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.
ROFLMAO
Putting Zarqawi and the widows in the same sentence when discussing evilness is a little over the top, in my opinion.
Is that when Hillary takes off her shoe from her canckle and whacks bubba with it?
She uses libs for target practice. And is a good shot.
I don't know what you're trying to say. It is most certainly not complex to have a politicial disagreement with somebody without getting personal. Every dummy knows when that is happening, just as they know when somebody is attacking somebody else.
Bones is attacking these women, no matter how many qualifiers she or you or anybody else uses to try to explain away that unpleasant fact. She had no reason to speculate about the status of their marriages or what their dead husbands might or might not have done when she could simply have taken them to task over their statements to the 9/11 commission.
Instead of talking about her dopey view of evolution, everybody is focused on her gratutious trashing of innocent dead men.
Coulter may sell a lot of books, but she's going to be doing it with her pants around her ankles.
It's all marketing. I'll save my rage for those who commit treason, not those who toss insults.
At a minimum. In NJ alone.
I don't think Barnes & Noble is going to be able to hide it this time. It's in a special display unit right in front of the door that surely has been bought by the publishers.
:o)
"Bones is attacking these women"
She is?
Excellent!
"She didn't pick the statement that they (and apparently we) would fixate on."
She had to know it would be tremendously provocative. She's not stupid. Think back to when she wrote about "converting the muslims." Highly provocative. And right on the point of what she was talking about. That's when I think she's most effective.
Coulter certainly does not despise GWB.
I'm sorry. While reading her multiple, harping posts on protecting the children I thought that I was reading a liberal screed. Nits make lice.
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