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The AP leads its story with:

Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to “stop the personal attacks,” a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards’ husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.

At the END of the article, they write:

“If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot,” Coulter said Monday, picking up on remarks made by HBO’s Bill Maher. Maher suggested in March that “people wouldn’t be dying needlessly” if Vice President Dick Cheney had been killed in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan.

Did you get that? It was in English! If...then… it’s a type of argument. She didn’t say she wished John Edwards would die. She parodied Bill Maher, saying in essense (pay attention now, AP!) if I want to stay out of trouble the way Bill Maher does, I’ll maybe I’ll only wish death on Edwards, the way Maher did with Cheney!

Does anyone hear remember Lynne Cheney whining to the AP that mean widdle Bill Maher said bad things about her husband? Anyone? Anyone at all?

Sheesh! No bias in the AP! Leave it to the AP to find a victim!

Ms. Edwards Asks Coulter to Stop Attacks

Update: Ann gives the context...

Here is my full sentence on "Good Morning America," which the media deceptively truncated, referring to a joke I told about Edwards six months ago that made liberals cry: "But 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 going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."

The usual nut Web sites posted a zillion denunciations of my appearance on "Good Morning America" immediately after I appeared Monday morning. But it didn't occur to any of them to simply lie about what I had said. No, it took them nearly 36 hours to concoct a version of that quote that included the Edwards part, but not the Maher part, or what English language speakers call: "the point."

By tomorrow it will be: "Ann Coulter tried to kill John Edwards on 'Good Morning America'!"

That Was No Lady -- That Was My Husband