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To: Steve Van Doorn
Here's one.

Headline: "Coulter Draws Fire for Bashing 9/11 Widows"

Body: "In her latest book, Coulter criticizes the four New Jersey widows who pushed for an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed their husbands at the World Trade Center. The women also backed Democrat John Kerry's presidential candidacy in 2004."

Now based upon the headline Ann Coulter might try to call it libel, but if you read the actual article it specifies that it was a group of widows, not the whole bunch of them.

The "Jersey Widows" appellation hasn't caught on, "Jersey Girls" is demeaning and also hasn't caught on. Most people think of these women as 9/11 widows. Since most people think of them as 9/11 widows (albeit politically active ones) and since they are 9/11 widows, Ann Coulter doesn't really have much reason to complain besides the fact that it will boost book sales (if I were her I'd be going after the spotlight as well, just financial commonsense).

83 posted on 06/17/2006 9:47:50 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: ahayes
Is this the article? (Excerpt)

WASHINGTON - Ann Coulter, the conservative pundit with a penchant for creating controversy, caused a ruckus when she called 9/11 widows “witches” and accused them of using their husbands’ deaths for their own political gain.

It is just the latest of the high-emotion, sharp-rhetoric attacks that she has leveled in four previous books and frequent appearances on cable television programs. Her firebrand style even inspired NBC’s “The West Wing” to create a “a blond, Republican sex kitten” in her mold.

In her latest book, Coulter criticizes the four New Jersey widows who pushed for an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed their husbands at the World Trade Center. The women also backed Democrat John Kerry’s presidential candidacy in 2004.

94 posted on 06/17/2006 9:54:37 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: ahayes

Ann sure has her readership nailed.


98 posted on 06/17/2006 9:56:39 AM PDT by edsheppa
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To: ahayes
I don’t agree with this type of reporting either but it is a little different issue.

Here is an exaggeration of why I don’t agree with this type of reporting.

Head line:
”THE SUN IS GOING TO GO NOVA… THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!”

Body: “In a few billion years…”

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104 posted on 06/17/2006 10:01:40 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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To: ahayes
I haven't read the Newsweek article in question, but your inclusion of an article in Forbes (which I generally perceive as a more objective publication) does not prove Newsweek was similarly honest.
121 posted on 06/17/2006 10:13:21 AM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( Terrorism is a symptom, ISLAM IS THE DISEASE!)
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