You conveniently forgot to add that Coulter's comment was mocking a comment by Bill Maher who said that he thought it would be good if Vice President Cheney was killed in a trip to Afghanistan. His comment was at the same time as Coulters' "faggot" comment but received little to no coverage. The Edwards camp took her comment on "Good Morning America" out of context and placed it on their website.

Edwards is so desperate he is trying to attch his name to Ann Coulter. She will be here long after he is just a footnote on some hair gel commercial.

John who?

yeah, she was so flustered she was the ONLY person in recent memory to call out Edwards' ambulance chasing days. Elizabeth's flustered response to that was to just keep asking Ann to stop name calling. flustered indeed....

John Edwards must be low on cash again!

I personally think this country will be fortunate
if we are smart enough to elect John Edwards as
President of the U.S.
George

Rick Klein should not be allowed out of the house. Either he's ignorant or deceitful or both. To leave out the context of Coulter's assassination remark just perpetrates that particular fiction - which I honestly believe is his intent.

Interesting how this article is just ANOTHER INSTANCE OF MSM liberal bias? Good call CompMike about how this article CONVENIENTLY leaves out the context of Coulter's remarks. MSM hates her because she dares call them out on just this sort of misdirection and lies. MSNBC setup the Mrs. Edwards "confrontation" with Coulter with Chris Matthews complicity. I hope ABC as well as the other broadcast networks continue to loose market share as their credibility, competence and biases are exposed.

Nice job, there, giving the Coulter quote out of context and not mentioning that she was CRITICIZING media blowhards like yourself who give liberals a pass on personal attacks -- she was mocking Bill Maher who said he wished VP Cheney had died in a terrorist assassination plot. No outrage from the media there, and no phone call setups from Lynn Cheney either

I think your blog entry here qualifies as an in-kind contribution from ABC News to the Edwards campaign.

Think that through the next time you clowns have a meetings about your consistently declining viewership. If we want to hear what you guys have to say, we can just go the Edwards (or Clinton or Obama) campaign website like you guys do every morning before you decide what "news" stories to cover.

Gee, do people really think you guys don't have a left slant after reading this article??? Heck Fox News is liberal too regardless of what they report. 90% of the staff is Democrat! They're not going to report news that actually helps Conservatives or the general public for that matter.

Wow, Bob, that's strained spin. It is reprehensible to quote and demonstrate the absurdity of your opposition -- "it would be as crazy of me to say X if you allow the other guy to say Y" ???

You're in the camp that, indeed, doesn't think that Maher should be criticized -- which is exactly what Coulter was doing.

I would agree that it was "equally represensible", as you put it, for the Edwards camp to quote Coulter out of context, and for the MSM to go along with it.

Thanks CompMike - I read the article and was immediately struck by the "lying by omission" - Coulter was simply paralleling Maher's snide comments. Deception by omission even appears in this little article.

Edwards and his wife go after Coulter because she is a lightning rod to the extreme leftists. Edwards though has less chance of being president than hell freezing over.

Not covered in the media: Edwards is an investor in a group that is now engaging in forclosures on Katrina victims who fell into the sub-prime lending trap. To my knowledge, unlike Edwards, Ann Coulter has never profited from the eviction and misery of didaster victims.

John Edwards is the sleaziest politician that I've seen on the national stage in quite a long time--and that's saying something. The doubletalk and hypocrisy that have been displayed during his so-called campaign so far set a new standard. The guy is, I have to say, fascinating to watch. It's like watching Jimmy Swaggart, Alec Baldwin & Jimmy Carter all rolled into one. Scary stuff.

Things will improve quite a bit when he drops out--as he must. Then we can watch the two Demo candidate leaders self-destruct over the next year and that will be that.

I would be shocked if anyone in the lame-stream media ever treated any conservative fairly. Why is it that readers such as CompMike have to bring out facts to put Ann's remarks in proper context? It couldn't be that all the writers and editors have the same left-wing bias, could it?

Ann is brilliant, ascerbic and sarcastic. She is so clever that most who hear her sound bites really have no idea what she is talking about. The lame-stream media may not like her, but that is no excuse to be unfair.

Ron has it right. Edwards is damaged goods. Don't forget his "carbon foot print" issues with his house.

Pretty sad when the we have people in America that approve of or defend someone like Ann Coulter for her vile statements. That said, she seems to be able to find TV time on every major corporate network when she needs it.

Whether you are right or left is this really the type of person you want to respect and/or listen too?

Remember, she is laughing all the way to the bank when you read her hate filled books. By the way, what are her qualifications on anything except language and hate?

Don Imus where are you?

Could ABC and Ricky Klein be more biased? Leaving out the full, inconvenient truth.

Wasn't it Bill Maher who spoke of how were VP Cheney dead more people would live - with no liberal-press hysteria following.

"The call left Coulter uncharacteristically flustered --"

Not true. Ann Coulter's response was, roughly: she wants to deny my free expression because she doesn't like what I'm saying. No, I won't stop.

If the liberal media could fight on fair and equal terms it wouldn't be looked upon as the sniveling, lying, desperate and crumbling institution that it is. Go back and read about the Nifong case. My my what proud sanctimoniousness that spawned from ABC. Yet this ersatz, newspeak organization was as dead wrong as the throng of Duke racial-studies professors who signed a petition about the lacrosse students that affirmed their professorial racism. As H.L. Mencken said, it is only a democracy that can provide the amusing public circus of which other forms of government are incapable [usually due to severe oppression and mass murder - not so funny].

You conveniently forgot to add that Coulter's comment was mocking a comment by Bill Maher who said that he thought it would be good if Vice President Cheney was killed in a trip to Afghanistan. His comment was at the same time as Coulters' "faggot" comment but received little to no coverage. The Edwards camp took her comment on "Good Morning America" out of context and placed it on their website.

Posted by: CompMike | Aug 17, 2007 7:58:31 PM

One, that wasn't what she was doing, and Two, Bill Maher never said that. Check the transcript of his show

Edwards finally says something I agree with! Ann Coulter makes conservatives look bad. I would not be surprised to find out she was actually a liberal trying to smear conservatives by sounding hatefull, childish and homophobic.

John Edwards would kick most folks' butts; he's a tough trial lawyer from blue-collar roots. The glib assessment of his masculinity that Coulter offered is absurd.

CompMike:

"You conveniently forgot to add that Coulter's comment was mocking a comment by Bill Maher who said that he thought it would be good if Vice President Cheney was killed in a trip to Afghanistan."

They didn't forget. ABC News deliberately leaves the context out in order to fool the individuals who get their news from the broadcast networks. Fortunately, the number of such individuals is dropping dramaticaly.

Where was John Edwards when his wife called "Hardball" to criticize Ann Coulter? If John was offended by Ann's remark, why could a presidential candidate and former Senator speak for himself?

Will Edwards ask his wife to call al Queda and complain they are meanies? Time to get a life of your own, John.

Anyone who cannot see the theatrical method that Ann uses to expose people is not hate but more satire is a MORON,and almost as deluded as ABC news.

Coulter made light of the death of the Edwards' son. She's repeatedly dismissed the service of Max Cleland because he a triple amputee in Vietnam due to an accident rather than in combat. She makes a good living by crossing the lines of decency, to the detriment of our democratic discourse.

I'm a conservative, and Ann Coulter in no way speaks for me.

Any liberals out there have a clue why most US newspapers are on the verge of tanking? We are tired of subscribing to newspapers only to read editorials that rail against what their subscribers believe. That is informally known as "shooting yourself in the foot". If you do the same thing everyday expecting a different result this time, you may qualify as insane.

Will:

"Remember, she is laughing all the way to the bank when you read her hate filled books."

Ann Coulter is extremely mild when compared to what you find on the Daily Kos, Democrats.com, and other far-left hate sites. She's essentially the conservative version of Molly Ivins, only more attractive and intelligent.

John Edwards, no substance, all hair gel.

Whether you like Anne Coulter or not, this is shameful, to conveniently leave out was she actually said…

Bill Maher never said he wished Cheney was dead. If you conservatives ever watched his show you would know that he said something to the effect of "If Dick Cheney was fighting in Afghanistan right now and something happened to him, I think they world would be a better place" in regards to his foreign policy. It was a jab at foreign policy, not a fatwah to kill Cheney.

You poor misguided sheep. Ann Coulter and Bill Maher dated, and are good friends. Ann Coulter herself did not mention Bill Maher's remarks on that interview, so why should that CONTEXT even be considered. God only knows what ANN COULTER was thinking when she said it. And some GOP here believe they are Miss Cleoe and can read her mind for "context."

I will stick with what she actually said, rather than the imagined context. If she had been referencing something that her FLING Bill had said, I assume she would have mentioned it.

I'm glad to see so many others who recognize the slimy hack-job that passes for journalism at ABC. To ignore the context of that quote is mind-boggling, and the notion that Coulter was flustered by a whining Edwards is just absurd. Pathetic biased reporting on a pathetic third tier candidate.

It's amusing whenever the Edward's Campaign is low on funds, they choose to attack Ann Coulter or Fox News. Obvious signs of a desperate campaign with no issues or values to stand on. Also interesting how Edward's pulls out his Conservative hate card to change subjects from his latest campaign flub with his critical bash of the banking industry for the foreclosures on Hurricane Katrina victim's homes when he has over $16 million invested with the same banks. He is truly a joke of a candidate and always good for a laugh.

I am an atheist (and a Goldwater conservative) so I don't agree with Ann's religious views. But anyone that PO's arrogant lefties as much as she does has my endorsement. You lefties troll for offense and then cry crocodile tears whenever you find some.
John Edwards is simply a sleaze and a liar. Even if you're liberal, I don't see how you can support this jerk. A couple of the others are at least honest libs.

That prompted Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, to call in to MSNBC's "Hardball" and challenge Coulter directly. "I want to use the opportunity … to ask her politely to stop the personal attacks," Mrs. Edwards said.

I wonder if she meant personal attacks like calling a woman, oh I don't know. "She Devil" maybe.

The Edwards clan is almost as good at hypocricy and ABC's micreant Rick Klein is at liberally editing other's quotes.

Frankly, I'm disgusted with everyone's behavior. All of the name-calling, innuendoes, bearing false witness, and digging up every piece of filth or controversy one can think of is the reason out government isn't working the way it needs to. No one is perfect. All of us have faults and have made mistakes. The lack of civility disgusts me. We all need to shut up for a while and decide if we want to continue pandering to entertainers, politicians, news programs and others who, for their own personal gain, are turning our country into - I don't even know the word for it.

We have real problems in our country and they aren't new. We, our leaders, and those we look up to need to be coming up with some real solutions to things like, poverty, homelessness, health care for everyone, independence from fossil fuels. All facets of the political spectrum have been giving these issues for 40+ years and we are no closer to solving these problems then we were back then.

Let's all cut the crap and start solving problems instead of whining.

Wow, this place is just chock full of right-wing trolls isn't it?

I swear you folks would consider Pravda circa 1967 the 'liberal media.'

But then, if all you ever listen to is Rush, and all you ever watch is Faux News, what is to be expected? Bet you still think that Sadam was behind 9-11.

Tell me one thing though, how do you keep your knuckles from getting scraped up as they drag across the ground? What a bunch of Neanderthals.

I think I'll put on some Baby Einstein now, I need something intellectual after reading all your swill.

Poor Ann has had her comments taken out of context...she who does nothing BUT take other's comments out of context, and wraps them in lies and inuendo. I feel sorry for her, but not because someone slammed her, rather because she finds it difficult to live in the world with normal people.

Did somone actually CITE the Lamebrain?

the democrats created ANN COULTER. in the 1980's and 90's they ran around calling conservatives racist's and alot of other stuff until finally someone got fed up and started to describe the liberals as they really are. to bad it had to be a woman first. makes all us guys look spineless.

RUFUS ... are you serious? Idiots like you are what the left need.... LEMMINGS.

Why can't ABC simply state that Coulter was referring to Maher's comment that he wished the Vice-President had been killed. And, you wonder why people see bias in the mainstream media.

Kind of sad for Edwards to have to resort to name calling to make the news. Sort of shows how insignificant he is.

Your paragraph about Ann Coulter's remarks on "Good Morning America" is totally deceitful, leaving out the context. Ms. Coulter was pointing out sarcastically that the mainstream media and commentators were apoplectic over her referring to John Edwards as a "faggot", but gave a pass to Bill Maher on his suggestion that, if the Vice President had been killed in a recent terrorist assassination attempt on him in Afganistan, more people (in Iraq, presumably) would be alive now and in the future. To the media, this was just fair comment. Ms. Coulter was commenting facetiously that the lesson here, apparently, is that the safe, acceptable way for one to attack John Edwards (or any political enemy) is to wish that he had been killed in a terrorist plot! ABC, be honest in your reporting.

There's something I really don't get, but I know I should. The libs say Ann is vile and hateful, but the ones who are hateful are the ones writing about her not Ann. As to qualifications, as far as I know the only one needed to be a columnist and commentator is a superior command of the english language which Ann does to such a degree that she intimidates people. Now I get it!!!!!!! If the words are too big or you're to ignorant, it's hate speech.

ANN the Howard Stern of politics only someone with a second grade education would support her comments. Give me a break.

With all the issues you Americans face, the best this wanna be presidential candidate can come up with is focus on Ann Coulter?

As John Stossel would say - Gimme a break

For the record, Coulter specifically mentioned Maher's comment when interviewed - and so did the interviewer, to clarify Maher's comment, which (despite what some are trying to spin here) was roughly if Cheney was killed by terrorists, the world would be a better place because less people would die, which is both illogical and explicitly hateful.

Edwards calls Coulter a she-devil and Dean calls Republicans evil, and yet people still believe the right is the bastion of hate. Please.

John -- what a liar you are. That is not the quote from Bill Maher, and you totally made it up. It wasn't about foreign policy. And, to defend Bill Maher, he wasn't saying he wished Cheny were dead or that he should be dead. What he did was raise the question: don't you think the world would be a better place, and fewer people would be dead, if Dick Cheney died?

And to whoever wrote this article: if you think Coulter was flustered, you didn't watch the interview. Elizabeth Edwards was pathetically begging for Ann to stop picking on her husband, and Ann said nope, never. Nice spin job!

Many interesting comments. I call John Edwards "The Glassman". Why? Because most inteligent folks can see right through him!

To you Edwards supporters, isn't about time you turn away from limosine liberals like him that tell the rest of us how to live and what people to support while they wrap themselves in luxury and excess in their 10,000+ square feet mansions?? Have you not had your fill of the Kennedys, the Kerrys and the Edwards who promise everything and deliver nothing?? John Edwards made his fortunes winning questionable product liability lawsuits based upon junk data....and every single American (that's us, boys & girls!) has lined the Edwards' bank account as a result. One of the biggest problems this Country faces today is TOO MANY attorneys that have to make a living....some how. Want to scare hell out of yourself? Open your local Yellow Pages to "Attorneys"....the result will leave you gasping for air! And the last thing America needs is another attorney in the White House.

Ann who?

Anyone who aspires to be president must respect people's right to speak in any form, be it from the left or the right. It is the president's job to ensure and respect the 1st amendment and the right of all American's to speak out. Anytime a candidate rails against the media it shows they are unfit for the job.

You conservative hacks are so pathetic. There is a war on, one in which American soldiers are dying, and all you can do is rush to the defense of a tired, idiotic wannabe provocateur as she attacks Democrats?

You still rant and rave rail against a liberal media. Didn't you get the memo? Nobody believes that tripe anymore, except maybe Rush Limbaugh. Give it up already!

Do you really want to get into a debate about omission of facts and media bias? Really? With George Bush in office, and Karl Rove turning tail? And Alberto Gonzales, a certifiable moron, running the Justice department? You want to talk about facts? Now?

We can agree on one thing - the media sucks. And they really sucked when we needed them most, just prior to the biggest foreign policy catastrophe in U.S. history.

Keep on keepin' on. Maybe someone still cares what you think. And please, keep believing intricately spun theories about liberal bias, and the ascendance of Fox News. It will keep you busy as the rest of the country comes finally begins to realize the truth.

Oh, no! Johnny called Ann a "name caller"! That's name calling! Name caller, name caller! That's almost as pathetic as Edwards' and most other Democrats' vacuous conscience.

Sandy1938 -- Bill Maher was ABSOLUTELY directly mentioned in the interview. Are you lying or just stupid?

Ann Coulter is bad for politics and bad for America. Her commentary is shallow and the only way she gains publicity is by making outrageous comments. I am glad that someone is finally calling her out for her hateful speech.

Ann Coulter is trawling the same "I'm outraged! I'm shocking! I'm in the hippies'/pukes'/traitors' faces!" slime trail as Morton Downey Jr. or Wally George or Joe Pyne. And she will ultimately achieve the same rich and lasting legacy as those forgotten men.

It's her fans you have to feel pity for... so desperate to have their baser impulses validated that they'll take whatever they can get.

Poor John Edwards, No publicity, no one interested in his campaign...he needs Ann Coulter to get his name in the news, even if its negative.

Not standing up to personal attacks is one of the main criticism leveled at Dems. Those who say "lighten up" on Ann Coulter must be card-carying fans. Or at least they think the she-devil's hot.

Yawn!

Rush Limbaugh posted a Marcus Aurelius quote: "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Democrats take note.

I love the hypocrisy. Edwards sends his wife to call in and ambush Ann Coulter when she's on MSNBC, and Elizabeth talks about civility and a higher level of discourse and begs Ann to stop name-calling. Then John Edwards comes out and calls her a she-devil. Way to raise the level of dialogue, Johnny boy!

If America falls for this phony, we get what we deserve.

Why must you freaking liars constantly take Coulter's quote out of context by ignoring the fact that it was a parody of an actual death wish for Cheney uttered by Bill Maher?

"Sticks and Stones!" The Democrats can sure dish it out, but they can't take it.

Please stop the personal attacks you she-devil. Hahaha. I don't know which is worse: the hypocrisy of Edwards or the liberal bias of this article. Thankfully the public is catching on to both....

John Edwards is a plastic person, not to be taken seriously. He is a very distracting person. A nuisance. He must have Ann Coulter, because he has no plan except to promise to victims that he will take care of them with tax payers' money. I get nauseated when I hear socialist ambulance chasers such as John Edwards speak, because approximately 50% of the American citizenry actually think they are victims, thanks to liberal pap.

Ann Coulter for President. She would be much better than Edwards.

John Edwards will not engage in a presidential debate on FOX because he believes them biased but he attends a KOS convention. If he does not want to engage in debate with biased organizations or people he should stay away from Ann Coulter she has a strong intellectual bias.

The show (Meet the Press) gave Mrs. Edwards all the time she wanted and was a definite setup. Coulter wasn't speechless; she couldn't get a word in between these two flaming libs.

So I would classify Lady Edwards as the she-devil - if anyone has to wear that tag!

in 08'
Edwards/McGreevey
v.
Coulter/isaiah washington
v.
Bill Maher/Ron Paul

in a cage match, for the presidency.

ABC news, just more MSM liberal media bias. Think I'll buy ANOTHER Coulter book to keep her in business while ABC and the rest of the liberal biased MSM continue to lose viewers.

Let's see.....and who was it that said the Republican's use the "politics of personal destruction"? Sen. Edwards uses Ann Coulter and even his wife to promote his cause....whatever that might be. Who needs that for a leader?

"We know these people. We know their game plan. They're going to attack us personally," Edwards said. "They attacked Elizabeth personally, because she stood up to that she-devil Ann Coulter. … I should not have name-called. But the truth is -- forget the names -- people like Ann Coulter, they engage in hateful language."

He doesn't need anyone to make him look bad. That paragraph is the proof. Good grief....

This whole thing is idiotic. It reminds me of the saying "Don't fight with pigs because you both get dirty, and the pigs like it." Don't we have more important things to think about? Anyway, the longer this goes on the harder it is to tell which one is the pig.

Squeal, conservatives, squeal! Your once-effective bag of tricks has sprung a leak, and now you're being called on it. Go tell each other that Ann Coulter's devastating "parodies" are really "hitting a nerve" while the Congress turns bright blue.

2006 was the appetizer, 2008 will be the main course. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Hangovers suck, don't they?

P.S. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Ann Coulter is a She-Devil.

Hey ABC I thought was just a fake site that tried to make right wing America angry.Do you mean that there are really stupid uninformed and anti America goof balls like is portrayed on this site

Compare Anne to the lib Anne Coulter, Cindy Sheehan.

Coulter needs to take a break from flying around on her broom- the Edwards are good people and have every right to call her out on her immature rants.

Using the Coulter quote of context is why nobody trusts the network news reporting.

The Edwards and people like them are what is wrong with this country

hey honey...c'mere...i think i found the 25% of the country that still thinks the republicans are doing a good job! and get this; some of them think ann coulter is HOT and they're going to win in '08!!! isn't that cute?!!!

If this is ALL he has for Ann, what's he going to say to Iran,Iraq,China, etc. OHHH the'll be shaking in their boots !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe ABC News' Rick Klein just needs to be more accurate and forthright. Most conservatives are smart enough to see through the engineering of rhetoric. Maybe the liberals aren't. I suppose he is "preaching to the choir", and isn't smart enough to know it.

Edwards is such a gentleman....there are so many more more appropriate names she could be called!....most mature people understand name calling is not a good thing, something poor Ann will probably never learn...the best thing she could do for herself is sign up for long term therapy to find out where her anger and hatred stems from....

Why oh why would a Presidental Candidate have to use a political satirist CONTINUALLY to raise donations?? John's "two America's" shouldn't donate either. Let him continue to raise his money from trial lawyers.

Since when did the right-wing whackos/blowhards take over this site? Edwards just proved his point if the responses here are any indication. You ridiculous GOP/neo-con hate-mongers offer nothing but bile and vile. Can't wait 'til November 2008...good riddance to bad trash.

so clever to post under different names so u can say the same thing a hundred different ways...very sean hannity.

get a life republicans. your days are numbered. enjoy the end of your murderous era.

Ann Coulter is a breath of fresh air. Those who take such offence at her comments are convinced that on every issue, "The debate is over". And cannot believe that anyone would dare disagree with them or refuse to take them seriously. I applaud her again and again and again.

I'll use the words John Edwards used to describe when he found out Karl Rove was leaving. "Good bye and good riddance John."
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