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.
Oh, so now it's okay for an opinion writer to state the husbands were planning to leave the wives even when there's no basis for that statement?
I think you'd better reconsider that or forever give up the right to complain about the left when they lie.
From what I understand the newsmedia (NBC, I believe) incorrectly attributed Coulter's remarks as having slammed all the widows of 911. This brought her written statements to the forefront and she then verbally defended what she wrote (which by the way her statements about these professional victims may be sarcastic, but underlines the truth of what they are).
I seriously doubt that the "children" of these four tools of the looney-liberal-left were about to read Coulter's book. Those who choose to buy and read Coulter's book and who also tend to agree with her despite her dripping sarcasm have a legitimate right to do so without you attributing their actions as getting into the gutter. Coulter has a sarcastic combative style. She hasn't changed, only some Freepers opinions changed once Coulter criticized Bush.
Simple as that.
Yep, we can see that.
But libs have no sense of humor, no understanding of history, and abolutely no sense of irony.
Man, looks like she really struck a nerve.
Wonder what else is in that book. ;)
Same difference! These women are using the bodies of their dead husbands as their claim to fame. They don't miss a chance to show up for face time.
Why not just face the truth as it is?
Endorsed John Kerry puts them in the arena. Get used to it ladies. Ann has had much worse hurled her way and laughs it off.
Me too!...Oh wait...I've never bought, nor desired to buy, a Dixie Chicks CD.
Yep. Wonder how many other politicians are going to step into Ann's venus fly trap.
See your post #69. And that's not what I said. What I said is : What about the children of our troops that the left villifies every chance they get?
What have these women said that has hurt their children?
On the other hand, how do you think those kids are going to feel when they hear their father was going to leave their mother? Or that their mother is glad their father is dead?
I'm ashamed of this thread and the sheer ugliness being endorsed here.
Already long ago, the liberals used censorship to try to silence conservative speakers on campus. But let somebody object to a porn book aimed at children, and these same people scream "censorship."
Ah, well that's better then. After all, they're paid to be imbeciles. It would be sad to see people volunteering to spout idiocy for no good reason.
There have been countless opportunities for our side to: (I'm just going to quote jebeier in #46 becasue he summed it up pretty good)
"Get in and attack the Left for using spokesmen who cannot be countered because they are "untouchable".
Coulter is practicing the time-honored technique of finding the biggest bully in a bar and punching him square in the nose. She'll be in for a heck of a fight, but people will give her some room at the bar."
No one has done so until now.
She's a brave soul to go into this "no mans land" knowing she'll be shot at from not only the other side, but by many on our side too.
She's truly a heroine for going where no one has dared to go before.
If anyone is going to but a stop to the Left's dispicable practice, it's going to be Ann. In spite of the many on our side who are trying to stop HER, not the lefties
In any case, I might buy Ms. Coulter's latest work just to annoy liberals like the two New Jersey state legislators who whined about the book.
Just as planned. And she's proving her point in spades in the process.
I just ordered my copy from Amazon. Liberals are on suicide watch.
The comments Ann made on NBC are completely separate from what she wrote in her book.
Dear Joan, Linda and Hillary,
I'm going to go out and buy the book tonight.
Sincerely,
Sauropod.
Then why attack them with comments Coulter has no way of knowing and are just said out of meanness and cruelty?
We get your pov Peach. Let it go man.
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