Posted on 06/19/2006 8:25:28 AM PDT by pissant
SEVERAL years ago, left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall published a cartoon mocking the ``terror widows" -- the bereaved of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as Marianne Pearl, the widow of kidnapped and slain journalist Daniel Pearl -- as a bunch of greedy and shallow attention-seekers. The outrage was universal. A number of press outlets, including The New York Times website, pulled the cartoon. Subsequently, when the Times and The Washington Post stopped carrying Rall's work, conservatives called it a victory for decency.
Now, the right has its own Ted Rall in the infamous Ann Coulter. In her new book, ``Godless: The Church of Liberalism," Coulter takes a whack at the ``Jersey Girls," four Sept. 11 widows who have been highly critical of the Bush administration. She refers to them as ``self-obsessed women" who ``believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony," and then concludes with this zinger: ``These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief -arrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much."
A number of conservatives, including prominent Republican blogger and radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt, have denounced Coulter's statement. Unfortunately, many others have rallied to her defense. Radio and Fox News talk-show host Sean Hannity has mildly suggested that she may have gone too far, but has avoided condemning her outright and has given her plenty of airtime on his show.
Bill O'Reilly, the host of the Fox News show ``The O'Reilly Factor," has been harshly critical of Coulter's comments. Yet several of his conservative guests vigorously defended her. Republican strategist Karen Hanretty opined,
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It's the old "I agree with you alot of the Time Rush, but why do you have to be so harsh on liberals..." crap.
I think you meant "not defending" what she said??
What is the uninflamitory way to out media whores?
I agree with that last sentence. O'Reilly has been good about going after judges who let criminals out. But he is in no way helping the conservative cause overall. Ann is.
"I think you meant "not defending" what she said??"
*sighs*
I'm tired lol, yes "NOT defending" good grief.
You bet they are. The little media propaganda routine is over, and liberals have been caught doing a nice little political pantomime on corpses strewn about.
The only reason the dear libbies are so upset is because there's really nowhere left to go after they've been caught using dead people to engage in political propaganda.
I mean, what's next? Shall they trot out another hysterical freak and insist that everyone wallow in pain again?
They're *so* screwed, and Coulter just put the knife right in.
I'd have to read her columns to get a better gauge on her. But I can say that neither Reason nor the Globe are high on my respected publications list. And the Cato, well, is the Cato institute.
That is "fair and balanced" if I've ever heard it.
It's the very tired
"I used to be a Republican, but now that [Ronald Regan, Newt Gingrich, George Bush, etc] has done so-and-so
I am so outraged that that I am now no longer a Republican.
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I've heard it a million times.
The leftwinger is WITHDRAWING his affinity
and you are supposed to be devastated.
Pathetic.
That's why Ann does not back down. The more the left hates her, the more she realizes that she is effective.
Ouch!
Rall makes the guy who did the Marine cartoon for the Arizona Republic seem tame.
If you enjoyed her previous tomes, you'll like this one.
Excellent point! Let's remember also, that the New Jersey Democrats were screaming to have the book banned! Can you imagine that!
...seems the free speech Left is none to anxious to hear this bit of 'free speech' from Ann.
Nope. And her comments about the Jersey Girls are polite compared to comments about others. It's just that the Jersy Harpies are "sacred cows", just like "war hero" Max moonbat Cleland. Hence the uproar.
Tends to work the other way. IAC, a catholic surrounded by liberals--real pagans--is talking to death ears.
That's why I'm here. LOL
And I like her even more, because she enjoys doing it as much as I like seeing it.
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