Ridiculing them by doing the same thing. And, how is that different from joining them?"
It is different because she was NOT "doing the same thing".
Her remark was a parody of the actor who announced he was going to rehab because he called someone a 'faggot'. She used this ridiculous PC event to lampoon Edward's effetely decadent character and persona.
She served us this satire by declining to comment on John Edwards because she didn't want to submit to rehab for using an apparently un-PC term.
I found it quite appropriate and absolutely delicious.
I think you're really reaching. But, I know that many of us are so ready to hear the left get as good as they give, that we will even defend this kind of stuff. As wrong as it may be.