[Chi-townChief]

I think these women started out sincerely enough and then they smelled money and fame and were co-opted by the lefties.

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGOLAND PING

[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!

[bray]

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

[mtbopfuyn]

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.

[pgkdan]

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.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"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.

[pgkdan]

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.

[Racer1]

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.

[Chi-townChief]

Almost forgot the rules ...

[irv]

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.

[calex59]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[JennysCool]

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.

[Jabba the Nutt]

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.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"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.

[Jorge]

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.

[L.N. Smithee]

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.

Amen, bro.

[alecqss]

Jersey Girls are enjoying their husbands death. Could this statement be taken as an offense?

Yes.

But, do they enjoy? Is it true?

Yes.
It takes a huge "outrage" not to see that the husbands' death gives JG what nothing else can for the excitement: a visibility and a shield for their political actions.

[goldstategop]

I'm so amused Lefties like Michael Bowers get hung up over word plays and then dismiss Ann Coulter as stupid. They don't get what she really says cause they're too full of hate and rage to understand. Extreme statements are usually of a satirical nature. Nothing in new in that but the Left takes everything said on the Right literally. The funny thing is the same people so quick to take offense are the same people who go about offending others on a daily basis. As it turns out, the irony of that conduct is lost upon them too.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Kristin Breitweiser, chief of the four, says: "We simply wanted to know why our husbands were killed. Why they went to work one day and didn't come back."

And this involves being flown around the country for free, staying in nice hotels for free, and being treated like celebrities by people that most of us wouldn't be caught dead with? If Kristin's statements had an iota of truth, she'd be writing congressmen and meeting with government officials instead of being wined and dined by DNC underlings and giving speeches in front of recruited audiences that ooh and ahh over every word of hate for their country.