MOMMY!!!!!
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."
Comparing Ann with Al Franken? Coopster, you want reasoned discourse but can’t understand that Coulter’s point of view already contains reason. It’s the discourse that mudies the waters of such wisdom. When met with nonsense from the left Ann and several others don’t give an inch, and that does amount to reason in the present poltical environment.
Ah, I see, when people don’t agree with you about Ann Coulter, we’re labeled “liberals.” Just another example of the trenchant wit that has prevailed here lately. Your statement ranks up with the other recent and overused FR gem, “Go back to DU!” Didn’t realize conservatism meant that you had to agree with every single point and adore every single commentator who shares your political worldview. In fact, I thought THAT was liberalism.
I forthwith will endeavor to follow her example.
What are you agreeing with?
Ann Coulter is too abrasive?
Just what the heck are you meaning, if you do not mind my asking? Please?
But when it comes to Ms Coulter I am totally behind her. For example, her faggot comment. It was meant to attack the un-American practice today of sending people for sensitivity training -- instead of that being the issue Ms Coulter became the "issue."
As far back as I can remember that's been the Left's tactics. "McCarthyism" a word coined by the CP/USA I believe became the "issue" and national security issues were ignored.
Limbaugh's parody of the LA Times' "magic Negro" and other parodies are ignored and Limbaugh becomes the "issue."
Ms Coulter was simply repeating a Bill Maher remark about our Vice President, Maher is not the "issue" but Ms Coulter is. Go figure. (Actually, I have figured. It's what the Left does: lie and distort. And as David Horowitz pointed out, for the Left the "issue" is not the issue. IMO that means that issues are weapons. THE issue is, bring it all down, man.)
Hey Chrissy, maybe Ann said Hillary has chubby legs because one can’t help but notice that fact when forced to look at them. There are a lot worse things one could say about the Beast. BTW, you have big, fat chubby cheeks and stubby little fingers.
As I typed that above...I realized that I am not only an idiot for not earlier considering the notion, I am also an idiot for not recognizing that only a woman could be so logically disabled.
As a woman, coopster should understand Ann more than the males. Ann speaks her mind, speaks it loudly and firmly, and gets attacked like a dog for her views. Then sticks to them! Ann Coulter is a Goddess, all hail Ann, and women should know the strength Ann has shown over the years.
She mopped the floor with that turd burglar!
Mathews is a liberal Democrat - didn;t he support some Dem for President some time ago?
Edwards’ wife is as much a prostituting phony sa her old man.
GET THEM ANN!!!!!
Edwards was so good at channeling babies, in fact, that he could tell exactly which ones were victims of malpractice. Despite the lack of any medical evidence suggesting that Caesarian deliveries lowered cerebral palsy, the Channeller was able to tell juries exactly which babies had been damaged as a result of vaginal delivery ? because he wouldn?t take a case knowing it to be baseless. I don?t believe a man who litigated against Edwards, who told the New York Times: ?He paints himself as a person who was serving the interests of the downtrodden, the widows and the little children. Actually, he was after the cases with the highest verdict potential.? That blasphemer!-Ben Shapiro
MOMMY!!!!!
Ok, now Ann is immoral. She stands up for people fighting a war, for your sake and mine, stands up for the unborn citizens, and so on. Yeah, immoral. Speaking her mind and holding her position, she’s a Christian Soldier and worthy of honor and not attacks on this site.
And there are plenty of people who stand up for soldiers, fight for the unborn, and are good christians that also do not spew negligent and venomous personal attacks on her opponents. This isn’t about her political views - it’s about the way she says them.
Ad hominem attacks are not intelligent attacks. She’s not an intelligent representative of the conservative movement. She’s an idiot.
It's impolite and probably a violation of the Treaty of Westphalia.
Ann's making her way. You make yours.
Coulter: "I don't have enough money."
Oooooh! Good one, Annie!!
He was in the tank for Kerry - and is doing everything he can for Obama and Hillary. He’s also a coward and a bully. If its still online go see Matthews attack on Michelle Malkin, he yelled and talked over her at every opportunity and turned her appearance on “Hardball” into a left-wing joke.
Ann, of course, is bigger and more aggressive so he couldn’t shut her down.
How Christian of you, calling Ann names and degredating her. For shame, my heaven sent emmisary. By the way, if Ann is an idiot, she’s a best selling idiot, and a leader of telling the truth where and when she sees it. What would Jesus say? Go Ann!
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