Journalist Ann Coulter has called John Edwards a vile term for a homosexual, mocked the fact that he ever mentions a son who died in a car crash, and just recently expressed the wish that he would die in a terrorist attack.
For the record, Edwards is a former Senator who is running for President. He is not Robert Mugabe or Kim Jung-Il or the late Cambodian madman, Pol Pot. His crime seems to be that he disagrees with Ann Coulter and her friends.
Well, Ms. Coulter I believe finally had her Joseph Welch moment on "Hardball" yesterday. She was on the show and Elizabeth Edwards called into the show and politely let her have it. About time somebody did.
Joseph Welch, by the way, was the Army lawyer who got a few words in edgewise against Joe McCarthy during the Army/Mc Carthy hearings back in 1954. "Have you no shame, Senator McCarthy?" he asked the soon to be censured red-baiter and demagogue. "At long last, have no you sense of decency?"
It wasn't the end of McCarthy as a fear monger and it wasn't the first attack against him--but it was the beginning of the end of a lot of his power base.
Ann Coulter has a nice little power base made up of readers of her charming books with titles like "Treason" and such, implying that liberals or anyone who can be tagged a liberal is somehow American. I haven't read any of her books, but I've heard her mouth running on news shows and she's got a bad case of Vile Tongue --one that makes most other biased commentators of both sides seem tame. As a matter of fact I think she's a bit disturbed.
Lest you think I'm just a left-wing crank--well, I am that, too--I think she belongs in a rare category with the likes of America's vile-tongued lefty, Bill Maher. Maher makes fun of dead people, too, and those who are left behind. He made fun of Warren Buffet losing his wife on his show "Real Life" a few years back. He made fun of people who died in an Air Egypt plane crash over the Atlantic, both when the events were topical. I'm not sure what Mr. Buffet or some Egyptians ever did to Mr. Maher. Death and loss might just be funny to the guy. I hope Maher doesn't have to find out personally anytime soon that such human losses are not funny to those who suffer them.
Both Maher and Coulter may be sharp with a quip and good on camera, but I believe both are missing an empathy gene in her genetic makeup.
BTW: I do NOT support John Edwards as a candidate for anything. I'm just glad to see Ann Coulter squirm and run her hands through her blond hair and try to change the subject and stretch Mrs. Edwards remarks out of context. Who knows, maybe that discomfort indicates she has some shred of decency, something her hero Joe McCarthy apparently lacked.
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