Ann Coulter responds to Elizabeth Edwards’ telephone call to Hardball by claiming she was sandbagged by host Chris Matthews—whom she promptly trashes.

I doubled the ratings of the lowest-rated cable news show on Tuesday by agreeing to go on for a full hour to promote my new paperback version of “Godless” — a mistake I won’t make again….For the first time in recorded history, the show’s host did not interrupt a guest, but let Elizabeth Edwards ramble on and on, allowing her to browbeat me for being mean to her husband. …Say, did any TV host ever surprise Al Franken, Bill Maher or Arianna Huffington with a call by the wife of someone they’ve made nasty remarks about?

Apparently it is too painful for Coulter to mention the name Chris Matthews, even though Matthews has been a great boon to Coulter’s career.

Her response to Elizabeth Edwards is fascinating; she picks apart the details, while patently avoiding the larger question of whether she’s just a mean, terrible person whose contribution to political dialogue is bile and hate. Instead, she mentions (as I’ve seen her do repeatedly) that she’s written five New York Times bestsellers.

Coulter once suggested that the New York Times would have been a good target for Timothy McVeigh. But when it comes to validating the success of her work, it’s apparently good that the Times is still around.
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*One of my favorite Marion Barry quotes.