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Coulter responded,
 
Coulter responded,
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{{Cquote|No, no. There were, I was denounced all over. All over. I think the one that hurt the most was, was from I'mALittleGirlInAPinkPartyDress.com… Very upsetting…Though about the same time Bill Maher said - and by the way, I did not call John Edwards the F-word. I said I couldn't talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word...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 gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot. <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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{{Cquote|No, no. There were, I was denounced all over. All over. I think the one that hurt the most was, was from I'mALittleGirlInAPinkPartyDress.com… Very upsetting…Though about the same time [[Bill Maher]] said - and by the way, I did not call John Edwards the F-word. I said I couldn't talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word...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 gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot. <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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Six days after the ''New York Times'' published an article about the questionable practices of Edwards non-profit group which allegedly had been founded with the stated aim to fight poverty but had in fact been used by staffers for travel and campaign work, Elizabeth Edwards in what appeared to be an effort to detract from the revelations attacked Ann Coulter on [[Chris Matthews]] HARDBALL.  Last March, Coulter was attacked after saying,
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Six days after the ''[[New York Times]]'' published an article about the questionable practices of Edwards non-profit group which allegedly had been founded with the stated aim to fight poverty but had in fact been used by staffers for travel and campaign work, Elizabeth Edwards in what appeared to be an effort to detract from the revelations attacked Ann Coulter on [[Chris Matthews]] HARDBALL.  Last March, Coulter was attacked after saying,
    
{{Cquote|Oh, and I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm -- so I'm kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards.}}
 
{{Cquote|Oh, and I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm -- so I'm kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards.}}
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Elizabeth Edwards said on HARDBALL,
 
Elizabeth Edwards said on HARDBALL,
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{{Cquote|I'm the mother of that boy who died. These young people behind you are the age of my children. You're asking them to participate in a dialogue that's based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues}}
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{{Cquote|I'm the mother of that boy who died. These young people behind you are the age of my children. You're asking them to participate in a dialogue that's based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues,}}
    
referring to an article Coulter wrote in 2003 about various Democratic Presidential candidates who had exploited family tragedies for partisan political purposes:
 
referring to an article Coulter wrote in 2003 about various Democratic Presidential candidates who had exploited family tragedies for partisan political purposes:
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{{Cquote|Al Gore famously inaugurated the family tragedy routine at the 1992 Democratic National Convention...to recount the story of his son being hit by a car. At the 1996 convention, Gore told a tear-jerker about his sister's long, painful death from lung cancer. ...Gephardt has taken to spinning out a long, pitiful tale of his son's near-death three decades ago. ...Mrs. Gephardt weeps anew as her husband tells the same gut-wrenching story over and over again. ...John Edwards injects his son's fatal car accident into his campaign by demanding that everyone notice how he refuses to inject his son's fatal car accident into his campaign.  
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{{Cquote|[[Al Gore]] famously inaugurated the family tragedy routine at the 1992 Democratic National Convention...to recount the story of his son being hit by a car. At the 1996 convention, Gore told a tear-jerker about his sister's long, painful death from lung cancer. ...[[Gephardt]] has taken to spinning out a long, pitiful tale of his son's near-death three decades ago. ...Mrs. Gephardt weeps anew as her husband tells the same gut-wrenching story over and over again. ...John Edwards injects his son's fatal car accident into his campaign by demanding that everyone notice how he refuses to inject his son's fatal car accident into his campaign.  
    
Edwards has talked about his son's death in a 1996 car accident on ''Good Morning America,'' in dozens of profiles and in his new book. ("It was and is the most important fact of my life.") His 1998 Senate campaign ads featured film footage of Edwards at a learning lab he founded in honor of his son, titled "The Wade Edwards Learning Lab." He wears his son's Outward Bound pin on his suit lapel. He was going to wear it on his sleeve, until someone suggested that might be a little too "on the nose."  
 
Edwards has talked about his son's death in a 1996 car accident on ''Good Morning America,'' in dozens of profiles and in his new book. ("It was and is the most important fact of my life.") His 1998 Senate campaign ads featured film footage of Edwards at a learning lab he founded in honor of his son, titled "The Wade Edwards Learning Lab." He wears his son's Outward Bound pin on his suit lapel. He was going to wear it on his sleeve, until someone suggested that might be a little too "on the nose."  
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If you want points for not using your son's death politically, don't you have to take down all those "Ask me about my son's death in a horrific car accident" bumper stickers? Edwards is like a politician who keeps announcing that he will not use his opponent's criminal record for partisan political advantage. I absolutely refuse to mention the name of my dearly beloved and recently departed son killed horribly in a car accident, which affected me deeply, to score cheap political points.
 
If you want points for not using your son's death politically, don't you have to take down all those "Ask me about my son's death in a horrific car accident" bumper stickers? Edwards is like a politician who keeps announcing that he will not use his opponent's criminal record for partisan political advantage. I absolutely refuse to mention the name of my dearly beloved and recently departed son killed horribly in a car accident, which affected me deeply, to score cheap political points.
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I wouldn't want John Edwards to be president, but I think even Karl Rove would be willing to stipulate that the death of a son is a terrible thing. <ref>[http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=20031119 The Party of ideas], Ann Coulter, 11/19/2003.</ref>}}
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I wouldn't want John Edwards to be president, but I think even [[Karl Rove]] would be willing to stipulate that the death of a son is a terrible thing. <ref>[http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=20031119 The Party of ideas], Ann Coulter, 11/19/2003.</ref>}}
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President [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[Barbara Bush]] suffered the loss of a child sibling in 1953; there is no record whatsoever of the Bush family using the death of a child to gain sympathy in any of the Presidential elections G.H.W. Bush was involved in, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, or G.W. Bush in 2000 or 2004, yet [[liberal]] authors have exploited the tragedy  to attack, slander, and impugn the entire Bush family, Bush Sr., Barbara Bush, and G.W. Bush. <ref>[http://hnn.us/articles/7106.html Bush on the Couch]  
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President [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[Barbara Bush]] suffered the loss of a child sibling in 1953; there is no record whatsoever of the Bush family using the death of a child to gain sympathy in any of the Presidential elections G.H.W. Bush was involved in, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, or [[G.W. Bush]] in 2000 or 2004, yet [[liberal]] authors have exploited the tragedy  to attack, slander, and impugn the entire Bush family, Bush Sr., Barbara Bush, and G.W. Bush. <ref>[http://hnn.us/articles/7106.html Bush on the Couch]  
 
By Justin Frank, 2004.  Retrieved from the History News Network 29 June 2007.</ref>
 
By Justin Frank, 2004.  Retrieved from the History News Network 29 June 2007.</ref>
  
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