We read:
"ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: 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.
Edwards, D-N.C., was railing against the right-wing media -- including Fox News and Rush Limbaugh -- when he reminded a crowd in Burlington, Iowa, that his wife stood up to Coulter in a public spat earlier this summer.
"We know these people. We know their game plan. They're going to attack us personally," Edwards said. "They attacked Elizabeth personally, because she stood up to that she-devil Ann Coulter. . I should not have name-called. But the truth is -- forget the names -- people like Ann Coulter, they engage in hateful language."
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To call a Christian lady a "she-devil" sounds like hate speech to me -- but we all know it is only Christians and conservatives who can utter hate speech.
On balance I am rather pleased to see that Ann has gotten so far under Pretty Boy's skin. A reminder of Ann's most famous comment about Edwards: "It turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm kind of at an impasse -- I can't really talk about Edwards," she said. So she was slightly less direct in applying a naughty word to him than he was in applying an abusive word to her.
I am sure she will be more amused than anything, though. She might even identify herself as a she-devil henceforth. It reminds me of why British and Australian journalists sometimes refer to themselves as "reptiles". The term "reptiles of the press" was applied to them in a British satirical magazine ("Private Eye") as a form of abuse but, rather than being crushed by the term, the journalists loved it and have used it ever since.
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