Posted on 06/13/2006 3:02:44 PM PDT by Mike Bates
In the controversy over Ann Coulter's comments about the group of 9/11 widows, there is one critical question, from the point of view of ensuring standards of accuracy in the media. How does Coulter know it to be true that, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." There is no evidence whatsoever that those women enjoyed their husbands' deaths, and Coulter offers none. The only "evidence" for this preposterous and hurtful claim is that the women became activists and sought the media spotlight and took a political position at odds with that of Coulter. But what does that prove?
I think Coulter probably would have been correct to say that the women appeared to enjoy the media attention. You don't go on these shows unless you enjoy them to some degree. But enjoying a death? And the death of a loved one when fatherless children were left behind? Coulter's comments are not only false but cruel. She has also made other disparaging personal comments about the women.
In journalism, facts and truth are supposed to matter. Opinions are allowed, and Coulter, a columnist for Human Events and many other newspapers, is entitled to her own opinions.
SNIP
If the matter only involved personal opinions about people or things, Coulter's comments wouldn't really be newsworthy or significant. But she is claiming to have inside knowledge of the personal psychology of this group of women who lost their husbands on 9/11. That is why the comments have generated so much outrage—except from a few conservatives unwilling to criticize her.
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Had these women supported the war we would have never heard of them.
You should be more niggardly with opinions like that.
ROFL. I should say so.
I suppose now Hugh Hewitt, Cliff Kincaid, Laura Ingraham and I've forgotten how many others will be attacked as not being TRUE conservatives.
Molly Ivins is vicious in print, but - unlike Coulter - comes across as reasonably likeable on TV. So maybe in that sense, she is smarter than Coulter - she has a PR sense when appearing in front of the fence-sitters of the world.
Have you considered that we expect that kind of poor behavior from liberals. Perhaps we hold ourselves to a higher standard.
At least, we whould.
Not quite the same situation, but your point is well made. It is a good question that bears contemplation.
And they sure seem to ENJOY the attention
Coulter is correct.
Exactly. Ann is a bomb-thrower. Its okay to hate her for that. But recognize that if she wasn't out there at point, pushing the line, the Left would be shouting down milder voices than hers. She screws up every now and then, makes a mistake, but she gives the Right space to manuever.
Bingo!
I was disappointed in Hewitt for years. Now I no longer am disappointed, because I simply don't expect much from him. I always see him as the person that doesn't want to rattle any cages when it counts. Well, sometimes those cages need to be rattled.
"Says a poster who is in his third incarnation on a conservative website."
I was Mojo before. And banned for defending Bush from charges he and the CIA were dealing drugs.
And I was Hon, and banned for complaining about having my research on Kerry coopted without attribution.
Here are some of my Kerry posts as Hon:
About Kerry's Purple Hearts And Reassignment
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1070813/posts
The Purple Heart [Superstitions]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079832/posts
Kerry Honeymooned With The Vietcong And North Vietnamese in May 1970
March 25, 2004 | Compiled
Posted on 03/25/2004 8:12:06 AM PST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1105054/posts
Kerry Met With Viet Cong And North Vietnamese In Paris In 1971
Congressional Record ^ | March 6, 2004 | John F. Kerry
Posted on 03/06/2004 3:21:15 AM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091943/posts
Was Kerry Involved In Plans To Murder 7 US Senators In 1971?
"Winter Soldiers"/ "Home To War" | March 11, 2004 | Various
Posted on 03/10/2004 10:29:58 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095150/posts
Kerry's Group The VVAW Discussed Assassinating Seven Pro-War Senators In December 1971
Winter Soldiers - An Oral History Of The Vietnam Veterans Against The War | 1997 | Richard Stacewicz
Posted on 02/18/2004 6:54:31 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1080806/posts
The VVAW Assassination Discussion - "A lot of people were convinced that this was the way to do it."
March 25, 2004 | Compiled
Posted on 03/24/2004 10:43:30 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104820/posts
Kerry Still Called Himself The Head Of VVAW In January 1973
Boston Globe ^ | March 19, 2004
Posted on 03/18/2004 8:26:44 PM PST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100910/posts
Kerry Lied In Press Conference Where He Refused To Apologize For Calling Republicans Liars
Compiled | March 12, 2004 | Hon
Posted on 03/12/2004 2:03:30 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1096436/posts
John Kerry's First Big Protest [While On Active Duty In The Navy]
Posted by Hon
On News/Activism 03/06/2004 4:53:43 PM PST • 102 replies • 162+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092308/posts
John Kerry At Valley Forge (With Jane Fonda)
Various | N/A | Various
Posted on 02/09/2004 8:59:30 AM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074369/posts
[Now deleted--even though the Corbis photo had already been removed by the moderator.]
Did Democrat Fat Cats Make John Kerry Famous? [Including Seagram's Bronfman]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084799/posts
John Kerry Is A Self-Admitted War Criminal
Meet The Press ^ | April 18, 1971 | N/A
Posted on 02/09/2004 12:31:43 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074482/posts
Kerry's Testimony Before The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971 - Entire Transcript
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1097982/posts
Mark Lane's Book: Source Of Kerry's Atrocity Stories?
New York Times Book Review ^ | December 27, 1970 | Neil Sheehan
Posted on 01/30/2004 9:44:50 PM PST by Hon
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1068805/posts
John Kerry Gained Fame On The Shoulders Of Frauds (Bogus Vietnam Veterans)
Various | Various | Various
Posted on 02/09/2004 8:39:58 AM PST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074451/posts
Kerry's Medal Tossing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078349/posts
Read The Book That John Kerry's Campaign Doesn't Want You To See--The New Soldier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095936/posts
Vietnam Veterans Against The War - Tax Exempt?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1081202/posts
Radio Hanoi Celebrated Kerry's Anti-War Work
The Veteran - The VVAW's News Letter ^ | Spring 1997 | John "Doc" Upton
Posted on 03/19/2004 6:57:03 PM PST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1101693/posts
Kerry's Mentor: Black Panther And Phony Vietnam Vet, Al Hubbard
Various | Composite
Posted on 02/17/2004 6:48:56 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1080094/posts
One Of John Kerry's "Band Of Brothers"Kerry's Veteran Organizer Joe Bangert Sang For The Enemy ^ Posted by Hon
On News/Activism ^ 03/07/2004 10:14:00 PM EST with 32 comments
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092936/posts
One Of John Kerry's "Band Of Brothers"
Various | March 8, 2004 | Hon
Posted on 03/08/2004 4:01:31 AM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092936/posts
Joe Bangert's Testimony Before The Winter Soldiers Investigation [Bangert Is Kerry's Vet Organizer] ^
Posted by Hon
On News/Activism ^ 03/08/2004 12:49:43 AM EST with 16 comments
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092905/posts
Kerry Propagandist Brinkley Lies About Unanimity Of Kerry's Crewmen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095467/posts
Kerry Long Time Pal And Campaign Advisor Was Behind Schwarzenegger Hitler Smear
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084581/posts
"John Kerry was a traitor to the men he served with."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1081370/posts
How North Vietnam Won The War [Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark et al.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076188/posts
Kerry Doesn't Like Monuments - Except To Himself
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1086831/posts
John Kerry's Watergate
Insight on the News ^ | Sept 16, 2003 | John Pike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065034/posts
Kerry Championed The Nuclear Freeze Movement
Posted on 01/25/2004 1:19:08 PM PST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1082283/posts
John "Flip Flop" Kerry On Missile Defense
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1082842/posts
Have You Forgotten The Kerry Committee? [Kerry Claimed Reagan Misled Congress]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092408/posts
Kerry Vouched for Crooked Contractor [Speaking Of Crooked]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095345/posts
Kerry: Citizenship For Anyone In US For Five Years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067615/posts
Whose Tax Cuts Were They Anyway? - Kerry Claims, Then Trashes Bush's Tax Cuts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1097312/posts
Democrats (And Other Frenchmen) On Iraq's Weapons Of Mass Destruction
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066882/posts
Kerry Demanded President Clinton Attack Saddam Over WMD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068186/posts
Kerry: "We do not need to divide America over who served and how."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078743/posts
Debunking The Bush AWOL Story - From The Horse's Mouth
Posted on 02/06/2004 6:58:26 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073076/posts
Reporter Who Made Up AWOL Story Has History Of Libeling GOP Candidates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074224/posts
The Most Decorated Unit In Vietnam Was A National Guard Unit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076006/posts
Kerry: "I refuse to have my patriotism questioned."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078148/posts
Clinton Worker Behind Trashing Of Bush 9/11 Ad
Posted on 03/05/2004 4:52:32 PM EST by Hon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091629/posts
Teresa Heinz Kerry Funded Group Calls For Censure Of Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079318/posts
The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group [Mrs. Kerry Is A Commie]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077429/posts
Kerry, Wife Get Flack Over Hydrant [Rich People Are Different]
Posted by Hon
On News/Activism 01/25/2004 3:35:55 PM PST • 62 replies • 228+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065096/posts
Compare this brief sample to your contributions to this forum, which consist mostly in attacking Coulter and siding with the left on every other issue.
I'm with you, and frankly I'm glad that Ann has the guts to bring up the subject. She's dead on.
LOL. I would hope you understand the larger point.
And now I will go make dinner and just say that it's disturbing to see freepers beating up on each other because some of us find her comments over the top and some of us don't.
Freepers used to do something called research into the opposition, not each other.
Ann may just be setting herself up to scream Liberal Hypocrisy next time Big Media lets one of their own get away with similar or worst verbal assaults.
It's a free country Cliff. Don't buy her book.
Who is Molly Ivins? thank you.
UR right. Please accept my humble apology.
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