Its fascinating that even conservatives are shy, for the most part, of embracing Ann Coulter's clear headed assessment of the so called "Jersey Girls".
Most provacatively, Coulter wrote to the effect that never had she seen four women enjoying their husband's deaths more, emphasizing her argument that the press and a compliant governments elevation/transformation of the women's grief to the level of moral infallibility as policy analysts and heroic whistle blowers in the matter of U.S. responses to terrorism pre and post 9/11.
As Dorthy Rabinowitz has pointed out, the whole specticle was offensive, "The 9/11 Widows - Americans are beginning to tire of them" quoting Monica Gabrielle saying, stupidly, "I watched my husband murdered live on TV. . . . At any point in time the casualties could have been lessened, and it seems to me there wasn't even an attempt made." [http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110004950
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Coulter merely presents America and especially conservatives with a threshold question. "Does Truth Matter?".
The answer of many is no truth does not matter. The special pleading (an express form of logical fallacy) of the bereaved, their alignment with the jurassic media conspiracy, and cultural standards set by daytime television shows, have brought us to the place where the truth does not matter and speaking it can be dangerous.
Hillary Clinton, predictably spoke to the victim-media-cultural alliance in the dull cadence of cross walk monitor - how terrible to mock these victims, how hateful toward women.
Coulter's response vividly demonstrates the reason that the question of whether truth matters should be answered yes, and why that view is long overdue in political discussion. Her between the eyes, direct, clear challenge to Clinton's hypocracy, available on Drudge for hours, for the world to read, is representative of the only kind of political discussion capable of restoring authentic American values and integrity to our political discourse.
At some point, after the first interviews, after the features, and after the follow ups. And before they began making Kerry commercials and denying Rebpublicans use of real footage of Presidents Bushes remarks at "gournd zero". These women gave up the right to insulated from critiscm and the nature of that criticsm is justified by the degree of intellectual and factual distortion they themselves had introduced to the subject of 9/11 and national security.
By merely speaking a simple and obvious, but politically incorrect truth, Coutler has demolished the media pretense that the Jersy Girls have any claim to insight, knowledge, or understanding of the events and forces that killed their husbands, as well as revealed the characterological and political essence of Hillary Clinton and the Left so that their power-lust, ruthlessness, and deceit can not be ignored, and valuable time nor attention are wasted carring out a ritual pretense that the Left actually cares about America, that the media is objective, or that the Left has any values to be shared.
clear challenge to Clinton's hypocrisy
Missus clinton's role in the clinton rapes and predations puts the Coulter charge beyond the realm of simple hypocrisy. It was a challenge to clinton's ruthlessness and depravity.