Coulter's column from 2003 in which she attacks the grief of Edwards and Dean.

[madfloridian]

The video is in the Politics Video forum, the one in which Elizabeth Edwards called in to plead with Coulter for common sense.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter112003.asp

Sickening...the part about Charlie Dean and Dean's grief....and the worst...the part about the bumper sticker Elizabeth referred to about Wade. Truly sickening.

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, titled "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. (I absolutely refuse to mention the name of my dearly beloved and recently departed son killed horribly in a car accident, which affected me deeply, to score cheap political points. I wouldn't want John Edwards to be president, but I think even Karl Rove would be willing to stipulate that the death of a son is a terrible thing.

Howard Dean talks about his brother Charlie's murder at the hands of North Vietnamese communists. Bizarrely, after working on the failed George McGovern campaign, Charlie Dean went to Indochina in 1974 to witness the ravages of the war he had opposed. Not long after he arrived, the apparently ungrateful communists captured and killed him. Hey fellas! I'm on your s — CLUNK!

Howard Dean wears his brother's battered 1960s belt every day. (By contrast, Ted Kennedy honors the memory of his deceased family members with several belts every day.) Dean told Dan Rather about his brother's death at some length on CBS News: "It gave me a sense that you ought to live for the moment with people; that you really — you really need to tell people you love them if you love them. It was certainly the most awful thing that ever happened to our family. It was terrible for my parents; it was even worse for them than it was for us."


Da--it, if a man wants to be my president, I have a right to know where he stands on the issue of when to tell the people you love that you love them! Couldn't the Democratic Party go back to plagiarizing British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock like Sen. Joe Biden, rather than plagiarizing "Lifetime: TV for Women"? Do any men at all vote for the Democrats anymore?

Coulter has serious problems.

[madfloridian]

1. And...there is no defending what she said. It was just plain sick.

:puke:

[murray hill farm]

3. Evil incarnate!

Vile beyond words!! Actually there are no words!!

[madfloridian]

4. I imagine someone will be smarty and make an effort to defend her.

That's how its been here lately. If they do that in any way...the ignore option will be used.

There is no excusing her.

[Bjorn Against]

17. Did we really have people defending her here?

I must have missed those posts, but if I were to see them I would immediately think it was a Freeper infiltration.

I just can not fathom how anyone who was not a sick psychopath could possibly defend Ann Coulter. People just do not get any more vile than her.

[madfloridian]

18. There were people here at the time agreeing with her.

about Dean "using" his brother's death. They were saying he timed the finding of Charley's body for political reasons. Were they approving of Coulter, most likely not.

Were they saying Dean used the grief, yes. Many did.

There were a few hinting the same things about Edwards.

It was not so much support of Coulter as it was saying the same thing she was.

[sutz12]

2. I think she lied about how Rove felt, too. nt

[City Lights]

5. I really, really can't stand her.

I normally have compassion for the mentally ill, but not her. She's a disgusting slug. Total waste of air.

I heard KO say they had her on a 7-second delay.

[Demobrat]

6. What's sick is not her act.

What's sick is that her act has an audience. The woman actually has fans. People look up to her. And they're in our midst, walking and talking and looking like normal people. Human monsters.

[madfloridian]

8. Yes, she still has an audience. That is sick.

It tells you a lot about our country now.

[Demobrat]

12. Unfortunately I think it goes deeper than that.

It tells you a lot about humanity.

[madfloridian]

13. The right wing pundits and their outrageous talk...done deliberately

have hurt our country more than we ever knew.

[Nikki Stone1]

7. Kicking for Elizabeth. We remember, even if Anthraxx doesn't.

When you pick on the parents of a dead child, you're about as low as you can go.

[madfloridian]

15. We keep thinking they've gone as low as they can go...

and then they go lower..the right wing talking heads,that is.

They do it on purpose, they want to outrage us and make us angry.

[Berry Cool]

9. I'm sure that if Annthrax lost anyone near and dear to her

she'd never mention it again, and certainly never use that death to attempt to make any sort of a political point.

Yeah. You betcha.

[glitch]

23. Her problem may be that she doesn't have anyone near and dear to her.

So she can't imagine it. Is anyone really near and dear to a sociopath?

[FredScuttle]

29. Oh no... she did lose somebody close to her

or are you forgetting the subject of her infamous "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert their people to Christianity" column after Sept. 11?

Those touching words were Mannthrax's sensitive memorial to Babs Olsen, whose heart was as black and empty as hers.

[glitch]

31. Ew. I had forgotten. Do sociopaths feel empathy for each other?

I am thinking they don't, that her biggest grief was at having to find a new drinking buddy.

[iamjoy]

10. The Kennedy One Too...

Ted Kennedy has gotten a lot of lumps on his reputation for drinking and womanizing. But, he made those choices and however much we look at any politican's personal life, it's fair to knock him on that. Kicking him for a personal loss is completely beyond the pale. I mean, my gosh, that had to be very hard, losing two brothers to violence. JFK and RFK weren't just politicians, they were somebody's son, brother, husband, father...

As for politicians getting "miles" off of tragedy - that's not the politician's fault - it's the fault of the media and the American public for buying into that kind of thing. Or maybe it really is relevant. When a politician is asked about influences in his/her life - what should the response be? Obviously, the death of a loved one is going to have a profound impact on a person's life.

[madfloridian]

11. She attacked many more in that article as well...

It was just an overall nasty piece of writing with no redeemable qualities at all.

[madfloridian]

14. Just to remember, a couple of pictures.

A couple of pictures as tributes to make up for Coulter's ugly words.

Howard Dean and his brother, Charley.


John Edwards and his son, Wade.



Shame on Coulter and on the culture of hate and ridicule people like her have fostered in our country.

[Beaverhausen]

16. and she calls liberals "godless"

:eyes:

[yardwork]

19. Yes, it astounds me that she claims to be Christian.

[madfloridian]

25. I agree.

:hi:

[yardwork]

36. Smile.

:hi:

[DeepModem Mom]

20. K&R

[tblue37]

21. She has also attacked the widows of men killed at the WTC,

calling them "bitches" and saying they were glad their husbands died because they got fame and money from it, and that they are using those deaths to advance their own agenda.

And of course she has long been on the Cindy Sheehan bash wagon, too.

This is the woman who screamed at a vet amputee from the Viet Nam war that he was the sort of person who caused us to lose that war (because, of course, he dared to criticize the war during an interview).

As far as human decency is concerned, there is no bar too low for her to limbo under.

[madfloridian]

22. She slimed Gephardt in the same column...

"In the current campaign, Gephardt has taken to spinning out a long, pitiful tale of his son's near-death three decades ago. If a lingering family medical tragedy is the main qualification for becoming a Democratic presidential candidate, what's Michael Schiavo waiting for?

At dozens of campaign stops, Mrs. Gephardt weeps anew as her husband tells the same gut-wrenching story over and over again. The relevance of his son's illness to Gephardt's run for the presidency is this: It inspired Gephardt's call for national health insurance. With his wife softly weeping in the background, he intones, "I get it."

[LSK]

24. K&R - expose this freak

[BReisen]

26. This woman makes me sick

I was so proud of Elizabeth E. last night. We all need to stand up to this kind of hateful speech - whenever we see it.

[Seabiscuit]

27. Remember Monica's blue dress?

Mann Coulter's black party dress would never be found in that condition.

Which is why she's always wearing the same dress - she never has to take it to the dry cleaners.

Not only would Bill Clinton never soil it, NO MAN would ever come close to it.

[L0oniX]

28. I got Ann's fix right here....

just show me where she lives!

[mnhtnbb]

30. Coulter's problem is one shared with many Republicans. She's unempathic

She's incapable of putting herself in someone else's shoes.

She must lead a very lonely life. She's a narcissist.

[spanone]

32. the ravings of a lunatic

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[Tab]

33. Wow - I don't think I have EVER read anything as hateful as what was in that column

I don't even know what to say.

n/t.

[nxylas]

35. Apart from all of Ann Coulter's other columns n/t

[Handsome Pete]

34. An open letter to Coulter...

Sir,

15 minutes ago just called... your presence is required there. It seems your time is up.

With extreme loathing,
Pete


just sayin'