"I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much."Video-WMP Video-QT (low res)
LAUER: On the 9-11 widows, an in particular a group that had been critical of the administration:" These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing bush was part of the closure process."
And this part is the part I really need to talk to you about:
"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much."
Because they dare to speak out?
COULTER: To speak out using the fact they are widows. This is the left's doctrine of infallibility. If they have a point to make about the 9-11 commission, about how to fight the war on terrorism, how about sending in somebody we are allowed to respond to> No-No-No. We always have to respond to someone who just had a family member die--
LAUER: But aren't they in the middle of the story?...
COULTER: ...Because then if we respond, oh you are questioning their authenticity. No, the story is...
LAUER: So grieve but grieve quietly?
LAUER: What I’m saying is I don’t think they have ever told you, you can't respond.
COULTER: Look, you are getting testy with me.
LAUER: So if you lose a husband, you no longer have the right to have a political point of view?
COULTER: No, but don't use the fact that you lost a husband as the basis for being able to talk about, while preventing people from responding. Let Matt Lauer make the point. Let Bill Clinton make the point. Don't put up someone I am not allowed to respond to without questioning the authenticity of their grief.
LAUER: Well apparently you are allowed to respond to them.
COULTER: Yeah, I did.
LAUER: So, in other words.
COULTER: That is the point of liberal infallibility. Of putting up Cindy Sheehan, of putting out these widows, of putting out Joe Wilson. No, no, no. You can't respond. It's their doctrine of infallibility. Have someone else make the argument then.
LAUER: What I'm saying is I don't think they have ever told you, you can't respond.
COULTER: Look, you are getting testy with me.
LAUER: No. I think it's a dramatic statement. "These broads are millionaires stalked by stalked by grief-parazzies"? "I have never seen people enjoying their husband's deaths so much"?
COULTER: Yes, they are all over the news.
To this the 9-11 Widows have responded to Coulter.
We did not choose to become widowed on September 11, 2001. The attack, which tore our families apart and destroyed our former lives, caused us to ask some serious questions regarding the systems that our country has in place to protect its citizens. Through our constant research, we came to learn how the protocols were supposed to have worked. Thus, we asked for an independent commission to investigate the loopholes which obviously existed and allowed us to be so utterly vulnerable to terrorists. Our only motivation ever was to make our Nation safer. Could we learn from this tragedy so that it would not be repeated?
We are forced to respond to Ms. Coulter's accusations to set the record straight because we have been slandered.
Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive. There was no happiness in telling our children that their fathers were never coming home again. We adored these men and miss them every day...
And you know you've acted like an idiot in public when Kathy Griffin comes after you.
Comedian Kathy Griffin comments on Coulter's appearance on the TODAY Show.
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Kathy: I'd like to go after Ann Coulter, I saw that nut-bag on the show earlier. What's she doing wearing a cocktail dress at seven in the morning. She got home from the party last night. Doesn't she just make stuff up Al? Who fact checks? You can't just let Ann Coulter...
What I find most galling is the blatant hypocrisy of Coulter's position, never mind it's crass and basic meanness to the 9-11 widows.
According to her Jack Murtha should shut the hell up about wars and military matters because as a 30 plus year Marine vet he knows what he's talking about - therefore we should only have uninterested and uninformed third parties do the talking. (Like herself) It's not fair because no one can criticize Murtha - cuz, y'know- like no one in their right mind has ever tried.
Similarly no one could possibly criticize someone like Cindy Sheehan for her views on the war. Whenever she speaks on the subject, everyone else just gets quiet. They wouldn't ever do anything like arrest her for standing outside of a government building, or for wearing an anti-war T-Shirt.
And it's not like the reich-wing has any "unassailable" spokespersons that they've trotted out at the drop of a hat, like say any veteran, soldier or one of their family members who continues to supports the war. Or, like y'know, John O'Neill and the Smearboat Vets, who Coulter's good friend (with benefits) Sean Hannity constantly defends and will insult anyone who even suggests that these "fine men" just might be a bunch of fucking L.I.A.R.S.
Naw, nothing like that ever happens.
Vyan
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