Joan Walsh give Elizabeth Edwards a blow job? [Dan Collins]
Right afterward I was on MSNBC with Dan Abrams and he asked me, “If you were Elizabeth Edwards’ advisor, would you have told her to make the call?” And I said I didn’t think anyone advised you — I thought it was your idea, nobody tells you what to do.
Yes, well, I knew she was doing “Hardball,” and I knew it was a call-in show. So I called the [Edwards] campaign about getting the number, and they were like, Oh, that’s a good idea. And then I mentioned the 2003 column [where Coulter mocked John Edwards' discussion of their son Wade's death in a car crash] and you could see them get worried, like “Oh, my God, she’s carrying around in her mind a 2003 column? Maybe we don’t want her calling …” Maybe they just wouldn’t bother getting you the number. Right. And later on, I talked to somebody, not an advisor — I really don’t have anybody advising me — and not someone in the campaign. She’d been in a previous campaign, and she said, “Oh, I wouldn’t have done that. I think that you put yourself at risk, subject to criticism unnecessarily.” I understand the advice — if you were advising somebody you might say that — but that exact attitude is what protects somebody like Ann Coulter. Nobody wants to jump in the mud puddle with her.
She seems formidable, but she’s a coward because she ducks debates.
So I got the number in case I wanted to call in. And I sat and watched [the show], and I thought, well, there’s really nothing to call in about. It was getting close to the time I had to leave. I might have gotten on a plane and left  I really might not have ever called. Maybe Chris [Matthews] brought some of those things up because he knew I was watching
Hahahaha. You mean that Kabuki mask is your real face?
Comment by BJTexs on 7/17 @ 12:20 pm #
” I talked to somebody, not an advisor  I really don’t have anybody advising me  and not someone in the campaign.”
Why doesn’t this surprise me. Ladies and Germs, this campaign’s
Theresa.
Comment by mojo on 7/17 @ 12:23 pm #
What tune was he humming?
SB: 1865 recreate
Bull? Run!
Comment by Mr. Boo on 7/17 @ 12:29 pm #
“I thought it was your idea, nobody tells you what to do.”
The rather interesting way you described Walsh’s treatment of Mrs. E is spot on.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/17 @ 12:35 pm #
Oh and BTW, regardles of her provocations I’ve seen Coulter debate opponents and she would tile the lanai room with Mrs. Edwards.
And I’d pay to watch…
Comment by timb on 7/17 @ 12:50 pm #
Bj, who did she debate
Comment by BJTexs on 7/17 @ 1:28 pm #
timb;
A couple of political operatives two separate times. I can’t remember their names. Look, I can feel your temper rising, take a deep breath. I’m no big fan of Coulter mainly because I know it’s all about her. I do know that she was the Editor of the Law Review at Harvard and, for all of her manipulative bombast, is one bright cookie. The one guy she debated was a former congressman and she almost made him cry when debating the ideological direction of the Supreme Court. She’s razor sharp and utterly fearless which is why I think, IMHO, Mrs Edwards would be out of her depth. She clearly held her own on MSNBC even as she was ambushed.
Feel free to disagree but, please, don’t paint me as a Coulter groupie or some other nonsense. Mrs. Edwards saying she “doesn’t debate” and is a “coward” is playing with matches in a propane tank.
Comment by JD on 7/17 @ 1:41 pm #
She skewered Peter Beinart a couple of times during the last presidential election. I believe that she debated him at a college in New Hampshire.
Comment by timb on 7/17 @ 1:44 pm #
I wasn’t. I was interested in where you saw her debate. I haven’t seen her do anything like that lately. Not to quibble, but she went to Michigan’s law school and was editor of their law review. It’s not Harvard, but it’s a damn fine school.
Look at her intellectual qualifications this way, Paula Jones had a dog of a case and Ann kept it alive long enough to affect the President, which is what she hoped.
She is also a genius at publicity. As much as Mrs. Edwards is rightly happily (in my opinion) at her performance on Hardball, Ann, I’m sure profited. She sold books and appeared on Hannity and Colmes. She has made a living as a gadfly and author and that is no mean feat.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s loathsome and all. And, Mrs. Edwards is an attorney from a decent school herself. I imagine Ann would win a debate, just because she has a better sense of humor, a better skill at one-liners, and she will say absolutely anything.
I would love to ask Ms. Coulter if Bill Maher is a better lay than Dinesh D’Souza, but I doubt she’d answer.*
*Some factual comments in the preceding post were gleaned from the Wikipedia entires for Ms. Coulter and Mrs. Edwards.
Comment by timb on 7/17 @ 1:45 pm #
Oh, and, if you follow Dan’s link, you’ll note that was Joan Walsh saying that, not Mrs. Edwards.
Comment by timb on 7/17 @ 1:49 pm #
Lastly, I think you and JD are confusing her with Laura Ingraham, who attended Dartmouth (in New Hampshire) as an undergrad and UVA as a law student. They have had similar careers.
Comment by JD on 7/17 @ 1:51 pm #
How the fuck am I confusing Laura Ingraham with Ann Coulter, you dipshit. We are all talking about Ann Coulter debating a liberal, and I made a reference that I recall it being in New Hampshire.
Comment by JD on 7/17 @ 1:54 pm #
They debated at Tufts and Amherst.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/17 @ 1:58 pm #
You’re right, tim, on Michigan. I think your analysis is pretty much on the mark. I’m not denegrating Mrs. Edward’s intellectual abilities but I think she would be in over her head in a prepared debate with the stick beast.
BTW: since you are struggling your way through law school, my daughter surprised me this spring by saying she had applied to 5 law schools (I had no idea). Shockingly, she got into 4: Michigan, BC, Suffolk and Temple, only losing out on U of Penn (my old alma mater, the bastards!)
Then, she elected not to go and will be pursuing an executive MBA at Drexel in Economics and International Finance. She makes me smile with glee, that one, and she has more political acumen than anyone I know.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/17 @ 2:03 pm #
Timb, right again on the coward’s remark. Ignore that part of the rant.
Comment by Pablo on 7/17 @ 2:04 pm #
Coulter debated Al Franken, and then pretty much every appearance she makes on any news show is a debate.
Comment by timb on 7/17 @ 2:14 pm #
Comment by JD on 7/17 @ 1:51 pm #
How the fuck am I confusing Laura Ingraham with Ann Coulter, you dipshit. We are all talking about Ann Coulter debating a liberal, and I made a reference that I recall it being in New Hampshire.
JD, sorry about that. I thought you wrote she debated Beinhart while they were IN college in New Hampshire. Not “at a” college. The New Hampshire thing threw me off. I wasn’t trying to be a bastard that time. When I am, I’m much more sarcastic. I know I tend confuse their early careers.
BJ, fine choice. Tim (and, yes, I am speaking of myself in third person) doesn’t much care for business. Weird, but business stuff always bored me. With that said, an MBA will cost less and require less slavery than a J.D. and fewer people will hate her. I would be proud of her too.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/17 @ 2:38 pm #
“With that said, an MBA will cost less and require less slavery than a J.D. and fewer people will hate her.”
She’s interested in working on International Macroeconomic and Financial issues, specifically from Latin America, tageting Brazil. She loves statistical analysis and she’s a pretty gifted project manager and writer (undergrad degree in Communications and Journalism.) She and I have long talks about the world and life, politics and otherwise. She’s more moderate than me and can’t stand W or Cheney even a little bit but she’s pretty nuanced and a fierce debator. After her, you are no big shakes. (heh)
Comment by timb on 7/17 @ 3:07 pm #
Besides that, you actually care what she says!
That’s a worthwhile interest of hers. A place to really help folks and provide a fine career.
Comment by mojo on 7/17 @ 3:08 pm #
Apu! Apu for PRESIDENT!
SB: this supplying
ok, knock off the comedic Indian accent…
Comment by Dan Collins on 7/17 @ 3:18 pm #
Sorry about that, people. Thanks, Tim.
Comment by JD on 7/17 @ 11:00 pm #
Doesn’t this article pretty much debunk the narrative of this kabuki political theatre in which the Dems tried to claim some kind of moral high ground for her because, as a mother, she just got so mad watching the show that she just had to call in? Clearly, this was a premeditated action by Elizabeth, and not unknown to the campaign staff, or Mathews staff.
Comment by Bohemian on 7/18 @ 9:28 am #
“Yes, well, I knew she was doing “Hardball,†and I knew it was a call-in show.”
OK, I will admit that I have not suffered through “Hardball” in years[;-)], but years ago, before Matthews totally joined the tinfoil brigade, I did use to watch the show. The thing is, I don’t ever remember it being a “call-in” show. When I hear “call-in” show, I think of like Brian Lamb on C-SPAN or such. Has this changed?
Comment by Dan Collins on 7/18 @ 9:56 am #
No. She’s full of shit, as usual.
Comment by Sue on 7/18 @ 11:10 am #
As “blow-jobs” go, this lacked something!!! However, since the “cancer if incurable” meaning that her time on this earth is limited (?), she can let it all hang out. She can lie, be crude, rude and generally be herself. It must be a relief. Wonder what her hubby thinks?
Comment by Dan Collins on 7/18 @ 11:51 am #
Surely if her husband can be more womanly than Hillary, she can be more manly than Ann Coulter.
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