Posted on 06/08/2006 12:38:21 PM PDT by pissant
TRENTON, N.J. - Commentator Ann Coulter's incendiary words about outspoken 9/11 widows have led two state lawmakers to calls for a boycott of her book in the widows' home state of New Jersey.
Assemblywomen Joan M. Quigley, D-Hudson, and Linda Stender, D-Union, on Thursday called on New Jerseyans to stop buying the book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," and for retailers in the state to stop selling it.
"Coulter's vicious characterizations and remarks are motivated by greed and her desire to sell books. By making these claims, she proved herself worse than those she is attempting to vilify - she is a leach trying to turn a profit off perverting the suffering of others," the two assemblywomen said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for Crown Forum, the publisher of Coulter's book, did not immediately return calls for comment Thursday.
In her new book, Coulter writes that a group of New Jersey widows whose husbands perished in the World Trade Center act "as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."
She also wrote, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."
The comments drew criticism Wednesday from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., who said the book should be called "Heartless," and New York's Republican Gov. George Pataki, who said he was stunned by the remarks.
Coulter appeared Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show and stuck by her stance, saying the women used their grief "to make a political point."
Her criticism was aimed at four New Jersey women she dubbed "The Witches of East Brunswick," after the town where two of them live.
The women - Kristen Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza - have spent the years since the 2001 terror attacks supporting an independent commission to examine government failures before the attack. During the 2004 presidential race, they endorsed Democrat John Kerry.
I don't think that's actually a boycott. I think a boycott would be to refuse to buy a broad range of products to protest a producer's involvement. Boycotting a single product is more like a "refusal to buy."
What! Ann Coulter is an opinion columnist? Thanks for pointing that out - none of us had the slightest idea!
That's very nice, wideawake, but doesn't even come close to answering what part of my post wasn't placed in context.
Ann wrote what she wrote. I explained why I thought it was inappropriate. What other context should there be?
What's her context for writing what she wrote? That she doesn't like the Jersey Girl's ridiculous preening for the media? She has no way of knowing whether the things she said about their husbands being ready to divorce them is true.
Nice to know you'll stand up for someone on our side telling lies. As long as it's someone on our side, right?
Hurt the children? They WILLINGLY climbed up on their husbands caskets to use them as a soapbox the same as Cindy Sheehan did. These women should have thought of their children before they chose to be leftisit activists. And they certainly don't care if what they say hurts the children of anyone. Evidently including theirs. They thought they could spew anything and then hide behind their "widow" tag. The same as the "bereaved Mom". Using the death of a family member may be convenient but it's also tacky. And classless.
I think so. After a million hardcovers are already sold.
I wonder what Quigley and Stender look like.
Unless their ears are offended.
I call for BOYCOTT OF DIXIE CHICKS.
I hadn't heard this one. LOL
I've heard that she lives on coffee and cigarettes, which I tend to believe.
I think this should spread accross the country. LOL
ROFL. Interesting coming from someone who doesn't ping the freeper he is talking about and stands for an author who likely is lying, and knows she's lying when she says the husbands were ready to divorce the Jersey Girls.
Hugh Hewitt called the comments disgusting and it's still on his web site.
Yep, it sure does. Makes for a lousy movie though.
Which makes the actions of their Mothers in the Bush Delirium Syndrome soap opera even more contemptible.
No, mainly the elected crooks.
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