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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And what have I lied about? I am no friend of the Jersey Girls, as you yourself noted. And I am not a public figure, as Coulter is.
If I were, perhaps your indignation would have a point.
This Coulter business has just about played itself out, thankfully. Since you've decided to change the subject from her to me, I'll go to some other threads. Then you can do what you do best: talk about me behind my back and revel in defending the fair maiden from the nasty old troll.
Maybe it should actually be called Ratherism, or Liberalism. They have been making up 'facts' for decades. Ann Coulter just followed their example.
"You really ought to get your own website, then you could keep me from signing up."
LOL. I have one. (It got 200,000 hits yesterday and has been recently cited in dozens of only articles, including today's Washington Times editorial.)
Tell us more about all you have done for conservatism.
Where we you in 1998 when Coulter was putting her career on the line to help FR?
Tell us for the thousandth time that you attack Coulter because she makes conservatives look bad.
You who live to attack conservatives and make them look bad.
You are about as conservative as Jack Murtha. (Who you outdid in your rush to judgment re Haditha.)
Who do you think you are fooling?
Sean Vanity?
;-)
"And what have I lied about?"
I guess you can't read. I listed several lies about Coulter just above this post.
You are a troll.
And a stalker.
And a liar.
And you aren't fooling anyone.
;-)
"This Coulter business has just about played itself out, thankfully."
Translation: I got caught. So I'll have to lie low until this thread is forgotten.
;-)
You're a buffoon.
;-)
LOL
;-)
WRONG
He's just critical of her........... no big deal.
"Criticism" is a good thing.
Oh for heaven's sake. Calling for poisoning a Supreme Court justice is a "joke"? "Bush has gone back to boozing it up" is a joke?
My comments about Coulter are all jokes, then. Don't take them seriously. They're just jokes, just my way of getting some yucks at her expense.
Rush Limbaugh calls it using absurdity to illustrate absurdity. (And yes, I know you hate him too.)
Any time Rush gets personal (as he did with Chelsea Clinton) he apologizes, quickly and earnestly. And, Rush has never been as cruel as Coulter, never. I do like Rush, though I prefer Michael Medved's show to his of late.
When, in fact, Ann works out daily, drinks very moderately, eats like a truck driver, and does not smoke and hasn't for years.
EXCLUSIVE: ANN COULTER SCORES #1 BOOK NYT [JUNE 25] FIRST WEEK OUT AND BOOKSCANS 48,408 COPIES... TIM RUSSERT 'FATHERS' 33,563 SOLD... ANDERSON COOPER 29,447... DEVELOPING...
fr. drudge report
Are you really Ann Coulter?
;-)
If so................ I liked that picture of you at the ski resort with the cup of beer in your hand ........ the rest of your pictures, not so great.
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Right..... but she did. And that's why she needs to grow up.
Man, you are good.
In case you hadn't noticed, there are only three of us on this thread. It's already been forgotten.
I told you I had no affection for the Jersey Girls, and you've seen it, and posted it. Nobody cares, Mojo, about me or about you.
Well, you seem to care about me, but nobody else does.
I'm happy your website is doing so well. I didn't know that Sweetness and Light was yours. It's quite good and informative.
I'm not paid to post here. And I have other more important things to do than to banter with you while you hope people won't scroll back and read your vicious slanders and discover how phony has been your "outrage."
Don't worry. Judging from my Freepmails, this won't be forgotten any too quickly.
So count on a reminder every time you begin your litany of lies about Coulter.
Now get back to your important work of telling us how you know for a fact that the Marines murdered those Iraqis in cold blood in Haditha.
(For those at home, scroll up to SS's Haditha posts I cited, or just go through his posting history for many other examples.)
You're on the clock.
Nah.
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