The 'LIE' is that NewsWeek implies that Ann Coulter said to the effect that 9/11 Widows in general were guilty of acting like media whores and opportunizing on their husbands deaths . . .
Ann Coulter was only describing these four Jersey Girls !
Ok, I get it now, sorry.
I doubt she could sue them, though, because the Jersery Girls ARE "911 widows."
AND it's a lie that is repeated frequently, even on FR. Note the responses you're getting to this article. She spoke the absolute truth about the Jersey Girls and everyone, even some Freepers, are determined to twist it into something it's not.
Exactly. The news media distort facts frequently by exaggeration and overstatement, particularly in headlines. As Coutler says, "you can't deal with the facts and you refuse to say what the argument is."
The argument is that four widows used their status as objects of pity to get media attention for their cause of getting the government to increase a payout of around $1.4 million (the other hundreds of widows didn't complain loudly in public about this meager amount of money), and to give support to Democrats.
There is a fallacy in logic called argumentum ad misericordiam. It is an appeal to pity to persuade people that your argument is correct. The media feeds on emotion, and Democrats feed on tears. These four widows were pity-pimping.
If Coulter had pointed this out in a quiet manner, she would never have gotten any media attention. So she says it loud. She knows that the media can then portray her as a mean-spirited conservative. It worked. She has the #1 selling book in the country.