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NJ assemblywomen call for boycott of new Coulter book
Phillyburbs/AP ^ | 6/8/06 | staff

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
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To: pissant

I don't think that's actually a boycott. I think a boycott would be to refuse to buy a broad range of products to protest a producer's involvement. Boycotting a single product is more like a "refusal to buy."


101 posted on 06/08/2006 1:16:19 PM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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To: Peach
Ann has no way of knowing if those things she said about the women and their husbands is true.

What! Ann Coulter is an opinion columnist? Thanks for pointing that out - none of us had the slightest idea!

102 posted on 06/08/2006 1:16:22 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

That's very nice, wideawake, but doesn't even come close to answering what part of my post wasn't placed in context.

Ann wrote what she wrote. I explained why I thought it was inappropriate. What other context should there be?

What's her context for writing what she wrote? That she doesn't like the Jersey Girl's ridiculous preening for the media? She has no way of knowing whether the things she said about their husbands being ready to divorce them is true.

Nice to know you'll stand up for someone on our side telling lies. As long as it's someone on our side, right?


103 posted on 06/08/2006 1:16:25 PM PDT by Peach (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: pissant
"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.

would you call that an adhomimum personal attack?
104 posted on 06/08/2006 1:16:47 PM PDT by street_lawyer (Conservative Defender of the Faith)
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To: Peach
So now you want to get into the gutter with the left and hurt children? No thanks.

Hurt the children? They WILLINGLY climbed up on their husbands caskets to use them as a soapbox the same as Cindy Sheehan did. These women should have thought of their children before they chose to be leftisit activists. And they certainly don't care if what they say hurts the children of anyone. Evidently including theirs. They thought they could spew anything and then hide behind their "widow" tag. The same as the "bereaved Mom". Using the death of a family member may be convenient but it's also tacky. And classless.

105 posted on 06/08/2006 1:16:57 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: pogo101

I think so. After a million hardcovers are already sold.


106 posted on 06/08/2006 1:17:00 PM PDT by pissant
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Was the foreword to the book written by Karl Rove?

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107 posted on 06/08/2006 1:17:09 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: Zeppo

I wonder what Quigley and Stender look like.


108 posted on 06/08/2006 1:17:42 PM PDT by pissant
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To: tongue-tied

Unless their ears are offended.


109 posted on 06/08/2006 1:18:19 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Kenny Bunkport

I call for BOYCOTT OF DIXIE CHICKS.


110 posted on 06/08/2006 1:18:29 PM PDT by JFC (Land of the FREE because of our BRAVE)
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To: pissant
or for that matter Coulter being a desparate transvestite.

I hadn't heard this one. LOL

I've heard that she lives on coffee and cigarettes, which I tend to believe.

112 posted on 06/08/2006 1:18:46 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I think this should spread accross the country. LOL


113 posted on 06/08/2006 1:18:49 PM PDT by pissant
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To: wideawake

ROFL. Interesting coming from someone who doesn't ping the freeper he is talking about and stands for an author who likely is lying, and knows she's lying when she says the husbands were ready to divorce the Jersey Girls.


114 posted on 06/08/2006 1:18:53 PM PDT by Peach (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Hugh Hewitt called the comments disgusting and it's still on his web site.


115 posted on 06/08/2006 1:19:21 PM PDT by Peach (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: formercalifornian

Yep, it sure does. Makes for a lousy movie though.


116 posted on 06/08/2006 1:19:26 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

:)


117 posted on 06/08/2006 1:19:41 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: Peach
I detest the Jersey Girls and everything they stand for, but they have children

Which makes the actions of their Mothers in the Bush Delirium Syndrome soap opera even more contemptible.

118 posted on 06/08/2006 1:19:58 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: BelegStrongbow

No, mainly the elected crooks.


119 posted on 06/08/2006 1:20:05 PM PDT by pissant
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To: wideawake
The Jersey girls have been smearing the President as a murderer, slandering the US and our war effort for 4 years, they can dish it out for sure, so I'm sure they can take it!

As can Coulter.

Lectures by the sniveling most likely fall on Coulter's deaf ears.

Thank god.
120 posted on 06/08/2006 1:20:10 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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