June 7, 2006, 9:54AM Ann Coulter says 9-11 widows 'enjoying husbands' deaths' By ADAM LISBERG New York Daily News 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 Tuesday 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. "I don't know how any person could say such things." In Godless: The Church of Liberalism, the uncompromisingly right-wing Coulter writes the Jersey Girls have no right to criticize President George W. 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 Tuesday. "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 New York 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?" 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, put her on the cover of Time magazine — and made her a talking head on the TV cable news circuit. She's made big bucks in the process, buying a $1.5 million condo on the upper East Side and a $1.8 million home in Palm Beach, Fla. 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-Long Island. "It seems that she's just full of anger and hate," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-Manhattan, who held a news conference Tuesday 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." Sick Twisted Fool http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/3946498.html So being a sick and twisted b**** is a profitable enterprise? We're seeing the bitter end of our nightmare of so-called "conservativism," that has so damaged the nation. Going down in manianical babbling idiocy. Unbelievable. Keep D&D Civil.
i didnt read this entire thread. i read the last post. i always posted about how i would like to tap that hag with a brown paperbag over my head. but this lady is an *******. for real. i know she has a book to sell or whatever, but what a jackass. i'm not exactly liberal, or even conservative, hell i'm still trying to figure out where i stand, but if i was righty, i sure as hell would hate to be grouped with her. i'm going to read this thread now.
Okay, I just read this entire thread. it's 3:30, i should be sleeping. that's 25 minutes of my life wasted. I'm suppose to die at 72 years of age or something. I can't remember. let me sum it up the best way i can remember. ann wants to do terroristic acts on americans like clinton, and some other political heads. she has a book to pimp, and what a better way by acting like an ass. and then some random new poster who has been identified by harrisment as Nomar comes in and uses a word, like just got it in scrabble, goes to dictionary dot com, highlights some words, control c, come to the Houston Rockets Fan Message Board's debate discuss and deny your opinion forum and control v some crap. um. she's embarassing if you are a winger to the right. my peepee hurts.
Remember how regularly Bush and the Republicans get pilloried for politicizing 9/11? That's the entire agenda of these women. Coulter is in bad taste but you can't just dismiss her point.
Yet Coulter is also politicizing 9/11 with her broad accusations. Has any widow written tell all books about 9/11 or their husbands?
What an idiotic thing to say. You're right giddy! How dare they demand justice for their loved one's death and demand answers to how it happened? Do you really think they welcomed this to happen to them?
Just imagine if everyone whose loved one died in conflict took this position? How are they "demanding justice?" They've taken a national tragedy and comandeered it to a personal sphere.
I'm not criticizing anybody for politicizing 9/11. I think it is a natural course of action. Ask others about that-- specifically the ones who lambast Bush and extoll these widows for doing the same.
That national tragedy was about as personal as it gets for them. It killed their husbands. They are more directly affected by terrorism, than I am, or you are, or Ann Coulter. It was personal the moment that the incident took their spouses.
Well, of course, but the focus remains on the national aspect of the tragedy. I can respect that people deal with their own profound loss in different ways but that doesn't mean that we have to participate. Why these four? What about the other few thousand? and the tens, no hundreds, of thousands from previous conflicts?
They are all free to speak out as well. And when they do they don't deserve to be called harpies, and say that they are enjoying the death of their loved ones. Having their husbands die in a terrorist attack might spark their interest and participation in events related to that. It isn't unnatural, and it isn't wrong.
They are demanding justice by holding the administration accountable to implement the recommendations of the 911 commission. Which by the way still hasn't been done.
So last night I was at Philly Connection picking up a Mushroom Cheesesteak Artery-Buster and they had the O'Reilly Factor on. Bill O'Reilly was talking about how Ann Coulter had gone way too far. That, yes, there were pundits on the left who make sickening comments like this, too, but that you shouldn't stoop to that level to make your point. That your point loses its punch when you mask it in personal attacks. I'm thinking when Bill O'Reilly is trying to distance himself from you because of the lack of respect you show for other people...and your conservative...you might want to re-think your position. By the way Dems...you should be celebrating this stuff. I can't tell you how many people I know who previously have identified themselves as Republicans now tell me they're voting a straight Dem ticket in upcoming elections. I realize that's antecdotal stuff. A lot of these people are crazy Jesus freaks like me. But Coulter only further creates the impression of, "wow..we were duped. there is zero compassion here." Having said that...I don't expect the people I vote for, no matter their party affiliation, to do anything other than disappoint me.
It has nothing to do with fair treatment or due reward for their husband's killers. Isn't that what justice is? Where does this idea that they can hound the US government into an explanation get morphed into justice?
Exactly, the government for the people and by the people should NEVER have to give the people an explaination about decisions that they make. How stupid and insensitive are these women to question anything? I mean, they only lost their loved ones, its time to suck it up.
