Ann Coulter is an Asshole

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Ann Coulter is an Asshole

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NEW YORK - Conservative pundit Ann Coulter was front page news Wednesday for what she's written about some 9/11 widows:

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities," writes Coulter.

She's also under fire for what she said Tuesday in an interview with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer.

"If you lose a husband, you no longer have the right to have a political point of view?" asked Lauer.

"No, but don't use the fact that you lost a husband as the basis for your being able to talk about it," Coulter responded.

Coulter was on the "Today" show to push her latest anti-liberal book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," already an Amazon.com best seller.

But the interview kept returning to Coulter's attacks on the 9/11 widows. She called them "harpies" and wondered in print whether their husbands had been planning to divorce them.

A statement from four of the widows says: "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. We adored these men and miss them every day."

Coulter says she believes everything she says and writes, but has she gone too far?

"It's the ugliness of the charge that she's making and the ugliness of the words she's using that are drawing attention to her, but it's almost like she’s a figure in a circus and you say, 'Oh my God, can you believe that?'" says former White House adviser David Gergen.

Still, the tempest was a trigger for a red/blue debate on MSNBC TV with criticism for Coulter from both sides.

"I think it was shameful what she said, Chris, but I think these widows have attacked President Bush," Dom Giordano, a conservative talk show host with radio station WPHT, told "Hardball's" Chris Matthews.

"I think she’s a sad, pathetic, unhappy person," said liberal counter-voice Sam Greenfield, a talk show host with radio station WWRL.

All of it fallout from a television exchange likely to be remembered well beyond the impact of a few ill-tempered sentences in print.

© 2006 MSNBC Interactive

Even if she doesn't really mean those things and only said them to spark controversy and sell more books, are the people she insulted going to forgive her when she says, "I only did it because I'm a greedy bitch?"

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JillUser

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I think she could have made her point without being an asshole.

I totally agree. I am certain she did it for shock value in order to draw attention.

I would now highly suggest you listen to Cordelia and remove the word asshole from your title before this thread gets wiped.

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Sodaiho:

Good lord. What is the matter with you guys? Victims of such tragedies may not be experts in policy, but they can become so, and moreover are galvinized by their experience. The Cindy Sheehans of the world, just like the mothers of MADD and other action orgaizations are often grassroots folks who, having been touched deeply by real events get off their asses and do something to correct the situation. And you people sit around at your computers and cry foul.

The thing is, Sodaiho, the 9/11 widows and Cindy Whatsername cry foul anytime someone challenges them, yet they feel free to trash anyone they want. They have openly trashed others in the same boat who don't share their opinions.

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would now highly suggest you listen to Cordelia and remove the word asshole from your title before this thread gets wiped.

The word Cordelia objected to was cunt. He changed it to A$$hole. But I can see that this is almost as objectionable.

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The attitude seems to be that since they have suffered, that they have earned an exclusive ear whenever they want to promote their political agenda. Let them claim to be "enlightened", it would make more sense, frankly.

BINGO! It would be like me claiming my voice should be the only one heard on CPS reform because I lost two brothers to CPS, not because of the endless hours of research I have spent studying the system and finding flaws. My credibility should be based on my expertise, not on my experience with personal tragedy.

As I said on my blog, I don't like the phrasing Coulter used, but I agree strongly with the point. But where I would have ended my comments with a question mark (metaphorically speaking), she ended them with an explanation point. The fact that we are debating this so heavily shows precisely how effective she was.

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JillUser

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The word Cordelia objected to was cunt. He changed it to A$$hole. But I can see that this is almost as objectionable.

I see. Glad I missed the original version. Too bad people can't make their points without lowering themselves to using such language. I think it lacks cooth to use objectionable language in your title anyway.

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