Posted on 06/08/2006 12:38:21 PM PDT by pissant
TRENTON, N.J. - Commentator Ann Coulter's incendiary words about outspoken 9/11 widows have led two state lawmakers to calls for a boycott of her book in the widows' home state of New Jersey.
Assemblywomen Joan M. Quigley, D-Hudson, and Linda Stender, D-Union, on Thursday called on New Jerseyans to stop buying the book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," and for retailers in the state to stop selling it.
"Coulter's vicious characterizations and remarks are motivated by greed and her desire to sell books. By making these claims, she proved herself worse than those she is attempting to vilify - she is a leach trying to turn a profit off perverting the suffering of others," the two assemblywomen said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for Crown Forum, the publisher of Coulter's book, did not immediately return calls for comment Thursday.
In her new book, Coulter writes that a group of New Jersey widows whose husbands perished in the World Trade Center act "as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."
She also wrote, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."
The comments drew criticism Wednesday from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., who said the book should be called "Heartless," and New York's Republican Gov. George Pataki, who said he was stunned by the remarks.
Coulter appeared Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show and stuck by her stance, saying the women used their grief "to make a political point."
Her criticism was aimed at four New Jersey women she dubbed "The Witches of East Brunswick," after the town where two of them live.
The women - Kristen Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza - have spent the years since the 2001 terror attacks supporting an independent commission to examine government failures before the attack. During the 2004 presidential race, they endorsed Democrat John Kerry.
You think these kids aren't going to hear this? It's been on The View, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and FNC as well as the internet and talk radio and in at least our local newspaper and probably some larger newspapers as well.
The kids would have to be under 5 or living in a bubble to NOT hear this.
In my opinion that is a good thing. The world will see, if they aren't looking through leftist colored glasses, what harpies these women are.
You don't get it Peach. You still don't get it.
Dear Peach,
I have read a bunch of your posts. You've made your point. Let it go.
By the way, you seem quite intolerant of the views of those with whom you disagree.
Cheers . . .
When Bill O'Reilly today suggested to Coulter that she made these statements about the Jersey Girls in order to sell books, Bones was spitting when she said that he had "insulted" her and that he should apologize.
Bill was just offering one possible interpretation for why she decided to write what she did.
When Ann Coulter wrote, and I quote: "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce" she was not lying - she was asking a question.
You are falsely accusing Coulter of lying - in other words you are lying yourself about what Coulter wrote.
So please, stop lying.
I'm in the gutter because I think Ann's comments are over the top? You'll just have to put me in the gutter with Hugh Hewitt and Laura Ingraham then, and I'll be glad to be in their company.
And I would think if Ann had evidence that those dead men were going to divorce their wives, she'd have included it in her book. Moron.
Elected Democrats couldn't possibly be standing in the way of free speech and expression now, could they?
I couldn't imagine the outcry if these twerps had a "(R)" after their names.
Saw a funny bumper sticker that said:
NEW JERSEY: Don't Worry, We Hate You Too!
LOL. that stings.
I love Anns comments. She pierced the liberal armour. She was right!. These widow millionaires sought the lime light. Ann didn't go over the top if you can really see what she meant. Libs. have had a free for all for bashing Bush and our soldiers. That was her point! She made it. She said, what our whimpy congress didn't.She is right on!
I heard her interviewed...haven't read the book yet.
What I heard her say is that "how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce them?" Not that she knew their husbands were planning to divorce them, but "how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce them?" Of course she didn't know if their husbands were or weren't.
My reaction was that Ann was pointing out that we don't know if their husbands would approve of what they're doing now against the President, or even if they had radical disagreements with the wives when they were alive. Yet the wives have now become the sole representatives of their husbands after their husbands are dead and can't say anything.
That is a defensible point by Ann, in my opinion. Howver, the way she put it was open to massive misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Perhaps she knew what she was doing in putting it that way...I don't know. But it will give the book so much publicity it will sell more, I would think.
I hope Ann's book stands up to scrutiny once the curious have bought it and actually start to read.
Oh, that's good.
And when she writes that the women are glad their husbands are dead, she's not lying.
How do I know you're not a pedophile? See how that works. Lovely, isn't it.
I'll just let you have your little thread since I can see that most of you really don't mind the gutter.
You're right, as I remember the actual divorce quote started with "For all we know..." Which, of course, makes it true.
Sell the other on Ebay. ;o)
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