Elizabeth Edwards just mentioned Democratic Underground

And people who wished ill on Laura INgraham, sorry.

Or was she chastising us?

have a reciprocal effect... and how that's not really good for anyone.

We just want her to go away, to crawl back into the hole which she came out of. If it was a hole.

of cellular material.

Isn't that everyone?

everyone. I don't wish her ill- i wish she'd get well. She is riddled with hate.
And is making her living exploiting that.

I don't wish Coulter harm- i wish her cold heart would melt.

She is a bitter, cutting woman. Doing what she does for a living, in the way that she does, is costing her more than she'd imagine.

I appreciate Elizabeth's attempt to reason with coulter. She is indeed a beautiful person, inside and out.

I wish that people would stop buying Coulter's hateful books and that she'd just go away.

that people actually do buy her books and that is what keeps her around. What the hell does that say about our Country when she and Limbaugh and Beck have such a constituency.

I was very disturbed that there were young people applauding Ann and laughing at her horrible insults. One young guy was holding a "Marry Me Ann" sign. :scared: Who ARE these young adults who think she's funny and worth following?!

I didn't see the show because I can't stand Matthews. But I did watch the following, which included the guy with the Marry Me Ann sign! Sad...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=36442&mesg_id=36442

bummer, and I am not sure how accurate it is.

and Elizabeth Edwards posted in the thread and admonished us to not wish more ill on Miss Ingraham just because we didn't like her politics and she said that we should be compassionate toward her during her illness.

we're not getting the best press lately, are we.

That being said, I hate those kind of attacks on people, even if they are RWers.

Some people may not care about what others think of our community here or think posts like that don't matter, but I do, and they do. Elizabeth was spot on when she posted in that thread the way she did, but unfortunately to this day many have not heeded her words. That's why I also think it's quite disrespectful when some in recent days have referred to her as "DU'er Elizabeth Edwards". I'm not sure she appreciates the insinuation that she's a regular here.

when it was announced that Dr. Laura had cancer.

I hadn't heard that. That's too bad. I wouldn't wish cancer on ANYONE.

Dr. Laura is a different and much older person.

Laura Ingram had it.

It happens way too often. I sometimes cringe when people mention staories about how they have introduced moderate Dems to the DU.

except retirement (due to lack of interest in her products).

I do feel free to point out what a vile, hateful creature she is, however, and, as a law school graduate, how poor she is at articulating a point, with assertion of fact, and backing it up with EVIDENCE. It is pitiful when all she can do is employ the "look at the shiney ball over here" trick (switching the issue), and insult the questioner; she can even respond directly to a question.

On edit ... I haven't wished any ill to Dr. Laura, either; but, once again, I wish that people would ignore her product also.

That's exactly what I wish for her. I don't even want her forced to shut up. I just wish people would react to her with a yawn.

urging her to get some therapy to address that irrational anger of hers.

Hey did you see the news - Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, has been appointed to a state dept. post in the Bush Administration.

http://cms.komen.org/komen/NewsEvents/KomenNews/070618_Brinker_WH_Appointment

to contract a deadly disease or illness yet I wouldn't shed a tear if she dropped dead right now.

It goes with the territory of anonymous message board posting.

Much as I love DU, it's not a particularly nice place much of the time.

Celebrating a death, or a dread disease, among those we consider the Dark Side, EXPRESSED IN PRINT HERE, does us no good. All private thoughts do not have to be expressed on a public forum. There's always the choice to refrain from posting.

I'm ready for brickbats accusing me of wanting to censor people. If you consider self-censorship as censorship, I've heard it before, and I don't buy it.

I've always found you the voice of reason.

>If you consider self-censorship as censorship, I've heard it before, and I don't buy it.<

When we behave as those we hate do, we are them.

Julie

I've never participated in those threads. But many will ignore the call for civility.

Different people.

we always have to take the HIGH ROAD while those bastard Right Wingers Goose Step all over us...

While I don't wish cancer on anyone, I still think that Ann Coulter is a POS, and Laura was trashing Humanity for so long she lost her own, SCREW HER, and the horse she rode in on.

All those Constitution smashing, Law Hating, Gay Bashing, Poor Trashing right wingers can go DIE, for all they've done to screw up the world.

There's a LIMIT to my sympathy, why should WE Stop and Pick up another Tin Hitler down on their luck, when they'll just get in their car and RUN US OVER after that.

Screw them. It's the only way to STOP THEM.

I will say that Mrs Edwards is a nice person, and I'm glad she's willing to play NICE, let's see what happens when they STEAL the Election from Her Husband.. oh Wait, they already did. :)

Fuck 'em. I'm sick of playing footsie, and having Dems that bring plastic Spoons to a Knife Fight, while the right winger bring GUNS.

Enough is enough, time to call a Spade a Spade.

Maybe that's all she's asking, symbolman. Elizabeth did confront Coulter, woman to woman. She called her out on national television. I think she just wouldn't wish cancer on her.

a while back. I wonder if we could find it again (I have lousy search skills). It was a great message in an uncomfortable thread as I recall. EE posted as ElizabethEdwards I believe. And it was confirmed by Admin it was her.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3545777

#219 & #285 are the best posts in that thread, made by a fellow Paine enthusiast.

The mod locked the thread. What a trip down memory lane, and many of those DUers have moved along....many friendly faces still here :D

edit typo

Maybe we can find the rest :) I don't think she'll be back, however she's liveblogging on DKos tonight:

It's not too late to stop by and say hello.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/27/202554/413

in the thread.

there was very little of that (if any) when Tony Snow announced that he had cancer.

Individual assholes posting on DU might do that.