The above-clip is of the now infamous Ann Coulter/Elizabeth Edwards throw-down that Chris Matthews refereed yesterday. The always delightful Frank J. has the perfect summation of the spat.

I just got this campaign e-mail from the Elizabeth Edwards, and I thought I'd share it:

Conservative such as Ann Coulter have been using many personal attacks and homophobic slurs against my husband (if that offends you, please click here to donate money). When I heard Ann Coulter was on "Hardball" I called in to confront her hate speech against my husband (to reward this courage, please click here to donate money). She then had the audacity to accuse us of trying to drum up controversy so we can use it to raise money (to reject this as a false, right-wing smear, please click here to donate money). She even accused my husband of being a sissy for sending his wife against his critics; he's still crying from that extreme slander (to help dry his tears, click here to donate money).

Finally, Ann Coulter even said that my husband and I exploit the death of our son for political purposes. That is perhaps the worst of her personal attacks, as our sons death is a tragedy we hate to recount. I can still remember his last words: "Please click here to donate money."

Help us fight back against these right-wing smear merchants by clicking here to donate money.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Edwards

P.S. Please click here to donate money.

Do you think if I'm good and pray real hard, John Edwards could be the Democratic nominee for President? That's the sort of thing that could really help a political comedy site hit it big.

For what it’s worth, I don’t claim to be an aficionado of arcane Hardball facts, but until yesterday I was not aware it was a call-in show. If I knew it was, I would have called in many times in the past to offer Chris Matthews some constructive criticism, e.g. limit yourself to 20 Red Bulls a day.

How did Elizabeth Edwards have a call in number handy when to the rest of the viewing public’s knowledge no such number existed? A cynical individual might conclude that there was nothing spontaneous about Ms. Edwards’ outrage whatsoever, and that the whole incident was big set-up co-hatched by the creative minds at Hardball and the Edwards Campaign.

I would be remiss if I left this topic if I didn’t take special note of Candidate Edwards’ willingness and eagerness to hide behind his wife’s apron-strings. I’m going to try that tack the next time I’m attacked. Careful, you pugnacious Red State kids or you DU inmates – you don’t want to get on the fighting side of Mrs. Soxblog.

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