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maybe he should spend his time how he and his family sees fit, and deal with personal issues that way as well.
You and Ann are sure making seem him one.It's not like he's a serious contender for President anyway.
maybe he should spend his time how he and his family sees fit, and deal with personal issues that way as well.
If he tours the country making money, giving speeches that includes the deaths from 9/11?
I guess he could have helped the country by actually doing something on the panel, but , you can only milk 9/11 for so long.
You're right, how odd for new stories to come out (sympathetic or otherwise) about a candidate before an election.
That's because he's in the news in the run up to the election. , Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, McCain, etc. have all been in the news more lately and their histories are discussed ad nausuem. Wade Edward's death was a big event in John Edward's life and it's a life that gets discussed around election time.
Why is it that a political discussion ends up being a discussion about talking head personalities? I've never really found the ability to care about what Molly Ivins, Ann Coulter, Michael Moore, or Rush Limbaugh had to say.
because it's fun baiting racist to defend the likes of coulter and limbaugh.
Ann Coulter responds - and it should shut up all you haters on this board!
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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 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, led "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.
Okay, that the phrase "opens up" keeps coming up in article les tells me, that line has been focus grouped and pimped:
John Edwards opens up about son he lost
Democratic presidential hopeful speaks about late teenager
John & Elizabeth Edwards Open Up About Cancer and Family
John Edwards Opens Up About Son He Lost
Chicago Tribune article
The Edwards kid died in a car crash. Sheehan's kid died fighting for a cause he made his own in Iraq. Where's the connection?WASHINGTON -- Throughout his campaign for president and then vice president in 2004, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina made it clear that the death of his teenage son in a car accident was off-limits, not for discussion in a political context.
But now his wife, Elizabeth, has sent an e-mail to supporters voicing a connection she shares with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. As Sheehan was camped near President Bush's Texas ranch, protesting the war, Edwards called on her own family's backers to support Sheehan.
And, in a departure from a campaign-trail silence that the Edwardses kept about the death of their 16-year-old son, Wade, Elizabeth Edwards noted that Sheehan's son, Casey, 24, died in Iraq eight years to the day after her own son.
For John Edwards, who voted as a senator to support the invasion of Iraq, his wife's outreach to subscribers of their One America Committee Web site bears a distinct anti-war voice that could augur a new tack for Edwards as he prepares for a potential run for president in 2008.
"The president says he knows enough, doesn't need to hear from Casey's mother, doesn't need to assure her that Casey's is not one small death in a long and seemingly never-ending drip of deaths, that there is a plan here that will bring our sons and daughters home," Elizabeth Edwards wrote in her e-mail last week. "He claims he understands how some people feel about the deaths in Iraq. The president is wrong."
The Edwardses left questions about the e-mail to spokeswoman Kim Rubey, who said, "When Elizabeth read about Cindy Sheehan and her son, she immediately felt a strong personal connection."
I suppose, perhaps, that Elizabeth feels some compassion for Sheehan's loss of her son. That's understandable, but if its true why announce it to the world? Especially along side her husband's political call for support for Sheehan? They were so adamant about not politicizing their son's death during the campaign, and rightly so.
Why politicize it now?
It seems to me as though the Edwards were using the death of their own son to leverage some of that "grieving mother" political capital against the war. Which is sort of sad. And pathetic.
And, now, apparently they have a name for the Edwards' feigned outrage at Ann Coulter, "Coulter Cash."
ABC Links Edwards/Coulter Call to '08 Fundraising Deadline, NBC Distorts Coulter
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on June 28, 2007 - 01:32.
On Wednesday evening, ABC's World News with Charles Gibson and the NBC Nightly News both covered the Elizabeth Edwards/Ann Coulter controversy, noting that the Edwards campaign has eagerly used their run-ins with Coulter to raise campaign money. ABC's Jake Tapper uniquely noted this week's fundraising deadline for the presidential race, while relaying the Edwards campaign's success at raising "Coulter cash." Tapper: "Just as Coulter has a book to promote this week, Edwards has a fund-raising deadline. Enemies can have their uses."
NBC's David Gregory noted the Edwards campaign's immediate use of yesterday's flap to solicit campaign money, but the network also failed to put one of Coulter's controversial quotes in proper context, thus making it appear worse than it actually sounded in full. On Monday's Good Morning America, while answering a question about her joke from last March about John Edwards being a " got," Coulter suggested there was a double standard between the outrage over her remark and the greater tolerance by the media and liberals of a question by Bill Maher about whether the world would be a better place if Vice President Cheney had been assassinated.
Coulter's original comment from Monday's GMA: "I did not call John Edwards the F-word. I said I couldn't talk about him because you could go into rehab for using that word. But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished 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."
But NBC's Gregory only showed the most provocative part of her statement, not conveying that her intent was to chastize those who tolerated Maher's comments. The shortened version run by NBC: "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."
I don't know why this would shut anybody up. Edwards can talk about whatever he wants. If his potential voters didn't want to hear about it or actively disliked it, he wouldn't talk about it.
Simple.
That's funny, because Coulter whines about being misquoted, then she proceeds to misquote Maher.ABC Links Edwards/Coulter Call to '08 Fundraising Deadline, NBC Distorts Coulter
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on June 28, 2007 - 01:32.
But it's just like that hypocrite Yoni to find a hypocritical quote..
"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."
still talking about him so wants him dead, calls him a got, and s on his son's grave.
thanks for straightening out the record.
Then he should expect criticism.
You are ing stupid, there's just no way around that.
They seem to like the "Coulter Cash" such criticism brings. eh?
Edwards: My son died and I'm coping.
Yoni: You're doing it wrong.
You wouldn't have the balls to say that to me if I were black.
chicken racist
Or physically present
I think Billy Joel says it best: We didn't start the fire.
So I guess if anyone asks Edwrads about his deceased son he should refrain from answering. That would open him up to the Yoni/Coulter's of the world..
I thought you were going to say "Take me drunk. I'm home."
Well, they would bring such facts to your attention in a "lively way" -- to quote Ms. Coulter.
I have no idea what race you are and I still think you're as dumb as a box of rocks.
Well, he did say it was off limits in his first campaign. So, why "open up" now?
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