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.
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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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Good, I hope she has plenty of R.E. and writes another book and makes another bundle. Anyone with backbone who stands up for truth, knowing she will be 'persecuted' by the left and RINO's, because of what/who she is - conservative is priceless!
Yeah, I'm REAL insecure after nearly ten years on the Free Republic. **snicker**
I thought the list from the article might be amused. THAT'S my game, after all. :-)
I don't recall the attendants scattering flower petals in front of Coulter (ala Coming To America) during the MFJ, do you? ;-)
trying to hurt them if she can.
THEY hurt themselves. They were merely exposed as were the libs for using them and Cindy as 'shields'. That's what the outrage is really about but they focus on her 'meanness'. Just another case of the libs can dish it out and no one else is allowed.
And some are so obedient to what the libs expect of them 'their standards' for the right. Like lap dogs.
Now, this is just BS, sinkie.
Do we have to explain to you about the process of writing a book and getting it published?
No, if you're too dense to get the timeline thingie on a book, then you're too dense to be taken seriously on your Coulter criticisms.
You're dismissed.
$1.5 million in NYC is chump change.
I know the process.
Coulter knew, too, that her remarks would generate the kind of heat she's getting.
Pure marketing. Don't be surprised if she pulls a David Brock when she's milked you for all she can.
So what page of the book are you on?
Zero times zero is zero, sinkie.
I don't need to buy or read Coulter's books. I was blooded here a long time ago, so I know the score, and Rush, Ann and all the others are merely on my side of the playing field. I got her back on the Free Republic because she's a warrior, and she's good at it.
You're an anklebiter, and always have been. Warrior, not.
Oh, BTW - she CAN'T pull a Brock, because that would involve various lobotomies, and Coulter is defined by her brain (not her physical attributes or real estate).
LOL!
That's gonna leave a mark! :-)
"Blooded"? Is this ebonics?
Guess.
The other definition, and the one that Coulter used is: To gain benefit from...."
Bamm....You nailed it!
First I gotta explain publishing to you, now you want me to explain ME & AS derivations, too.
Consult the OED, young Muckcrawler.
Good point. Reminds me of a personal injury lawyer telling the judge about his client's *terrific* pain. He was singing to the choir then, and Coulter was singing to her choir as well.
Those wenches absolutely enjoyed the fact that their husband's deaths made them celebrities.
I don't think this debate is really about Ann's comments of the four widows in question, but the comments she made in regard to evolution.
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