Here’s another one that started out in J-Lines but got too bulky, owing to its inherent liberal assitude.
The story is the laugh line: John Edwards, Democratic Party Presidential candidate, calls (our!) Ann Coulter a “she-devil” at a public event, before quickly adding that he shouldn’t engage in name-calling, as reported at ABCNews.com. His lecture to voters was about conservatives getting “personal” and talking-down liberals on a personal level, so that makes sense! Wife Elizabeth Edwards, you’ll remember, recently phoned-in while Ann Coulter was a “guest” (a.k.a. “victim”) on one of the 800 liberal TV talk shows, on little John’s behalf, while he was getting his hair styled, and chastised that mean Ann Coulter for name-calling, and getting all personal, and such. The reader comments are a must-read.
So…
Keeping in mind the fact that the liberals’ ABC News is, well, liberal, get a load of the first several reader-comments (there must be hundreds):
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
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: Scott | Aug 17, 2007 8:09:57 PM
—————————————————————————————————John who?
Posted by: lou | Aug 17, 2007 8:18:35 PM
—————————————————————————————————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….
Posted by: Matt | Aug 17, 2007 8:19:08 PM
—————————————————————————————————John Edwards must be low on cash again!
Posted by: Thomas | Aug 17, 2007 8:19:47 PM
—————————————————————————————————I personally think this country will be fortunate
if we are smart enough to elect John Edwards as
President of the U.S.
GeorgePosted by: George W. Schaberg | Aug 17, 2007 8:19:51 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: JL | Aug 17, 2007 8:20:09 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: Todd Adams | Aug 17, 2007 8:21:42 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: DKM | Aug 17, 2007 8:21:45 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: TBaug | Aug 17, 2007 8:21:55 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: apetrelli | Aug 17, 2007 8:22:25 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: Mike Morris | Aug 17, 2007 8:23:29 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: Ron | Aug 17, 2007 8:24:54 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: Chris | Aug 17, 2007 8:31:47 PM
—————————————————————————————————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.
Posted by: LG | Aug 17, 2007 8:32:20 PM
—————————————————————————————————Ron has it right. Edwards is damaged goods. Don’t forget his “carbon foot print” issues with his house.
Posted by: lou | Aug 17, 2007 8:33:05 PM
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