"Sue me, girls! Bring it on! Hahahahaahahahahahah!"
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.
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.
Keep up the heat, Ann. You're on to them.
All I can say to the Jersey Girls is that they decided to enter the world of politics. Politics is tough, wear a helmet!
"Sue me, girls! Bring it on! Hahahahaahahahahahah!"
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.
"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.
If you can't stand the heat...
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.
"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....
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.
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?
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....
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.
Not so fun when someone hits back, it it dearie?
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.
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"..
But an absolute defense against a libel suit is truth and Coulter only tells it like it is.
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.
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