Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Ann Coulter(FReep this poll)

AP,AOL ^ | 2007-06-27 | MIKE BAKER

[BBell]

RALEIGH, N.C. (June 27) - 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

[azhenfud]

"We are way behind."

Personally, I don't care for some comments Ann makes. She comes off like a PMS powderkeg with a short, hot fuze. Some remarks made by her have been proven toxic to Conservativism, this situation is indicative.

[stop_fascism]

Real men aren’t ashamed to hide behind their cancer stricken wives.

[waverna]

I am so glad someone else sees it that way. She was illustrating a double standard, not wishing Edwards dead. Any other interpretation is just knee-jerk, or from someone who didn’t hear the entire exchange.

[300magnum]

Poll Results

Which woman is in the right?

Elizabeth Edwards 74% 147,949
Ann Coulter 16% 32,735
Neither 10% 20,466

Note on Poll Results
Total Votes: 201,150

[wideawake]

Again, I'm not insulting her looks - I am saying that the strain of her medication plus her schedule is visible on her face.

She clearly is overdoing it and may be undermining her health.

Oh, and spare me your Pharisaic self-righteousness - I have nursed family members through chemotherapy.

[LottieDah]

“Ditto - that drunken blondie Olive Oyl becomes ever an embarassment!”

Dear Ann, take your Midol.

[Holicheese]

Thank you. I was trying to write what you so skillfully wrote. You summed it up perfectly. The MSM is claiming she called for Edwards to die in a terrorist attck. She did no such thing. Bill Maherr did say that about Dick Cheney and there was not even a sigh from the MSM.

[ReignOfError]

I’m not sure that the conservative cause is helped by Coulter

You could just stop there.

[Osage Orange]

That was my "take" also....

I agree with wideawake.....

[Gideon T. Reader]

Islamic Terrorists would slap the crap out of the Silken Pony, and put him in a burka.

[Pinkbell]

It looks like John spends all the money on hair care in the family. There is none left for his wife.

Seriously, I know the poor woman has cancer. However, it looks like they could still fix her hair up nice. John won’t share his hair money.

[wideawake]

Hey, it’s a cheap internet solution - not everybody needs enough bandwidth to watch internet porn all day.

[FlatLandBeer]

Sarcasm on

Ms. Edwards can not be criticized ever. She has cancer and is dying. So anything she says is as if it is from on high.
How dare anyone speak ill of her or her husband.

Sarcasm off

[Paperdoll]

Elizabeth Edwards 74%

Ann Coulter 16%

Neither 10%

224160 voting

[Deut28]

I don’t understand your comment. How can you say she wasn’t imitating Maher, but later say she made the comment since Maher made a similar one?

Seems rather contradictory.

And my point is there are better ways to point out the double standard. Coulter’s comment gives the media a convenient out to completely ignore the double standard....which they will.

[Paperdoll]

Can you just imagine the laughing stock the country would have made out of FDR if Eleanor had pulled such a prank as Elizabeth Edwards did? Of course those were the days before the ‘feminization’ of males or the ‘testosorization’ of females.

Apparently the tittering of the young audience reflects the mindset of the adult population these days, according to this poll.

How very sad for the nation.

[VeniVidiVici]

As usual, Ann made a witty comment about media double standards and, as usual, her words are being twistedThere are many here that regard any reply to a Democrat attack as beneath them.

[Publius6961]

Coulter's response was that maybe she should just start saying that she wished Edwards was killed by terrorists, since Bill Maher said that about the Vice President and no one made as big a deal about that as they have made about Coulter calling Edwards a girl.
As usual, Ann made a witty comment about media double standards and, as usual, her words are being twisted.

But the terminally PC have no need for subtlety. They want to be loved for being "nice". There has never been any political survival, ever, by being "nice" *.

I look at the bright side. Freedom of speech for everyone. I have the means of sorting them out.

Ann, you go girl!

* Not Rocket Science

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

“Oh, and spare me your Pharisaic self-righteousness”

My comment came from kindness not hypocrisy.

But no matter; I simply disagree.

[wideawake]

How can you say she wasn’t imitating Maher, but later say she made the comment since Maher made a similar one?

She didn't say it seriously - she said "Well, maybe I should say that instead since Bill Maher can say that stuff and get away with it."

She was making a joke about Bill Maher - not making a direct comment about Edwards.

It's as if I said: "Maybe I should call Barack Obama a cokehead, since Bill Maher said Bush was a cokehead."

Am I actually calling Obama a cokehead? No, I am not. I am giving a hypothetical to demonstrate what a clown Maher is.