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Confirmed: Coulter is an idiot.
Coulter calls 9/11 widows "witches"
By Claudia Parsons
Conservative author Ann Coulter sparked a storm on Wednesday after describing a group of September 11 widows who backed the Democratic Party as millionaire "witches" reveling in their status as celebrities.
"I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," Coulter writes in her book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," published on Tuesday, referring to four women who headed a campaign that resulted in the creation of the September 11 Commission that investigated the hijacked plane attacks.
Coulter wrote that the women were millionaires as a result of compensation settlements and were "reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis."
A spokeswoman for publisher Crown Forum said it had set a first print run of 1 million copies of "Godless" and there were 1.5 million copies of Coulter's previous four books in print.
The four women, Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie Van Auken, declined to discuss the book in detail but issued a statement saying they had been slandered.
"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," said the statement signed by the four, along with a fifth woman, Monica Gabrielle.
The four women, who live in or around East Brunswick, New Jersey, became friends after September 11 and formed a group that agitated for the investigation. "Our only motivation ever was to make our nation safer," they said.
Coulter, whose books include the bestseller "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," argues in the new book the women she dubs "the Witches of East Brunswick" wanted to blame President George W. Bush for not preventing the attacks.
She criticized them for making a campaign advertisement for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry in 2004, and added: "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."
PERSONAL ATTACKS
Asked by Reuters why she made such personal comments, Coulter said by e-mail, "I am tired of victims being used as billboards for untenable liberal political beliefs."
"A lot of Americans have been seething over the inanities of these professional victims for some time," she added.
Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg (news, bio, voting record) of New Jersey said Coulter's "shameless attack" on the widows sparked disgust. "Her bookselling antics and accompanying vulgarity deserve our deepest contempt," he said in a statement.
The New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News. Corp., slammed the comments in an article on Wednesday headlined: "Righty writer Coulter hurls nasty gibes at 9/11 gals."
Coulter, a regular television commentator who is hugely popular among some conservatives, was challenged on NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday over what host Matt Lauer called "dramatic" remarks, prompting her to say, "You are getting testy with me."
Coulter is known for a combative column after September 11 saying, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." In one book, she wrote, "Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do."
Her latest comments were quoted on radio stations in New York on Wednesday and the book was the subject of debate on Web sites such as www.salon.com. The Daily News newspaper's front-page headline was "Coulter the Cruel."
The controversy appeared to be doing no harm to sales of Coulter's latest book, which was listed as the second-best seller of the day at online retailer Amazon.com on Wednesday afternoon.
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Confirmed: Coulter is an idiot.
Coulter's an idiot, and so is anyone like those women who wanted to blame Bush for not 'stopping' 9/11.
Edited for Manny
Last edited by Aggie Hoopsfan; 06-07-2006 at 09:14 PM.
There is no but here.
I'd give her a good jamming.
I don't like her.. she's stuck up...
She and Hannity n suck.. they are just like the far left n haters...
Good call.
ann coulter sucks ass.
This thread is not worthless without pictures.
WWTLD - What would TLong do?
Yeah Coulter's ed up. I try not to get too angry at anything she says, though, cause I know she just does it for the publicity, but still, she says some REALLY stupid things...
Repug/conservative women
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Libby Dole, painted doll, frigid, rigid, robotic, fake, loser.
Ann Coulter, rabble-rouser and LCD panderer, horse-faced witch, loser.
Katherine Harris, transves e, total freak show, loser.
Any authentic, natural, hot women in national ranks of Repugs/conservatives?
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Here's what a fool Harris is making of herself:
June 7, 2006
Senate Contender in Florida Presses On
By MARK LEIBOVICH, NYTimes
VENICE, Fla. * Undaunted by a run of horrific poll numbers, staff turmoil and public doubts from leaders of her party, Representative Katherine Harris is thinking confidently beyond November.
Once Ms. Harris wins her race for a Senate seat, she says, she plans to travel everywhere with a guide dog.
"Before I hire anyone to work for me in the Senate I tell them I'm going to do this," said Ms. Harris, the former Florida secretary of state best * or worst * remembered for her role in the state's election recount of 2000.
Ms. Harris explains that she intends to participate in a program that provides guide dogs for volunteers to train. While cynics may assign unflattering symbolism to a politician who is not blind being led around the Capitol by a guide dog, Ms. Harris is undeterred * by this or by the perception that her role in 2000 makes her too divisive to lure the swing voters necessary to defeat the in bent Democrat, Bill Nelson.
In her insistence on running, Ms. Harris has become something of a pariah among many of the people whose power she indirectly helped ensure five and a half years ago, as overseer of the recount that sealed r>George W. Bush's victory.
Top White House officials, Republican operatives and Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida have urged her not to run. When Ms. Harris ignored those entreaties, a Who's Who of national Republicans begged a Who's Who of Florida Republicans to oppose her in the primary, to no avail.
Her campaign has been marked by aides leaving en masse, revelations of her ties to a contractor caught up in a lobbying scandal and the fund-raising handicaps inherent to any enterprise perceived as a lost cause or, worse, a joke.
Ed Rollins, one of Ms. Harris's many former campaign consultants, claimed she had told him that God wanted her to stay in the race. (Ms. Harris denies making the statement.)
She vowed to finance her campaign with $10 million of her own money. Popular wisdom says that will not matter. Mr. Nelson was leading Ms. Harris by more than 30 points in recent polls.
"She has absolutely no chance of winning," said former Representative Joe Scarborough, a Pensacola Republican who was courted strongly by the National Republican Senatorial Committee to oppose Ms. Harris but declined. Mr. Scarborough, the host of "Scarborough Country" on MSNBC, said Ms. Harris "seems to be detached from reality these days."
Because of her role in the 2000 recount, Ms. Harris still enjoys devotion from many Florida Republicans, enough to make her the likely winner over three little-known opponents for her party's nomination. Her supporters applaud avidly at Republican events and cannot understand her sudden unpopularity among party leaders.
"She acted exactly the way the Republicans wanted her to act," said Stanley Tate, a Miami businessman who serves as her campaign's finance chairman. Mr. Tate said he was "completely confused" by the party establishment's snubbing of Ms. Harris. He tells of a recent Republican dinner in Miami where Ms. Harris received a standing ovation from the crowd yet was not acknowledged in a speech by Governor Bush.
On Memorial Day, Ms. Harris rode in a parade and visited two Veterans of Foreign Wars halls and one American Legion post, and was not audibly jeered or heckled by anyone, a fact that surprises even her, "based on the press I get."
Between stops, Ms. Harris portrays herself as something of a populist under siege from "Washington Republicans" and a liberal news media. "I don't have the Beltway mentality," she said. "And I never go along to get along. So I think it's a little threatening to those in power."
She said that given the difficult environment for in bent Republicans in November, it could be an asset to be perceived as a nonfavorite of the party establishment.
"O.K., so President Bush does not support her," said Representative John L. Mica, a Florida Republican who is close to Ms. Harris. "President Bush is at 30 percent." Mr. Mica added that Ms. Harris was criticized previously for being "a tool of the Bushes," which should not be a problem anymore.
Even so, the role of anti-establishment figure is unusual for Ms. Harris, the product of a well-to-do Central Florida family and the granddaughter of a cattle and citrus baron. She became a well-known socialite in the Sarasota area and has long been active in the state's Republican Party. She is married to a Swedish businessman, Anders Ebbeson, and they have listed assets of as much as $37 million.
In Congress, Ms. Harris has been a reliable ally of the Bush administration on issues like tax cuts, Iraq and opposition to same-sex marriage. She has done little in her three-and-a-half-year tenure to win notice beyond her district * one exception being a speech in which she spoke of a foiled terrorist plot against the city of Carmel, Ind. (Federal officials said the plot never existed; Ms. Harris later said she had heard of it secondhand.)
The belief among top Republicans was that Ms. Harris's presence in 2006 would galvanize Democrats still eager for revenge after 2000.
"The campaign can't be about her," Governor Bush told reporters last month. "I gave her that exact advice. Since then it's gotten worse."
Like most politicians who are behind in polls, Ms. Harris says she does not pay attention to them. But she cited her own "internal polls," which she said showed that she could get 53 percent of the vote "if my base turns out."
She says she has moved on from a string of fiascoes earlier this year, including the revelation that a military contractor who has pleaded guilty to bribery in the corruption case involving former Representative Randy Cunningham has also admitted to making $32,000 in illegal donations to Ms. Harris's campaign. She has said she had no idea the contributions were illegal; she donated the money to charity.
She has also seen a drain of top aides, campaign managers and consultants, many complaining on the way out the door about her management style and unwillingness to follow their advice (including that not to run).
Ms. Harris says voters are indifferent to stories about staff turnover. What matters, she said, is "my total commitment to Floridians" and "getting the word out about how liberal Bill Nelson is."
In interviews, Ms. Harris projects a somewhat frenetic personality, speaking in rapid-fire cadences, fussing incessantly with her hair and barraging aides with questions and road directions ("We have a detour to Starbucks on the way. ... Quickest way to Venice is down Fruitville"). Sometimes she will burst forth midsentence upon noticing something out the window ("Hey, there's one of my bumper stickers!").
She attributes much of how she is viewed to the "silliness" of the media. This dates to 2000, when Ms. Harris's perceived over-application of makeup became a recurring punch line.
"They had trucks in Florida bringing the ballots to Tallahassee," Jay Leno said on "The Tonight Show." "In fact, it's the same trucks they used to bring the makeup to Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris."
Ms. Harris is adamant in her claim that news organizations have doctored photographs to exaggerate the amount of makeup she wears. "I haven't worn blue makeup since seventh grade," she said, referring to photographs she said she had seen of herself on the Internet.
She is especially animated when the topic turns to animals, including the seeing-eye dog she plans to train starting in November. She will care for the dog for 18 months, spending nearly all her waking hours with it. "You can't let them sleep in bed with you," Ms. Harris said. "Which is going to be harder on me than the dog."
When a supporter in a Venice veterans hall says he once witnessed Ms. Harris get out of her vehicle to escort a turtle across a highway, she becomes gravely serious.
"All of my life I have stopped for turtles," she said firmly, even defensively, as if someone had challenged her commitment to turtle safety.
As Ms. Harris hugs and hand-shakes her way toward the hall's exit, the song "Y.M.C.A." comes on. The mostly empty dance floor fills with aging veterans and their wives, one of whom spots Ms. Harris and summons her.
She obliges. And then commences another unforgettable moment, Katherine Harris, arms over her head, dancing to "Y.M.C.A."
I'd jam her and punch her in the face at the same time
Whoever runs in the middle for 08 wins... you can't be far left or far right and win in this day...
This is why Hillary is / was trying to come to center. Ann and Hannity think you can win on far right views only.... sorry not gonna happen..
See hannity has this "hannitized".. wtf.. if your going to convert a leftist then you can't push them all the way to the right overnight... that's a pipe ing dream and not realistic..
What happens if we only get candidates in the far right and the far left?
I'll probably just vote for whichever candidate is on the Party that doesn't have control of Congress.
Or I'll vote Libertarian again.
Very good call.
Edited to add: Sorry dude, I hit the wrong button (edit vs quote).The way I look at it Hannity and Coulter balance out Michael Moore, Soros, and all the CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC liberal hacks.
Last edited by Guru of Nothing; 06-07-2006 at 11:16 PM.
Coulter may be a , yet i cant respect those who try to sell off their husband's misfortunes for political gain.
Those ladies are witches. Get off your high horse people.
I firmly believe that having republicans in Congress works when they are held accountable by a Democratic president. The Dem's are better at foriegn policy and the republicans are (well, were. This new breed are just as bad as democrats) better at domesitic agendas.
Yes, you're right manny, Lbj and Carter were herculian in foreign policies.
It's lifestyle politics now. Image is paramount. No true difference exists.
Ann Coulter is a man. I can see why he is bitter towards traditional wife-types.
She just proves her ignorance every time she opens her trap.
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