Ann Coulter Flays Herself for Book Sales BBSNews 2007-06-28 -- Ann Coulter has managed to raise herself above Paris Hilton and get noticed for more vile than usual behavior as the spokesfemale for the Republican Party this week. At issue are remarks she made about John Edwards and wishing him to die in a terrorist attack. Edwards made a call in to MSNBC's "Hardball" on Tuesday, asking Coulter to stop her baseless attacks and the general dragging down of political discourse by the extremist right-wing GOP base.
And Coulter promptly made a fool of herself. There's really nothing new here. Coulter is the lowest common-denominator of a Republican Party that has lost all sense of values and moral compass; and they actually like to be represented to America and the world by this shrill and vicious female.
That's certainly their right, if they want to be represented by the likes of Coulter hey, it's a free country. Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right Wing Hater Get Off the Hook The Republican blogosphere and others have gone nuts trying to defend Coulter and her obnoxious and rude diatribes, in this case simply lying outright about what another more sedate political commentator said. The spiel is that Coulter "learned her lesson", and instead of calling Democratic Presidential hopeful John Edwards a "fag", she would instead wish for his assassination like Bill Maher supposedly did for Dick Cheney back in March of this year.
There are two problems with this strategy. One, nearly everyone's mother taught them that "two wrongs do not make a right." And oldie but a goody maxim that almost every small American child is taught from the first time they try to escape responsibility for a childish prank by claiming, "Well, er, Johnny did it so I figured I could do it too.
" And nearly everyone who was not born under a rock, also heard Mom's admonishment that usually went along the lines of, "Would you jump off a bridge if Johnny did it?" and then along would come the stern and firm warning, "two wrongs don't make a right." Number two, the Republicans supporters of Coulter are misled or are simply lying outright when they claim Bill Maher said that he wished Cheney was killed in an assassination plot.
Maher never said such a thing as we clearly documented from the transcript back in March. Bill Maher NEVER said that he wished Cheney died in a terrorist attack or assassination plot. Republicans supporters of haters like Ann Coulter, and Coulter herself, are making this up.
It all started on Arianna Huffington's blog back in early March at the Huffington Post. Some folks there, in the comments section, said they wished Cheney had gotten blown up or died or whatever. Not Bill Maher, he never said any such thing.
The issue came up because Arianna took those comments down from her Web site, apparently she did not feel that such hate speech contributed to civil political discourse so she self-censored the blog. Good for her. So when you read comments on the right-wing news and blog sites that claim otherwise, you can now point to the debunking of Coulter and her claim about Maher, and you can point to good old Mom and say, even if Maher did say such a thing, and he didn't, two wrongs don't make a right.
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