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.
So Bush deserved being publicly called a drunk by your heroine? Even though she luuuuvvvs him so much?
No she posed it as a rhetorical question, not a statement.
About as well as Ann's boycott will. LOL
She has no abdominal muscles. She has no muscles at all, except in whichever hand holds a wine glass, and whichever fingers she uses to grip a cigarette. She's just emaciated.
LMAO...okay you're convinced anyway. Have fun.
ROFL!
Have those women been out partying shortly after their husbands were dead? And what slutty clothing?
I can't believe I'm even attempting to defend these women because I despise them, but I will say until we've lost a spouse in such a sudden and shocking manner, none of us knows how we'd react. And I have no way of knowing if what you've said is true.
I'm certainly not boycotting, nor am I friends with the Jersey Girls, and if you could read you'd see what I said about them upthread a few times.
But hey, certainly don't let the facts get in the way of your agenda.
"Coulter's vicious characterizations and remarks are motivated by greed and her desire to sell books".
I guise they must be psychic to know what goes on in Ann's mind -- as to her motivations.
"By making these claims, she proved herself worse than those she is attempting to vilify..."
If you disagree with 'these claims' -- as you call them --why don't you show us why they're untenable rather then making untenable(psychic)claims of your own?
"She is a leach trying to turn a profit off perverting the suffering of others, the two assemblywomen said in a statement."
Maybe Ann just enjoys seeing how high you can jump; when she puts the fire to your feet?
The good assemblywomen sure got there panties twisted in a not over this one, didn't they?
Schadenfreude!
Good comments.
You said it! Ann is beating them up.
"And what slutty clothing? "
Yes slutty clothes.
And on the cover of one of the New York mags.
TYPO ALERT:
I "guess" they must be psychic: NOT I "guise" they must be psychic.
You remind me of TLBSHOW (also known as TUBBYSLOW), a loud, obnoxious poster of about four years ago, who defended Bones with the same bullying bravado as you do.
Turns out, he was a mental patient who was eventually shown the door.
Nope. Missed it.
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