Posted on 06/09/2006 1:05:56 PM PDT by 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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ROTFLMAO. That was "priceless"!!
Actually I truly dislike Michael Moore. I meant I dislike him to the point I would have to resort to really bad language to state how I feel.
OTOH, I don't dislike Anne, just think she blows smoke too often for my tastes.
Unfortunately this latest book of hers is so full of garbage and junk science that I fear it will actually help the left as apposed to hurting it.
This is a stitch. Ann's really hit the big leagues now. Before her book the only conservative commentator the libs went after this hard was Rush Limbaugh. Ann's going to have to add at least another one or two zeroes to her net worth. YOU GO GIRL!!!
I wasn't going to buy the book, but the lefties' incessant whining changed my mind. Nothing better than increasing the pain of these traitorous weasels....
I never understood why those people got money in the first place. The families of the NYPD and NYFD who were killed deserved money to get on with their lives. But the Jersey Girls? Why?
Except Ann is right 80% of the time and lard ass is lying 100% of the time. No difference?
She's challenging him for that spot at the bottom of the fringe conservative barrel.
Thats too bad if he don't like it.Tell him not to buy it then.
And anyone who could possibly see Kerry as a better leader to fight terrorism is a f*****g idiot of the highest order.
See post 82. I clarified a bit.
What's wrong with "Weiner"? Are you making a penis joke? Are you 11 years old? What did he say about Coulter anyway?
Liberals a feckless conservative posers are becoming ever so moronic in their childlike responses.
Ann hit a nerve.
Liberals are screaming.
Posers are assuming the bent over position for libs.
Conservatives are cheering.
Where is the outrage for Julien Malveuox (sp?) when she said to feed Clarence Thomas lots of eggs and butter so he dies of a heart attack like lots of blacks do??????
That is his birth name.
Weiner.
Weiner-Nation
Savage has sole possesion in my view. A sharp mind that is unafraid to go after sacred cows. Problem is, he has no idea who his enemies are. So he is philosophically incoherent.
Ann is consistent and coherent. Over the top, to be sure. But not psychotic.
If my husband, child any relative was killed on 9/11, I would be screaming too. However, it would be screaming to kill every single one of the terrorists SOBs on the face of the earth. NO MATTER WHERE THEY WHERE OR HOW IT WAS DONE.
The LIBs are going nuts! I love it!
I'm sorry to say this, but I've read Malkin, and I've read Coulter, and they are both brilliant analysts, but I read Coulter in one or two sittings, and it took me a month to wade through Michelle's book.
Love'm both, but Ann's slash & burn style leaves me turning the pages till it's done.
The silence from her fellow Lefties in the MSM was deafening.
She says "...(the towers were struck in 1993 and al Qaeda publicly promised to return to finish the job)". Let's see; who was president in 1993? Was Ms. Breitweiser out running her mouth then about the failure of the government to protect New Yorkers? Oh, my bad, I forgot. It was other people's relatives that were killed, not hers. The boy president had eight years to take care of Al Qaeda; why is she not bothered by that?
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