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Posted on 08/17/2007 5:32:08 PM PDT by Schatze
Former Sen. John Edwards on Friday fired the latest round in his ongoing verbal feud with Ann Coulter, calling her a "she-devil" at a public event before quickly adding that he shouldn't engage in name-calling.
Edwards, D-N.C., was railing against the right-wing media -- including Fox News and Rush Limbaugh -- when he reminded a crowd in Burlington, Iowa, that his wife stood up to Coulter in a public spat earlier this summer.
"We know these people. We know their game plan. They're going to attack us personally," Edwards said. "They attacked Elizabeth personally, because she stood up to that she-devil Ann Coulter. … I should not have name-called. But the truth is -- forget the names -- people like Ann Coulter, they engage in hateful language."
In June, Coulter went on ABC's "Good Morning America" and said she had learned her lesson after being blasted for suggesting in a joke before the Conservative Political Action Conference that Edwards was a "faggot." "If I'm gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot," Coulter said.
That prompted Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, to call in to MSNBC's "Hardball" and challenge Coulter directly. "I want to use the opportunity … to ask her politely to stop the personal attacks," Mrs. Edwards said.
The call left Coulter uncharacteristically flustered -- and was quickly turned into a fund-raising appeal by the Edwards campaign.
“I read the transcript of the exchange, and Ann didn’t sound flustered to me.”
I saw the exchange and I didn’t think she tried that hard to respond to Ms. Edwards. My take on it was that she was angry at Matthews for setting her up like that, you could see the anger in her body language.
But she had sense enough not to say anything to Chrissy after the Edwards call was over, and just let him look like a jerk, which he definitely did.
Et tuque, John.
For those of you in Rio Linda, “Et tuque” = “and you’re a bigger one”.
I don’t think that Ann is off in a corner whimpering over it.
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