Coulter bitch slapped with a velvet glove.

Previously I have called for someone to give Ann Coulter the bitch slap she so richly deserves for her vicious, personal, homophobic and racist attacks on Democrats.

On June 26, Elizabeth Edwards rose to the ocassion with grace and elegance. She asked Ann to stop using the death of her son and name-calling to make attacks against her husband and other Democrats. Edwards asked Coulter to raise the tone of her discourse. Coulter twisted this to say that Edwards was trying to stifle her right to free speech. The implicit assumption from this understanding of what Edwards actually asked of her is that, aside from the hate and the venom, Coulter must shut up because she has nothing else to say.

Elizabeth Edwards is a smart and classy lady. I’d be proud to have her as a First (or Second) Lady of the United States. She is more intelligent and elegant by far than Ann Coulter – there really is no comparison. That is what makes her calling of Coulter out all the more delightful. She shows that you don’t have to descend into the gutter to make a point, even when trying to get the discourse out of the gutter. I am glad that there are the Elizabeth Edwards of the world. They will offset my sinking to the same level as Coulter in calling her a toxic waste dump of humanity; a vile, repulsive evil creature spawned from avarice, hate, and fear. Thank you Elizabeth.

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