Vice President Coulter was great on O’Reilly last night, too...I am just in awe of her brilliance.From another thread:
They're claiming Coulter knew it was going to happen.Sort of.
Ann apparently only found out about it a few minutes before the show began.See also, from www.foxnews.com
-- snip --O'REILLY: Continuing now with Ann Coulter. A brand-new FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll says is favored by just 10 percent of Democratic voters. That is not good. So Edwards needs attention, and he needs money in order to jumpstart his campaign. Maybe that's why Elizabeth Edwards called a television program to confront Ms. Coulter the other day.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM "HARDBALL")
ELIZABETH EDWARDS, WIFE OF JOHN EDWARDS: The things that she has said over the years, not just about John, but about other candidates, it lowers our political dialogue precisely at the time we need to raise it. So I wanted to use the opportunity, which I don't get much because Ann and I don't hang out with the same people, to ask her politely to stop the personal attacks.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: OK. Now after that interview, and nobody knows this, we called Elizabeth Edwards and we said, you know, we're really interested in this personal attack stuff because we have a problem with that on the left. Would you come on, either sit on a set or on a phone? No.
Now I am saying to myself, wait a minute, you call into a program that no one watches, all right. And you have a point, right? No one watches. Because nobody sees this.
COULTER: That is accurate.
O'REILLY: I'm giving you a forum where 10 million people on radio and TV are going to see it and you say, “No.”
(LAUGHTER)
O'REILLY: Then I'm saying, maybe there's something else here. And I think they used you. I think the Edwards, John and Elizabeth, used you to get attention to him. Because what he is doing this morning? You saw him.
COULTER: Well, they're all over the networks, including , lying about what I said.
O'REILLY: But it doesn't even — look, we expect that kind of thing when you are involved. But what's John Edwards doing this morning? He's screaming about, they're giving me money.
COULTER: I think he is taking orders from Elizabeth.
O'REILLY: I think Elizabeth is smarter than he is.
COULTER: I am not sure this is a brilliant fundraising ploy.
O'REILLY: They have gotten a lot of money.
COULTER: Not as much as I have off of his attacks on me. And I mean, as is evident even today, they're going to be a lot more Americans who like Ann Coulter than hate Ann Coulter. Good luck with your fundraising, John.
O'REILLY: All right. So you don't think that you were taken here? You don't think they set you up on the show?
COULTER: Well, I don't know what you mean, set up. I don't think there's any possible way.
O'REILLY: Well, I mean, they said, look, we got Coulter on the show.
COULTER: Oh yes, they called her in advance.
O'REILLY: Right. They called in advance. We're going to do this because we're getting a little — look, it's just like me and , Franken, that idiot. I played right into his hands when he had his book out. You know, they want to get in a fight with you.
COULTER: If I could just say, I sort of object to your description of this as if I lost a fight. I don't think they would have done it to anyone else. I don't think they would have called in on…
O'REILLY: Were you surprised that she called in?
COULTER: …your pal Al. If were on, they wouldn't have had the wife of someone he had made a nasty joke about call in. But still I am more of a man than any liberal is. So you know, I don't care.
(LAUGHTER)
O'REILLY: But did they tell you she was going to call in?
COULTER: As I was walking to sit down, right before, “She might call in.”O'REILLY: All right. So they gave you a little big of a head's up.
COULTER: No, I think what was — I think that isn't so bad. What was a little weird was how she was allowed to talk uninterrupted for 45 minutes browbeating me. I felt like I was in kindergarten.
O'REILLY: Well, you got your shots in.
COULTER: Oh, no, no, no. Every time I thought it was my turn to respond, I get interrupted. "No, no, no, Elizabeth Edwards is still talking..."