{"id":11261,"date":"2007-06-27T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11261.html"},"modified":"2007-06-27T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T14:20:08","slug":"elizabeth-edwards-confronts-coulter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/elizabeth-edwards-confronts-coulter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Edwards confronts Coulter"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the highly unlikely event you haven’t seen it, I hope readers will take a moment to watch Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards’ wife, call into MSNBC yesterday to confront Ann Coulter<\/a> during her “Hardball” appearance.<\/p>\n

Yesterday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Coulter said, “[I]f I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” She has previously called Edwards a “faggot.” In 2003, she wrote a column claiming that John Edwards drove around with a bumper sticker saying “Ask me about my son’s death in a horrific car accident.”<\/p>\n

During an hour-long interview with Coulter today on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews announced that Elizabeth Edwards was on the line. Edwards referenced the attacks above, saying, “I’m the mother of that boy who died. These young people behind you\u2026you’re asking them to participate in a dialogue that is based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues, and I don’t think that’s serving them or this country very well.” The live audience cheered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course they did. When class confronts tastelessness, class tends to fare pretty well.<\/p>\n

Whenever Coulter’s name comes up, readers encourage me to ignore her. I generally find that persuasive, but I can’t help but equate Coulter with some kind of social cancer. As with real cancer, ignoring it won’t make it go away; it tends to make it worse.<\/p>\n

TV producers, desperate for viewers, apparently believe it’s worthwhile to broadcast her disgusting tirades, which in turn spreads the cancer further. The goal, then, isn’t to ignore Coulter, it’s to somehow convince responsible “news” outlets that she should no longer be considered part of the civilized American discourse.
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\nJust as an aside, Coulter’s response to Elizabeth Edwards was noteworthy, too.<\/p>\n

When her first two attempts to spin the situation faulted, Coulter then launched into another baseless, personal attack, accusing John Edwards of “bankrupting doctors by giving a shyster Las Vegas routine in front of juries…doing these psychic routines in front of illiterate juries to bankrupt doctors who now can’t deliver babies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, as far as Coulter is concerned, juries in North Carolina are made up of “illiterate” people.<\/p>\n

I hear talk on the right that the left reflexively looks down on Southerners, but as Rick Perlstein noted<\/a>, “I’ve never heard a liberal say an entire Southern state’s jury pool can’t read.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the highly unlikely event you haven’t seen it, I hope readers will take a moment to watch Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards’ wife, call into MSNBC yesterday to confront Ann Coulter during her “Hardball” appearance. Yesterday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Coulter said, “[I]f I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll […]<\/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-11261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261","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=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}