Posted on 06/21/2006 7:32:18 AM PDT by oxcart
It's embarrassing that two New Jersey Democrats, Assemblywoman Joan Quigley of Jersey City and Assemblywoman Linda Stender of Scotch Plains, are calling on bookstores in the state not to sell Ann Coulter's new book.
One wonders whether Quigley and Stender have heard of Amazon.com or are aware that Coulter's book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, is on its way to becoming a best-seller just like her previous diatribes against liberalism?
Coulter may be motivated by "her desire to sell books," as our astute assemblywomen surmised, but she is hardly the personification of evil.
Defending Coulter, who also has come under attack from Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.), is an oxymoron.
She is the last person who needs to be defended, given that she is a lawyer who presumably can defend herself and possesses a frightening intellect and wit.
While promoting her book on television recently, Coulter made reference to a group of New Jersey women whose husbands were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
Coulter noted, as she does in her book, that these "Jersey Girls," after receiving huge amounts in compensation for their losses, then went public blaming President Bush for having failed to anticipate and prevent the 9/11 attacks.
The mainstream media made much of them while ignoring some very key factors that undermined their views. Coulter, of course, did not.
Noticeably missing from the initial press reports was any mention of what Coulter actually wrote:
"The 9/11 Commission was a scam and a fraud, the sole purpose of which was to cover up the disasters of the Clinton administration and distract the nation's leaders during wartime. Not only did the Jersey Girls claim credit for this Clinton whitewash machine, they spent most of the hearings denouncing the Bush administration for not stopping the 9/11 attacks from the weak position handed it by the Clinton administration."
The gist of what Kristen Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza claimed was that an August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing should have alerted Bush to order immediate action to prevent 9/11.
Coulter notes in her book that "all the information about bin Laden in the August PDB comes from the nineties. Not one fact in the PDB is more recent than 1999."
I grant you Coulter takes no prisoners when she writes.
"Mostly the witches of East Brunswick wanted George Bush to apologize for not being Bill Clinton," was her take on the Jersey Girls, but "the rest of the nation was more interested in knowing why the FBI was prevented from being given intelligence about 9/11 terrorists here in the United States more than a year before the attack..."
The answer - well-known by now - is that Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, "had specifically prohibited intelligence agents from telling law enforcement agents about suspected terrorists in the country."
And whom did the Democrats put on the 9/11 Commission? Jamie Gorelick.
So what we are seeing in the denunciations by members of the U.S. Senate and now the New Jersey Assembly represents more than a fair amount of partisanship.
Coulter has done a very good job of documenting her case. If some Jersey Girls get a public spanking in the process, so be it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Caruba, of South Orange, Essex County, writes "Warning Signs," a weekly column for the National Anxiety Center, an Internet site he founded. The site's address is www.anxietycenter.com.
OMG I'm shocked. I'm waiting for the sky to fall.
You all know the rules...
It's a Philly tradition and transcends the left-right divide.
And yes, Ann Coulter was right and she has nothing to apologize for.
I thought I just saw a pig fly by the window.
As a matter of fact, the Inquirer was bought recently by a Republican PR maven and mega-builder Bruce Toll. But it's carried Caruba's column for a while.
You may be interested in going to the author's website. He has a 4-part series on The Subversion of Education in America that is very interesting.
- the more books sold - the more people alerted...sounds like good 'strategery' to me.
Just wish Ann and others would link Cindy Shee-it with the Jersey Girls too - she is in the same category - and that would catch the attention of many more folk - "Oh, yeah! Using the veil of victim-hood to spew anti-American propaganda. - funded by whom?"
LOL
Thanks for the info, I have bookmarked Caruba's site, he is a good writer.
Agreed.
What the Jersey Girls did is far more egregious than anything Coulter said.
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