Doubting Coulter -- At First (Press release politics not best venue for discussing personal loss)

The American Prowler ^ | 6/9/2006 | Mark Gauvreau Judge

[Jeff Chandler]

It was the Paul Wellstone funeral.

Bingo.

[taxesareforever]

Good insight!

[b9]

One is philosophy, spirituality, and love of country. The other is politics.

Thank you so much for posting this.

[Mamzelle]

Ann is the vanguard right now against Victimhood politics. Rather daring--and iconoclastic in the classic sense of the word--if she succeeds in this volley against the leftist Sacred Cow, she'll have done quite a job for us in the rhetorical battle against liberalism.

[DocRock]

Terrorist use innocent humans as targets and shields. The left uses victims as targets and shields. A common denominator of enemies of the Republic.

[at bay]

My first rection to Ann's words were shock and outrage as well. But then on closer examination, it is one of those statements that sounds horrible taken out of context, but is reasonable in the larger discussion.

I hadn't followed the 911 group of 4 like I have Cindy Sheehan. I find Sheehan's behavior despicable and a dishonor to her late son.

So Ann wasn't attacking all of the victim's of 911, just those that are using their victim status to push a defeatist political agenda. And the larger point is that these "human shields" are the foundation of the left's strategy to win symapathy for their defeatist position.

Ann has challenged the sanctity of the victim propogandist. Letterman asks "How can anyone question Cindy Sheehan?" Very easily, when her statements are examined. Zarqwi was no freedom fighter despite what Sheehan says, and her and any other person's defeatist drivel can and should be attacked.

[Solamente]

Mark Gauvreau Judge has a "fissure" in his perinium for whatever is in fashion to be inserted there to suit him via the MSM.

[Deagle]

Hey, don't fall for the liberal crap... What Ann is saying is to the point and factual. If the MSM and other disagree, then let them, but do not give in to the PC line about the widows.

[Old Landmarks]

The response by Kristen Breitweiser and the other 9/11 widows was quite predictable.

Their latest response is consistant with their past drippings and is just another example of how leftists worship their god of liberalism.

Liberals daily reveal their spirituality (their lack of true spirituality) by putting liberal politics above all that is sacred.

[Deagle]

You were right in the initial show at Ann's words...but if you stop and try to understand what she is trying to get accross, you will agree that she is right... The MSM is always pushing the liberal widow viewpoint and they can NOT be questioned since they are 9/11 widows... Hmmm...

[roses of sharon]

Victimhood politics has poisoned our budget policies, our courts, our educational policies, our culture, and our political debate for decades upon decade.

With Oprah and the sissified MSM leading the pack.

How incredibly sad for the United States of America.

And incredibly dangerous.

As with the Islamic cults who have roamed the globe for decades, murdering innocents with impunity, all because the leftwing ideology/MSM gives them the mantel of victimhood.

With every murder its the Israeli "occupation" that made them do it, and with every suicide they damn their children to commit, it is victimhood that they instill.

[MichiganConservative]

It seems to me that if you are the victim of some tragedy, your opinion about related political issues shouldn't be elevated, but regarded with more suspicion. Your emotions could get in the way of clear thinking if you're a victim. Too many people already have trouble telling the difference between thinking and emoting.

[LegendHasIt]

I wasn't shocked by the 'offending statement' even taken out of context as the lefties have tried to do..... Because I noticed the very same things myself during the 911 Commission hearings and later during the Kerry Campaign.

I really wasn't planning on reading 'Godless' much less purchasing it until I heard the reactions and statements of Hillary, Letterman, and the usual leftist suspects AS WELL AS those of some of the pundits that are normally kind of on the conservative / libertarian side.

So, I ran out to Walmart and bought a copy of it this afternoon. So, You lefties and pseudo-conservatives can pat yourselves on the back for making your hated Walmart, Crown Publishing and Ann Coulter all a little richer than they otherwise would have been.

15 pages into the book, and all I can say to them is "Thanks for making me buy a book that I am quite enjoying".

[sageb1]

I guess I wasn't shocked because I knew immediately what she meant...and I agreed with her. My first thought was "it's about damned time!"

[Screamname]

They`re about to put out an album judging by this 1960`s type rock group looking picture they posed for, so I took the initiative with photoshop.

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Rolling Stone cover photo (taken on the deck of one of their multi-mill buck mansions?)....

[msjhall]

I wasn't shocked either, in fact the first thing I thought of was Murtha.

[Screamname]

"Vote for John Edwards.. He uses a ton of hairspray like me!"

[carlo3b]

My emotional reaction was much the same.. YIKES, what has gotten into Ann, how could she say such things about widows.. It wasn't until I saw her interviewed on CNN while waiting in a doctors office that I realized what was to become anger, not at Ann but myself..

I had allowed the spin doctors on the left to tap into my dignity and use it in a most insidious way to shroud my judgment with phony victims..

If I had any doubt, I watched Nick Berg's father, Michael Berg, blame George W. Bush for his son's death, and not Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, even though we all witnessed his brutal beheading at the hands of al-Zarqawi..

These liberals are not to be trusted or believed because they HATE! THEY HATE AMERICA AND THEY HATE US, but most of all they hate THEMSELVES!

[Rockingham]

Here's another good article debunking the "Jersey Girls" from the superb Claudia Rossett.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110004950

The prominence of the four "Jersey Girls" is due to their being -- and willingness to be used as -- convenient media props to bash the Bush administration and Republicans -- a posture that is contrary to the vast majority of 9/11 families and a normal sense of grief. The "Jersey Girls" have long deserved a heavy dose of scorn and derision and Ann Coulter has delivered it. From now on, no one will think of those four preening, publicity hungry harpies without Coulter's comments working away in the back of their mind.