Coulter and the Witches
Godless: The Church of Liberalism is Ann Coulter’s new book. It’s just been released and the fur is flying. Ann had the temerity to say nasty things about the “saints” of 9/11, the Jersey Girls and their ilk. You know the folks I mean, the ones anointed by the Old Media as holy because their relatives were murdered on September 11.
The right has leapt on Coulter’s comments like rabid wombats. She has been denounced from every conservative pulpit there is.
I don’t like Ann Coulter. She, like Rush and Sean, tend to go just a little overboard. OK, a lot overboard, and occasionally just for the effect.
But, in this case she has a point.
About three thousand people were murdered on September 11, 2001. Some of those people were heroes. Most were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Somehow, the horrors of that day, and America’s big heart, have allowed the victims and their families to assume a place disproportionate to reality. Being murdered at your desk, while you’re eating a bagel is terrible. Shouldn’t happen. But it does not make you a hero, nor entitle your survivors to any exalted status.
The Jersey Girls have been used by the Old Media as a club to beat George Bush and his administration. Avowed opponents of the President before 9/11, they have been anointed as “spokespersons” for the “families”, and people whose opinions carry greater weight than others on the issues surrounding the events of that day. In truth, they are four women with a political agenda that the media agrees with. They are four women who have no shame in using their artificial status as experts on 9/11 and their true status as grieving relatives in order to advance their left-wing agenda.
Cindy Sheehan being photographed by a fashion magazine while laying on her son’s grave was in poor taste. The Jersey Girls’ activities are often in poor taste. Ann Coulter may be in poor taste but look at the material she has to work with.
The comment has been made that we on the right would be up in arms if Ted Rall said something similar about a Gold Star mom. Folks, a Gold Star mom lost a child who volunteered to defend our country. They weren’t killed sitting at their desk eating a bagel. As for the family members who support the President, I would believe their actions in poor taste if they behaved like the Jersey Girls.
You may pity, empathize, sympathize with Cindy Sheehan, the Jersey Girls and the thousands of others who have a loved one die in war ot be murdered. But that grief they feel does not make them anything but grieving. They are not spokespeople for anyone else. They are not symbols. They are not saints.
I do not believe Ann Coulter mocks their grief. I certainly do not. But I am NOT being hateful to point out that using grief to further a pre-existing agenda is in poor taste and shameful. Nineteen Muslim men committed the murders on September 11, not George Bush. The people Ann Coulter lashes out at deserve a public rebuke, deserve to be held up to public scrutiny. The events of 9/11 do not give them immunity, only sympathy.
So “using grief to further a pre-existing agenda is in poor taste and shameful”? We ALL do that. W did it to invade Iraq, the Dems have been using the war dead to take control of the government, and of course where do you think homeland security came from. After all, isn’t using our grief what Ann is doing in this book too?
I heard what Ann said on the Sean Hannity show. She was spot on. If Hillary wants women to be treated better, she should start with her husband. This man rapes, beats and cheats on women. If Hillary was really a champion of women, she should publicly condemn her husband.
Ann Coulter is only one voice to counter the shrill chorus of left wing nuts like Frankin, Baldwin, Sheen and others.
[...] The Anchoress received a great email from Chuck at Americas North Shore Journal that she posted: The idea that, by having been present and murdered on 9/11, you have become a hero, or that your family is entitled to special recognition, has become a mantra for some of the families. Fate, or chance or whatever you call it, placed nearly all of the dead where they were on that day. It’s wonderful that a generous nation provided so much for the survivors but in doing so the quaint notion that because your loved one died on September 11 you are now the sole source of memory and decision making with regard to all of the many issues that surround the event of that day developed. [...]
CRITICIZING THE “JERSEY GIRLS”
You’ve read the story of the day, all day, on Drudge: Ann Coulter is antagonizing the Left with her comments about the liberal 9/11 widows known as “The Jersey Girls.” Hillary Clinton is going ape. TV producers of all partisan…