I don’t understand your comment. How can you say she wasn’t imitating Maher, but later say she made the comment since Maher made a similar one?
Seems rather contradictory.
And my point is there are better ways to point out the double standard. Coulter’s comment gives the media a convenient out to completely ignore the double standard....which they will.
She didn't say it seriously - she said "Well, maybe I should say that instead since Bill Maher can say that stuff and get away with it."
She was making a joke about Bill Maher - not making a direct comment about Edwards.
It's as if I said: "Maybe I should call Barack Obama a cokehead, since Bill Maher said Bush was a cokehead."
Am I actually calling Obama a cokehead? No, I am not. I am giving a hypothetical to demonstrate what a clown Maher is.