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9/11 widows and words that offend (Ann Coulter Once Again)
Star Newspapers - Chicago ^ | Sunday, July 2, 2006 | Michael Bowers

Posted on 07/02/2006 8:05:41 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

OK, she's mean, evil, vile, a witch. Get it all out. Dump on Ann Coulter. I'm not going to get in the way of this bandwagon, just like I wouldn't get in the way of a truck.

But once the Angry Lefties have exhausted their rage, I'd like to know if any would consider the possibility that one time too many they have played the card marked "suffering victim reviles Bush."

Consider the comments that set off the current tempest:

1) "These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted like the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was part of the closure process."

My verdict: Fair comment.

2) "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis."

My verdict: Fair comment, but this is starting to make me uncomfortable.

3) "I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much."

My verdict: Baffling. Coulter had to know that once she wrote the word "enjoying," her essential message would be lost in the uproar. Why didn't she write "exploiting"? It would have made her point just as well.

4) "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."

My verdict: Just stupid.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911widows; anncoulter; bookreview; bush; clinton; coulter; gore; iran; iraq; islamocommies; nj; ny; terrorism; waronterror; worldtradecenter; wot
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I think these women started out sincerely enough and then they smelled money and fame and were co-opted by the lefties.
1 posted on 07/02/2006 8:05:45 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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2 posted on 07/02/2006 8:06:38 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
They were leftwingnuts to start with. Then they got some spare change and away they went.

I think the idea they are "enjoying" their husbands' deaths is spot on too!

3 posted on 07/02/2006 8:08:41 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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Gee, there are far more paragraphs in the book than these. Just started it and it is her funniest book yet. Loved the line, Democrats looking for a Christian in their ranks is like a woman looking for a husband at a choreographers convention. Ann Rox!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
4 posted on 07/02/2006 8:10:53 AM PDT by bray (Hey Zaqueeri, say hello to Hitler, Stalin and Mohamhead)
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To: Chi-townChief
She also likes to say: "Three thousand people were murdered on George Bush's watch."

The murder plan was allowed to be formed on BJ's watch.

5 posted on 07/02/2006 8:11:14 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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Why didn't she write "exploiting"? It would have made her point just as well.

I agree, it would have ben a better choice of words...but I do think they've beenn nejoying the whole package and that wouldn't be available to them w/o the deaths of their husbands.

6 posted on 07/02/2006 8:14:33 AM PDT by pgkdan
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"I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much."

My verdict: Baffling. Coulter had to know that once she wrote the word "enjoying,"

Doesn't sound like they're having a terrible time with being flown around the country, eating steak dinners while staying in nice hotels, and making money off giving speeches. If they hated it, they wouldn't be doing it.

7 posted on 07/02/2006 8:15:01 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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Why didn't she write "exploiting"? It would have made her point just as well.

I agree, it would have ben a better choice of words...but I do think they've been enjoying the whole package and that wouldn't be available to them w/o the deaths of their husbands.

8 posted on 07/02/2006 8:15:05 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: Chi-townChief
The bottom line is that no one should have received money from the government from this. Their own life insurance, if any, should have taken care of it. As an example, if my or anyones spouse or relative suddenly gets killed in an accident or murder or whatever, isn't it equally tragic? This was a stupid idea, now everyone wants the government to pay and rightfully so.
9 posted on 07/02/2006 8:18:21 AM PDT by Racer1
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Almost forgot the rules ...


10 posted on 07/02/2006 8:18:44 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: muawiyah
They were leftwingnuts to start with. Then they got some spare change and away they went.

I think the idea they are "enjoying" their husbands' deaths is spot on too!

This is my sense as well. It is interesting to me too, that the 'Godlessness of the Dems' charge was never denied (that I am aware of). Also the charge that basically the Democrats espouse their own religion, actively proselytizing has not been denied with much if any vigor.

Notice what has been happening here is a lot of "we need to be religious" quotes and messages coming out of the Democratic party lately. Ann's book hit the nail spot on in her book, over and over again. Yeah Ann!

11 posted on 07/02/2006 8:28:57 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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There is a good argument to be made that the Jersey Girls (just like Cindy Sheehan) are exploiting their tragedy. But now, because Coulter had to go too far, she has tossed this argument off the boat.

My verdict: Gutless girly man trying to boost his own "self-esteem" by piling on the so-much-more-famous blonde.

12 posted on 07/02/2006 8:31:37 AM PDT by irv
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We did a lot of things in the wake of 9/11 that seem goofy and extreme in retrospect, including paying the survivors huge sums of money. I think it was part of that national mindset of the time to do anything in our power to make things somehow "right" again.

To further illustrate how weird things were, recall that the Democrats were patriotic. For a few days, anyway.


13 posted on 07/02/2006 8:33:39 AM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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I think all of Ann's comments on the 4 widows were spot on. They are enoying their husbands deaths. There is much more to her book so why pick on these few quotes from it? Why not emphasize some of the other parts? Sounds like a lib trying to
pretend they agree but gradually working into a "Ann was wrong" diatribe.


14 posted on 07/02/2006 8:33:50 AM PDT by calex59 (The '86 amnesty put us in the toilet, now the senate wants to flush it!)
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I think these women started out sincerely enough and then they smelled money and fame and were co-opted by the lefties.

I think you are giving them far too much credit. In a population of about 1000 widows, especially in the NYC metropolitan area, there are going than a few egomaniacallic lefties.

15 posted on 07/02/2006 8:35:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: Chi-townChief

One fact better than any other points out how right Ann is: A lot of us know the names of at least one or two of the "Jersey Girls," but almost no one knows the names of ANY of their husbands.


16 posted on 07/02/2006 8:36:23 AM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: Chi-townChief

The headline is wrong. Ann Coulter wasn't commenting about 9/11 widows, she was commenting about the 4 Jersey Girls, selected by the media/Democrats as bearers of absolute morality (like Cindy Sheehan), while ignoring all other 9/11 widows, their families, their friends and their opinions.


17 posted on 07/02/2006 8:38:57 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
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"The idea that relatives of victims 'own' Sept. 11 and its images, and can give or withhold permission to use them, is frankly ridiculous. ...

They don't own it but they sure try. I can't count the number of times that 9/11 widows have screamed because a Sept. 11th memorial and tribute ceremony to the fallen were constructed without asking them for approval or asking them to show up and be paid to give a speech. But they're happy as little clams when the Democrats pay them to show up for a completely tasteless scream-fest that Bush killed them with his awful foreign policies.

18 posted on 07/02/2006 8:41:44 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: irv

While Ann Coulter's point was dead-on, she did choose her words poorly.


19 posted on 07/02/2006 8:42:04 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Chi-townChief
My verdict: Baffling. Coulter had to know that once she wrote the word "enjoying," her essential message would be lost in the uproar. Why didn't she write "exploiting"? It would have made her point just as well.

I think many conservatives would agree with this.
We generally share and support Ann's position on these women but think some her language is unecessarily inflamatory.

However, I'm not sure if the end result has been that her message has been "lost in the uproar".

I think the controversy brought more attention to what she was trying to say, in the end, through liberal media outlets that otherwise would have ignored her.

20 posted on 07/02/2006 8:44:06 AM PDT by Jorge
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