--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> If you've been one of the people on this forum writing negative
> things about Coulter, you owe it to "The Fairness Doctrine" to read
> her latest column -- reproduced here -- in which she explains why
she
> made the dead-son-bumpersticker remark and the wishing-a-terrorist-
> kills-Edwards remark.
>
> After you're done reading this, I will be very surprised if you
still
> feel that Coulter is guilty of what the media suggests she is
guilty
> of. I will be even more surprised if you feel that Edwards isn't
one
> of the most sleaziest politicians around.
Perhaps this is so: like attracts like...
If this is true, then Edwards is mocking the political system, the
same as Ann mocks everything, that comes out of her mouth.
It's the mocking part, that has become so much a part of our culture:
No one believes anything the government says...
Most of the entertainment that sells now, whether on TV, or radio, or
or politics, is usually an excersize in mocking something or someone.
So, I feel that if you align yourself with this mocking cynical
energy for too long, you begin to be possessed by it, and it only
serves to strenthen the ego.
Like pride comes before the fall, type of thing.
>
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>
> That Was No Lady -- That Was My Husband
>
> Jun 28 03:11 PM US/Eastern
> By Ann Coulter
>
> 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. (This
> delicate flower is very sensitive to rough words, having hired the
> Edwards' campaign staffer who wrote this: "What if Mary had taken
> Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy
> Spirit"?)
>
> 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 knows 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 Web sites 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 to simply 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."
>
> (The full column is available at www.jewishworldreview.com,
> www.humanevents.com and www.townhall.com.)
>
> 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.
>
