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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I think the idea they are "enjoying" their husbands' deaths is spot on too!
The murder plan was allowed to be formed on BJ's watch.
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.
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.
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.
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!
My verdict: Gutless girly man trying to boost his own "self-esteem" by piling on the so-much-more-famous blonde.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While Ann Coulter's point was dead-on, she did choose her words poorly.
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.
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