1. Coulter is not a journalist; she is an opinion writer and an entertainer.
2. She was not offering an opinion about what was supposedly going through their minds, but rather was making, in very acerbic language, a valid point about the common practice of the left to hide behind sympathetic human shields and using these tragic figures as spokesperson for their agenda. While criticizing the way Coulter said it, this girly man fails to even address her point and the context of what Coulter said. To that end, Coulter was entirely right even if one disagrees with some of the phrasing she used to make her point.
And about the practice of certain 'tragic' figures to cooperate and participate fully in that process, presumably because they're getting something out of it.
The Jersey Girls and Sheehan give every indication of reveling in the process of being 'used,' and every appearance of forgetting or downplaying the tragic circumstances that got them there. Not only that, there is no doubt that their behavior and the fawning of the media and the Democrats over them and their personal opinions is highly offensive to many others who suffered like tragedies and don't share their political views.
They don't seem to care a fig about whether their behavior is offensive to other people in a similar position, their self-absorption and delusions of grandeur are far too complete for that.