{"id":2808,"date":"2007-06-28T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/06\/how-slimy-is-edwards.html"},"modified":"2007-06-28T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T01:59:00","slug":"how-slimy-is-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/06\/how-slimy-is-edwards.html","title":{"rendered":"How Slimy is Edwards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards&#8217; wife goes on Hardball and attacks Coulter about her rhetoric and Edwards&#8217; posts an example of it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Ws_bXU6Rjk\">YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7Ws_bXU6Rjk\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7Ws_bXU6Rjk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s quote sounds bad, doesn&#8217;t it?  Well, here it is in context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;ve learned my lesson. If I&#8217;m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I&#8217;ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s obviously a joke but you wouldn&#8217;t get that from Edwards&#8217; editing of the video (see for yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.tv\/html\/2258.html\">here<\/a>).But the sliminess doesn&#8217;t end there, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/06\/26\/ann-coulter-attacks-john-edwards-on-good-morning-america\/\">he sent out an email<\/a> playing the victim:     <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Friend,     Yesterday, Jonathan told you that the folks who benefit from the status quo are attacking John personally because they don&#8217;t want the country to hear his message.     And you know what happened when we called them out? The attacks started pouring in.     That same day, the Ann Coulter-wannabe Michelle Malkin blasted John on her blog. Fox News has been bashing him around the clock. And Coulter herself said, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;if I&#8217;m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I&#8217;ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he&#8217;s using <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/campaign-2008\/edwards-camp-again-turns-to-cash-cow-coulter-2007-06-27.html\">his wife&#8217;s appearance on Hardball to solicit campaign contributions<\/a>. 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