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Elizabeth Edwards tells Ann Coulter to can it
By Stone Martindale Jun 28, 2007, 18:17 GMT
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She's such a hate monger. She'll say anything about anybody, as long as it cruel and wrong. Why does the news keep acknowledging her?
Who gives a rat's butt about edwards anyway. He has made a living as an ambulance chaser so the whole deal of putting his wife up to making the phone call is just more of the same. If there is one thing certain in this world today it is that john edwards will never be a presidential nominee.
Right on Ann!!
Coulter is wrong on all counts,including her childlike display of insults.She has no shame. She is an uneducated woman or man,im not really sure what she is.
Whats worse is the reality of John Edwards, Wealthy scam lawyer hippocrite who uses all for personal gain. Huge carbon footprint no doubt. Actions speak louder than words, finally someone called out these scam artists. Think about the exploitation of victims by the edwards...unreal
Why worry about Ann Coulter? Just another media creation to generate buzz and ratings. This is news?
she is unkind and even if she has a factual point it is lost with such tactics. I for one am tired of pathetic attempts by bloggers cum political commentators to increase their own personal currency at the expense of others. In other words, she has nothing intelligent to say, only trying to stir the pot for her own reward. She will fade away soon from the public eye.
ann coulter has no room to critize the appearance of other people. to me she looks like a transvestite
Good for Elizabeth Edwards that she stood up for decency and confronted that political whore and pathetic excuse for a human being, Ann Coulter! Coulter has a very long history of spewing poison and hate. Unless someone permanently tapes her mouth shut, this won't be the last time we'll be subjected to her despicable thoughts. Coulter's rabid attacks and polluted thinking is so completely in line with her other rightist cronies who lack the balls to say what she does. They nobly allow her to carry out their loathing of the opposition and cheer her on for more filthy remarks. I will never forget Coulter's other prized comment about then-President Clinton when she lamented, 'where is Lee Harvey Oswald now'? She is an extremely sick, disgusting pig of a woman. Big shame on you, too, Chris Matthews, for allowing such vermin on Hardball. It is appareent that you are solely after the ratings the outlandish behavior this bitch would generate for your show.
You are supposed to believe that Ms. Coulter is a brainless, bomb throwing,bigotted bimbo so as not to notice how she changed the dynamics of the Democratic campaign. Who has received the most press attention in the last 2 days and the most sympathy? John Edwards is now noticed again...Hillary and Barrack were getting all the press..Ms. Edwards put herself in the middle of this, maybe without Ann Coulters knowledge, maybe not, and re-ignites her husband's spot. Who wins..?? John hasn't had this much press since Ann Coulter's last verbal assault..
If I may suggest, the next time Ann Coulter, or anyone of her ilk Republican or Democrat, is interviewed on a so called news program, lets turn the television off and email the program and tell them why. Anyone who is not respectful, who is rude and crude, or just plane cruel should not be given the time of day. Let alone be paid to speak.
coulter is a moron.
Ms. Coulter is typical of the ultra-right wing of this country. Spews hatred, then when challenged starts sweating, gets nervous and finally just starts talking over everyone else, shouting and screaming. A good definition of Ms. Coulter: typical uninformed bimbo.
It's too bad that Ann Coulter is such a hate-filled person that she will probably never have a spouse or child and thus will never know what it is like to lose one.
Why does Ann Coulter have an adams apple? Hmmmmm.....seems as though she/he is pretending to be something other than a journalist also.
Typical of right wingnuts that they would find a skeletal, soul-dead, fascist opportunist to be attractive and intelligent. After all, the emotional and maturity makeup of most right winger's rival that of a 2-year old. We need more grown-ups in the world, not spoiled bullies like Coulter.
Ann Coulter, it seems to me, is just an idiot who craves media attention, and has no scruples about what she says or does to gain it (whenever her book sales start to slump, in particular). And she doesn't even write particularly well, from the books and articles of hers that I've seen...
Besides the fact that she is hungry!
And what is she doing in a cocktail dress at 2pm? Did she just come home from the party? She has an ugly heart. IF she has one at all! Wearing a crucifix with her inappropriate (for day) outfit doesn't change that!
She activates my gag reflex!
YUK!
Go Elizabeth Edwards!
Is Ann dating anyone these days? Has she ever been married? Does she have any children. Given the evidence it appears that John Edwards is anything but a 'faggot.' Can we say the same for Ann? Why doesn't she spend her time outing the closeted folks in the Bush Administration? I think Ann is munching some rug these days considering how she seems to be overly concerned with the sexual predilictions of others. I'm not an Edwards supporter but I'm just a sayin' Ann, are you still dating former RNC chief Ken Mehlman? Or is that even possible?
Beltway Greg
Mentioning the Edwards and decency in the same sentence is an oxymoron.
How to make an Ann Coulter? Combine 1 egg, 1 sperm, cigarettes, alcohol, and bitterness. Bring to a boil over HIGH heat. Stir frequently. Remove from heat and let stand for 45 years.
I guess to be a lib these days; first you have to be a hypocrite, I mean how long have we heard the hate speech about Bush from the left. From Grandma eating dog food to world war III and the Orwellian police state, those 'mean spirited Bambi killing right wingers are going to ruin America'. I mean do we all suffer from collective or 'selective' memory loss? Edwards and his bunch are making mountains of cash in portraying themselves in ways that should be open to question. As in the case of the 'Fairness Doctrine' is free speech only applicable to the 'correct opinion' of the arbiter? Whom would that arbiter be? Coulter is no worse than Frankin or Maher and should be allowed to express her opinion. After all isn't that what free speech really is. Maybe the we should fear the approaching police state coming from the left instead of the right.
its unbelievable how far people will go for politics. many of the things that coulter said were completely rude, and yet who does john edwards wife think she is? she has no right to get involved in her husbands matters. all of this was just some scheme though up to bring the attention off of hiliary clinton and to have poeple see that edwards was making an attempt to run for president. either way, edwards has no chance and his wife should stay out of politics. she maked a fool out of herself.
'In the past, Ann Coulter has called John Edwards a 'faggot' and recently expressed that she wished he [Edwards] had died in a terrorist attack.'
Now that is some accurate reporting. You left out the key word, 'If', as in 'If I had said I wished [Edwards] had died in a terrorist attack...'
Which is worse? To call Edwards a faggot or to wish he was killed in a terrorist attack like Bill Maher said about Dick Cheney? But you are so dense, the subtlety escapes you.
Damn crooked libertrolls
It is interesting to see the subjects that Ann Coulter chooses to trash. How long would she last if her comment about widows benefiting from 9/11 were something similar about Jews and the holocaust. Her style is a perfect example of what America has reduced its intelligence to.
The whole thing makes me sick, enough with the hate, seems to be her reason for living and to act like it is funny is even worse.
I like the turn off the program and email the show as to why idea, the sponsors might have to pay some attention.
Ann Coulter is a dog! Why do people in the media think it is the thing to do to be a vulgar and hateful as they can. It's one thing to criticize someone's political ideas but to spew out hateful remarks shows a big lack of intelligence - as though you aren't smart enough to talk otherwise. She apparently has had some best seller books, but I always wonder that just because someone buys a book doesn't mean they liked it or would buy it again.
I watched her on the O'Rielly factor to see what she had to say, and she is really a dog who couldn't keep her hands out of her hair and her voice was really irritating.
When should Ann Coulter go back to hell?
Is this what is called journalism today? I guess I didn't catch that I was on the entertainment-editorial page. Why is it that when liberal whack jobs mouth off, spew racial and hateful speech and attack anyone considered conservative or remotely close to it, nothing happens and no one writes articles like this one slamming and degrading them??
I understood what she was saying about John Edwards being killed in a terrorist attack - she wasn't saying it, she just said someone got by with saying the same thing, so maybe that is something you can get by with, BUT if she is guilty of the bumper sticker statement, that is beyond cruel! At any rate she is a first class B*tch!!
Ann Coulter is a catty, idiot who doesn't have the sense God gave a goose. Amazing how much those lips keep moving with her foot stuck in her mouth.
Ann Coulter should be catagorized right along with Paris Hilton.World Class 'Skank'. She is nothing but a 'Sex pot wanna be' who would die trying if she thought she could. She is nauseating the way she flings back her a hair and has the manners of a sick cow. I am an independent voter, but if I were republican i would not want the likes of that viper representing me or any of my interests!!!
what type of person would buy her books??
Ann is right on Point.
I have always found Ann Coulter to be reasonable in her dialogue. Don't let anyone silence Ann . The liberals melt away when exposed in the lime-light of Ann's brilliant truth. We have a lot of 'BITCHES' in this country today, but Ann Cooulter is not one of them.
Can someone please fire Ann Coulter. She is a hateful person.
A very strange way of making a living.
Martin
Coulter is their secret weapon? She's a prissy little viper and media whore who -- for some reason -- the Republicans think is a hot babe. Puh-lease!
Fighting dirty made her famous, but it's not enough to distract us from the real issues this election season: the war, the economy, and corporate shills like Coulter.
Fighting dirty is her motto, but for someone who always insults people for their looks she sure lives in a glass house. A beauty? Maybe for sexually repressed Republicans. To me she looks like a skull with a wig on.
she's just like paris hilton .madonna and all them other sluts.
a fart in the wind
I would like to cut that witch Ann Coulters head off and then crap down her neck. Then take the severed skull and do her in the eye socket. That is all that hate monger deserves.
If you think Ann Coulter is vicious, uncouth and rude, try reading the highly paid commentators in the ' N Y Times' who like to pretend that they represent the best and most erudite America has to offer. Check the poison from Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich etc. They make slanderous and sophomoric remarks and unproven innuendo against the administration that would not be allowed in a high school paper, but it's o k because they are in favor of socialist causes. When Molly Ivins was alive, she dipped into the same language cesspool for 'intelligent and witty' writing. The so called 'top' writers are no more civilised than the bottom...they just get paid more. Ann Coulter is just as guilty of crudeness as Maureen Dowd, but she gets chewed up for it because she is a capitalist.
Is is my imagination, or does Ms. Coulter have the longes face on earth?
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She never said that Edwards should be killed. She said that she should have said that, since some on the left have said the same about members of the current administration without any notice or outcry. Coulter was making a point. She is denounced for even the slightest insult or attack, while those on the left make comments that are treasonous and no one says a word. Get the facts right before you write your articles. Does she go too far, sure. But that was not the case this time.
There's a reason I don't watch Ann Coulter, and she made it very clear. Why even bother discussing it? She's obviously ill.
Annie loves to sell books! Nonetheless, she's never:
Lied to a federal judge.
Didled an intern, that we know of.
Obtained 800 FBI records on her enemies, thern blamed it on Vince Foster.
Taken chinese campaign money
Taken Russian campaign money
Pardoned a congressman who was convicted for bribery and mail fraud
Had Sandy berg(L)ar sell influence to oil comppanies.
Edwards is a political cadaver. Get over it.
Why bother to give credence to any one in the public eye who has to use crude, rude, distasteful remarks to get a point across or for shock value? As far as I'm concerned it doesn't make them appear very intelligent. Granted this Ann person isn't the only one who is a b**ch, but if she did make the remark about the bumper sticker regarding the Edwards' son, she is beyond cruel. Some of these people spout off much worse things than Imus did to get him canned.
I hadn;t really thought about it but maybe she is really a he after all. That could explain why 'it' seems so bitterly frustrated all of the time. It is either that or constipation!
SP4!! why don't you go marry that meida whore if you love her so much...
Don't talk about lies...At least clinton'slies did not get thousands killed in Iraq...
Politics is necessary. Politics is even interesting. But there is nothing necessary or interesting about Ann Coulter. She capitalizes on her outrageous language, lacking any true point or real meaning. Her 'show' is not her message, it's herself. Like Paris Hilton, she has nothing of substance to offer and she is all about shock value. So, as I did during and after Paris' jail term, I will turn off whatever form of media is desperate enough to give her any air time. I do not want my political arguments centering on anyone being called a 'faggot' or any other such obscenity. Like the silly song goes, 'keep it above the waistline, sunshine'. If you don't, I will turn you off, media moguls. Interesting how the right-wingers write in, claiming the left does this too. Find me a leftie who calls anyone a faggot! Except comedians, that is. Comedians are free to do whateveer they think is funny. Political commentators should be able to behave decently. So that cuts out Ann C.
SP4---should be proud to support this skinny hate monger. Everything you list is a fact, but the list that this administration has complied would take a bit more space. I guess you do not mind that these lies cost us 3500 + soldiers in a war that you cannot even tell us when we will be successful???
Any politician that lies should be held accountable, but lies that cost should be punishable by imprisonment. Most of my right wing friends cannot support the lies and deception this administration has put forth, are upset at the lives lost by not having a plan for the war, are upset by the spending that has put this country in peril. Here you go again supporting all of this, have you no shame???
John needs to pull Liz aside and let her know that if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. The operative word here is hypocrite. Politics is a contact sport.
It is nice to see how sensitive some folks can get when they are put on the defensive about their own freedoms of expression. When Lefty tools like Michael Moore are allowed to portray the 'evil' ways of this administration, they go unchecked by the so called media that is supposed to deliver unbiased news. When someone like Ann Coulter speaks out against the Leftist machine, and the 'news' agencies that support it, she is immediately called a 'bitch' and a 'whore'? When Leftist politicians bash our troops, the same troops who are providing the luxuries of freedom and safety to all Americans, they give no apologies. Why should who confronts these politicians have to be quiet, or apologize for demonstrating free speech?
It is a shame that this type of speech has to be spoken to get a point across, by either party. I am, however, pleased to see that someone is standing up and starting to 'play dirty' against the Lefty's who try so many under-handed and deceitful tactics in tryin to convinve the American people that their view is the only view and if you don't conform to them, then how dumb you must be. Odd how even the most profound Liberals have to have another Liberal tell him what to think. If you cant fend for yourself, that's a good way to end a population.
I find Ann refreshing and a great wit, highly educated and the only one really taking on the left. All her replys are based on what the left has already said, and the left does not get that. Reminds me of when Rush runs a sound bite of a Democrat and then replys. And the Democrats scream like a cat whose tail has been stepped on hard. The media only plays the one side so what can you expect. Even when Ann said they had said it first, did you see the first quote in print? I think not.
Yeah, who gives a rat's ass about poor people, minorities, very old or very young people anyway.
Ann's god is money. Period. Her listeners are even more pathetic.
Everything has been said about this that needs to be said for clarification. Only a bigot would approval Ann Coulter's long history of verbal abuse. Granted, we have a great many of them. Clearly, this speaks to the failure of our educational system and the spiritual paucity of our society. Ann Coulter's remarks resonate with a great many people who feel smarter and better when someone else is being trashed. At root, this is a moral failing but we have to hope that education can eventually move our society in a more constructive direction. Meanwhile, the people that are not entirely clueless should do some moral work *ourselves* and refuse to support such trash as Coulter's and Limbaugh's pseudo-intellectual garbage.
Wonder how many Health care professionals have been run out of Business by this greed monger. Glad to see these rich hypocrits exposed for what they are. Cannot believe anyone would feel sorry for these clowns.
The real bigots are these libs that rape the poor and deny them oppurtunity by taking all their money, What does Edwards charge for these jury trials?, This type of thinking...known as a welfare state has decimated the black community and led to numerous social ills. Why do you need a dad when the government will pay...Thanks to libs like the Edwards for hurting regular people and riding their pain all the way to the bank....Yeah critize Walmart then sell the hell out of your book there...Google that story...
Who the heck is Stone Martindale? It writes like a 12-year-old.
Talk about unprofessional!
Politics might be a 'contact sport' but when you stoop to saying cruel, hateful things like wishing someone was killed and making remarks about a dead son, that is another thing. The pundits can criticize all they want to about a politician's stand, but I draw the line when the remarks are that personal and sick! Ann Coulter loves the sound of her own voice and, of course, her hair. She and Bill O'Rielly were cut from the same cloth - soiled and well worn!
The insistence that coulter is a comedian has become as tiresome as the disparate marginalized groups that banded together to give themselves a newfound strength to counter the elements of our democracy they despise, from abortion to religion to governmental socialist programs to protections for the vast minorities to the judicial system to the constitution. whew.
In the past year these groups have become more aware that they were duped by charlatans who told them anything they wanted to hear and have taken some of their grievances to the public. Our political bias and prejudices have led to at least the perception that certain groups will supoort one party or another and there is some validity to that. Blacks are no longer a 99% bloc for the democrats and the evangelicals have been very dismayed that they no longer have even cursory input into gop policy.
ann coulter plays to these tragically groups who do not even comprehend the damage they do themselves by asserting for years that she is a comedian. i have yet to see an audience laugh. the truth is she reflects the deep-rooted hatred that has been the primary motive for gop supporters who loathe democrats far and above any foreign enemy. they parrot the party lines regardless of whether they have any basis in reality and installed their dream team of a gop federal government in all three branches. the real humor in that is the continued tirades against democrats when the ill-conceived policies of the gop fail.
one of the greatest delusions they suffer is the fairytale fantasy that holding corporations accountable is directly responsible for low salaries. the adamant refusal to insist closing the gap between ceo's and standard employees is far more damaging than the incessant cacophony directed at lawyers whose greatest achievements have been those which benefit everyone throught the imposition of rules and regulations. the vast majority do not understand the most basic of procedural matters so they have no idea what results ultimately determine the
outcome of a case.
perhaps the worst trait is the attacks on americans who bring to the public forum the experience that puts a personal face on the cost of ill-advised policies. the standard response to families who have suffered the death of loved ones or soldiers who have served in times of war is to attack them for citing the real-world impact this has on americans. when the modus operandi for the gop upper echelon is to avoid miltary service in order to realize obscene profits by sending others to war is despicable. to claim that people are happy that their family members have been killed as a result of the ill-conceived policies of the gop is insulting, disgraceful and dishonorable whether it takes place today or three years ago.
i love my country and chose to serve in the national guard. i have been on one short tour in iraq. there is little to equate the attacks i get from the pusillanimous pachyderns as they attempt to divert attention from their cowardice. it is shameful and in no way is support of our troops. supporting the disastrous policies of team w runs directly in contrast to support for those who are asked to shoulder that burden.
this atrocity has yet to stir amusement, mirth or jocularity within me, so would someone please explain the joke?
...other than my glaring, in-your-face facts, I AM an asshole! As for the war, I would comment, but this was about Anne Coulter.
Annie likes to sell books. This is why she does this. While not an act, it definitely is theatre.
By the way, the enemy killed 3500 troops, plus the 12 to 15,000 IRAQI troops, something the libnazis never seem to mention...hmmm....
It's less trouble to wish Coulter had died in a terriost attack.
If Jeff Zelevansky is the author of this hatchet piece you're either a bold faced liar or an incredibly sloppy journalist. Almost none of what you say here is true in the way you say it. You have left impressions of what Ann Coulter has said and done that are simply false. Shame on you! You engage in what you accuse Coulter of doing.
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