Posted on 06/26/2007 4:39:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Chris Matthews Sandbags Ann Coulter With Live Call-In From Elizabeth Edwards Posted by Geoffrey Dickens on June 26, 2007 - 19:26.
On tonight's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews blind-sided his guest, conservative columnist Ann Coulter, with a live call from Elizabeth Edwards. The wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, proceeded to demand Coulter to stop her "personal attacks" on her husband, but Coulter shot back that at least she wasn't "bankrupting doctors by giving a shyster, Las Vegas routine."
The following is the full transcript of the exchange as it occurred on the June 26th edition of Hardball:
Chris Matthews: "You know who's on the line? Somebody to respond to what you said about Edwards, yesterday morning, Elizabeth Edwards. She wanted to call in today, we said she could. Elizabeth Edwards go on the line, you're on the line with Ann Coulter."
Elizabeth Edwards: "Hello Chris."
Matthews: "Do you want to say something directly to the person who's with me?"
Edwards: "I was calling, you know, in the South when we, when someone does something that displeases us we want to ask them, politely, to stop doing it. I'd like to ask Ann Coulter to, if she wants to debate on issues, on positions, we certainly disagree with nearly everything she said on your show today. But, but it's quite another matter, to, for these personal attacks. The things she has said over the years, not just about John but about other candidates is, lowers our, our political dialogue, precisely at the time we need to raise it. So I want to use the opportunity, which I don't get much, because Ann and I don't hang out with the same people."
Coulter: "I don't have enough money."
Edwards: "To ask her, politely, to stop the personal attacks."
Coulter: "Okay so I made a joke, let's see, six months ago, and as you point out, they've been raising money off of it, for six months, since then."
Matthews: "But this is just yesterday morning, what you said about him."
Coulter: "I didn't say anything about him, actually, either time."
Edwards: "Ann, Ann you know that's not true. And, and once more, this has been going on for some time."
Coulter: "I don't mind you trying to raise money. I mean it's better this than giving $50,000 speeches to the poor-"
Edwards: "I'm asking you-"
Coulter: "-just to use-
Edwards: "I'm asking you, politely-"
Coulter: "-my name on the Web pages. But as for a debate with me, yeah sure. Yeah we'll have a debate."
Edwards: "I'm asking you, politely, to stop, to stop personal attacks..."
Coulter: "How about you stop raising money on your Web page then? No, you don't have to because, I don't mind."
Edwards: "It didn't start, it did not, it didn't start, it did not start with that. You had a column a number of years ago where you suggested-"
Coulter: "Okay the wife of a presidential candidate-"
Edwards: "Wait till I finish talking please."
Coulter: "-who's calling in and asking me to stop speaking?"
Matthews: "Let her finish the point, let her finish the point."
Coulter: "You're asking me to stop speaking. ‘Stop writing your columns. Stop writing your books.'"
Edwards: "You had a column, you wrote a column several years ago-"
Matthews: "Ann, please."
Coulter: "Okay."
Edwards: "Which made, which made fun of the moment of Charlie Dean's death and suggested that my husband had a bumper sticker on the back of his car that said, ‘Ask me about my dead son.'"
Coulter: "That's now three years ago."
Edwards: "This is not legitimate political dialogue. It debases political dialogue. It draws people away from the process. We can't have a debate about issues if you're using this kind of language."
Coulter responding to audience member: "Yeah why isn't John Edwards making this call?"
Matthews: "Well do you want to respond, while I end this conversation?"
Edwards: "I, I haven't talked to John about this call."
Coulter: "This is just another attempt for-"
Edwards: "I am making this call as a mother. I am, I'm the mother of that boy who died. I, my children participate. These young people behind you are the age of my children, particularly, you're asking them to participate in a dialogue that's based on, on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues and I don't, I don't think that's serving them or this country very well."
[applause]
Matthews: "Thank you very much, Elizabeth Edwards. Well do you, you have all the time in the world to respond to that."
Coulter: "I think, I think we heard all we need to hear. The wife of a presidential candidate is asking me to stop speaking. No."
Matthews: "No, she said you should stop being so negative to people, individually."
Coulter: "Right, as opposed to bankrupting doctors by giving a shyster, Las Vegas routine-"
Matthews: "Okay."
Coulter: "-in front of juries based on science. Wait, you said I'd have as long I would have-"
Matthews: "Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead."
Coulter: "-and you instantly interrupted me. As I was saying, doing these psychic routines in front of illiterate juries to bankrupt doctors, who now can't deliver babies. And to charge a, a poverty group $50,000 for a speech. Don't talk to me about, about how to use language."
Matthews: "Elizabeth?"
Coulter: "That language of hate. And I'm, I, I'm gonna ask you, again, to politely stop using personal attacks as part of your dialogue."
Coulter: "Okay, I'll stop writing books."
Matthews: "Why do you talk about-"
Edwards: "If you can't write them, without them, then that's fine."
Matthews: "Why do talk about Hillary's chubby legs in your book?"
[laughter from audience]
Matthews: "Why do you, I mean, that, that might fall under the category of personal attacks, I don't know, but why do you do that? Why do you talk about Monica Lewinsky's chubbiness? If she were skinny would it had been okay?"
Coulter: "I don't know, read the sentence."
Matthews: "I read the whole sentence, I couldn't feel the context."
Coulter: "Well you have to give it to me and I could explain."
Matthews: "Why do you bring up the word, ‘chubby?' Why do you make fun of Hillary's chubby legs?"
Coulter: "I, I don't know, you're going to have to give me the sentence. And I think-"
Matthews: "It's in the afterward of your book, I just read it this morning."
Coulter: "Well read the sentence!"
Matthews: "We'll, we'll be back and read the entire sentence. We're gonna come right back, I don't know why we're reading, the full intellectual context will be coming in a moment."
Coulter: "Thank you."
Wake up and smell the roses.
Coulter is popular because is essentially the only person the right to not only stand up to you emoters, but to dispatch them.
Both sides.
Start paying attention.
And of course, the Breck Girl's husband (well, if John is the Breck Girl, would that not make...never mind) and his lapdog, Chrissy, twisted those words, as well as those from Ann's "Godless" book, where they keep saying she meant "all" 9/11 widows, instead of just the four harpies who were cutting campaign commercials for Lurch, and hiding behind their husband's death to give them cover for their politicking.
How about this: if widows of husbands killed by terrorist attack can campaign, let's allow the active military to campaign also. In uniform. After all, without them, we have no freedom to vote for whom we choose anyway.
Seriously, I've noticed you dropping in on FR for years now, posting something provokative, and when the inevitable (& deserved, IMO) return fire is received, bemoan at length the lack of intelligence & civility on FR.
Why do you keep coming back? Why not just find another board more suited to your intellect & temperment?
I would point out that I made a comment about AC, and then any comments toward others that may perceived as “not so nice” are in direct response to personal attacks.
You know, she does make sense most of the time. I think she could do so - AND tear people new ones - without being so abrasive. In fact, that would probably be even more hilarious.
Truly - my problem with her relates solely to her attitude. And it’s probably more a symptom of me being fed up with all the venom on both sides, and around here between folks who are supposed to share common goals.
It’s like your family, or mine. Are all of your family members part of the same political ideology? Do you insult them, or call them names, or belittle them?
Of course not - they’re your family.
And coworkers? Are they all of the same political makeup? Do you fill all your work time trading insults at the expense of productivity? If you do, I guarantee you won’t be employed much longer, or the company won’t be in business much longer.
That’s what I am talking about, and why I have become as sick of AC lately as I have been the rabid liberals for years. Someone earlier made the comment that the liberals had the market cornered on hate.
That’s hardly the case anymore. Now we are stooping to their level. And things can get even less productive than they already are(n’t).
Is that really something to be proud of?
And the substance of E. Edwards patronizing self-ebasing moan was?
That's right; NOTHING! Just like your post.
How many besides sfgate.com included the whole story when they printed the AP article? Mr. Mike Baker is not a mere employee of the MSM he's a reporter!"
Coulter: "Okay so I made a joke, let's see, six months ago, and as you point out, they've been raising money off of it, for six months, since then."From mediamatters.org:Matthews: "But this is just yesterday morning, what you said about him."
Coulter: "I didn't say anything about him, actually, either time."
Good Morning America's Chris Cuomo interviews Coulter, promotes GodlessWatch the video of Ann on GMA here:Syndicated columnist and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter appeared on the June 25 edition of ABC's Good Morning America, asserting that she "wouldn't insult gays by comparing them to [Democratic presidential candidate] John Edwards."
Coulter added that at "about the same time" as the March 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference, where she said that she "can't really talk about" Edwards because "you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' "
HBO host Bill Maher "was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack."
Coulter continued: "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..."
mediamatters.org
It is precisely her abrasiveness that endears me to her.
You can take that wimpy PC BS and shove it. Ann does just that, regularly and right up their collective anal canals.
We are literally in the fight of our lives, and for the lives and future of our offspring.
Ann Coulter is riding Point right now, cuz it appears that there is no leading man who has the sac to do what she does, and in a most excellent fashion.
Pat Buchanan writes some good stuff, and he speaks well, but he is a bit too gentlemanly, and he has been successfully marginalized by the crazies in the media.
Another liberal drama queen.
Did you get enough attention yet?
What did you expect coming on a conservative site and attacking Ann Coulter, that we would agree?
Nah. Just poking the hornet’s nest a little, I guess - and seeing how many folks that were worried about their masculinity would make silly/childish comments like yours.
Sounds like mama edwards runs the show, while the breck girl continues to comb his hair.
I agree with you as well.
You can guarantee “The She-male” Edwards was sitting next to his wife panting in anticipation of watching her destroy Coulter. They couldn’t have set up Coulter any better. Funny as hell.
Matthews has singlehandedly lost Holy Cross, Fordham, and Villanova significant amounts of money. When he gave the graduation speech at Holy Cross in 2003, my uncle, a Holy Cross alum, stopped giving money to Holy Cross. When he gave the graduation speech and received an honorary doctorate at Fordham, my father, a Fordham alum, stopped giving money to Fordham. When he gave the graduation speech and received an honorary doctorate at Villanova, my other uncle, whose daughter went to Villanova, stopped giving money to Villanova. He’s a one-man donations-buster.
just proves that the left are thugs.
Edwards nor the 9/11 bimbos are off limits from any attack just because they suffered a tragedy. If that was the case, everybody is off limits
You'll probably just ignore this again, but to Q1 - yes, Q2 - no, but this is like an outsider calling your family member a name and you taking the stranger's side. It's more to me as if I was disowned and kicked out of the house.
Some of us do agree with him
Edwards is a coward, who has played the victim card for money.
Oh, a writer/talking head talked about me! She was mean! Boo Hoo.
Coulter has taken more crap from liberals on this “conservative” website, than Edwards has in his entire political career.
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