Elizabeth Edwards Defends Whoopi Raunchfest

NewsMax.com ^ | July 9, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

The wife of vice presidential hopeful John Edwards is defending Whoopi Goldberg after the potty-mouthed comedienne attacked President Bush with an X-rated monologue at Thursday night's Kerry-Edwards fundraiser in New York.

Rejecting calls for her husband's campaign to apologize for Goldberg's outburst, Mrs. Edwards said Friday that the anti-Bush tirade was justified.

"A lot of people are going to be angry - there's a lot to be angry about," she told reporters at a fundraising breakfast on Manhattan's West side. "It's a free country and people are going to express that anger."

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Agreed, pettifogger. This thread is lacking in class and decency, no matter what Elizabeth Edwards said. We should be above this kind of tacky talk, imho.

On that note, I'm outta here and leaving for a lovely 16th anniversary weekend. :o)

[myrabach]

What's up with this frumpy little twit? If it wasn't for low class she would have no class at all...

[hummingbird]

"STEEEE-RIKE....ONE!"

[BushisTheMan]

Not that I'm her defender, but if you looked at their wedding picture, it might explain it.

I guess it is still baby fat from the twins...how old are they now? 6?

[cake_crumb]

"It is very typical. Pretty boys don't do well with girls."

Agreed. SOME are too feminine, but the REST just can't stand a woman as or more attracive then they are competing with them in the admiration dept. Their egos are definitely more fragile than average looking men. At least, that was always my experience.

Hubby isn't UNattractive, but nobody would honestly call him "pretty" either. He'd be the first to laugh.

[got_moab?]

Twins?? Looks to me like she had triplets and ate one of them.

[Aggie Mama]

Shame on you. This is not what conservatism is about. Playing with photoshop and posting pictures that an 8 year old would giggle over won't win any votes. As a matter of fact, this type of behavior plays in to the mindset that conservatives and Republicans are mean and uncaring people.

So she needs to exercise and eat less--so what? Are you without vice or fault? Let's win this election on the issues and not stoop to the baseboard level of Michael Moore.

[Howlin]

Gross. Ask the moderator to take that down.

[Mamzelle]

...has lived her life enjoying the *fat* settlements milked out of insurance companies, raising everyone's premiums and putting insurance out of the reach of many Americans...and Elizabeth was buttering up the crowd...Elizabeth has provided the ballast to a turbulent trip...she's "solid" and "steady"... supplying a much-needed counterpoint to the youth and attractiveness of her husband...

This could be fun.

[kinghorse]

meant to say E-Trade Commercial.

You know the one where pool boy "Johnny" gets called by his Sugar Momma to rub between her toes. That is my impression of what it is to be Teresa Heinz-Kerry-Simoes.

[wtc911]

Drew number 178....very safe in '73.

[KC_Conspirator]

Who is that brunette on the far right? A nanny?

[jocwhales]

I graduated from high school in '71 and proceeded on to NCSU, which happens to be when Edwards was there. The details escape me, but as I remember, the college deferment was dropped when the "lotto" type selection was instituted. By that, I mean, every day of the year was printed on some pingpong balls, and were removed randomly from a bin, one by one. The date of your birth (if you were a male and physically eligible)was assigned a number that matched the sequential order that it was drawn from the hopper. That number became your draft number.

Mine was something like 327, which, at the time, was too high to be drafted. I stayed in college, but I know at least one classmate who volunteered, after his birth date came up in the low numbers. Maybe someone else can be more specific about the draft policy at the time, but this is how I remember it.

[cake_crumb]

"It said, 'I'm not overweight, I'm undertall!' "

LOL, I rememebr that one. She reminds me of my ex-mother in-law : built like a 2x4.

I refuse to apologize to the crowd of posters on this thread - most of whos screen names I've never or seldom seen before - preaching that we shouldn't be cruel to someone who's being cruel.

She started it by getting catty with the First Lady, and THIS lady will get catty right back.

I EARNED my "It's THE B*tch, Buster" bumpersticker for a reason.

Look at the furthest swell of her bosom in the front, then follow the line of her jacket around the small of her back and posterior. While she's not as overweight as she appears at first glance, the woman IS very overweight. She makes Hillary's hips and thighs look as slim and trim as Suzanne Somers' (sp?).

[sarasota]

Do you have any further info on Edwards cashing in on his son's death? I'd like to hear more.

[BlueNgold]

Yeah baby! The soccer moms in peoria will LOVE this one!

[Howlin]

What did she say about Laura Bush?

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Howlin]

But the case remembered as his biggest win came in 1997 and involved a 5-year-old girl who was injured by a swimming-pool drain. The drain cover was off and the girl was trapped by a suction pump with enough force to extract her intestines. The manufacturer argued that if the cover had been installed correctly, the accident would not have happened.

Edwards countered the company should have provided better warning labels. "Some of the covers say nothing," he said during his summation. "If that continues, it's not a question of whether there's going to be another child hurt. It's just a question of when."

Later, he pulled a newspaper out of his jacket and started to read.

"There was a wonderful, wonderful thing written this past spring. . . . It involved the death of a young boy who shouldn't have died, and what he wrote was this: `We have to gather around this family not because we understand what they're going through, but because -- but because they have to know we share their pain. Our feelings -- our terrible, terrible feelings prove that we really all are part of the same family. Their loss was our loss. Their child was our child.' "

What Edwards did not tell the jury, although some lawyers in the audience knew, was that the piece referred to his own son, Wade, who had been killed in a 1996 car accident at age 16.

When the jury came back with the $23 million verdict, 10 of the 12 jurors were crying, recalled the judge who presided at the trial.

To those who had worked with Edwards for years, the result was familiar. So was the familiar air of empathy.









http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/09/15/edwardss_career_tied_to_jury_award_debate/