9/11 Commissioner Criticizes Coulter (DEMOCRAT Tim Roehmer)

The AP via Breitbart.com ^ | June 9, 2006 | Philip Elliot

[new yorker 77]

A member of the Sept. 11 commission on Friday lashed out at conservative pundit Ann Coulter for a "hate-filled attack" in saying the widows whose husbands died in the World Trade Center used the deaths for their own political gain.

In her latest book, Coulter criticizes the four New Jersey widows who pushed for an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11, attacks. The women also backed Democrat John Kerry's presidential candidacy in 2004.

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief- arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," Coulter wrote.

Former Rep. Tim Roehmer, D-Ind., a member of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, called Coulter's "hate-filled attack on the patriotic heroes of 9/12 _ the widows of 9/11 _ reprehensible and undignified."

Roehmer urged people not to buy her book. "Americans shouldn't contribute to her profiting from these vicious remarks."

Rep. Rahm Emmanuel, D-Ill., said Thursday on the House floor that Coulter is a "hatemonger" and called on Republicans to denounce her: "I must ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: Does Ann Coulter speak for you when she suggests poisoning not Supreme Court Justices or slanders the 9/11 ... widows? If not, speak now. Your silence allows her to be your spokesman."

Among Coulter's previous statements, she advocated the invasion of non-Christian nations after Sept. 11 and the deportation from the U.S. of "all aliens from Arabic countries." She said American Taliban John Walker should be executed to show liberals what happens to traitors. And she said the only real question about President Clinton was "whether to impeach or assassinate."

Among the most quotable Coulter:

_"To expiate the pain of losing her first-born son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch. ... After your third profile on 'Entertainment Tonight,' you're no longer a grieving mom; you're a C-list celebrity trolling for a book deal or a reality show," Coulter wrote in her TownHall.com column on Aug. 18, 2005.

_"Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such lengths to fund anti-communist forces. When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the president's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-communist freedom fighters sold out by the Democrats," she wrote in 2003's "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism."

_"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building," The New York Observer quoted her as saying on Aug. 20, 2002. She clarified those remarks with RightWingNews.com: "Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'"

_"After all other suitable office space in Manhattan had dried up _ and also after spending the weekend golfing at an all-white club in Florida _ Clinton announced he would take an office in Harlem. ... As one of my friends remarked, that should be nice: Having escaped a mugging on the way to work, Clinton's female employees will then have to face an accused rapist in the office," Coulter wrote on Feb. 19, 2001.

_"(Liberals) are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment," Coulter said during an Oct. 21, 2005, speech at the University of Florida.

_"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war," Coulter wrote in a column published by the National Review Online on Sept. 13, 2001.

_"The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis," she wrote in "Treason."

_"Mostly the Witches of East Brunswick wanted George Bush to apologize for not being Bill Clinton," she wrote in "Godless." She was referring to the New Jersey town where two of the Sept. 11 widows live.

_"We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," Coulter said in a Jan. 27 appearance at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., regarding Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She later explained she was joking about the justice, whose votes have upheld Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision legalizing abortion.

_"You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard," she said in The Washington Post on October 16, 1998.

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[new yorker 77]

Roehmer urged people not to buy her book. "Americans shouldn't contribute to her profiting from these vicious remarks."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/283155/ref=pd_ts_tb_f/104-9859155-5395958

[new yorker 77]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/283155/ref=pd_ts_tb_f/104-9859155-5395958

[goldstategop]

Sorry. I bought the book. I confess it was all those liberal attacks that began that spurred me to acquire it. Bring it on!!!

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[new yorker 77]

Al Zarqawi could not be reached for comment.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Pretty fair collection of quotes.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Nothing like a little rebel encouragement to get the blood flowing. Roehmer should've just kept his piehole closed. Count me in.

[P-40]

He's just mad because so few read his book, the 9/11 Commission Report.

[bfree]

Love it! I feel the same hatred toward the left.

[Carling]

He's just mad because Coulter's book is more accurate than the 9/11 Commission Report. Able Danger?

[SoftballMominVA]

Too late, just bought the book this afternoon.

Ann Coulter says what needs to be said when no one else wants to say it.

[stop_fascism]

Yep, I wasn't going to buy it (her point seems so obvious), but since it's going to upset Roemer - next stop Amazon.

[massgopguy]

Anyone else hear Savage ripping her a new one last night? At least she publishes her books using her real name.

[Sir Gawain]

More free publicity and free quotes.

[HarleyLady27]

YAWN just another RAT clicking his jaws together to hear the noise....

YAWN....

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'll be picking up Ann's new book on my trip into town tomorrow.

Thanks for the recommendation Timmy.

[shteebo]

LOL, Coulter really knows how to peddle books, huh? Every "outraged" idiot is money in her pocket.

[new yorker 77]

‘He Can Make Us Safe’

A prominent 9/11 widow—and former Republican (THIS IS A LIE)—explains why she now wants Kerry to win the White House race

Kristen Breitweiser steps up to the podium to endorse John Kerry as other 9/11 widows wait with a survivor of the attack for their turn to speak

By Jennifer Barrett Ozols

Newsweek

Updated: 4:21 p.m. ET Sept 17, 2004

Sept. 17 - Kristen Breitweiser supported George W. Bush in 2000. This year, she’s endorsing his opponent. She is certainly not the only woman in America to change her mind about whom she plans to vote for this election, but Breitweiser is no ordinary voter. The New Jersey lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mom has taken on an increasingly prominent role since September 11. After her husband, Ron, a vice president at Fiduciary Trust, was killed in the World Trade Center, she joined three other widows from her state as activists demanding a full investigation into the 2001 attacks. The group, who call themselves "The Jersey Girls,” have since testified before Congress, met with administration officials, and lobbied successfully for the creation of the 9/11 Commission to look into intelligence failures leading up to the 2001 attacks.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6030699/site/newsweek

[SamAdams_Lite]

I don't recall him getting in a wad over the NY democrat saying he wished he could put a bullet into the President's head.

[lowbridge]

"Americans shouldn't contribute to her profiting from these vicious remarks."

That's nothing compared to the vicious remarks in the reviews section. There are over 800 reviews already (over 700 of which came from people who obviously didnt read the book), and the liberals have her book rating down to 2 and a half stars.