Defending Ann Coulter - Exposing Hillary's Temper Tantrums

NoDNC.com Commentary ^ | June 8, 2006 | Alan Caruba

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by Alan Caruba
 
Defending Ann Coulter who has come under attack by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) seems an oxymoron. She is the last person who needs to be defended, given the fact that she is a lawyer who presumably can defend herself and possesses a positively frightening intellect and wit.
 
It happens, however, that along with several hundred thousand other people, I have actually read her new book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” I herewith stipulate that I have read her previous books as well. Oddly, while I am constantly entertained by her columns, I am frequently put off by her appearances on television in which she comes off as someone who knows she is the smartest person in the room and makes no pretense about it. A little humility, please!
 
While promoting her book on television, Coulter made reference to a group of New Jersey women whose husbands were killed in the attack on the World Trade Center because, these “Jersey girls”, having received huge compensations for their loss, 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.
 
Following Coulter’s television appearance, on June 7 the two Senators attacked her and her book. Sen. Lautenberg said, “Ms. Coulter’s shameless attack on the victims of the worst act of terrorism in American history engenders disgust.” Sen. Clinton suggested that “Perhaps her book should have been called ‘Heartless’”, and called Coulter’s comments “a vicious, mean-spirited attack on people whom I’ve known over the last four and a half years to be concerned deeply about the safely and security of our country.”
 
Noticeably missing from the 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.” This inconvenient fact was rarely, if ever, mentioned by the media.
 
“Mostly the witches of East Brunswick wanted George Bush to apologize for not being Bill Clinton,” was Coulter’s 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 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 who did the Democrats put on the 9-11 Commission? Jamie Gorelick!
 
Adding to her criticism of the Jersey girls, Coulter wrote, “Needless to say, the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president.” A whole lot of partisanship was going on! The June 8 Associated Press rendition of Sens. Lautenberg’s and Clinton’s comments contained no balancing statements of support for Coulter except to note at the very end, “Coulter’s new book was Amazon.com’s most popular selection last night.”
 
If, at this point, you want to read some vicious, mean-spirited quotes by Sen. Clinton, they and others have been gathered together in a new book, “I’ve Always Been a Yankees Fan”: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words” by Thomas D. Kuiper. In a foreword by Dick Morris, he writes, “Hillary thinks that nobody is keeping track and that her quotes will never catch up with her.”
 
Following her now classic statement that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” had been “conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president”, Hillary reportedly told her aides, “That’ll teach them to f—k with us.” History, of course, would reveal that President Clinton was guilty of having sex in the Oval Office, lying to a federal judge about it, had his membership to the bar dismissed, and, in his final hours as president, engaged in an orgy of very questionable pardons. Et cetera!
 
In a speech to religious leaders in 1997, Hillary said, “I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”
 
The author of “Godless: The Church of Liberalism” does a very good job making her case and if some Jersey girls get a public spanking in the process, so be it.
 
Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, “Warning Signs”, posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com.
 
© Alan Caruba, 2006
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Additional Resources showing the ties to Clinton and 9-11, as well as the media coverup for the cooperation between Iraq, bin Laden, and Terrorism.  This was all known during the Clinton Years:

· How Chinagate Led to 9/11 (Corruption, Treason, Coverup, and media complicity in terrorism)
 · Why the FBI did not stop 9-11 (How Clinton Lawyers ENSURED Terrorist Attacks)
 · 9-11 Congressional Record Challenging Gorelick and Corruption (Did the 9-11 Commission engage in a cover up to protect the Clinton administration?)
 · PROOF that the IRAQ WAR WAS JUSTIFIED (Media hatred of Bush covered up the connections and LIED to the American Public)
 · Media Reports Connect Saddam to 9-11 Plot (How the American Media engages in TREASON to support TERRORISM in the U.S.)
 · U.S. removed nuclear material from Iraq (United States removed nearly two tons of radiological and nuclear materials from Iraq)
 · How the Democrats and the Press have LIED to the Public about Iraq WMD Claims (Their intentional lies have no other purpose but to undermine America)
 · Polish troops find sarin warheads in Iraq (More Evidence of WMDs in Iraq)
 · Sarin, Mustard Gas Discovered Separately in Iraq (Includes Descriptions of Handbood on WMDs)
 · Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties (The National Media Knows this and REFUSES to set the record straight)
 · Saddam, Al Qaeda Did Collaborate, Documents Show (New Documents show 9-11 Commission MISSED Hussein - bin Laden link)
 

[GianniV]

Coulter says a lot of things a lot of us wish we could say. Those "Jersey Girls" were total hacks, cheering during the 9/11 hearings and never once attacking the presence of Gorelick on that commission.

[Rummyfan]

“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.”

Spot-on assessment of the 911 Commission. C'mon, Gorelick and that Clinton-bootlicker Richard Ben Veniste served on the commission. It's an age old tactic: sponsor a commission to get to the bottom of the failures (when you know full well what is the cause of the failures and who is at fault) and let those who were responsible and at fault lead the commission to cover their own butts. And that hack Kean - will he please just go away?

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I pretty much assume now that the more libs scream about an attack the closer to the truth it actually is.

Ann nailed this one. If it were a home run shot hit at PNC Park that ball would be floating down the Allegheny river.

[MikeA]

Did Lautenberg or Hillary utter a peep when liberal U of Colorado professor Ward Churchill was gleefully gloating over the deaths of 9-11 victims and calling them "little Eichmanns?" Funny the media and left wing nuts defended that as an acceptable act of free speech and any who dared attack Churchill were just Nazis trying to trample his free speech rights.

[Redbob]

"...she comes off as someone who knows she is the smartest person in the room and makes no pretense about it. A little humility, please!"

So this writer would prefer that she make pretenses about her intellect?

Ann comes across not so much arrogant as that she is impatient with stupid people and people who make stupid remarks.
So, Alan: How much stupidity SHOULD she tolerate?

[SueRae]

Great post, well worth the read.

[Nightrider]

well, she IS the smartest person in the room, so why should she dither?....ever seen a lib trying to be a wallflower?......

[mbraynard]

I am frequently put off by her appearances on television in which she comes off as someone who knows she is the smartest person in the room and makes no pretense about it.

That is because she is the smartest person in the room. Or planet. Take your pick.

[cousair]

Coulter doesn 't lie about the truth! She nailed the Smartest Woman in the World on this one, and I can't wait for Ann to send it home. Ms. Coulter is one beautiful woman....with very sharp teeth and brain to match. Boy, she is quick!! Alan Colmes makes me want to stick a sock in his mouth every time he opens it. Coulter is so far above his thinking powers she shines in comparison. What a gem!!

[ziggy_dlo]

since the mainly steam morons(MSM) are the democratic arm of info, they will put anything and everything they can to discredit anyone that has anything to do with the truth and what america needs to know.
The demonrats are a criminal organization and cindy and berg need to have a brain implant.

[ichabod1]

I agree with you about the age-old tactic, but I thought actually putting the individual most responsible for the attack ON THE PANEL was the most over the top act I had seen. Now I think the defense of William Jefferson on the grounds that he's immune from search & seizure when he's on the hill might surpass it in brazen-ness, if not in national security import. But then l'affaire Berger was in the top five for brazen-nezz as well.

An aside, am I the only one who, when I hear the name William Jefferson, mentally pause expecting the name Clinton to be appended?

[Smittie]

Bill "the leprechaun" O'Reilly has joined the fray criticizing Ann in his Talking Points as well as others at foxnews.com. He was quoting her out of context like the rest of the liberal vermin.

[i_dont_chat]

Ann Coulter for President!

[planetpatrol]

Spin it anyway you like, Coulter came off like a mean spirited fool on the Today Show, no two ways about it.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Anne's got something a lot more conservatives in Congress need, guts and courage. Her attitude is "go ahead, make my day." Her books are like crosses to the liberal Dracula's.

[ichabod1]

I thought last night O'Reilly was grudgingly respectful of her strong stand. Juan Williams was his usual foolish self, and Karen Henretty, well... let's just say I like her. A lot.

[CGVet58]

bttt

[Jameison]

Meanwhile..Ann is rocking at # 1 on Amazon.
YAAAAY!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/all/ref=pd_ts_b_nav/002-5381736-1241610

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"Did Lautenberg or Hillary utter a peep when liberal U of Colorado professor Ward Churchill was gleefully gloating over the deaths of 9-11 victims and calling them "little Eichmanns?" Funny the media and left wing nuts defended that as an acceptable act of free speech and any who dared attack Churchill were just Nazis trying to trample his free speech rights."

My thoughts exactly BUMP!