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.
"Why not just face the truth as it is?"
Does this mean that YOU think these 4 women enyoy/ed the fact of the death of their hubbies?
Or do you think that they are enjoying the FRUIT of the deaths?
which is your truth?
She's not wrong. Peach is entitled to her opinion, just as you are to yours.
To borrow a phrase from your post "Do you think you're infallible"?
"If Ann hadn't said something about the Jersey Girls, the LSM would have focused on some other out of context phrase or statement."
You have a point. I just imagine that her time with Matt Lauer, for example, on a show that millions watch, would have more effectively been spent talking about "godlessness," which is a pretty controversial topic in itself.
The press is all for banning conservative speech. that's what commies do.
That's not what she said and the exact quote is all over this thread. What you're stating is what the MSM said that she said.
They don't have minds to reason with or win. Liberals are the enemy. We no longer have common ground with them. They only desire to destroy our country. You follow?
Nonsense. What devotion do you see on display from these women?
I believe she knows what she was doing. And she knew the reaction it would cause.
How do you think President Bush felt when Bones called for his impeachment and suggested he had gone back to drinking again?
Coulter shouldn't treat these women any different than she treats other liberals, if you ask me they got off easy.
Just because they suffered something (an untimely death of a loved one) all of us have, she's supposed to play nice?
In light of previous such commmentary...I'd say he felt like he had a MAJOR problem on his hands.
"She's sounding more and more like the conservative version of Michael Moore and his ilk"
Not even close.
That's called the perfect boycott.
LOL. You're assuming that Bush even reads Coulter's columns or was even aware that she made such a statement.
If the President never said anything about the criticism from the Joisey Gals, Michael Moore, the NYC Democrat and hundreds of other anti-Bush comments made throughout his term by various leftists, what makes you think he's going to feel hurt from Coulter's remarks?
I beat you by years. Kitty Kelley pissed me off years earlier when she trashed the Reagan's when she penned that unauthorized bio of Nancy. So in answer to your qestion: Yes, Kitty Kelley has been offending me for years. What this has to do with the subject at hand, I have no idea.
What Ann said is way less inflammatory than Craig Kilborn's "Sniper's Wanted" photo of Bush or the NYC Democrat talking about putting a bullet between Bush's eyes.
That's like saying that Charlie Manson is a better person than Jeffery Dahmer because he didn't eat his victims. Killborn was way out of line, that's not even in question. However, it doesn't matter how aggregious Killborn's offense is at the moment, as he's not the topic of discussion.
"Wideawake is completely correct. Placing a quotation in context means reading it in its proper place, in the midst of its surrounding material."
OK, now we're getting somewhere. There apparently is a context in which some of those quotes would be proper. We're having a discussion. I've seen the quotes. I'm told there is a proper context by people who've presumably read it, because they speak with great authority. I asked what the context was. I'm told I need to buy the book. Is that the way it has to be? I can't just have a discussion and get information from people who know what the context is?
That's Coulter ENTIRE POINT! The libs can't control the dissemination of information anymore so they've resorted to using messengers that you aren't suppose to be able to engage in debate!
Ann took their tactic and shoved it up their poop chute!
Nah. He probably took it in the same way he took the criticism of the Jersey Girls.
Those here who are defending Coulter on the premise that she's concerned about Bush's feelings need to know that she couldn't care less about Bush's feelings.
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