| − | Recently, Elizabeth Edwards called Ann Coulter by phone on Chris Matthews HARDBALL to express her concern about some comments made by Coulter, which Edwards felt were offensive. Edwards campaign requested money from donors alleging that Coulter made personal attacks. <ref>[http://newsbusters.org/node/13791 ABC Links Edwards/Coulter Call to '08 Fundraising Deadline, NBC Distorts Coulter], Brad Wilmouth, Newsbusters, June 28, 2007.</ref> | + | Recently, Elizabeth Edwards called Ann Coulter by phone on Chris Matthews HARDBALL to express her concern about some comments made by Coulter, which Edwards felt were offensive. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6BBDcZqSF0]</ref> These included Coulter calling John Edwards a "faggot" at a C-PAC gathering <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCeqZLrhkvQ]</ref>, using a tasteless comment by Bill Maher to make a tasteless comment about Edwards in which she expressed the hope he would be killed in a terrorist attack, <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ws_bXU6Rjk]</ref>, and telling a "joke" about Elizabeth and John Edwards' dead son in which she pictured Edwards driving a car with a bumpersticker that read " "Ask me about my son's death in a horrific car accident" <ref>[http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=20031119</ref> |
| − | This occured after Coulter had been attacked on Good Morning America (6/25/07) for saying “Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished [[Dick Cheney]] had been killed in a terrorist attack." <ref>[http://newsbusters.org/node/13750 Ann Coulter Discusses John Edwards, Bill Maher, and the ‘F-word’ on ‘GMA’], Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters, June 26, 2007.</ref>
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