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Who Struck John? Don’t Ask the Media

by Big Dog on Jun 28, 2007 at 19:15 Uncategorized

Many people are now aware that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Breck girl John Edwards, called into Good Morning America to confront Ann Coulter who had been invited on the show to discuss her book. At least, discussing the book was the offer made by ABC to get her there but before she was to go on she was told that Mrs. Edwards might call in. What resulted was a tirade by Edwards over some of the things Ann Coulter has said about her husband. I have to believe that this was a set up by the show in order to catch Coulter by surprise and to air a confrontation. I could be wrong but if they invite you to discuss a book then maybe, just maybe, they should discuss the book.

I am not writing to defend Ann Coulter’s honor or take up for her. Not because I think she was wrong but because Ann id a tough enough woman to take care of herself and she is a much more gifted writer than I am and has a way of throwing a smack down by using just the right words. If I were in her shoes I probably would have gone to Edwards’ house and thrown a real smack down on him. That is the difference between a person who has a successful career making good money and a guy who gets a federal inmate number for the rest of his existence.

The purpose of this post is to address the way the media handled this whole incident. In my opinion this whole issue was a calculated effort by Edwards to raise more money for an anemic campaign that has less than a snowball’s chance in a very warm place. No one in the media however, brought that up. Instead they concentrated on the quotes that Coutler made but were truncated so as to alter the true meaning and intent of the exchange. If one outlet did this or all the boneheads on the left wing blogs did this one could understand but when all the major media outlets print or air the same distortion then there is something amiss. Here is the original quote with the part the media used in bold (Coulter was addressing an earlier event where she used the word faggot and Edwards’ name in the same sentence and the subsequent backlash by the twisted panties brigade):

“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 going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” Ann Coulter

Stevie Wonder can see that there is a big difference in what she said and what was portrayed. Coulter did not indicate that she wished Johnny Hair had been killed by terrorists only that this was an acceptable thing to wish as opposed to referring to him in non masculine terms as demonstrated by the reaction to both types of statements. I have discussed media bias and there are those who still swear that the major outlets are all right leaning and that there is no Liberal media bias. Despite the fact that 90% of the media’s political donations go to Democrats and despite the fact that 77% of them reported being Liberal or following the left’s agenda, people still think there is no bias or that the right gets favorably treated. The way Coulter was raped by the media in this instance should leave no doubt as to their slant. Let’s face it, she was taken advantage of twice. Once by the morons at ABC who set her up (and if they did not set her up then for allowing this to continue past Edwards’ expressing displeasure) and she then got screwed by the people who failed to report the actual facts in the case.

The unfair treatment of Coulter by the media is the whole issue behind this one. Everyone knows that Ann Coulter is controversial and sometimes says things that some might not think are socially acceptable but she has the right to say them and more often than not she is exactly right in what she says. We all know that John Edwards is an ambulance chasing sheister who made millions of dollars by ripping off doctors over unproven medical claims and by invoking the spirits of dead children (it’s all about the children) in the court room. Edwards is a pathological liar who probably orchestrated this to use Coulter to raise more campaign money. He is a sissy man who has his wife fight his battles and one thing society does not need more of are men who need women to fight their battles. We have enough of those kind of men already. We call them the French.

Coulter and Edwards can fight all they want and they are free to say what they want. It would appear though, that when it comes to reporting the MSM is derelict in its duties.

And people have the nerve to say Fox is not fair and balanced.

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