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.
Of course she's right about this small group of 9-11 relatives. They are no different than MLK's wife, they are making themselves into professional widows for fame and profit. King's wife (and family) engaged in closely guarded profiteering for over 30 years using his name.
The Inquirer gets it right! They didn't miss one trick.
Seen from Texas, this seems like a reasonable rule, LOL.
They're switching over to more scared than mad now - every thing's coming unraveled. They're only just now getting that they don't control ALL the media anymore (took 'em a while.)
Not only has Ann C. finally dropped the bomb on untouchables - and their 'culture of corruption' turned in on themselves, but it looks like things are going just the way "W" has said all along in Iraq. His strategy of "we'll pull down as they stand up" - is showing light at the end of the tunnel...and the dimRats mantra that he has NO strategy - so we must cut and run, isn't being swallowed as whole cloth...what to do, what to do?
So they are frantically trying to come up with a sound bite that will make it look like the reason we are winning in Iraq is because we're finally listening them them - it's worse than the Little Red Hen where everyone sat around and did nothing to help - in this scenario, they did every thing they could to hinder...but the bread's about done...
fun to watch rats who realize they are drowning, scurry around, every rat for themselves...
The rats are scrambling to cover up so many truths in Ann's fantastic book that will be damaging to them. Should be required reading for all voters!
While at the same time - making such a ruckus that tens of thousands that wouldn't have heard about the book - will now buy it!
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.
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.
Well said. I totally agree.
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