Ann Coulter apologizes for the Edwards remark -This is bad

[Poiuyt]

Coulter told the Times the remark was meant as a joke.

"I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards," she said. "That would be mean."

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http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/GOP_candidates_repudiate_Coulter/20070303-062252-9359r/

I guess she actually said that. She has to be the most hate-filled person to have ever walked the earth.

[Bluebear]

1. That is not an apology of any order. nt

[Poiuyt]

13. No it wasn't

It was a hurtful, snide remark

[Mr. Ected]

2. At Least McCain, Guiliani, and Romney Repudiated Her Remarks

The fact that she obviously could care less is an indication of her wanton callousness.

[Change has come]

3. Did they really?

I missed that. Did Mittens repudiate her endorsement?

[Gabi Hayes]

6. sort of....they said the remarks were 'inappropriate', as in

''the Groom wearing Dockers,'' as one DUer posted

[Mr. Ected]

8. Read The Link

Those 3 are trying to distance themselves from AC's comment.

Let's see if they attack her non-apology.

Don't hold your breath.

[snowbear]

7. Actually..

The way I read it on all the news sites, Guiliani was the only one who personally made remarks.

The other two mentioned, McCain and Romney, had spokespersons on their campaigns respond to the ugly witch.

[Erika]

21. What was said? Thanks. n/t

[Poiuyt]

23. Here

A spokesman for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told The New York Times Coulter's comments "were wildly inappropriate."

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "The comments were completely inappropriate and there should be no place for such name-calling in political debate."

A spokesman for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said: "It was an offensive remark. Gov. Romney believes all people should be treated with dignity and respect."

From the link above

[Maine-ah]

43. saw that

Romney was there, I wonder if there's any footage of him when she said this.

[Syncronaut Seven]

4. Ahhhh.... The classic fallback

for sanitation sludge bacterium everywhere.

It was just a joke!

Huffington nailed her essence tonight.

Vile.

[Alcibiades]

5. Who paid her to call Edwards a f*ggot?

Ann Coulter doesn't work for free. Genius like that costs money. Who paid her to address that meeting, anyway? A stink should be made so that she's forced to give the money back. Based on her track record, this was entirely predictable. The people who hire her to commit slander should be held to account.

[benny05]

9. Not apol at all

Still a brownshirt.

[Erika]

10. Ann's a middle aged Brittany Spears

It's all about me...me...me....

Has she ever been married or had children? She acts like a 14 year old trying to get attention.

[babylonsister]

15. Spot on in the comparison. But how does one explain the conservative

party for hiring her, and the people who applaud/approve of that poor excuse for a human?

[Erika]

20. They are desperate

They had their chance to lead and they failed miserably. Coulter had some sick star power.

[sam sarrha]

16. Ann is as MAN...!!! ..

[lies and propaganda]

38. ridiculous...

Ann Coulter never had her parents thrust her into the spotlight at ten, allowing her to never grown up remotely normal and then had a really sad public unraveling of her life. has Britney Spears ever said anything as cunty as 'round em up, coverth them to christianity or kill them?'

yeah, they are totally the same person.

Anna Nicole Smith must also be Saddam Hussein cause you dont like here being discussed either.

[poiuytsister]

41. She has never been married and thankfully has never reproduced.

More proof of her hypocracy: from Wikipedia She owns both a condominium in Manhattan and a house, bought in 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida. Although she claims that usually she lives in New York, she votes in Palm Beach and is not registered to do so in New York.

Interestingly she graduated from Cornell as did Keith. I didn't know that one.

[sellitman]

11. Even the Freepers are sick of her.

I was reading posts at Freeperville and they sound like they wish she would just go away. Some were even smart enough to deduct that she was causing their side more harm than good.


It was funny to see them "freeping out"


*spelling error

[snowbear]

28. Ok.. I just went and looked.. I think you are dead wrong Sellitman..

Just about everyone of the lice-infested scumbags were drooling over her (his) pathetic bulimia-ridden body and her (his) eloquent (in their disgusting little minds) comments.

Freeper's SUCK:

[sam sarrha]

12. She/he set that up.. we'r be'n played.. petty bull sh*t

[Bolo Boffin]

14. Poor Ann. It's been hard work for her...

...picking up Barbara Olson's slack. The poor woman is just wasting away!

Seriously, anybody seen the muscles on her limbs recently? Maybe on a milk carton...

[sam sarrha]

17. not hard work, they just take her/him off its medication and turn on the camera

[sakabatou]

18. Coulter, your humor is sickening

[file83]

49. Doesn't it have to be funny to call it "humor"?

[Nutmegger]

19. What a vile, vile creature.

I remember when she came to UCONN. I would have loved to partake in the heckling.

[Mr. Ected]

22. Further Proof: Repukes Are Simply Not Funny

Bill Maher skewers the RW, we laugh because it highlights their ineptitude.

Ann Coulter skewers the LW, THEY laugh because they share her delight in hate speech.

What a sick, sick group of individuals those 'family values' people are.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Isn't that what Michael Richards (aka Cosmo Kramer) said at first? That it was all a joke

that got out of hand? Since his comedy routine that broke down included the use of a highly offensive term that in no possible way is a laughing matter, that excuse lasted about 10 seconds and was as offensive to people as the use of the "N" word itself.

That Ann Coulter would even suggest that the use of an ugly term like the one she used could by any conception of the imagination be part of a joke, that is even more offensive than her original use of the term, in my opinion.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. damage done, Annie

damage done to GOP already

[Proud2BAmurkin]

26. That response is stupid, old, and not funny, like Ann. Coli

nt

[NI4NI]

29. Call me crazy, but

unlike Annthrax conservatives, I expect a joke to be at least a tiny bit funny.

[underpants]

27. Over

the Ann meltdown is only two years away tops

[originalpckelly]

30. WOW! Now that's something. That's the first time she's ever apologized.

At least to my recollection. That's a very good sign, even if the apology sucked.

[Poiuyt]

31. That wasn't an apology

[Laurier]

32. Not an apology at all.

Just another insult.

It's like calling someone on saying "You're an idiot" and then the person who made the remark saying, "I apologize, that was an insult to idiots."

Pathetic.

[BlueStater]

40. It's not an apology

It's a fucking pathetic attempt (even by her standards) to weasel out her words.

One day she's going to piss off the wrong people and she'll regret it big time.

[AshevilleGuy]

33. As defensive as I usually am when Edwards is attacked,

I am not worried about this one. Coulter's remarks are so off the wall, illogical and just plain amateurish, they will not hurt him in the least. Any voter silly enough to take her seriously would probably vote repuke anyway, if they can even find the polling station without being drawn off course by bright shiny objects. If it keeps up, someone in the Edwards camp needs to respond with a withering, brutal indictment of Coulter, but not Edwards himself, he can't do it because she is a woman; having been raised in the South he won't break that rule.

[SoCalDem]

34. Republican Rule Number One..

NEVER APOLOGIZE.

they never do.. Dems could actually take a lesson from this..

I am not suggesting that dems should use their slimy tactics, but when they do make an honest gaffe, they should resist the urge to go on the national apology tour.

Media never really portrays an apology correctly anyway, and only insists on continued apologies..

[BenDavid]

35. I have siad it time and time again,

what the democrats need to do is make a 30 second or a 60 second spot and have Ann Coulter as the face of the republican party. This will force all these folks that enjoy her comments make a denouncement of her for public consumption and not some quote found in the paper on page 6 of Section C.

[babylonsister]

36. I haven't heard you say that, but I agree wholeheartedly! nt

[AshevilleGuy]

37. Dems never do this.

They NEVER use the most vocal rightwing nut jobs who support the repukes, against them. How often do Dems use Big Jerry Foulwell or Pat Robertson against some repuke candidate whom they have endorsed? In 1984 Mondale was urged to attack the religious right, but all he did was ONE vapid sentence in which he said something about the "slurs of the religius right".

It is mind boggling and frustrating. republicans are just better politicians than Dems.

[NewJeffCT]

52. Yet, the RW takes an obscure midwestern college professor

Ward Churchill, and scream his name from coast to coast when he made his remark about 9/11 and the little Eichmanns. Nobody outside of his college had ever heard of the guy before that... yet, he is often held up as an example of the modern Democratic Party.

[Cameron27]

45. That's a brilliant idea...

I love it! :thumbsup:

[LibDemAlways]

47. Whichever repuke ends up as the nominee ought to

have Coulter hung around his neck like an albatross by the Dems.

The most appalling thing about her is that no repuke ever forcefully denounces her. So make them own her. You are absolutely right. Make a series of ads highlightening her most outrageous quotes - the ones about the 9/11 widows alone ought to do the trick - and let the public know this is what the repukes are really all about.

[Jade Fox]

58. Good idea!

Rather than rail against Coulter, use her to damage the Republican Party. The GOP has used her kind to get the folks they dare not publicly embrace on board and voting Republican. Let's force them to own up to their true constituents.

[BlueStater]

39. She can't even apologize for calling someone a faggot?!

What a fucking lowlife. I'm glad she's not in our party.

[rasputin1952]

42. It is all about the attention she gets...

Coulter is one of the true believers of the mantra, "all attention is is good PR". The notion that even bad press is "good" press because you drew attention is a pretty poor notion...Just look at Walter Reed's problems, it ain't good no matter how you look at it.

Coulter is a hag, and the best thing proplr can do is ignore her, regardless of outrageous she is.
People like her feed off of the attention, deny her attention, and she shrivels up and goes away.

[City Lights]

44. Ann Coulter is the poster kook of the Republick Party.

Fox Noise types still love her. She's a freak for sure, but until she stops getting air or print time, we should use her to our advantage by turning her into the face of today's Republick Party of hate.

[dkofos]

46. Personally, if I were Edwards, when told that coulter called me a

faggot, I would have said, Ann who, oh you mean that skinny, ugly, blonde guy. Who cares!

[file83]

48. So her apology is yet another joke...

When is Ann gonna start doing Stand Up Comedy?

[poiuytsister]

50. Can't Edwards sue her for slander?

or would that be counter productive in the long run?

[WinkyDink]

51. AC is the Satanic Paris Hilton.

[bullwinkle428]

53. She's a graduate of the Tim Hardaway School of Apology...

[sampsonblk]

54. Compare this to Kerry's "botched joke"

Interesting difference in how everyone reacted: Us, the media, both parties and the person who said it.

[poiuytsister]

57. I was thinking the exact thing

but didn't feel like going down in flames this morning

[spanone]

55. She's a smart-ass just like her 'boss' .

[gulliver]

56. Predictable. She has a "genius" for this stuff.

Amazing that something so crude and braindead can be so effective against us. But Dems just aren't in the damned game at all. Just no freakin' clue!