Oh, Ann. Ann. I know you’ve been in Palm Beach for a while, voting in two districts. Did you forget that New Yorkers of all political stripes stick together on 9/11 issues? Rule No. 1 is, Don’t Fuck With The Widows. If you do, the Daily News will call you out.
When their husbands were killed on 9/11, four New Jersey widows tried to find out why – and now no-holds-barred conservative pundit Ann Coulter is mercilessly denouncing them as “witches.”
“I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much,” Coulter writes in her new book.Her brutal words were challenged yesterday on national television by “Today” host Matt Lauer – and she was slammed by the widows she derided as self-absorbed, limelight-seeking “harpies.”
“I’d like her to meet my daughter and tell her how anyone could enjoy their father’s death,” said Kristen Breitweiser, one of four widows known as the “Jersey Girls.”
“She sounds like a very disturbed, unraveled person,” added Breitweiser.
The News is no fan of liberals, but these are 9/11 widows, and the four Coulter’s smearing, known as the “Jersey Girls,” were instrumental in getting the 9/11 Commission formed through their relentless pressing for answers. Sure, they used their status as widows as a lever, but why not? Bush and Congress were stonewalling.
Something many people forget about 9/11, especially those who don’t live here in New York but who are eager to use the attacks as justification for striking out at the world, is that the funerals went on for a year. A number of them took place in my neighborhood, at a church across the expressway. If you could hear bagpipes — or if you saw the pipers standing outside the local bodega drinking out of paper bags after playing at yet another funeral — you knew someone from the neighborhood killed in the attacks was being buried that day.
So, it’s personal. And when someone like Coulter says nasty things about women whose husbands were killed — especially when those women were the ones who got us answers about what happened to our city — she’s not going to get a good reception. (Even from the Murdoch-owned Post.) To wit:
Politicians of both parties denounced Coulter’s comments.
“It’s totally inhumane to be saying things like this about people who went through such agony,” said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.).
“It seems that she’s just full of anger and hate,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan), who held a news conference yesterday with relatives of 9/11 victims on the country’s failure to improve security.
“Like an insecure child, it’s always been clear that Ann Coulter is prepared to do anything to get attention,” added Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens). “This is a new low.”
And while I’m sure she thought it was a good move releasing her book about Godless liberals on 6/6/06, turns out the local press was just a hair riled about the Homeland Security slashing of the antiterror budget for New York.
But none of this would really be an issue — she’d just be howling obscenities at her television — if the mainstream media would just stop legitimizing her ideas by giving her a forum and justifying it because she’s “controversial.” So while it was nice to see that Lauer got in her face about her vile statements, the question remains: what in the hell was she doing being allowed to talk to Matt Lauer in the first place?
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So while it was nice to see that Lauer got in her face about her vile statements, the question remains: what in the hell was she doing being allowed to talk to Matt Lauer in the first place?
Exactly: how could this be changed?
These latest statements SHOULD cause Ann Coulter’s IMMEDIATE “celebrity” demise. She needs to become persona non grata. Immediately.
Has she no decency?
That’s the sentence that killed McCarthy. Fits like a glove in this case.
Should we perhaps call in EVERYTIME she appears ANYWHERE, to say we are offended that she has been given a forum? Or to ask why they let CERTIFIABLY crazy people on their show?
Witches, eh? Well no doubt they must’ve cast a spell on Coulter and turned her into a braying jackass.
Ann Coulter is a proven joke. There’s really no need to refute anything she says anymore. This was a quote which she needed to promote sales of her book and the media has been happy to oblige. If you remember for every whore there are 100 johns, then don’t blame Ann “blow up the NYTimes” Coulter. The real scary thing are the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of predominantly male fans she is pandering too– the ones who will see that quotation, think ‘you go, girl!’ and rush out to buy the book. These are the same types who would have voted for the NSDAP had they been living in 1930s Germany.
It would be nive if this caused fewer conservatives to buy here book, but I’m not holding my breath.
If 9/11 hadn’t driven sections of the right into ravening hysteria and paranoia I may never have stopped considering myself “conservative”.
Someone needs to tell Dawn Eden this. Dawn’s been on a “defend Ann Coulter” streak lately.
Oh, aeonsomnia. I just can’t click that link. I’ve had enough emotional turmoil for one week, what with the Pet Police.
Jesus H. Caviezel, that DawnEden is a raving twit. Here’s what she doesn’t get:
These women’s husbands, along with the others who died on 9/11, have been turned into political footballs. The Republicans tried to seize 9/11 as their own rallying cry by holding their 2004 convention in NYC. Their husbands’ deaths were used as the justification for everything from intrusions on individual freedom to Iraqnam. If they’d remained in the background and only spoke bland platitudes, a la Laura the Xanax Queen, Coulter would have no problem with them. But because they have opinions of their own and aren’t afraid to speak them, they’re now uppity “witches” (or something else that rhymes with “witch”).
Just as Pat Tillman’s family has stood up to the military, these widows have every right to stand up to the government. The biggest difference between them and a whore like Coulter is, the widows do what they do with integrity.
What’s sad is, Coulter’s book is No. 1 at amazon.com. Which shows how stupid the American sheeple can be.
Or, it shows the power of bulk buying.
I hope you’re right, zuzu.
Did you hear what she said about the double-dipping at the voting booth? This is from an Editor & Publisher article on the reaction to her comments:
Ann needs to become the Jane Fonda of punditry. Oh wait, won’t happen. Jane actually believed in something that eventually we all came to believe (that the war in Veitnam was an immoral mistake), but appeared in a picture with a gun, therefore she must be shunned forever. Ann does not believe in anything but herself. And she is probably to slippery to actually be photographed humping Bin Laden, which I think is what it would take for some people to stop fawning over her.
Dawn Eden has a problem with using 9/11 to make a political point? Maybe she should watch this.
I think this just might end up being Coulter’s shark-jumping moment. If you’re getting flustered by Matt freaking Lauer, your time is probably past.