Sorry for my delay in some of the pings this week, my pesky life got in the way.
On or off, FReepmail jellybean or ping me.
Cheers,
knewshound
Posted on 06/28/2007 1:23:15 PM PDT by Dan Evans
The Edwards campaign is apparently still running low on donations, so this week they went back to their top fundraiser: me.
I doubled the ratings of the lowest-rated cable news show on Tuesday by agreeing to go on for a full hour to promote my new paperback version of "Godless" – a mistake I won't make again. As I was walking to the set, minutes before airtime, it was casually mentioned to me that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, might call in.
For the first time in recorded history, the show's host did not interrupt a guest, but let Elizabeth Edwards ramble on and on, allowing her to browbeat me for being mean to her husband.
Say, did any TV host ever surprise Al Franken, Bill Maher or Arianna Huffington with a call by the wife of someone they've made nasty remarks about? How about a call to John Edwards from the wife of a doctor he bankrupted with his junk-science lawsuits?
I think I may have tuned out at some point, so I can only speak to the first 45 minutes of Elizabeth Edwards' harangue, but it mostly consisted of utterly dishonest renditions of things I had said on my "Good Morning America" interview this week and a column I wrote four years ago. (You can't rush Edwards' "rapid response team"!) She claimed I had launched unprovoked attacks on the Edwards' dead son and called for a terrorist attack on her husband.
These are bald-faced lies, and the mainstream media know they are lies. Yet they were repeated ad nauseam on Wednesday by the Associated Press, the AOL pop-up window, CNN, NBC and – stunningly – the host of the lowest-rated cable show himself, who personally told me he knew the truth.
So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
Here is my full sentence on "Good Morning America," which the media deceptively truncated, referring to a joke I told about Edwards six months ago that made liberals cry: "But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack – so I've learned my lesson: If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
The usual nut websites posted a zillion denunciations of my appearance on "Good Morning America" immediately after I appeared Monday morning. But it didn't occur to any of them simply to lie about what I had said. No, it took them nearly 36 hours to concoct a version of that quote that included the Edwards part, but not the Maher part, or what English language speakers call: "the point."
By tomorrow it will be: "Ann Coulter tried to kill John Edwards on 'Good Morning America'!"
Judging by his fundraising efforts so far, I gather most of you don't know who John Edwards is – unless you're an overpriced hair dresser. He's the trial lawyer who pretended in court to channel the spirit of a handicapped fetus in front of illiterate jurors to scam tens of millions of dollars off of innocent doctors. According to The New York Times, Edwards told one jury: "She speaks to you through me. ... And I have to tell you right now – I didn't plan to talk about this – right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you."
Let me also quote from campaign consultant Bob Shrum's book "No Excuses":
"(Kerry) was even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone else – that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before – and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn't pick Edwards unless he met with him again."
Apparently every time Edwards began a story about his dead son with "I've never told anyone this before," everyone on the campaign could lip-sync the story with him.
As a commentator, I bring facts like these to the attention of the American people in a lively way. Thus, for example, in a column about the Democratic candidates for president written in 2003, I pointed out that the Democrats refused to discuss the economy or the war, but had recently "discovered a surprise campaign issue: It turns out that several of them have had a death in the family."
Among several examples of Democrats talking about a death in the family on the campaign trail was this one:
John Edwards injects his son's fatal car accident into his campaign by demanding that everyone notice how he refuses to inject his son's fatal car accident into his campaign.
Edwards has talked about his son's death in a 1996 car accident on "Good Morning America," in dozens of profiles and in his new book. ("It was and is the most important fact of my life.") His 1998 Senate campaign ads featured film footage of Edwards at a learning lab he founded in honor of his son, titled "The Wade Edwards Learning Lab." He wears his son's Outward Bound pin on his suit lapel. He was going to wear it on his sleeve, until someone suggested that might be a little too "on the nose."
If you want points for not using your son's death politically, don't you have to take down all those "Ask me about my son's death in a horrific car accident" bumper stickers? Edwards is like a politician who keeps announcing that he will not use his opponent's criminal record for partisan political advantage.
Manifestly, I was not making fun of their son's death; I was making fun of John Edwards' incredibly creepy habit of invoking his son's tragic death to advance his political career – a practice so repellant, it even made John Kerry queasy.
I'm a little tired of losers trying to raise campaign cash or TV ratings off of my coattails, particularly when they use their afflictions or bereavement schedules to try to silence the opposition. From now on, I'm attacking only serious presidential candidates, like Dennis Kucinich.
What's even worse is the treatment she get from Freepers who listen to the leftist's deliberately misquoting her and then condemning her for being so awful. I think some freepers can give the average liberal cretin a run for their money when it comes to ignorance.
But this is Mrs Edwards account of the call (from some article linked on Drudge):
“Edwards said she did not consult her husband before making the call, though she said campaign aides tracked down the phone number for her. She was sitting in an airport between campaign visits when she saw Coulter on television and called the show.”
There is some wiggle room but Mrs Edwards is trying to give the impression of spontaneity, rather than a planned event coordinated with Mr Matthews. But someone on the Matthews show knew of the call in advance...
Sounds like she regrets not having refused to go on the show after they told her of the call and to just let that Bitch crissy hanging?
I don’t care what anyone says, Anne is a conservative treasure! God bless her for having the spine our politicians lack.
Nice catch, DBrow. Sounds like Elizabeth was fibbing.
LOL!
How long did it take after Elzabeths staged call-in-
for the Edwards’ sympathy appeal for money to be posted to their campaign web site?
Ann Coulter Finally Strikes Back
Posted by Right-Wing Champion
On News/Activism 06/28/2007 2:12:48 PM PDT · 22 replies · 1,968+ views
Human Events ^ | 6/28/2007 | Ann Coulter
Coulter responds to the Edwards
Posted by JWR_Editor
On News/Activism 06/28/2007 12:52:10 PM PDT · 75 replies · 2,454+ views
JewishWorldReview.com ^ | 6/28/07 | Ann Coulter
That was no lady - that was my husband
Posted by Dan Evans
On News/Activism 06/28/2007 1:23:15 PM PDT · 31 replies · 1,420+ views
WND ^ | 6/28/2007 | Ann Coulter
***YouTube video of ANN COULTER vs Lizzy Edwards [MRS. "Silky Pony"] from Hardball (6/26/07)***
Posted by Syncro
On News/Activism 06/27/2007 1:00:10 AM PDT · 252 replies · 5,132+ views
THE INSTITUTE OF PHENOMONOLOGY ^ | June27, 2007 | Dr. Zoo
search Free Republic for threads with COULTER in the titleor
search Free Republic for threads marked with the keyword ANNCOULTER
What’s the lag for a T1 line?
Maybe Wayback Machine is logging the Edwards site (it logged Kerry’s site and you could see every change).
Set it up over three days with Matthews, check the questions/answers, distribute the scripts, inform ancillary outputs that the event was coming up (to assure secondary coverage), make sure of the timing, run it through staff, wait for the cue- and the cue was, see Coulter on TV.
Not really a fib.
“For the first time in recorded history, the show’s host did not interrupt a guest, but let Elizabeth Edwards ramble on and on,”
LMFAO!
Rush: Mrs. Edwards Ambushes Vice President CoulterFrom www.rushlimbaugh.com:
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I'm getting a lot of e-mails, "When are you going to talk about this Ann Coulter thing with Chris Matthews?" Yes, we've got audio sound bites about it. I just want to say one thing about this, well, maybe a couple things about this. If you don't know what happened which is not hard to understand because it was on Hardball and nobody watches that show in great numbers, we'll have some audio and we'll get to it at some point. I don't know when, Mike, so don't panic setting it up. It's not going to be any time soon. But just a clear setup. It was like when George H. W. Bush back in the '90 campaign was on Larry King Live and Stephanopoulos called in and started arguing. George H. W. Bush is a guest, he'd been invited on, and he was ambushed by George Stephanopoulos. King is out there acting all surprised that Stephanopoulos got through. I know how these things work, because I, ladies and gentlemen, have been on these shows and have been ambushed too. That's why I don't do these things, it's not productive.
Ann Coulter was clearly ambushed. If you listen to the transcript and you listen to what Elizabeth Edwards said when she called in, it was a script she was reading. Now they've put out a fundraising letter on their website and in an e-mail, because the Edwards campaign is foundering, the Edwards campaign is in trouble. They need money. Look, it's easy, you go on television, you finish, and somebody says, "You know what you shoulda said," and sometimes I've resented that, but if I would have been on that show last night and been ambushed by a guy's wife, the guy doesn't have the guts to call himself.
By the way, to skewer Ann Coulter for bringing up the death of their son, Wade, they're the ones that exploit their son's death. I've got two pages of websites and links that I can establish and prove that these two are the ones exploiting their own son's death.
But here's the thing. If I'm Ann Coulter what I coulda said or woulda said, "Well, what is this? This is interesting, Chris, here I am as a guest on a national cable show hosted by you, a notorious left-winger, I am appearing willingly, even though I don't suspect ambushes like this, I'm not surprised that you've set one up. Yet Mrs. Edwards, so glad you called, so nice to talk to you, so nice that your husband has your skirt to hide behind. Your husband refuses to appear on Fox News in any format because he considers them hostile, he considers them invalid, and yet he sends you out to criticize me because I'm appearing on an enemy network. So nice to have you call in, Mrs. Edwards, so that your husband can send you out to fight his battles. This is some presidential quality that he is displaying here by having you go out and do this." That's one of the things that I would have said. It's easy to come up with this stuff after the fact.
I'm not being critical of Ann Coulter.
She's my vice president on the 1/2 Hour News Hour on the Fox News Channel, and, you know, when I'm down in Cabo Wabo, sometimes she's running the country...
-- snip --
June 18, 2007, 1:02 PM
PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW — - ANN COULTER'S NEW BOOK, IN STORES OCTOBER 2: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be RepublicansALSO: GODLESS IN PAPERBACK, OUT JUNE 26TH:Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Paperback)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
