RIGHTY WRITER COULTER HURLS NASTY GIBES AT 9/11 GALS [the "Godless" counter-attack begins]

New York Post ^ | 6/7/06 | NILES LATHEM

[RonDog]

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June 7, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Conservative rabble-rouser Ann Coulter created an uproar among 9/11 victims' families yesterday after she charged in her new book that a group of "self-obsessed" politically active widows are enjoying their husbands' deaths.

The razor-tongued blond polemicist made unflattering remarks about the high-profile widows who liked to call themselves the "Jersey girls." In Coulter's latest book, "Godless," she calls them "harpies" and the "Witches of East Brunswick."

[RonDog]

And so it begins...

...the COUNTER-ATTACK on Ann's new book, "Godless" -- just as she predicted, in that book! :o)

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Cat fight! Popcorn? This is gonna be good.

[highlander_UW]

In Coulter's latest book, "Godless," she calls them "harpies" and the "Witches of East Brunswick."

I'll have to write Ann and tell her she missed "ghoulish".

[LS]

And she's right. I'm sick of the double-standard by which THOUSANDS of veterans and/or returning veterans and their families are ignored for the ONE harpie, Cindy Sheehan and the unbalanced Jack Murtha, yet these 9/11 witches have the media's complete attention any time they want to level a charge against Bush. Enough.

[Puppage]

[stopem]

The part about the 9-11 widows is certainly getting the book attention. She has a point tho, but I guess it was the Ann way of voicing it that disturbed people, quite frankly I see her point and agree.

[Americanexpat]

I thought pretty much the same about these 9/11 widows myself back before the elections and haven´t changed my mind much since.

[freedumb2003]

I watched Ann on TV last night. One important point she made was that the 9/11 Widows essentially used their status as a 100% shield. If you attack their position they say "you can't say anything bad about me, I'm a 9/11 Widow (ala Sheehan)."

[Tax-chick]

There's no such thing as bad publicity, if you're trying to sell books. Go Ann!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"In Coulter's latest book, "Godless," she calls them "harpies" and the "Witches of East Brunswick.""

Yeah, the Kleinbergs. Alan was a nice guy. Good kids. Why his wife did this is beyond me.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Hummina, hummina, hummina...

[Jameison]

"I'll have to write Ann and tell her she missed "ghoulish"."

Yep.
The behavior of some of these 9/11 widows has been nothing short of disgraceful.
Here in New York, we had one widow of a 9/11 fireman, blatantly steal the fireman husband of her best pal.
Guy was ostensibly "comforting" the widow over the death of her husband.


Umm..."one thing led to another" and next thing anyone knew they were doing it with wild abandon.

[Huck]

rabble-rouser Ann Coulter created an uproar

Rabble-rouser creates an uproar? Sounds like a dog bites man story to me. She's getting the ink she needs to sell books. I'm sure she's happy with the splash she made, and very happy to have been on the Today show. You can't buy that kind of publicity.

ps--rd, i remember you from the davy crockett research project a few years back. what up, dog?

[Huck]

There's no such thing as bad publicity, if you're trying to sell books. Go Ann!

Very pithy, and right on the money. Ann scores a direct hit.

[Jameison]

"One important point she made was that the 9/11 Widows essentially used their status as a 100% shield. If you attack their position they say "you can't say anything bad about me, I'm a 9/11 Widow (ala Sheehan)"

Exactly.
The point being, if you were essentially a "bad" woman before 9/11, you were still a "bad" woman after 9/11.
You don't suddenly develop wings just because you are a widow.

[RonDog]

See also, from www.nydailynews.com:

Massive chip on her Coulter

Ann's vicious screed

BY ADAM LISBERG
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

One of the controversial excerpts from Ann Coulter's new book 'Godless': 'These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them.'

When their husbands were killed on 9/11, four New Jersey widows tried to find out why - and now no-holds-barred conservative pundit Ann Coulter is mercilessly denouncing them as "witches."

"I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," Coulter writes in her new book.

Her brutal words were challenged yesterday on national television by "Today" host Matt Lauer - and she was slammed by the widows she derided as self-absorbed, limelight-seeking "harpies."

"I'd like her to meet my daughter and tell her how anyone could enjoy their father's death," said Kristen Breitweiser, one of four widows known as the "Jersey Girls."

"She sounds like a very disturbed, unraveled person," added Breitweiser.

In "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," the uncompromisingly right-wing Coulter writes the Jersey Girls have no right to criticize President Bush or any of the failures that led to the terror attacks.

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis," Coulter writes.

"And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy. . .

"These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."

Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza bonded after their husbands died on 9/11, leaving them with seven children and a desire for answers.

They pushed to create the 9/11 commission, which put out a scathing report criticizing the Clinton and Bush administrations for not taking the terrorist threat more seriously - and found New York's emergency response system wasn't prepared for a serious attack.

"Our ports have not been secured. Our borders have not been secured. We still haven't caught [Osama] Bin Laden," Van Auken said yesterday. "She's not even talking about what we were talking about. She's just attacking."

The Jersey Girls - or, as Coulter calls them, "the Witches of East Brunswick" - have been criticized before, but never like this. Van Auken told the Daily News she was stunned by the vitriol.

"Having my husband burn alive in a building brought me no joy," she said. "Watching it unfold on national TV and .seeing it repeated endlessly was beyond what I could describe. Telling my children they would never see their father again was not fun. And we had no plans to divorce."

When Lauer grilled Coulter about the book, she yelled at him so harshly that gasps echoed through Rockefeller Center - and then she made a wisecrack about CBS-bound former host Katie Couric.

"If you lose a husband, you no longer have the right to have a political point of view?" Lauer asked.

As the exchange grew tense, Coulter said, "Look, you're getting testy with me."

She later added: "Hey, where's Katie? Did she leave or something?"

Last night, Coulter didn't back down from bashing the 9/11 widows. "These women got paid. They ought to take their money and shut up about it," Coulter said on MSNBC's "The Situation with Tucker Carlson."

Coulter made headlines in the past when she called for blowing up The New York Times Building, advocated forcing Muslims to become Christians and wrote an entire book that said every American liberal is guilty of treason.

Her controversial writings have made her a best-selling .author and syndicated columnist and put her on the cover of Time magazine. She's made big bucks in the process, buying a $1.5 million condo on the upper East Side.

Politicians of both parties denounced Coulter's comments.

"It's totally inhumane to be saying things like this about people who went through such agony," said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.).

"It seems that she's just full of anger and hate," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan), who held a news conference yesterday with relatives of 9/11 victims on the country's failure to improve security.

"Like an insecure child, it's always been clear that Ann Coulter is prepared to do anything to get attention," added Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens). "This is a new low."

With Michael McAuliff in Washington
and Derek Rose

[Raycpa]

When Murtha raises an "unpopular view" he is commended for having the courage to start the debate.

When Coulter raises an "unpopular view" she is accused of having "created an uproar among 9/11 victims' families".

Murtha comments did create an uproar of the families who have lost members in Iraq or are currently risking their lives there. No Murtha was awarded for his courage to raise the issue.

Double standard isn't strong enough to describe this.

[Betty Jane]

The fact that 3000 people were killed that day, and the only ones who received media attention were the four or five who bashed Bush is telling. Were there not any relatives who agree with the Administration's policy? Weren't there any who disagreed with the President, but want tougher actions?

They Jersey girls are a media creation because they share their left wing views. And only for this reason.

[Bahbah]

Bwahahaha. I just saw a replay of Ann on with Matt Lauer. She gives not an inch, and she is spot on about this coven, by the way.

[Tax-chick]

I should get my copy in the mail any day now!