In all the hoopla over her language, a point she should have made about the "widows" gets lost, again.
There were presumably well over 1000 9/11 widows. The media latched onto these four as the "official representatives" of the entire group. As far as I know, the others were not asked if they agreed or approved of these four as their reps.
This happens all the time. Back during the days of apartheid I remember the press invariably hauling out old Bishop Tutu as the official representative of black South Africans. Who elected him to that post?
Angry feminists are routinely portrayed as the voice of "American women," most of whom disagree strongly with their spokeswomen.
The list could go on for a very long time.
That's the problem with what Ann said about those four widows -enjoying their husbands deaths- and the very reason she should have avoided saying it.