulter took her pattern of personal attacks to a new level. On national television she said that rather than hurling more homophobic slurs, “If I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
But what really happened was this:
Good Morning America co-anchor Chris Cuomo asked Coulter if the fact that “the three top [Republican] candidates” denounced her remark about Edwards was “[f]air criticism of you or a shift towards the tolerant among the GOP.” Coulter answered: “No, no. … I was denounced all over.” She went on to add:COULTER: Though about the same time Bill Maher said — and by the way I did not call John Edwards the “F” word. I said I couldn’t talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word.
When Cuomo responded: “You say — you were joking,” Coulter said:
COULTER: Oh yeah, I wouldn’t insult gays by comparing them to John Edwards. That would be mean, but about the same time — you know — Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished [Vice President] Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I’ve learned my lesson. If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he has been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.
Coulter’s claim that Maher said “he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack” is a reference to a statement on the March 2, 2007, edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. During a discussion of comments deleted from a Huffington Post weblog entry regarding Cheney’s proximity in February in Afghanistan to a suicide bomb attack, Maher claimed to be “quot[ing]” when he said, “But I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow.” Maher later went on to say, “I’m just saying that if he did die — other people — more people would live. That’s a fact.”
I don’t have problems with Edwards villainizing someone like Coulter for politics. As I said, I think she is a (rhymes with runt.) But taking that quote out of context and telling it as fact that she hopes Edwards would die in a terrorist attack is a lie made out of whole cloth. And both he and Liz know it too
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I seldom disagree with you Dave, buy on this one your wrong. I enjoy Colter mearly for the reason she represents what the republician talking heads aren’t-mealy mouth apoligists, forever bending over and grabbing their ankles in order not to offend or be politically correct. I came of age in the late 70’s. It was a time of rampant ridiclue of any thing republican or conservative.. Many times I sat with with so called friends nervously laughing at skits on Sat. Night Live or even Johny Carson while they made fun of people I was voteing for.
With Colter I have my revenge. I enjoy reading her make fun of liberals and conservatives, but most of all liberals.
And those fair weather friends-i send them her columns via e-mail.
Well, Swede, I respect your opinion but I think she is over the top. I’m not one who thinks there’s any value in political correctness at all, buy Coulter takes the debate to the level of the Kossaks – of which I also have no respect. It’s easy to laugh at cheap shots at our ideological opponents – and I have been known to do so. And I’ll admit that there are pejoritives I use that, although true enough in their essence, are offensive (i.e. hand wringing neo-socialist pussies) but I don’t think that most liberals are conciously against the country – as does coulter – and I think it’s much more worthy to make a point than practice what one finds equally disdainful in our opponents.
But you’ll notice that I am, in fact, defending Coulter in this post.
It probably would have been wiser to say that I would rather have Elizabeth than John Edwards and leave it at that.