Edwards asks for end to name-calling, labels Coulter 'She-Devil'

 
ABC has a unique spin on the feud between John Edwards and Ann Coulter:

Former Sen. John Edwards on Friday fired the latest round in his ongoing verbal feud with Ann Coulter, calling her a "she-devil" at a public event before quickly adding that he shouldn't engage in name-calling... Coulter went on ABC's "Good Morning America" and said she had learned her lesson after being blasted for suggesting in a joke before the Conservative Political Action Conference that Edwards was a "faggot." ..."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," Coulter said... ...That prompted Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, to call in to MSNBC's "Hardball" and challenge Coulter directly. "I want to use the opportunity … to ask her politely to stop the personal attacks," Mrs. Edwards said... The call left Coulter uncharacteristically flustered -- and was quickly turned into a fund-raising appeal by the Edwards campaign...

ABC cleverly censored Coulter's complete statement, which -- in the land we like to call 'reality' -- was:

...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...

Coulter, of course, was highlighting the outrageous double-standard that exists in today's "reporting." Liberal commentators like Bill Maher can -- without comment or controversy -- get away with wishing for murder.

But let conservative pundits highlight those comments with tongue-in-cheek statements? Never! The mainstream media will both censor and spin to ensure maximum political effect!

As for Coulter being "flustered" by Elizabeth Edwards call during Hardball: read the transcript or listen to the show. Coulter was about as flustered as Patton during the Third Army's final drive into Germany.

By the way, is it name-calling to refer to Edwards as...

..."silky pony"?