Coulter Attacks Help Edwards Raise Cash

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-elect/2007/jun/27/062704873.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Wednesday that conservative author Ann Coulter's attacks are personally hurtful and it's important that he respond to them.

While Edwards made his first comments to The Associated Press in response to Coulter's suggestion that she wished he would be "killed in a terrorist assassination plot," his campaign was also using her remarks to bring in donations in the final week before his next fundraising deadline.

It's not the first time Coulter has given the Edwards campaign a financial boost. In March, she called Edwards a "faggot" and the campaign used video of the comment to help raise $300,000 before the end of the first quarter.

The campaign has sent two e-mails to supporters this week, asking them to send donations to defy her attacks and help Edwards meet his goal of raising $9 million in the second quarter ending Saturday. The first e-mail from campaign adviser Joe Trippi showed a clip of Coulter on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she said Monday that she wished Edwards would be killed by terrorists.

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[1620rock]

1. Why isn't that "thing" in jail?

[JoePhilly]

2. I hope he gets the money. nt

[Minnesota Raindog]

3. Minnesota Wingnut Michele Bachmann "adores" Ann Coulter

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2007/06/does-bachmann-still-adore-ann-coulter.html

[tularetom]

4. Is it possible that the whole episode was engineered by Edwards?

that Eliz. Edwards called the Tweety show to provoke an outburst by coulter and then use the whole thing as a fund raising pitch? I hope so. It would mean that the Edwards campaign made a fool out of tweety as well as capturing the worst of coulter to be shown again and again.

The democratic party needs devious people....

[NYCGirl]

5. Matthews knew Edwards would be calling. It had been worked out. NT

[New Era]

6. I would like to think

Our party isn't that fucking evil and manipulative.

[MalloyLiberal]

8. Oh puhhlease. yeah that must be it.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. I hope he raises money...but,,

When are we going to stop allowing ourselves to be used by the likes of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly & Michael Savage? Every lame, ridiculous utterance from these people sets the left wing blogs & all left of center media on fire. Randi has devoted the first forty minutes of her show to this joke of a woman, and I've finally had to turn her off. Thom Hartmann (to his credit) only mentioned the wench in passing. Stacy Taylor devoted quite a bit of time to her also. Well, we should've learned by now that publicity is the life blood of these clowns, and we're gonna have to learn to tune them out.

Why should we help them sell their next crappy book? They know how to grab headlines and we seem to be witting or unwitting accomplices in this. Each time we react to some ludicrous remark by these folks, we're helping them sell books, speaking engagements, coffee mugs, etc. SCREW 'EM!