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 outrageexcept from a few conservatives unwilling to criticize her.
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Sam.......... go ahead and ask her out......... and take a bottle of whine. She'll be thrilled.
"we"? --- Speak for yourself, Sammieboy .......... or do you have a crowd of like-minded folks in your pocket?
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I think the Jersey girls are enjoying their fifteen minutes of fame as 9/11 widows. Seems to me they had better things to do then spout off their political views -- like raising their children without a father, or grieving for their husbands. The pics they have posed for do not reflect those activities. A few comments I could understand, but they have made a career out of it. I don't give a hoot about their opinions......and I don't much care what Ann says about them. They put themselves out there and made themselves public/political figures - they stopped being victims then. The public can comment as far as I am concerned, Ann included.
"us"? --- LOL ......... you still have those other people in your pocket?
Your wit is on a par with your spelling.
And of course logic doesn't enter in at all.
But you do score off the charts in hypocrisy.
Congrats.
Go ahead...... ask her out. She'll go.
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It's hard to tell when you are being "clever" when you post (Post 503): "Her arguement/position is totally correct, but she blew it with her over-zealous cruelty and poor taste."
Is "arguement" another witty play on words?
And how clever of you to suggest I ask her out. I've been friends with her for nine years.
You and Sinkspur act like the 14 year old boys he talks about so much.
I suspect Coulter's arguments [sic] are over your heads. That is, they are written for grownups.
Go snicker with your pal about his "clever" remarks. You deserve each other.
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Grave-dancing. If Kristen Breitweiser had her husband's head, she'd wave it around like a flag.
"Grave-dancing. If Kristen Breitweiser had her husband's head, she'd wave it around like a flag." -- Sinkspur 10/20/2004
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OOOHHHH That's a smoking gun!
Won't be man enough to admit the about face tho, I guarantee you that!
Many thanks for your kind words; they've made my day.
Brilliant, Sinkspur! That remark was genuinely funny. Do you stand behind it? If so, can you explain how you differentiate it from Ann's statements?
"Won't be man enough to admit the about face tho, I guarantee you that!"
Of course not.
They make a living off the blood of their dead husbands.
Dang he was on FIRE that day!
Exactly my views. She could have conveyed the same exact message, albeit with fewer book sales, without being so shrill and sensational.
Yeah, I was saving that one in case he claimed it was out of context or some other lame excuse.
So Sinkspur's (literally) hundreds of posts attacking Coulter for her meanness to the sainted Jersey Girls was based on what?
This is a rhetorical question of course.
Since SS has been viciously attacking Coulter for her looks, weight, smoking, drinking, clothes, sex life, dating history -- at every turn FOR YEARS.
The Jersey Girls quotes were just his latest excuse to exercise his cyberstalking.
The best product in the world is absolutely worthless if no one knows about it.
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