{"id":11256,"date":"2007-06-26T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11256.html"},"modified":"2007-06-26T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:50:59","slug":"shes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/shes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we last heard from Ann Coulter, she was telling a large right-wing gathering in DC that former Sen. John Edwards is a &#8220;faggot.&#8221; Yesterday, the hateful clown appeared on Good Morning America, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/06\/26\/ann-coulter-attacks-john-edwards-on-good-morning-america\/\">followed up<\/a> on her remarks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve learned my lesson; if I&#8217;m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I&#8217;ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been another installment of &#8220;There Is Nothing A Conservative Can Say To Get Ostracized From The Mainstream Media.&#8221; Indeed, Coulter will make her first Hardball appearance in a year <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200706250007?f=h_latest\">tonight<\/a>. (The last time she was on, she referred to Al Gore as a &#8220;total fag.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Rationalizing a return invitation for Coulter, Chris Matthews <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/06\/25\/matthews-explains-coulter-segment-she-sells-books\/\">said<\/a>, &#8220;Say what you will, she sells books.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what that has to do with having her on his show, but then again, I find most of Matthews&#8217; observations incoherent.<\/p>\n<p>On his worst day, Michael Moore is Cicero compared to Coulter, but what do you suppose would happen if, during his ongoing promotional tour for his new movie, Moore told a national television audience, &#8220;I&#8217;ll just wish (insert Republican presidential candidate here) had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot&#8221;? Do you think we might hear something about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we last heard from Ann Coulter, she was telling a large right-wing gathering in DC that former Sen. John Edwards is a &#8220;faggot.&#8221; Yesterday, the hateful clown appeared on Good Morning America, and followed up on her remarks. &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned my lesson; if I&#8217;m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}