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The whole media storm surrounding her remarks are designed to avoid dealing with her larger point.

First of all, her comments were true; the DNC and the Left in general are trying to insulate themselves from debate by using people who are supposed to be beyond criticism. Its one of their favorite tactics; they seek to win arguments by shutting off any argument at all.

And the media left is doing it again. They've seized upon one throwaway remark as a way of demonizing her and the book, and in doing so they don't have to answer any of her charges. She has done far worse than simply criticize four individuals, she has labeled en entire movement as a godless religion and proceeds to back it up, mocking them and laughing at them and (worst of all) quoting them for a couple hundred pages. They prefer not to answer her so they try to shut off any argument at all.

Most people here have assumed she made the remark purposely to attract attention and sell books. She wasn't the one who publicized it; they did, in order to prove that she was beyond the pale. They have yet to even answer her point there either, that it is the Left that is using these women, again, to win argument by avoiding argument.

You will notice that Rall's attack on the widows came when it was imagined that they were a powerful symbol for the need for war. Not all widows favor war, certainly Danny Pearl's wife does not (although in my opinion she has always conducted herself with great dignity).

Nothing is sacred to the Left unless they can find a way to use it. The widows certainly were not sacred to them, until they found some they could use.