Ann Coulter is one of the favorite spokespeople of the Republican Party, having appeared, among other venues, at CPAC, the annual rightist conference in Washington; in that particular instance, she spoke right after Dick Cheney.
So it's entirely fair to assume that Coulter speaks for the Republican Party, and that her views represent those of the party.
So does the Republican Party support her statement on the 9/11 widows "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazis. I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much."?
Not a single Other than Pataki, no Republican elected official in New York State has publicly said a word about Coulter's vicious attacks on the 9/11 widows. Silence, in this case, implies consent.
We suggest that all New Yorkers who live in Republican districts get on the phone and ask what their representative has to say about Coulter's statements. Contact info is after the break.
George Pataki, (R), Governor of the State of New York
(518) 474-8390
Michael Bloomberg, (R), Mayor of the City of New York:
(212) 788-3000
Joe Bruno, (R), NY Senate Majority Leader
(518) 455-3191
Submitted by Lisa Johnson (not verified) on 8 June 2006 - 1:02pm.
I think all Democrats should contact the officals in their district and ask that they do something about Alan G. Hevesi while they are doing the phone duty!
Many Democrats did object. Hevesi apologized. You see, we have that kind of maturity where we recognize mistakes and act to correct them.
The current Halliburton Republicans do not have that maturity...even when thousands of people die from Bush's mistakes.
Defending Coulter is like defending a mafia thug. She has about the moral character and intelligence of your average mafia bodyguard. But she has less charm.
Submitted by Constantine (not verified) on 11 June 2006 - 6:54pm.
Hevesi apologized, Coulter has not - how impressive it is said! Full of rattling wrath. Almost fair.
There is a problem, though. Hevesi bravely put a virtual gun into hands of a real Schumer and virtually forced the latter to virtually shot the President between eyes. A wish clearly virtual but so much tangible! Apology? Of course? The own - Hevesi's - stupidity, which he, thanks God, recognized immediately, might cost him his position and/or status. How not to apologize! Not for his wish to shot the President, but rather for his stupidity of expressing such a wish aloud.
Coulter has not - what a mean-spirited woman! How dare she say such things about 4 - Yes, Yes, not all, unlike it is being perverted all the time, but just FOUR!!!! - women who are cursing the President, Republicans in general, constantly fighting against "Americans who have caused their personal tragedy"!
The personal tragedy that they are so skillfully using as a shield, which converts any attempt to criticize them for politicizing their personal tragedy, into a vicious mean-spirited attack of rabid right-wingers.
How convenient is to pounce upon Ann Coulter - maybe the rest of the world will then forget how many tons of dirt Liberals are pouring on Republicans daily and hourly!
Now Congressmen have invented nothing better than to demand all book stores in New Jersey to reject Ann Coulter’s book!
Freedom of Speech is flourishing, hurray!
Dems know what freedom of speech is - when nobody says a word against them when they are preoccupied using all obscenities they know toward Republicans.
Why not to burn Ann Coulter's books on a Central Plaza of each city, not only New Jersey.
Just like Nazis and Communists did.
Submitted by Constantine (not verified) on 11 June 2006 - 8:04pm.
It's very bad to make typos in the subject line - I meant a pun "rattling wrath - rattling wart". Sorry!
It's also bad to forget important things in a dispute. For instance, I forgot to remind that, unlike Hevesi, Coulter did not propose to kill the President. Oops! Thanks God!
Also I forgot to ask: as a person who lost 7 (SEVEN!) close friends in the Twin Towers on 9/11, do I have carte blanche cursing Liberals?
In especially when one is defending a terrorist like Coulter, or pretending that partisanship justifies even the slander of widows.
Rightwingers are all alike: bottom-feeding scum. Coulter and her flying monkeys need to get over their tawdry justifications for spitting on the 9/11 families and apologize, end of story.
Submitted by Constantine (not verified) on 12 June 2006 - 1:05am.
There is a flower called "barren flower". Just for your common knowledge.
Are you able - ever - to take a look at yourself in a mirror, no move, just think: Who am I? What do I want? What do I have in my soul besides a burning hatred against Republicans? Any ideas? Any noble thoughts? What do I want from my beloved Liberals if they overthrow those "bottom-feeding scums"?
Am I able, for instance, to answer a simple question like "why so much beloved intelligent Clinton's budget for Department of Education in 1996 FY was $23 Billion and so much hated stupid Bush's budget for the same Department in 2002 FY climbed to $49 Billion?"
Or "why Liberals said no one word when Clinton meddled in supporting of the Islamic Terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army either to divert attention from a burgeoning sex scandal or as a part of anti-Christian campaign by Liberals, but yell like crazy when America finally did something noble - liberated Afghanistan and Iraq from mass-murderers?"
What I, a fervent Liberal - you should keep asking yourself - want to ardently defend besides 3rd-trimester abortion (=killing a baby); besides homosexuality; besides promoting condoms in Elementary schools while banning Pledge of Allegiance; besides fighting for civil rights for enemies while rejecting civil rights for compatriots; besides applauding to Hollywood starts who are bawling against damned American Imperialism while flying own airplanes, driving SUVs, and buying multimillion palaces in Malibu(s); besides a passionate wish to redistribute somebody's money following Robin Hood's and Communists' pattern?
Copulating on streets and in Churches like in SF Summer 1967 and recent Cathedral in New York, and staining the Virgin with shit in Museums is the only heroism you Liberals are able of? Or calling treason "patriotism" and run to secretly negotiate with enemy - is this your heroism?
Tell me, you Liberal almost friend, are you able to communicate using decent words, not stinky spitting?
So let me check if I get this right: either, people must condone the cult of Coulter, or favor public butt-fucking presided over by Lenin and Saint-Just.
In the world of some so-called "conservatives", consumed as it is by feverish nightmares of hatred, these are indeed the options. Either Ann Coulter or the Finland Station and the guillotine.
Forgive me if I see no need to address either the French Revolution or for that matter any of the Asiatic cruelties Russia decided to flay herself with. The issue here is rather narrower in scope, and concerns an extremist shill making a quick buck by attacking widows. That's the long and the short of it; and you, my friend, are too bound up in your own phantasms of the supposedly evil left (Robespierre! Abortion! Sodomy!) to see the fundamental indecency of that.
A pity, really, but there you have it. Far from countermanding my case, that the extremist right sees nothing wrong with the abuse of the 9/11 widows, you have made it.
-- from the fundamentalist Coulter camp toward the private and stoic Michael Schiavo, his current wife and their children.
It just hit me reading Michael (Bouldin's) comment, that while it CAN be argued reasonably that these four particular widows did choose to join the politics of mutual destruction by their own post-9/11 advocacy and anti-administration rhetoric, no one can say anything of the kind about Michael Schiavo and his family.
All the partisan pissing, attempts to bring down the state and federal government to accomplish an unconstitutional end, the vicious flinging of sinful and criminal accusations plus some terrorist-type death threats against Schiavo and a few sitting judges, all came from one side: the Coulter side.
I've seen no price paid yet by any of those partisans, nor the politicians from the President on down who jumped on their ax-handle-wielding "by god, even if it kills us all" bandwagon and tried to run down the whole country.
And no apology.
It was an eye-opening, radicalizing event for me, healthy and home watching orchestrated and rabid attacks -- on freedom, privacy, choice, reason, civil discourse, science and medicine, self-determination, the rule of law, even marriage! -- in shock and awe.
The truly horrifying thing is that Coulter is not an aberration - this kind of cynical hatemongering is the standard modus operanci of the right. Terri Schiavo comes to mind, or Michael Savage's newest tripe, titled "Liberalism is a mental disorder", or for that matter that NR guy's "The Party of Death".
I've had it with these ink-stained terrorists. It's time for people to realize that this kind of sleaze is not an accident, but flows from the very core of the party in power.
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He's gone; the policy --strategic non-communication-- may still be in place.
First, McClellan was a necessary figure in what I have called Rollback-- the attempt to downgrade the press as a player within the executive branch, to make it less important in running the White House and governing the country. It had once been accepted wisdom that by carefully "feeding the beast" an Administration would be rewarded with better coverage in the long run. Rollback, the policy for which McClellan signed on, means not feeding but starving the beast, while reducing its effectiveness as an interlocutor with the President and demonstrating to all that the fourth estate is a joke.
Ann Coulter
I think all Democrats should contact the officals in their district and ask that they do something about Alan G. Hevesi while they are doing the phone duty!