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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Probably. If a Catholic goes to a Bible class and all the others there are Baptists. he starts talking like a Baptist however he means it.
It is perfectly ok to call a spade a spade as long as the spade is a conservative. It is only wrong to call a spade a spade when said spade is a democrat / lib.
Too bad they can't even convince Bostonians to not cancel their subscriptions. LOL
And so another liberal cow, Cathy Young, opines.
Ann wasn't only taking the scumbag "Jersey Girls" to task, she was (in fact, was primarily) taking the Democrat Party to task for using the scumbag "Jersey Girls" as human shields for their own political cheapshots. No comparison with the simple Ted Rall's incoherent meltdowns.
I think that Ann has drawn the fire of those who want to comment on this issue "over the top." Note that we're discussing how we talk about them, not the substance of what we say. Now that this is out in the open, we can now safely repackage the substance without going "over the top" and nobody can shoot. They've wasted their attackes on the way it was said, which makes the message itself fair game.
If Ann had not done it the way she had, bringing up the issue at all would have drawn fire.
Now let's see who has the cojones to take advantage of the situation.
Shalom.
No they aren't. And Conservatives don't go searching for them and make them into "protected" spokesmen either.
"Her goal is to destroy modern liberalism. And she is succeeding"
I agree. This book is just another step to discrediting modern liberalism. All of her efforts have been important to that goal. We should all support her in her efforts to destroy liberalism, not hinder her.
Isn't it interesting that our enemies keep urging us to distance ourselves from her? You think maybe they recognize how dangerous she truly is to their ideology? Hmmmmm.
That was the least of their offenses
Nobody would be talking about it if she did a dry dissertation. Harsh as the words were, she caused the left to respond and engage the debate. When was the last time you initiated a nation-wide debate?
Oh, and in case you missed it, she won the debate.
I've known a lot of people who lost spouses, never met a one who was glad of it or enjoyed it or wouldn't have given everything they had not to have them back. And I've yet to see a quote from any connected with 9/11 who would make me believe otherwise of them.
On the other hand if you think the Jersey Girls are greedy and opportunistic and making money off their loss, then what is Coulter doing that is any different?
My mother stopped taking it. I'm sure she's not alone.
See yah!
She sure as hell did. Coulter put the nail in the little degenerate media tactic of climbing on a caskets to sell the Left's Marxist political war.
That's what the degenerates and infiltrators are so "upset" about. Their little media game has been found to be a hundred times more craven and degenerate than "impolite words."
If she thinks the Globe is not anti-american agitprop, then she is left of center.
The obscuring of her actual points is intentional.
We are seeing the effectiveness of the left's tactic, "Be as insulting as possible," which they have been using since 1966.
You just can't play nice with these people. Thank God we are starting to fight back.
The answer is hidden inside your own statement. Do you expect those increased numbers of Coulter's books that have been/will be sold to sit, unopened, on shelves across the land, or would you expect people to actually read her words?
Large numbers of people who actually read her book will likely be persuaded by the arguments spelled out in detail in the book. Those arguments have been routinely ignored by (and will always be ignored by) the MSM and her critics. Exposing lots of people to those arguments will advance a good many good causes...
Mission Accomplished. LOL
Where the hell ya been, btw?
>>>The left has a boatload of streetfighters i.e. . . . Michael Moore, . . . for whom no Democrat ever apologizes.
Apologizes? Heck, they lionized him by placing him in a place of honor, right next to a former Dem President, at the DNC national convention in 2004. Ann barely makes the press box, on the Republican side.
Standard --and very tired-- leftwing patter.
They've been calling the Rush Limbaugh show and saying this for the last 15 years.
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