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.
It's amazing to me the criticism you're receiving here. It's as if all common sense and reasonableness has gone out the window and all that is left is to hate your opponents, not try to win their minds.
This whole payoff for the victims rubbed me the wrong way. Yet they complained it was not enough!
You may not know whether or not I'm a pedophile, but now we all know that you are a liar.
You mean, we can actually READ THE BOOK before making comments on its contents? Wow.
What a concept.
Wouldn't want the sales tax going to those hags anyway. ;o)
And I'll have to watch the repeat. She's been everywhere.
"Placing what she actually said in its context is precisely what Breitweiser, these assemblywomen, Hewitt and Peach do not want you to do."
What is the proper context of the Playboy remark that is being missed? What does it add to her premise?
I thought NJ was the "armpit"
Naaaaa.....
Cheeseburgers.
And a lot of them.
The kids would have to be under 5 or living in a bubble to NOT hear this.
Well golly! Imagine that! Mom went around spewing leftist garbage and somebody answered. Somebody actually holds the celebrity hungry "widows" in comtempt and held up a mirror. And it's about time. Waste your sympathy if you must but they entered the arena thinking they could hide as "poor grieving widows". They've about milked dry any sympathy they had just as Sheehan has. It's DESPICABLE to use the dead as a shield in order to throw dirt bombs unopposed. Now you want them to hide behind their kids and keep lobbing crap. Not a chance.
Libs, like all good socialists, have rules for the rabble and others for themselves.
"Saw a funny bumper sticker that said:
NEW JERSEY: Don't Worry, We Hate You Too!"
Hahaha, that is pretty funny.
Might be a good idea to read that chapter to find out.
Coulter is a humorist, and she is clearly making reference to the fact that fading celebrities like to appear in Playboy to try and revive their flagging celebrity.
She is clearly making fun of their camera addiction.
;o)
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