Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Elizabeth Edwards Criticizes Ann Coulter Again
Elizabeth Edwards is continuing her war of words with Ann Coulter over what's appropriate to say.
Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, is upset over comments by conservative author Coulter, who made a remark that Edwards interpreted as saying it would be fine with her if Edwards were to be "killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
Coulter says it should be obvious to anyone who actually heard her comment that she was using sarcasm to make a point about humorist Bill Maher, who had said he wished Vice President Dick Cheney had been killed in a bomb attack.
Interviewed Thursday on the CBS "Early Show," the candidate's wife said it didn't used to be all right for people to "call names, to say these hateful kind of things." Edwards said as a parent, she doesn't think it should be allowed to happen now.
She also defended the use of Coulter's comments as a fund-raising tool by the Edwards campaign. She said it's showing what they're asking voters to reject.
Edwards said decent people can win the elimination of meanness and hatred from political discourse the same way they got rid of racist dialogue from civil speech in the South.
Elizabeth Edwards is continuing her war of words with Ann Coulter over what's appropriate to say.
Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, is upset over comments by conservative author Coulter, who made a remark that Edwards interpreted as saying it would be fine with her if Edwards were to be "killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
Coulter says it should be obvious to anyone who actually heard her comment that she was using sarcasm to make a point about humorist Bill Maher, who had said he wished Vice President Dick Cheney had been killed in a bomb attack.
Interviewed Thursday on the CBS "Early Show," the candidate's wife said it didn't used to be all right for people to "call names, to say these hateful kind of things." Edwards said as a parent, she doesn't think it should be allowed to happen now.
She also defended the use of Coulter's comments as a fund-raising tool by the Edwards campaign. She said it's showing what they're asking voters to reject.
Edwards said decent people can win the elimination of meanness and hatred from political discourse the same way they got rid of racist dialogue from civil speech in the South.
