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Chris Matthews Sandbags Ann Coulter With Live Call-In From Elizabeth Edwards
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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."


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; chrismatthews; coulter; edwards; msnbc
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To: Cecily
Elizabeth Edwards - OWNED! on national television. What a doofus.

Elizabeth was protecting her bitch, who was cowering under the table, afraid to take on Ann, as Ms. Coulter pointed out.

181 posted on 06/26/2007 7:45:14 PM PDT by montag813
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To: KingLiberty
Putting yourself in Jesus place to figure out what he might have said is akin to idolotry. It's much better to see what Jesus actually said, and lo and behold He seems to have actually mentioned her by name (in the King James translation):

John 8 11She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

182 posted on 06/26/2007 7:50:36 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Cecily

I can’t help but think Mrs. Clinton isn’t very happy that Matthews brought up the subject.


183 posted on 06/26/2007 7:50:36 PM PDT by skr (Car bombs and IEDs are the exclamation marks for the latest Democrats' talking points.)
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To: montag813
Can't wait to read Ann's column Wednesday.
184 posted on 06/26/2007 7:50:39 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: pablo H

“You, Phil Donahue,Geraldo, and Dan Rather would love to shut up Coulter.”

No, I would prefer that conservatives listen to intelligent commentators so they could intelligently win against liberalism.

We don’t need conservatives that drive people away from our ideas by being venomous brats.


185 posted on 06/26/2007 7:51:28 PM PDT by Conservative Youth
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

“It was surprising to hear Matthews come out against the Amnesty bill in his conversation with Ann.”

— —

6 out of 7 people in the United States are against illegal immigration. The other 1 out of 7 are Mexicans.


186 posted on 06/26/2007 7:55:59 PM PDT by HighWheeler (A true liberal today is a combination of socialist, fascist, hypocrite, and anti-American.)
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To: Conservative Youth

“We don’t need conservatives that drive people away from our ideas by being venomous brats.”

— —

First off, yes we do.

Secondly, Ann went into attack mode only after Crissy pushed her into an IED (Idiotic Edwards Democrat)

Third she pounded the crap out of the IED by revealing some embarrassing truth about that idiot Edwards.

Fourth, Ann and Rush are about the last high profile Conservatives with courage to face off and slam the libs with the truth.


187 posted on 06/26/2007 8:02:22 PM PDT by HighWheeler (A true liberal today is a combination of socialist, fascist, hypocrite, and anti-American.)
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To: Radix

Uuuhh, what?


188 posted on 06/26/2007 8:02:24 PM PDT by reuben kincaid
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To: Radix

I’ve reread your post and I apologize for my ignorance. If you need a friend...I’m here for you man...


189 posted on 06/26/2007 8:02:25 PM PDT by reuben kincaid
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To: tgslTakoma; kristinn
...you can hear Kristinn yelling out, while Mrs. Edwards is whining on -air, [para]

"Why isn't John Edwards here, himself?"

and then Ann said,

"Yes! Why isn't John Edwards here?" ...

Way to go, WARLORD!
Helping Ann look good on national television is getting to be your specialty!

190 posted on 06/26/2007 8:14:05 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: Conservative Youth
You're probably the only person whose accused Coulter of being stupid. Thats probably news to her professors at the Michigan Law School, the SCOTUS justice she clerked for, and every editor whose worked with her on her 4 best selling books.

But you’re probably much smarter, since you post on FR.

Normally, all the liberals that post on FR, and pose as conservatives, attack Coulter as evil or too thin. You’re the first one that called her stupid.

191 posted on 06/26/2007 8:17:11 PM PDT by pablo H (Remember '96- No more Doles!)
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To: Conservative Youth
Ad hominem attacks are not intelligent attacks. She’s not an intelligent representative of the conservative movement. She’s an idiot.

Hmmm....that sounds like an ad hominem...that is so unchristian of you...

BTW, how old are you really?

192 posted on 06/26/2007 8:20:10 PM PDT by Seeking the truth (Freep Gear & Pajama Patrol Badges @ www.0cents.com)
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To: RonDog
Helping Ann look good on national television is getting to be your specialty!
See also, from D.C. Chapter Report--Crossfire w/ Ann Coulter 8/05/02:

Excerpt from CNN transcript...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I'm Christian Taylor (ph) from Washington, D.C.

Mr. Begala, when will the powerful former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin be called to testify in the Senate about asking the Bush treasury department to manipulate Enron's credit rating?

And when he made that call, was Mr. Rubin acting on behalf of the people or on behalf of the powerful Citigroup that he works for?

BEGALA: Well, of course, the Republicans have the power to subpoena him and the House of Representatives. They have declined to do so. I wish they would, because he'd teach them something about running the economy. These guys have run the economy into the ground. Bob Rubin did a hell of a job. I'm proud to call him my friend. They can call him any time. He can teach them a thing or two about this economy.

COULTER: Party of the people...

text and source is here

193 posted on 06/26/2007 8:20:27 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: Sub-Driver

How sad. John has to have his dying wife do his dirty work.

And Ann is correct: John is a two-faced, lying piece of human garbage that preys on the helpless while attacking decent people with the legal system he and his liberal ilk set up to extort money for personal gain while playing the “I just care about the poor” schtick and hiding their incomes behind fake LLC’s and off-shore loopholes they bemoan “the rich” for using.

Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin have more character. May they all rot in hell.


194 posted on 06/26/2007 8:25:26 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Bush turned into a squishy liberal. He's worse than his daddy. Quit and let Cheney handle things!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
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.

Sure they do. Right after they spoken behind your back to everyone they can.

195 posted on 06/26/2007 8:30:39 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: KingLiberty; Syncro
I’m sitting here reading an Ann book, Brit Spears, the little minx, singing in the background, and I’ll sign off now with thoughts of Ann sugerpluming in my mind.
LOL!
Perhaps THIS will help!
From Syncro, screen shots from Hannity & Colmes last night:







196 posted on 06/26/2007 8:38:08 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: muawiyah
A sign the cancer is beginning to affect her brain.

How totally despicable!

197 posted on 06/26/2007 8:44:24 PM PDT by IIntense
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To: Radix

Hmm...weird, I typed a much longer response...this is the danger of having too many windows open at the same time! I was responding to Pablo’s post, in which he called The Coopster a liberal drama queen and stating: “What did you expect coming on a conservative site and attacking Ann Coulter, that we would agree?”

The response I was trying to make was that some of us DO agree with Coopster despite Pablo’s contention that “we” (which seems to be trying to speak for FR as a whole) would not agree with anyone who dared to dislike Ann Coulter.


198 posted on 06/26/2007 8:50:32 PM PDT by cammie
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To: Radix
I am also an idiot for not recognizing that only a woman could be so logically disabled.

Ah, I see the Free Republic He-Man Women Haters Club is making a return as well. Nothing like a little sexism to make the conservative worldview more appealing to women. /sarc

199 posted on 06/26/2007 8:55:55 PM PDT by cammie
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To: Sub-Driver

It sounds as if Ann didn’t know ahead of time that Mrs. Edwards was going to call.

Matthews is SLIME.


200 posted on 06/26/2007 8:57:01 PM PDT by Sun (Vote for Duncan Hunter in the primaries. See you there. http://www.gohunter08.com/Home.aspx)
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