A staggering...4.3% favor Ann Coulter over Elizabeth Edwards in 'Hardball' exchange

[Cannikin]

Who's right -- Coulter or Edwards?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19445182


In case you missed it:

Chris Matthews: You know who's on the line? Somebody to respond to what you said Edwards yesterday morning -- Elizabeth Edwards. She wanted to call in today we said she could. Elizabeth Edwards go on the line you're on the line with Ann Coulter

Elizabeth Edwards: Hello, Chris.

Matthews: You wanna say something directly to the person who's with me?

Edwards: I'm calling you … in the South when someone does something that displeases us, we wanna ask them politely to stop doing it. Uh - I'd like to ask Ann Coulter -- if she wants to debate on issues, on positions -- we certainly disagree with nearly everything she said on your show today -- but uh it's quite another matter for these personal attacks that the things she has said over the years not just about John but about other candidates. It lowers our political dialogue precisely at the time that we need to raise it. So I want to use the opportunity … to ask her politely stop the personal attacks.

Ann Coulter: OK, so I made a joke -- let's see six months ago -- and as you point out they've been raising money off of it for six months since then.

Matthews: This is yesterday morning, what you said about him.

Coulter: I didn't say anything about him actually either time.

Edwards: Ann, you know that's not true. And once more its been going on for sometime.

Coulter: I don't mind you trying to raise money. I mean it's better this than giving $50,000 speeches to the poor.

Edwards: I'm asking you.

Coulter: Just to use my name on the Web pages…

Edwards: I'm asking you politely…

Coulter: … but as for a debate with me, um yeah, sure. Yeah, we'll have a debate

Edwards: I'm asking you politely to stop personal attacks.

Coulter: How bout you stop raising money on the Web page then?

Edwards: It didn't start it did not...

Coulter: No you don't have cause I don't mind

Edwards: It did not start with that you had a column a number of years ago

Coulter: OK, great the wife of a presidential candidate is calling in asking me to stop speaking...

Matthews: Let her finish the point...

Coulter: You're asking me to stop speaking, stop writing columns, stop writing your books.

Matthews: OK, Ann. Please.

Coulter: OK

Edwards: You wrote a column a couple years ago which made fun of the moment of Charlie Dean's death, and suggested that my husband had a bumper sticker on the back of his car that said ask me about my dead son. This is not legitimate political dialogue.

Coulter: That's now three years ago --

Edwards: It debases political dialogue. It drives people away from the process. We can't have a debate about issues if you're using this kind of language.

Coulter: Yeah why isn't John Edwards making this call?

Matthews: Well do you want to respond and we'll end this conversation?

Edwards: I haven't talked to John about this call.

Coulter: This is just another attempt for –

Edwards: I'm making this call as a mother. I'm the mother of that boy who died. My children participate -- these young people behind you are the age of my children. You're asking them to participate in a dialogue that's based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues and I don't think that's serving them or this country very well.



Matthews: Thank you very much Elizabeth Edwards. (Turning to Coulter) Do you want to -- you have all the time in the world to respond.

Coulter: I think we heard all we need to hear. The wife of a presidential candidate is asking me to stop speaking. No.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. "It lowers our political dialogue precisely at the time that we need to raise it."

More people need to keep that in mind.

[steelemagnolia]

9. I can't post what I'd like to say about her!

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Henry Rollins probably already said it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM7MR5_v47w

[patricia92243]

2. Breathtakingly terrible! Ann Coulter is a witch! brrrr....

[hellbound-liberal]

3. It's up to 4.6%. It's being freeped!

The thing that made me ill was seeing those young people standing behind Coulter and seeming to agree with her. What have we become?

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

4. I just responded to a thread over in GD...

and I'll repeat it here: kindness matters. It really does. Ann is not kind--Elizabeth is. It hurts my heart that people respect unkind souls such as Ann Coulter.

[BarenakedLady]

5. What a horrid woman

:grr:

[ForrestGump]

6. It'll be a bright day when

Jerry Falwell calls her home.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. It's now up to 5.1%

On the bright side: statistically only 5.1% of the people in the US must be pigs.

[mzteris]

8. Ok - I so did not read your title correctly

I thought you meant people had voted 4.3% MORE for that cretin than Elizabeth!

I was ready to get on the phone and call everyone I knew to vote.

Ann Coulter is no lady (and no, I'm not questioning whether she's a woman - though I honestly don't know - and it doesn't really matter - except I'm petty enough to find it completely hysterical if she IS a transsexual and all those freepers have been fantasizing about her - but anyway I digree from my digression. - Where was I?)

Why anyone has AC on anymore I'll never know. She's ignorant, crude, and just downright mean. She's not funny. She's not smart. She's just a blight on the planet.

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