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."
Only libs get to do personal attacks. That is the rule.
They probably enjoy verbally slapping him around.
“Matthews: “Why do you bring up the word, ‘chubby?’ Why do you make fun of Hillary’s chubby legs?”
Is Chrissy conceding that the Hildebeat does in fact have chubby legs? Too funny.
because Ann and I don't hang out with the same people."
Coulter: "I don't have enough money."
Either are any of the Breck Boy's neighbors.
$$$$
Are you on drugs?
“More people die daily in America than watch his show”
LOL, It’s a quagmire!!!
The headline will eventually read “... sandbags Edwards with call in by his wife.” Can’t the Breck girl stand up for himself? Mommy has to tell the mean old girl to stop picking on her little boy? ROFL
Is that your idea of reasoned discourse? Grow up.
Elizabeth Edwards asks commentator Ann Coulter to stop attacks
Posted by Baladas
On News/Activism 06/26/2007 4:58:08 PM PDT
Associated Press ^ | June 26, 2007 | Associated Press
Chris Matthews Sandbags Ann Coulter With Live Call-In From Elizabeth Edwards
Posted by Sub-Driver
On News/Activism 06/26/2007 4:39:34 PM PDT · 44 replies · 867+ views
NewBusters ^
Ms. Edwards Asks Coulter to Stop Attacks
Posted by SmithL
On News/Activism 06/26/2007 4:05:45 PM PDT · 47 replies · 1,603+ views
AP via SFGate ^ | 6/26/7 | MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writer
Ann is unblindsideable. Libs don’t get it, she loves this stuff.
This is the first time I have seen Ann in a townhall environment— having to speak on various topics extemporaneously. I was very impressed by her performance. She didn’t get dry mouth or hem and haw and she stayed in character the whole time. She’s more skilled than some of the people running for President. She’s obviously worked very hard to be this good and I respect that.
As a used-to-be Republican, I shudder at the amount of verbal abuse, slander and mean spirited names leveled at conservatives by the left, and now by the very people I worked so hard to support, and the punk Chrissy is whining about Ann saying Hillary has “chubby legs.” Maybe Ann said Hillary has chubby legs because Hillary has chubby legs. Besides, what exactly has Edwards contributed to political dialog other than the two Americas horse crap? He is just trying to stir up hate.
We have a winner!
Nah, he gets high on offering gratuitously provokative opinions.
Why is she on that idiots show in the first place
I'm not sure if MSNBC qualifies as national television. :0)
Thanks for posting the transcript, Sub.
Typical Liberal Ambush
The Breck Girl doesn’t have the stones to confront AC so the Breck Girl sends the little wife.
AC not only “bitch slapped” Chrissy “I joined the Peace Corps ‘cause I didn’t have the stones to join the Marine Corps” Matthews but also for good measure “bitch slapped” the Breck Girl’s little wife too. Two for the price of one.
“Don’t come to a gunfight with a knife.” LMAO
I think that should read, “More people die daily in America watching his show”
Matthews is like video Halcion
Anyone that would think otherwise is very, very naive....Edwards is now a "veteran" of national campaigns, and he and his wife both know not to utter a word without approval.
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