Posted on 06/08/2006 7:14:54 AM PDT by Pokey78
Five women who lost husbands in the 9/11 attacks are deflecting the media's inquiries following conservative pundit Ann Coulter's comments that the widows are using their grief "to make a political point."
Middletown's Kristen Breitweiser said yesterday that the media's obsession with the story, when the country faces more pressing and immediate issues, "is absolutely reprehensible."
Coulter, an unapologetic right-wing conservative best known for lambasting liberal thought on talk-radio shows, on television and in books, says in the just published "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" that the widows act "as if the terrorism attacks happened only to them."
Coulter gained further media traction on Tuesday, when, during an appearance on NBC's "Today" show, she said the women are using their personal tragedy "to make a political point."
Breitweiser said the women have decided to stop answering media inquiries.
"We have people dying on the battlefields of Iraq, and all people want to talk about is Ann Coulter," Breitweiser said yesterday afternoon.
She said the media's fixation on Coulter's comments "doesn't bode very well for this country."
Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken and Mindy Kleinberg, both of East Brunswick, and Patty Casazza, of New York State and formerly of Colts Neck, have lobbied for greater government accountability with regard to the 2001 attacks.
They are also cited as instrumental in the creation of the 9/11 Commission and for pressuring the White House to allow testimony from then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Monica Gabrielle, of Long Island, N.Y., is the group's fifth member.
The five, who call themselves the September 11th Advocates, issued a 13-paragraph statement Tuesday in which they call Coulter's comments slanderous.
"Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive," they wrote. "There was no happiness in telling our children that their fathers were never coming home again. We adored these men and miss them every day."
They write that the attacks "caused us to ask some serious questions regarding the systems that our country has in place to protect its citizens" and that their only motivation was to make the nation a safer one.
The statement also includes a list of eight national-security-related items that the five characterize as shortcomings. Among them are scarcity of funding for homeland security; intelligence community oversight; and transportation, ports, border, and chemical- and nuclear-plant security.
They also call for a civil-liberties oversight board.
So let them sue!
Truth hurts eh Kristen
Sounds to me like they think they are policy wonks now.
No it isn't.
Besides, even if it were what they say it is, they have their terminology wrong. It would be libelous, not "slanderous". Slander is spoken and libel is written.
I don't think anyone has ever said that, or anything close to it.
I have no doubt they would trade their celebrity status to have their loved ones back.
But the fact remains, they do exploit it.
"Monica Gabrielle, of Long Island, N.Y., is the group's fifth member"
When did she join the 4 witches of East Brunswick?
I'll have to remember that "the nation has more pressing business" line next time the ACLU brings a suit to get a cross out of a public building.
It's a little late for that. The media's fixation on these four morons certainly boded very poorly for the U.S.
Of course not. But there was, evidently, much happiness when the crones could use their deaths as an opportunity to smear Bush and the war.
Isn't that how it goes with the hysterical Leftists who are always climbing on corpses so no one can say a word?
"We adored these men and miss them every day"
I'm sure you do and nobody denies that. But the million or so that you received sure took the sting out of it, didn't it?
> Middletown's Kristen Breitweiser said yesterday that
> the media's obsession with the story ... "is absolutely
> reprehensible." ... Breitweiser said the women have
> decided to stop answering media inquiries.
Coulter's shot hits a bullseye.
> The five, who call themselves the September 11th
> Advocates, issued a 13-paragraph statement Tuesday in
> which they call Coulter's comments slanderous.
Slander, like libel, is actionable.
But they fail to announce a lawsuit.
> The statement also includes a list of ...
Which was Coulter's point. Every thing the Joisy Ghouls
say just has to try to score snarky political points.
"She said the media's fixation on Coulter's comments "doesn't bode very well for this country."
And the media's fixation on you back in 2004 was good for the country?
The widows exploited their husband's deaths for their political agendas. I am tired of the MSM jumping all over anyone who disagrees with Cindy Sheehan or the 9/11 widows. These people decided to use their loved ones deaths on their way to fame and fortune.
The truth has a way of shutting people up, including these media ho's.
Yes a $1M tax free helps put a lot of personal losses into perspective.
THe 9/11 widows? There are four of these ditzes and they love the attention.
How dare they assume to speak for the other 2 or 3 thousand widows and widowers.
Should these sorry clownettes actually bring suit, Ann and her attorney(s?) will tear them a new one.
Might be fun to watch, if one was certain one had enough popcorn on hand.
Sure ...
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