Posted on 06/26/2007 4:05:45 PM PDT by SmithL
Raleigh, N.C. (AP) -- Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to "stop the personal attacks," a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards' husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.
"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" program, 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 she 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.
On ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday, Coulter was asked about a March speech in which she 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, picking up on remarks made by HBO's Bill Maher. Maher suggested in March that "people wouldn't be dying needlessly" if Vice President Dick Cheney had been killed in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan.
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Ah, the “I have cancer, so my queer husband is beyond” rebuke plan.
LOL Edward’s WIFE is asking a pundit to stop picking on her husband??? I don’t think she realizes how that will play in the other America. Poor little Breck girl, mommy tells the mean old girl to stop picking on you. A Dukakis tank moment to be sure.
I’ve asked Ann to do lots of things for me but so far no luck.
How about the Edwards Brett Girl Machine stop their attacks?
Next they will pull out the “cancer” sympathy card.
Meadow Muffin
And did ms edwards tell Maher to shut up? NO! So she has her answer.....No.
“It drives people away from the process. We can’t have a debate about issues if you’re using this kind of language.”
Anybody tell that to the hate-filled moonbats at TruthOut, ThinkProgress, and KOS?
This is humorous. The libs live in such a protect false reality...that they don’t realize what their OWN PUNDITS do to the conservative right. Like it only happens to them??? Give me a freakin’ break. Such pansies, whiners and wimps. The limo libs — a disgusting lot.
Ann Coulter — I laugh more at what your write and say than I do with anyone else around right now. You make Will Rogers look like a piker. Don’t you change a thing. You are the Dorothy Parker of this generation.
Edwards is still running?
Triple BARF alert needed!
I laugh more at what Ann Coulter writes and says than I do with anyone else around right now. She makes Will Rogers look like a piker. Don’t change a thing. She is the Dorothy Parker of this generation and she’s on our side.
LOL — I posted the same message twice because it took so long to update. There must be a lot of fans posting to the thread.
Edwards is still running?
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Probably from Ann Coulter!!!! :-)
I knew John was the one wearing the panties.
I keep getting them confused. Which one is the Breck Girl, Elizabeth or John?
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