Posted on 06/17/2006 8:42:22 AM PDT by marc costanzo
The left-leaning Newsweek magazine lied about what she wrote in her book, an indignant Ann Coulter said during an appearance on Thursday night's Hannity & Colmes show on Fox News Channel.
"I'm sitting in a Fox studio in L.A.," Coulter said. "I don't know why there's a copy of Newsweek here rather than Human Events. Here is Newsweek describing Ann Coulter as saying '9/11 widows enjoyed their [husbands'] deaths.' That is simply a lie . . . That is a lie. If you can't deal with the facts and you refuse to say what the argument is, I think that's a total lack of confidence in your position and it certainly shows a complete lack of understanding [that] Americans can find out the truth these days - that it's not the mainstream media monopoly it was 10 years ago."
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What a scathingly brilliant p0siti0n t0 have.
W didn't call anyb0dy a vigilante, but did ch0se t0 bring it up in the first place. He hasn't been using it since. Why is that? I'd suggest that s0me pe0ple take 0ffense at the use 0f the w0rd similarly t0 the resp0nse 0f s0me pe0ple t0 the use 0f the w0rd frequently c0nfused with "niggardly".
As an aside, I'm using a 13 yr 0ld pr0grammable keyb0ard that d0esn't want t0 be repr0gramable at the m0ment. It's attached t0 0ne 0f many c0mputers at h0me that are d0ing reas0nable w0rk studying pr0tein f0lding. Y0u sh0uld c0nsider j0ining the FR team:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1645733/posts
Apparently? There is nothing that I've posted that would even suggest that.
What a not so brilliant non-sequitur
"I don't think anyone's daft enough to think that she meant every woman whose husband died."
Then you're not thinking.
W said vigilante, heh, heh, heh.
Some of us survive Publik Skooling, some don't.
Not counting the 1st lie lumping all 9/11 widows(ers) with the Jersey Girls:
"Enjoyed" is PAST TENSE. It also implies (through association) that they enjoyed the results of the event AT THAT TIME. This is NOT what Ann said.
Enjoying is PESENT TENSE. It accurately states that the subject at hand (the Jersey Girls) are currently enjoying their status as 9/11 widows (with the $ and the attention and the ability to psread their anti-American views).
I hope this helps.
Just as AC wrote some words that, together, can have varying meanings to different people, W did essentially the same thing in using the word vigilante in the context of discussing the response of US citizens to the current lack of effective law enforcement about the border. That a great many people took offense is, in retrospect, not too surprising. That W has not directly addressed the efforts of MM, leaves his previous, now obvious, opinion/position unchanged.
It's politics, and it happens all the time. The more clever a person is in their exact phrasing, the better they can pull it off. Even if W didn't intend to tar the MM with a certain Spanish word, he has let the perception stand.
Oh my goodness, I thought that word was banned from our vernacular.
Out of fairness to those who would head down to the border we must never use this word "vigilante" in any context, within ten paragraphs of the phrase "those who are down at the border".
LOLOL!
No he didn't. The President made clear days later that he was taken out of context.
Please provide the source.
It's already been established that I am often unnecessarily generous-minded, a flaw that apparently very few Coulter fans share.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm against vigilantes......"
Counts out to be a separation of but two words.
When was the last time W uttered the Spanish word that must not be mentioned?
*Digging through bookmarks*
Q: We've got these groups on the border called the Minutemen. They think you've called them vigilantes. Do you think they are vigilantes?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, this was -- I was in Waco when I decried potential vigilantism. I want to make it clear that this is before they even showed up, as I recall, and I wanted to make it clear that it was intolerable for people to take the law in their own hands, because we didn't want people showing up with guns. Do you remember the incident when I was the governor of Texas and a shepherd kid got shot across the river? I remember that well. And I also remember what -- in Maverick County, when I was the governor, and the ranchers there got all riled up, and we basically worked with the DPS to move a bunch of highway patrolmen down there? Again, this is a subject which I've had some familiarity, and I think it's very important that we send signals to people that people should not take the law in their own hands. We've got people whose job it is to do this. And so the statement I made in Waco, Texas, was a clear signal to anybody that they shouldn't be taking up arms against -- on the border, for example.
(My underline)
lexicon?
That's right. Forget context. There's a speration-by-two-words rule.
LOL!
"Do you think they are vigilantes?"
I didn't hear or see a yes or no. That is weaseling. W certainly didn't straighten out his position. He only reiterated his non-position.
SPOTREP
I've been clear on this before and I'll say it again; "I don't think Wookies belong on Endor".
How Clintonian.
Just let ILLEGALS 'do the jobs Americans won't do'. Screw the LAW that says it's ILLEGAL for someone to enter the country ILLEGALLY. We will reward those people with AMNESTY but we can't have 'vigilantes' taking the law into their own hands to protect THEIR PROPERTY.
By the way, I believe that most article searching is done based on the relative proximity of various key words. It's done this way to provide a good correlation to (ta da) context.
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