Thursday, June 08, 2006
Ann Coulter - Please Be Quiet
I don’t want to give this too much time or space. I am not a big Ann Coulter fan. I think she has a lot of good things to say, but unfortunately for her, her schtick has become more important than her message these days.
Here latest comment about “The Jersey Girls,” led by Christine Breitweiser are beyond the pale. Look, I have been critical of their comments, and have not (unlike Ms Coulter) been unwilling to criticize them despite their status as “war widows,” just as I have been willing to criticise Cindy Sheehan. I won’t criticise their suffering or the way they mourn, but when they make policy statements, they no longer have protected status.
In particular, I have been deeply troubled by the lack of positive comments from Christine Breitweiser, who blamed President Bush for not protecting the life of her husband, on the subject of the NSA foreign intelligene phone intercepts. Since 9/11, the President and the government has been doing all that it constitutionally can to prevent any more women to experience the widowhood of Mrs. Breitweiser through terrorism. She should be out there, if she is indeed only concerned about saftey for Americans, cheering on the government’s steps to provide such. Her silence is embarrasing, and exposes her agenda as political instead of seeking to prevent another attack.
But that is a far cry from saying “they are enjoying their husband’s death.” Had Ms Coulter said, “They are enjoying the noteriety that their husbands deaths brought them,” well okay, I think that is true and fair. But come on Ann, no one, not even someone whose marriage may have been troubled, enjoys the death of their husband or spouse. What is really bad is that, in listening to Ann’s interview with Laura Ingraham today, she does not get that she is harming her message and that she has said something that is morally wrong (not just politically incorrect).
Are the “Jersey Girls” Harpies? Not a question I would answer. But are they enjoying the death of their husbands? Come on Ann, you know the answer to that question, and you need to share it in the form of an apology to the Jersey Girls (though, I thought her response to Hillary Clinton about people who damage women, was, politically at least, very sharp).
