Although Coulter also criticized 9-11 widows for "cutting commercials" for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) during his 2004 presidential campaign against Bush, Lauer failed to note that other 9-11 widows made campaign appearances for Bush. As Newsday reported September 25, 2004:


[A]t the Republican National Convention, Debra Burlingame, whose brother piloted the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon, was one of three women who spoke in highly personal terms of their loss. She told the Associated Press yesterday she, too, was willing to make campaign appearances for Bush to outline her differences with the pro-Kerry families. "They want people fired, and I think we've moved on from that," she said."

- bill 6-07-2006 6:30 pm

"They want people fired, and I think we've moved on from that," she said. Adding, "Except of course those evil fuckers that want a museum or performance space on the WTC site. Those people should be drawn, quartered, and then fired."
- mark 6-07-2006 6:59 pm


as i recall the president was the first one to co-op the 9/11 victims deaths pursuant to a so called war on terror. the jersey girls stepped up and stated that he wasnt speaking on their behalf. nutbags.


- bill 6-08-2006 7:05 pm


had a nice chat w/ andrew last thurs evening. he said ac was right. victims are no more expert on issues than any other random person. my point was that they were coming from a minority possition and therefore were a needed voice against the drumbeat to war. that bush took the first opportunity to co-op the victim. that the j girls were not going along with that co-option. i dont think i swayed him so i changed subject to colbert, which he heard as cold beer. this today :



the hypocritical guy who'll take all he can get from her at night, only to act like he doesn't know her by day ... why, that's the Republican Party!

Sure, they're ashamed - not of her legs, but of her foul mouth and hateful ideas. But they exploit her just as much as the guy in the Joe Tex song exploits his woman. And Miss Ann's got lots of hatemongering friends, who they also exploit whenever they can: O'Reilly, Beck, Savage, Dick Morris ... the list goes on and on.

And there's someone else hanging around these streetwalkers in the dark of the evening - someone who'll use her and her friends to satisfy his animal needs, only to hitch up his pants and feign an air of respectability come sunrise. That would be the American media, of course. They're always eager to use these disreputable characters to drive ratings and enforce ideological purity.

And just in case you think I haven't over-labored the metaphor already, there's always Leroy. I'm Leroy, and I'll take her. I don't want to exploit her the way they have, of course, but I will use her - as a textbook example of what the Republican Party and the conservative movement have become.


- bill 6-10-2006 4:53 pm


That doesn't sound like a nice chat!
- tom moody 6-10-2006 5:14 pm


next time he says victims are no more experts than ordinary people punch him in the face and then ask him how it feels. they might not be experts but they know what it feels like to be punched in the face.


- dave 6-10-2006 5:33 pm


i can understand what he was getting at. he cited john walsh (americas most wanted) as an icon of victims rights advocates. it was a good chat - i enjoy a good volly. i was right he was wrong - i liked that part.
- bill 6-10-2006 5:34 pm


The words "Coulter was right" don't belong at a civilized dinner table. She's an ignorant Bubba.
- tom moody 6-10-2006 5:44 pm


And Andrew is wrong--our politics is rife with people who have been gobsmacked by issues and become experts, and eventually 501(c)-3 non-profits on K Street, because no one is listening to them. Love Canal, Brady Bill, etc etc etc.
- tom moody 6-10-2006 5:50 pm


calling her an ignorant bubba is kind. she is a shit stain on humanity.
- dave 6-10-2006 6:20 pm


"Our Lady of Perpetual Bile" Ha!
- mark 6-10-2006 6:42 pm


Agreed on the Coulter, of course. She's awful. And I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but didn't you guys argue very strongly against the 9/11 widows being entitles to any special consideration concerning their views on the architectural development of the WTC site? I know it's not the same thing, but the arguments sound a little bit a like (at least as far as I remember them.) Of course no one here would be as rude, or stupid, as Coulter (quite the opposite,) and maybe I misunderstood the thrust of the anti-widows sentiment here. But isn't Coulter basically saying that the widows shouldn't be listened to regarding foreign affairs or international politics because they don't know anything about those fields, and isn't that sort of the same thing that was argued here - that they don't know anything about architecture so shouldn't have a say in the redevelopment plans?

No doubt I've got this one wrong. But I'm bringing it up anyway, at least so someone can set me straight. (And also, I agree that they had too much sway in the redevelopment debate.)
- jim 6-10-2006 7:09 pm


debra burlingame pulled away from the jersey girls anti war and anti bush campaign and became an activist in vetting the cultural institutions sharing the gz foot-print for anti-american content. and also keeping a high profile memorial in the forefront of the gz project. coulter left that part out. my reaction to the save the memorial group had to do with what i viewed as a group of victims families hijacking the project and policing its artistic content. (of which there is now none. well unless you count dance. sorry for the dance dig.
- bill 6-10-2006 7:25 pm


well then i guess we shouldnt listen to coulter either. last time i checked she had a law degree, not a backround in military or foreign affairs although i have no idea what she was spewing about in this particular case.
- dave 6-10-2006 7:56 pm


This is how she defended her bile ...

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 have to respond to someone who had a family member die. Because then if we respond, oh you are questioning their authenticity.


If she wants to disagree, then she should disagree. Instead, she seeks a point of personal vulnerability, and drives her spiked heel in with glee.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stiletto-heeled cocktail shoe stomping on a human face -- forever.


- mark 6-10-2006 8:49 pm


Right wing crime victims never act as poster children for political causes. AS IF!
- steve 6-10-2006 10:31 pm


Forgot about this one.
- bill 10-31-2022 3:03 pm





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