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One of the best political take-downs in recent memory. John Edwards, AKA "Silky Pony", AKA "Breck Girl", falls in love with a slatternly videographer; cheats on his cancer-stricken wife, and collapses in a heap of FAIL.

LULZ~!~

'Silky Pony' John Edwards rides high in the saddle

John Edwards, alone in a hotel room, staring at his laptop.

Rielle Hunter tells GQ "I was not the home wrecker".

Pretty Boy says he'll take his own life before he goes to prison. I suppose this starts the John Edwards suicide watch.

Somewhere, Elizabeth is smiling, smiling. Or if not, I'm smiling for her. ;D

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Jim Young/Reuters. caption: U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards says goodbye to his wife Elizabeth as they leave the Jefferson-Jackson Democratic Party fund raising dinner in Columbia, South Carolina, in this April 27, 2007 file photo. Elizabeth Edwards, best selling author and the estranged wife of John Edwards died of cancer at age 61 at her home December 7, 2010, media reports said.

This photo spotted over at BagNewsNotes (one thing we can agree on, a lefty and me, are condolences to the family of Elizabeth Edwards. But not to John Edwards, who was and is and always will be a creature of opportunity and a...well, a thrice-damned better-off-if-he-were-deep-in-the-Marianas-Trench lawyer).

As for that...thing...John Edwards picked up on his shoe...

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Rielly!

With this, John Edwards is done. Finis. The ultimate sex-politician-political suicide. I mean, even Bill Clinton's Oral Office Oil Change(s) were reconcilable; this, not so much.

Random Rielly! Quotes...

Johnny doesn't fit into a box in a lot of ways, either.

And Johnny really loves Elizabeth. You know, she's the mother of his three, was four, children. And they've been together since I was 13 years old. You know, they've had a life. So there is love there, but, you know, it was a toxic relationship. And very abusive. It's interesting, though, that he allowed himself to be abused. You know, he's no victim. But I think it had to do with having the guilt of the double life—it allowed him to accept the abuse.

He was always very gracious about it. And always said that he would support whatever decision I made. But I believe on some level he was hoping I would get an abortion. Because he didn't—he wasn't happy about the timing.

Oh, no, I did not think he should run for president.

Because of you?
Because of his entire life. Here's the most interesting thing. He had already been vetted for a vice presidential campaign. And he had a lot of problems going on that nobody knew about. So no, I didn't think he should run. And I said that to him. But I also said that if he felt it in his heart that this is his path and what he needed to do, that he should wait till April. Because I thought he was going to have a very hard January, February, and March. And it turned out he did have a very hard January, February, and March.

And I answered the phone and said, "Hey, baby." And, click.

I'm not a mistress by nature.

I come from a family of infidelity.

I was not the Home Wrecker.

So you have enough of a bond with him that, even though you know he's lied to his wife and his state and the country, you really never worry that he will lie to you?
No. He does not lie to me. At all.

Most of his mistakes or errors in judgment were because of his fear of the wrath of Elizabeth. He's allowed himself to be pushed into a lot of things that he wouldn't normally do because of Elizabeth's story line. And the spin that she wants to put out there. He was emasculated. And you know, the wrath of Elizabeth is a mighty wrath.

rielle hunter. being is free.

Enjoy the animated GIF.

Rielly!

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UPDATE

Via Jim Treacher, Rielle Hunter "screamed for two hours" when she saw the GQ photos...

“She was in tears when she called and said that when she saw the pictures in GQ, she screamed for two hours.” Rielle, who had previously met with Barbara last June in preparation for an interview that never transpired, told Barbara “she found the photographs repulsive. When I asked if that was the case, why did she pose the way she did, she said she trusted Mark Seliger, whom she said is a brilliant photographer, and quote, ‘I went with the flow.’”

Going with the flow, dear, is what got you here. Should've opted for the pearl necklace on the blue dress, no?

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Who knew?

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Excerpting from the future bestseller "Game Change", co-authors John Heilemann and Mark Halperin divulge a 10-page preview in New York Magazine that devastates John Edwards.

Quite a tale of not one but two monsters: both John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth (portrayed by the media as a pitiable victim, but revealed as an cunning hatchetwoman who demeaned and humiliated John Edwards and his staff every chance she got).

Some juicynesses...the fateful meeting of the future love birds...

“My friends insist you’re John Edwards,” Rielle Hunter said. “I tell them no way—you’re way too handsome.”

“No, ma’am. I’m John Edwards,” the candidate replied.

“No way! I don’t believe you!”

The unmasking of Mrs. Edwards...

The denizens of the valley of staff were astonished by the narcissism that had infused their candidate. But for a long time, they continued slaving in the service of the illusion at the core of Edwards’s political appeal: that he remained the same humble, aw-shucks son of a mill worker he’d always been. The cognitive dissonance was enormous, sure, but they were used to that. Because for years they’d been living with an even bigger lie—the lie of Saint Elizabeth.

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During the 2004 race, Elizabeth badgered and berated John’s advisers around the clock. She called Nick Baldick, his campaign manager, an idiot. She accused David Axelrod, his (and later Obama’s) media consultant, of lying to her and insisted that he be stripped of the responsibility for making the campaign’s TV ads. She would stay up late scouring the Web, pulling down negative stories and blog items about her husband, forwarding them with vicious messages to the communications team. She routinely unleashed profanity-laced tirades on conference calls. “Why the fuck do you think I’d want to go sit outside a Wal-Mart and hand out leaflets?” she snarled at the schedulers.

Rielle Hunter's capture of weak-minded John Edwards...

There was nothing legit, however, about Hunter’s behavior. It was freaky, wildly inappropriate, and all too visible. She flirted outlandishly with every man she met. She spouted New Age babble, rambled on about astrology and reincarnation, and announced to people she had just met, “I’m a witch.” But mostly, she fixated on Edwards. She told him that he had “the power to change the world,” that “the people will follow you.” She told him that he could be as great a leader as Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. She told him, “You’re so real. You just need to get your staff out of your way.” She reinforced everything he already believed, told him everything he wanted to hear.

Edwards swooned.

Lying and covering up his affair, first to his staff...

Scher was next to raise the issue, traveling up to New York from Washington and meeting Edwards in his room at the Regency.

“So you think I’m fucking her?” Edwards asked.

Well, are you? Scher pressed.

Edwards said he wasn’t.

...then to his wife...

Always jealous of anyone, male or female, who seemed close to John, Elizabeth watched Hunter working the room. The expression on Mrs. Edwards’s face said: Who is this woman? And what is she doing here? Icily, Elizabeth asked Hunter to back off. “Excuse me, we’re trying to have some privacy,” she said.

Then the first Enquirer story, the one everyone ignored (especially the Democrat-loving Main Stream Media...

Altman called David Pecker, the Enquirer’s publisher. We have evidence, Pecker told Altman. “This thing could have a big impact on this guy, so let’s be triply sure,” Altman said. Pecker replied that he already was.

A little later, Altman’s phone buzzed again. This time it was Elizabeth, in tears.

You must do something about this, she begged. It’s cruel, it’s unfair, and it’s untrue. This is way too much for me. I can’t take it. It’s killing our family. It’s killing me.

Altman was torn up by Elizabeth’s distress. But his hands were tied. “I’m really sorry, Mrs. Edwards,” he said. “I’m really, really sorry.”

Elizabeth's breakdown...

At the terminal, the couple fought in the passenger waiting area. They fought outside in the parking lot. Elizabeth was sobbing, out of control, incoherent. As their aides tried to avert their eyes, she tore off her blouse, exposing herself. “Look at me!” she wailed at John and then staggered, nearly falling to the ground.

John tried to bring down the temperature, remaining calm and impassive, but his apprent standoffishness only seemed to infuriate and disorient Elizabeth more. Finally, after talking to her doctor on the phone, Edwards sent his wife home and flew off to South Carolina.

At this point, late in 2007, Edwards was still a viable Democrat contender, trying to influence his way into a guaranteed VP position at the least; still holding out hope that he could secure the nomination. Until the second National Enquirer story...

Some Edwards aides believed John’s denials, thought the story was too far out to be true. But others decided to stop spinning the candidate’s disavowals to the media, so certain were they that their boss was lying. Too many of them knew that Young had talked openly about having had a vasectomy a few years back. A bit of math and a glance at a calendar made clear that Hunter had gotten pregnant around June, within months of the recurrence of Elizabeth’s cancer.

After the story broke, things went from bad to worse. John and Elizabeth were fighting all the time, sometimes all night long. On more than one occasion, she announced to the staff that she could no longer speak in public on her husband’s behalf or stay in the same hotel with him. Once, in the middle of the night, she woke up a trip director and commanded, Get me out of here! I’m not campaigning for this asshole another day!

Edwards failed in the primaries, but held out hope for some sort of position in either the Obama or Clinton administration...

So Edwards sat there, perched on the fence, squandering his leverage. Making the situation all the more absurd was the birth in late February of Hunter’s baby, a girl she named Frances Quinn—a development that Edwards somehow convinced himself would not preclude his being nominated and confirmed to run the Department of Justice.

Finally, in May, after suffering a blowout loss to Clinton in the West Virginia primary, Obama phoned Edwards and briefly managed to pierce his bubble of delusion. Tomorrow is the last day when your endorsement is going to make a difference, he told Edwards. And what would Edwards get in return? Not much more than a prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic convention.

...a speaking spot that Obama decided, later, to revoke. Because by then the tawdry details were exposed; Edwards was a liar, a jerk, an egomaniac, and, as termed by his own wife...

As for Elizabeth Edwards, she is reportedly now urging John to accede to Hunter’s demands and take responsibility for his paternity of Frances Quinn—a dramatic and no doubt painful turnabout from her position eighteen months ago. Confronted then with the Enquirer photo of her husband cuddling Hunter’s baby, she insisted to Palmieri that she still believed he was not the father. “I have to believe it,” Elizabeth said. “Because if I don’t, it means I’m married to a monster.”

No, dearie, you're married to a Democrat.

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Dan Collins has my pshop up at his place. I'm not running it here. He commissioned it, let's allow him the glory of the posting. Silky ponies mounting? John Edwards up?

Uggggh.

It's purported that John Edwards and whats-her-face made an unfortunate sex tape that's not made it out just yet. We just don't know if that's truth. Hopefully it's a fiction (see my pshop if you really want to imagine the consequences); if not, we hope that said tape won't ever appear - like that vaporous tape supposedly showing M'Chelle Obama raging racist! at the Trinity United Methodist Church never appeared. (I believe that tape existed, but "Powers that Be" made sure it didn't surface.)

We'll see.

Ride 'em, Silky~!

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...no more VP consideration for you.

Nor Attorney General.

Hypocrite!

Thanks to Cowboy Blob for the impetus to get off my dead ass and run with this pshop (I've been on vacation, and kind of liked not feeding this blog monster every day! And, the cabin I've been hidden away in didn't even have electricity, much less wireless internet.)

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Previously on John Edwards here, and here.

I first posted on this last Tuesday.

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Here's a time line of the Democrat's worst nightmare--the unthinkable success that Democrats struggled to prevent--the success of the Surge.

From their own mouths, words of the anti-Bush haters in the House and Senate who led the cacophony against the Surge, posted by Peter Wehner at The Weekly Standard and on Yahoo News.

With today's internet, there's not a quote or hateful remark by any of these cut 'n run Democrat leaders that can't be pulled up for scrutiny. As Bill puts it, let them eat crow.

Since Barack Obama is 'leading' (snicker) the Democrats now, let's begin with him.

October 22, 2006, Senator Barack Obama catches wind of the Surge...

"It is clear at this point that we cannot, through putting in more troops or maintaining the presence that we have, expect that somehow the situation is going to improve, and we have to do something significant to break the pattern that we've been in right now." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 10/22/06)

January 7, 2007, just days before the Surge was announced...

Senator Joseph Biden...

"I’m going to try it after the hearings. Here—there’s three things I’m going to try to do, Tim. Speak out as loudly as I can as to why I think repeating this mistake—we’ve tried it twice before—why it will not work, and why we need a political solution first, not a military solution. Secondly, I’m going to be holding extensive hearings as chairman, incoming chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee for the next four weeks, bringing in experts from every, every perspective to talk about what options are remaining in Iraq. And thirdly, I have, I’ve, I’ve drafted a resolution of disapproval that is just hortatory, it’s a—to send to the Senate to try to convince the president that there are significant numbers and members of the United States Senate who think this proposal is a mistake, and hopefully force him to reconsider it. Because every two months he’s going to have to reconsider this, every two months. It’s not just surging once and that’s it. He’s not surging for a year. Every two months he’s going to have to decide, “Do I continue to extend the tours of duties of those who are there? Do I bring more people in?” And hopefully make the case to him that this is a mistake."

January 10, 2007, President Bush announces the Surge.

Senator Obama...

"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse." (MSNBC's "Response To The President's Speech On Iraq," 1/10/07)

Senator Hillary Clinton...

"Based on the president's speech tonight, I cannot support his proposed escalation of the war in Iraq.

"The President’s Iraq policy has been marred by incompetence and arrogance as his Administration has refused to recognize the military and political reality on the ground. American troops continue to serve and sacrifice in Iraq, performing magnificently and bravely. But as our commanders have said repeatedly, Iraq requires a political solution, not a purely military one, and we did not hear such a proposed solution tonight.

"The President simply has not gotten the message sent loudly and clearly by the American people, that we desperately need a new course. The President has not offered a new direction, instead he will continue to take us down the wrong road – only faster. The President’s speech failed to adequately address the political situation in Iraq, rising sectarian violence, mounting strain on our military, growing Iranian influence, and festering divides over how to distribute oil revenues.

"As I have said, as the American people have demanded, and as the facts on the ground require, we need a new course and an end to the current failed policy. I continue to urge a strategy that places pressure on the Iraqi government to resolve the political crisis through phased redeployment of U.S. troops, establishes an Iraqi Oil Trust to end the stalemate over oil, and pursues an aggressive diplomatic strategy including an international conference of the regional parties to further the task of Iraq’s stability."

Senator John Edwards...

"George Bush's expected decision to adopt the McCain Doctrine and escalate the war in Iraq is a grave mistake.

"The new Congress must intercede to stop Bush from stubbornly sticking to the same failed course in Iraq and refuse to authorize funding for an escalation of troops. They should make it clear to the President that he will not get any money to put more of our troops in harm's way until he provides a plan to turn responsibility of Iraq over to the Iraqi people and to ultimately leave Iraq. George Bush wants to dig a deeper hole, but we need to climb out"

Senator John Kerry...

“This plan is neither new nor forward looking. This is more of what’s taken us backwards. There’s no military solution in Iraq. There is only a political solution, and the President has no plan to achieve it. We’re caught in a civil war in Iraq. Escalation is not the answer. The best answer is to set a deadline to bring our heroes home, force Iraqis to stand up for Iraq, and get Iraq’s neighbors to start taking more responsibility for Iraq’s security.”

January 11, 2007

Senator Boxer while grilling Condoleezza Rice...

"Who pays the price?" Boxer repeatedly demanded. "You're not going to pay a particular price," she told Rice, because the secretary has no "immediate family" at risk.

Senator Chris Dodd

A "fool's paradise,"

Senator Joe Biden

"A tragic mistake,"

January 17, 2007

Senator Obama...

[the surge strategy would]"not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly."

January 23, 2007 President Bush's State of the Union Speech

Senator Obama...

I don't think the president's strategy is going to work. We went through two weeks of hearings on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; experts from across the spectrum--military and civilian, conservative and liberal--expressed great skepticism about it. My suggestion to the president has been that the only way we're going to change the dynamic in Iraq and start seeing political commendation is actually if we create a system of phased redeployment. And, frankly, the president, I think, has not been willing to consider that option, not because it's not militarily sound but because he continues to cling to the belief that somehow military solutions are going to lead to victory in Iraq.

February 2007

Senator Russ Feingold (from his Diary at the Daily KOS)

"When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took up the Biden-Hagel resolution opposing the President’s troop escalation proposal last week, I supported it as a first step toward ending our involvement in this war. That resolution didn’t go nearly far enough – it was nonbinding and just focused on the escalation – but putting the Senate on record against the "surge" was a small step in the right direction."

Senator John Kerry...

"The simple fact is that sending in over 20,000 additional troops isn't the answer--in fact, it's a tragic mistake. It won't end the violence; it won't provide security;  .  .  .  it won't turn back the clock and avoid the civil war that is already underway; it won't deter terrorists, who have a completely different agenda; it won't rein in the militias."

Senator Ted Kennedy...

[declared that any troop increase would be] "an immense new mistake."

Representative Dennis Kucinich (Speaking to plans to send 3000 additional troops to Afghanistan)

"It has been proven time and time again that troop surges don't work."

April 2007

Senate majority leader Harry Reid...

[declared the Iraq war] "lost" [and insisted] "This surge is not accomplishing anything."

Senator Christopher Dodd...

"We don't need a surge of troops in Iraq--we need a surge of diplomacy and politics. Every knowledgeable person who has examined the Iraq situation for the past several years--Baker and Hamilton, senior military officials, junior officers--has drawn the same conclusion--there is no military solution in Iraq. To insist upon a surge is wrong."

July 2007

Senator Obama...

[after evidence was amassing that the surge was working] "My assessment is that the surge has not worked."

Representative Murtha...

"Well it's delusional to say the least," Murtha told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "As I said earlier, and you heard me say it, it's a failed policy wrapped in illusion. Nothing's gotten better. Incidents have increased. We have had more Americans killed in the last four months than any other period during the war."

(But to Murtha's credit, he did say, in November 2007, that the surge was working, creating much consternation amongst the Democrats. ""This could be a real headache for us," said one top House Democratic aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Pelosi is going to be furious."

September 2007

Senator Dick Durbin

"By carefully manipulating the statistics, the Bush-Petraeus report will try to persuade us that violence in Iraq is decreasing and thus the surge is working. Even if the figures were right, the conclusion is wrong."

October 2007

Representative David Obey

[asked if the surge strategy was working, offered the view that if violence is decreasing in Iraq, it may be because insurgents ] "are running out of people to kill."

February 2008

Nancy Pelosi

[was asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the success of the surge in Iraq. ] "Are you not worried, though, that all the gains that have been achieved over the past year might be lost?"

"There haven't been gains, Wolf," "The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure."

March 2008

Senator Tom Harkin...

"On this fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we have reached an extraordinary juncture. The so-called surge has failed to achieve its stated objective, which was to facilitate reconciliation within the Iraqi government. While our brave American troops have performed brilliantly, the Iraqi government, time and again, has failed to take the kinds of actions that will foster national unity. Meanwhile, we have received a series of objective, authoritative reports documenting that the Iraqi government, Army, and police are dysfunctional and riddled with sectarianism and corruption. "

"In other words, the President’s stay the course policy in Iraq has brought us more of the same. The same violence. The same dysfunction. The same failure.

“Enough is enough. The only true way forward in Iraq is to redeploy U.S. forces. Only then will Iraqi leaders have the incentive to resolve their differences and take responsibility for their own future. And by redeploying our troops to strategic locations elsewhere in the Middle East, we will be able to pursue a more effective strategy in that critical part of the world.”

June 2008

Governor Bill Richardson

[when asked if he was ready to concede that John McCain had been right in proposing the surge because it seemed to be having a positive impact]
"Absolutely not."

Ahhh, I just love it when a plan falls apart, don't you?

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...because of the hypocrisy.

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Dan Collins labels this video as "Clueless Asshat Screws Up Again"

He's always got the bestest labels!

;D

...for free speech and criticism.














It's time again to show my support for Ann Coulter. Of all the right-side firebrands who draw the ire of the Democommies, Ann does so with no apologies. Michelle Malkin is another, but without as much controversy. Ann draws ire because they hate her. Almost as much as they hate Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, Tony Snow, Steve Forbes, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, William F. Buckley, Jr; the list is as long as the political roll of the Republican Party. The Democratic party of tolerance that can't tolerate dissent.

Many Republicans draw back from her, so as to keep a separation of sorts. That's a firewall I don't need, I don't apologize for my Hard Right views. I appreciate Ann for her willingness to express her opinions in the face of hostility. That, and she's easy to look at...

This post from her website shows exactly the Ann I love*...

"Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question -- unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" is surely no more frightening than "B. Hussein Obama."

And liberals agree with Ahmadinejad on the issues! We know that because he was invited by an American university to speak on campus."

* Love that woman, I do (in a purely distant and platonic sense, mind you...)

Ann has a new book, recently outed. Pick up a copy at your local book peddler. Or click this link, and buy it directly from Ann's site.

Remember, she's not as she's portrayed in the leftist spin machine. There's humor in her remarks, if you can see past her curtain.

Instead of sending his wife out to defend him, this time Brecky herself ineffectually slaps away at Ann Coulter, calling Ann a 'She-Devil'.

He just wishes he could call his wife that...

Editor and Publisher (via Fox News)......

"Edwards had reminded the crowd today in Burlington, Iowa, that his wife had challenged Coulter to stop "personal attacks." He continued: "We know these people. We know their game plan. They're going to attack us personally," Edwards said, according to an ABC report. "They attacked Elizabeth personally, because she stood up to that she-devil Ann Coulter."

Catching himself, he added: "I should not have name-called. But the truth is -- forget the names -- people like Ann Coulter, they engage in hateful language."

Elizabeth stood up where you can't, John-boy. Always
someone else to defend you from the evils of conservatives. I would sooner vote for Elizabeth than for you.

Hateful attacks, are you kidding me? A skinny blonde is gonna fret you; what's AmadmaninIran gonna to you? Send you running for a medicine chest full of psychotropic pills, I'll warrant.

Ann didn't really call you a fag, anyways. But it was close enough to the mark to hurt your feelings, and give you a great way to get cash from your donors. Every time the funds run low, you run to Ann for some munitions.

We know how little it takes to get your feeling hurt, John. Do you think that you could take what, oh, George Bush has taken from the moonbats and the MSM, and not break out in tears, a rash, and have to lay your head in Elizabeth's lap while she strokes your ("NOT the HAIR, Elizabeth!)...

Again, we see you're just not man enough to be President.

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Don't have a good pshop for this one, but Theo Spark: Theo's favorite she-devil.....does.

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It seems Ann Coulter has the Breck Girl up in arms, again, so much so that he sends his wife out to try to shut Ann up. Ann was on (Liberal Country) MSNBC, and took a call from Elizabeth Edwards...about the Good Morning America show she did yesterday, hosted by Cuomo.

From Ann (via Newsbusters, on her non-Faggot remark that stirred Brecky up in March):

"No, no. There were, I was denounced all over. All over. I think the one that hurt the most was, was from I'mALittleGirlInAPinkPartyDress.com… Very upsetting…Though about the same time Bill Maher said - and by the way, I did not call John Edwards the F-word. I said I couldn't talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word.

[…]

But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I've learned my lesson. If I'm gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."

So, Ann does MSNBC, and Missus Silky Pony asks for her to stop, snivel, stop, whine, stop talking about poor John, he's so easily upset! But thanks anyway for the fundraising opportunity, same time next week, Ann?

From Ace:

Honestly, none of this is meant in a particuarly nasty way. But there just are a lot of jokes -- crude ones, insulting ones, even (gasp!) insensitive ones -- that are just not really permitted anymore, unless you're a professional black comedian. So when a partisan on the other side goes into this territory himself, well, it's the perfect opportunity for some Forbidden Humor, at least in the distancing form of parody.

The trick is that you can't just come off like you're really just using this all as an excuse to say vicious things; I sorta think there has to be a smile-when-you-say that real jokiness about it. I can't read Ann Coulter's mind, but she often doesn't project that. Often she seems to flat-out mean it, and is just using the form of the joke to say something that would otherwise be deemed over-the-line.

Sometimes I just think she doesn't really evaluate how funny her more provocative "jokes" are. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and over-the-line jokes really need to be very funny indeed to justify themselves.

That said, she wasn't making a joke here so much as she was making a straight point: People continue to chatter about her "faggot" crack and no one in the MSM has ever scolded Bill Maher for his assassination death-wish.

Death to Dick Cheney, of course. That's OK, huh, Liberals? But when Ann questions Breck Girl's sexuality, it's of course way over the line. And believe me, he's pounding the donors for Ca$h, just like he did earlier.

It's not that Conservatives are mean people, or "listen" to Ann Coulter, Kleinheider, but that Conservatives enjoy pointing out the beam in Liberal's eyes when whey go aghast over something like this, and ignore their own houses of hatred, deeming their own line-crossings as OK and ignoring the criticisms (what few actually make it to the MSM) of their soft-spoken and always-correct pundits.

But, that's the Liberals, isn't it? Make a dime off of a whine...I'll bet there will be another email in my box soon enough from the John Edwards team, wanting to cash in on this.

Ann Coulter will get my cash before a penny goes to Edwards. And I will continue to support Ann Coulter, and anyone else who confronts the Political Correctness Machine Liberals Use for Silencing Critics.

UPDATED 6/4/07 5:30AM (yes, an early riser)

Dan Collins picked up the Photochop; displayed now at Protein Wisdom. Hope the Photobucket account doesn't explode... ;D

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UPDATED 6/3/07 10:17 pm
The debate's over, the analysis begins. Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom had this great idea...and CNN was bragging overmuch on this 'Clock', so...

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6:00 PM
I'm watching this thing because I'm still rehabbing my torn calf muscle. So, this little experiment in live blogging..

CNN, Wolf Blitzer. Edwards (Breck Girl) has the coif. Kucinich looks a little like Mickey Mouse.

Sen. Obama: Questioned on FBI's terror arrest. Any credit for Bush? Obama: NO. Bush caused the terrorist threat to America, we have to get out of Iraq, because all the bad guys are limited to Afghanistan! Effort in Iraq has weakened our strategy against Terrorism.

Edwards: Bumper sticker question. Is War on Terror a bumper sticker slogan? Edwards:
NO! Bush is a bumper sticker, and should be

CLINTON: Disagrees with Edwards! We are safer than we were!

Patriot Act: Kuchinich? Patriot act undermines Patriot Act! Unconstitutional! We were led down a culdesac by 9/11!

Biden: Iraq question, voted to continue funding. Why did others vote againt it? Biden says we were lied to by Bush! Truth is, 160K forces in harm's way, we need to put in different armored vehicles. Needs 2,500 of them in the field...He doesn't want to "judge them" the others for voting against the funding. Good for him!

CLINTON: What about the funding? Bash Bush for not changing course! Support the troops by bringing them home. We all want to end the war.

OBAMA: Everyone supports the troops. We just don't like the plan. (Compares war to Korea...not Vietnam. What's he hiding?)

EDWARDS (Breck Girl): We gotta end the war, defund the war with a timetable, (Damn he sounds like a sissy). Criticises vote on the floor, Clinton and Obama, for not declaring their votes early! Snap, crackle, pop...OBAMA: You're 4.5 years late on this! All of us excercised our best judgement...CLINTON: THIS is BUSH's WAR! All we want to do is end it (well, as politically expeditiously as possible...) 3 step plan to end the war. We Dems have Minor differences. EDWARDS: They eventually voted the right way, but it took them too long!

SEN DODD: Failed policy, civil war, less safe, less secure, bring it to a close! Certain date to end or withdraw funding. This guy is animated.

Richardson: Stone Face (nothing wrong with that) What is the moral responsibility we have in Iraq? Civil war, sectarian Conflict, We needa resoulution under article 1 to End the War, no residual forces. Darfur, Genocide? Keep troops in Kuwait, and Afgan, but GET OUT of IRAQ (waves white surrender flag....)

Sen Gravel (sent out for coffee): Four people here full of crap; it's Democratic war too. Dominoes falling, Vietnam if we leave. Hey, this guy is good!

Emailed Questions: was the Iraq mission worth it?
KUCHINICH: War based on lies! War was Wrong! We were screwed by Bush! Stop the Funding! Teachable moment: Dems were in charge, Dems were put in charge by the PEOPLE to stop the war, let's End The WAR!

BIDEN: We have 50 votes in teh Senate, we can't win the war without a Democratic President! We need 67 votes in the Senate! With our vote, we are funding the safety of our troops!

CLINTON: Did you feel regret for not reading the document you voted for? Jeez, what a faceful of crap. Saddam Hussein, WMD's, didnt' count on Pres's intention to pull the UN inspectors...

EDWARDS: I wannahit the mute button. What a... " I should have never have voted for this war" Given the dishonesty to the country, we have to re establish trust...Where's the HOOK!

OBAMA: Disqualify voters for the war from Presidency? Huh? I like that, must have heard it wrong...Hillary looks scared of Obama. Or is that a snake vs. a mongoose look?

Sen Gravel: (Back from bathroom) These people knew there were 2 sets of intelligence; we've killed more Americans than 9/11 did; yank Hillary from the stage~!\

CLINTON: Where were the inspectors? I expected them to stop Bush! He misused my vote!

Immigration Bill:
Richardson: Supports 12 M Illegals amnesty. New Mexico is a Border State; would not support legislation building a wall or breaking up families. This bill is sensible. Boy, that flies in the face of American Sentiment! Not an amnesty: learn english, touchback provision, 13-year process for legalization. This bill separates families!
Well, they broke the law together; let them go back, together.

Biden: No 700 mile fence. Truth to power: how much to round up 12 M people, and send them back? Earned citizenship. Is this guy the new Perot? I expect to see a chart any minute...

Obamba: Build a fence with Canada? Lawyer with TB, is a problem. Strengthen Border Patrol Agent's intelligence..(!) He agrees with ' pathway to legalization' bill. Gotta stop the bleeding, though...

Raise your hand if you care! English Official? yes, Sen Gravel. Applause! Speak English! Obama argues...how can we do that? It's a distraction. Clinton: Official, not national? But we wouldn't have translators! She voted the national, not official, language.
Dodd: We need more language training. Not just English. POINT! He used ' diversity'...

Edwards's Questioner is another...hmmmph. Health care question. These girls will talk all night! Our healthcare system is dysfunctional. I have a universal plan! My plan eliminates Bush's Tax Cuts! I will cover everyone!
Obama: response to Edward's cut that his plan isn't universal. John thinks mandantory insurance is required; he wants to take on the insurance and drug companies to drive down the costs. Try for affordable insurance.
Clinton: She's thrilled it's back on the agenda! I was scarred for life, in '92, when my plan was thrown out the door! I sulked for years, and kicked the maids! We have to be ready for attacks from the ins and drug cos. What a mop...wants other issues as well as Health Care. POINT! Environmental Issues mentioned!

Gov. Richardson: Share it all, employer, employee, state, fed, no new bureaucracy, get the congressional plan...shut up.
Dodd: 42nd in Infant Mortality, throwing numbers out like Biden. Said nothing.
Edwards: Jeez. Threshold question: universal care? Unless we have universal care, some will be missed. Costs significant
Obama: Invest up front! Rural hospitals need help! And computers! Mandantory Insurance in CA (auto) doesn't work...some can't afford it. Require it!
Biden: There's only 1 way, singlepayer, HR676, the rest of the senators aren't tough enough...

Gays and Lesbians in military? Don't ask, don't tell, policy ok?
Clinton: Transition policy, not the best way, discriminatory, flood of discharges after Gulf War, the policy sucks...we need to change it. Judge on policy, not on...whatever. Defends Bill: Important First Step. Political process, checks and balances, compromise policy...
Biden: Peter Pace is wrong. Noone cares inthe foxholes. Brits, French, all gay, no problem. This isn't a rational policy.
Hands UP! All agree; policy wrong. Richardson: would move in Congress for Hate crimes law, domestic partnerships, gay marriage laws OK. No lecture on Sexual Orientation!

Civil Unions (applause) Time to allow full marriage?
Edwards (of course) Fed Gov't can't tell states or Churches what to bless. Stand up against intolerance, but don't expect President to legislate...lost his time. Good.

Would you use Clinton? (Bill)
Gravel: Be careful with Bill. Didn't stand up enough to DADT.
Ricahrdson: Ideal job, Secy Gen UN; Ambassadorship, or Peace Envoy in Mid East. That won'twork; those pesky veils cover too much...
Obama: Clinton is out there to foster diplomacy. Huh.
CLINTON: How you would use your Husband? Not as a lover, obviously...
Repair the damage of the last 8 years; Clinton sent out as a roving ambassador to the World, stop the Alienation (she said HIV! Did she check?)

GAS PRICES:
Dodd: Global Warming, Dependency, profound problem. Work on Global Warming, reduce fossil fuels, fix the world~!~ 50MPG vehicle standard, Carbon Tax. Dodged the question! Was caught! Reduce profit on a barrel of OIL, back to dependency...
Gravel: Carbon Tax, raise price of Gas. Do nothing about cost of Gas. Stop fighting the War! Bush's fault GAs is high!
Edwards: Oil and Gas companys tooo profitible. Investigate by Justice Dept. Antitrust laws, clean air laws, stop spending 3B a year on subsidizing gas and oil comapnies!

Gouging?
Richardson: Renewable Pimping. More investigation, but they aren't gouging. Ask every American to sacrifice and conserve. Agressive plan to 80% reduction...stfu
Biden: Take away 6B subsidies; investigate price gouging; significantly mandate high mileage stuff.

Whew...break time...
Hey, I'm done here. Maybe. Publish. Ignore the errors in typing; I'm no stenographer...