News
2007-06-28
Elizabeth Edwards
asks Coulter to stop personal attacks
Elizabeth Edwards
to Coulter: Stop the attacks
Elizabeth Edwards
pleaded Tuesday with Ann Co
Elizabeth Edwards
pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to ''stop the personal
attacks,'' a day after the conservative commentator said she
wished Edwards's husband, Democratic presidential
candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.
''The things she
has said over the years, not just about John but about
other candidates, lowers the political dialogue at precisely
the time we need to raise it,'' Edwards said by phone
on MSNBC's Hardball program, where Coulter was a
guest.
Elizabeth Edwards
said she did not consult her husband before confronting
Coulter on the air, adding that she felt the pundit's
remarks were ''a dialogue on hatefulness and
ugliness.''
''It debases
political dialogue,'' Edwards said. ''It drives people away
from the process. We can't have a debate about issues if
you're using this kind of language.''
Coulter responded
with a laugh and charged that Edwards was calling on
her to stop speaking altogether. She questioned why
Elizabeth Edwards was making a phone call on behalf of
her husband, and she criticized John Edwards for
''stealing doctors' money'' during his successful career as
a trial lawyer.
''I don't think I
need to be told to stop writing by Elizabeth Edwards,
thank you,'' Coulter said.
On ABC's Good
Morning America on Monday, Coulter was
asked about a March speech in which she used a gay slur to
refer to Edwards.
''If I'm going to
say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll
just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination
plot,'' Coulter said Monday, picking up on remarks
made by HBO's Bill Maher. Maher suggested in March
that ''people wouldn't be dying needlessly'' if Vice
President Dick Cheney had been killed in an insurgent attack
in Afghanistan. (Mike Baker, AP)
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