9/11 widows call Coulter's book "slanderous"

Home News Tribune ^ | 06/08/06 | RICHARD KHAVKINE

[xzins]

deflecting media.....Coulter's comments that the widows are using their grief "to make a political point."

They aren't responding because Coulter is correct.

It's obvious, and all the crocidile tears by the media is just so much obvious smokescreen to anyone who is a real news consumer.

[GVnana]

Keep up the heat, Ann. You're on to them.

[dfwgator]

All I can say to the Jersey Girls is that they decided to enter the world of politics. Politics is tough, wear a helmet!

[redstatesrock]

"Sue me, girls! Bring it on! Hahahahaahahahahahah!"

[randita]

The Jersey girls have every right to use their husbands' deaths on 9/11 as a tool to further their political agenda. But they shouldn't expect to be immune from being challenged and criticised when they do so.

Ann Coulter has a valid point in claiming this, but IMO, she is probably discrediting that point by being harsh about it.

[Jameison]

Meanwhile, Ann is sitting comfortably at # 1 at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/all/ref=pd_ts_b_nav/002-4172804-7640047

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive."

Well, if they didn't blame Bush for it or campaign for Kerry, they wouldn't be taking this criticism. Fact is, they are the ones that opened Pandoras box and now that they are being called on it, they want it to go away.

Sorry babes, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Deal with it.

[The Electrician]

Breitweiser said the women have decided to stop answering media inquiries.

If you can't stand the heat...

[wideawake]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Kristen Breitweiser talks about nothing but two subjects: how courageous Kristen Breitweiser is and how horrible President Bush is - she almost never mentions her dead husband, Ron Breitweiser.

She has her own Huffington blog where she pontificates on everything under the sun - but not even a single page about her husband: who he was, what he accomplished in his life, what he valued and strove for while he was alive.

She's not motivated by the loss of her husband - if she were she'd act and speak as if he were a real guy who once existed.

Compare what Lisa Beamer has done for her husband's legacy and what her neighbor Kristen Breitweiser has done for her husband's memory.

Millions of people across America know who Todd Beamer was and what he was all about, because his wife has used her celebrity to tell his story.

99.999% of the public don't even know Ron Breitweiser's first name, let alone anything about the man. Yet Kristen Breitweiser has had as much or more media exposure than Lisa Beamer. Kristen Breitweiser used that exposure to talk about John Kerry, though - not her husband.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"I know they don't all come from East Brunswick."

I know the Kleinber's. Alan was a nice guy, his kids are lovely. She on the other hand....

[dfwgator]

Limbaugh used to say that his goal isn't to win elections, it's to get as many listeners as possible.

Same with Coulter, her goal is to sell books, not to get Republicans elected.

[geezerwheezer]

Like most of us, I regret the loss these ladies suffered at the hands of the terrorists, as well as the families of all who have suffered these losses from those same folks. That is all fine and dandy, but if they choose to use their losses as a platform for political actions, then I personally resent it, much the same way I resented Coretta Scott King's using the death of her husband to further her agenda. Stepping over a loved ones' bones does not give you any more credence than someone else. Making your statement on your own does. Why should I have to listen to this crap from the MSM? I don't, and think there are a lot more like me than like they are. King became a "professional widow", just as these foolish women are trying to become, and they will come up short just like King did in the end.

[Grendel9]

Sorry, but I have to agree
with Coulter. Just read
their "statement" on the
kinds of questions they
want to raise in the public's
minds! It's difficult
to believe that these 5 gals
have the political savvy,
social awareness, or homeland
security/transportation/nuclear
expertise to dream up this
list of Bush Administration
system "faults."

Come on! Whether they are
willing to admit it or not,
they've had Liberal-minded
advisors of the Democratic
Party guiding their every
word before the mic.

That said, I do have great
pity for their plight...and
most especially for their
children! But it's pretty
obvious these gals have attained
financial security since 9/11;
they no longer have to think
about anything so mundane as
making a living. Can that be
said of all the other victims
of Twin Towers? WHY are they
out there letting themselves be
used by the MSM?

[cbkaty]

The five, who call themselves the September 11th Advocates, issued a 13-paragraph statement Tuesday in which they call Coulter's comments slanderous.

Wouldn't that be libel...not slander....? At any rate these ladies had already injected themselves into the public forum....took their swing and got slugged....

[wideawake]

Breitweiser actually lives in NYC now, but she was not from Middletown - she lived in Atlantic Highlands, a separate town just east of the Leonardo section of Middletown.

[randog]

Breitweiser said the women have decided to stop answering media inquiries.

Not so fun when someone hits back, it it dearie?

[wideawake]

There were a number of FDNY widows who stopped talking to the press after it was discovered that a number of them had broken up the marriages of firemen in their FDNY support groups.

[hosepipe]

In other news.......
Ann Coulter STABBED at the heart of liberalism (democrats/RINOs) on the release of her very factual and imminently accurate book on 6/6/06... and they are BLEEDING OUT...

As a sidebar; the website Free Republic, is holding triage threads for its RINOS and secret democrat members.. There is blood all over the internet.. One member posited; "Truely a wonderful sight to behold(read). That girl is a liberals (democrat/Rino) worst nightmare"..

[Jim Verdolini]

But an absolute defense against a libel suit is truth and Coulter only tells it like it is.

[Petronski]

"Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive..."

Did Coulter say there was joy in their watching men they love burn alive?

Somehow I doubt Coulter used that formulation. I'm not crazy about Coulter's comments, but I've not seen where she said they found joy in watching their men burn alive. I suppose Breitweiser et al. intend to match Coulter cheapshot for cheapshot.

Coulter's right about at least one thing in all this: they most definitely ARE using the tragedy to make political points.