ANOTHER cowardly Democrat betrayal: TRAITOR JOE Lieberman SILENT as Ann Coulter TRASHES his former allies, the "Jersey Girls" 9-11 widows....
ANOTHER Lieberman BACK-STABBING betrayal: Traitor Joe SILENT as Ann Coulter TRASHES his former friends, the 9-11 widows he once worked closely with to bring about the 9-11 Commission investigation into the terror attacks of that day.
NO WONDER! voters are AS DISGUSTED with Democrats (and Congress) as they are with the serial frauds, corruptions, crimes, and incompetence of the Bush White House.
This article by Joe Conason documents YET ANOTHER instance of Democrat's COWARDLY BETRAYAL of (former) friends and constituents, in this case the "Jersey Girls" 9-11 Widows, who FOUGHT TO BRING ABOUT the 9-11 COMMISSION despite MONTHS worth of White House STONEWALLING OBSTRUCTION of such efforts to get to the bottom of the nation's 9-11 calamity.
While Conason writes this article about LIEBERMAN's back-stabbing BETRAYAL of his former allies, the same could be written about ALL Democrat "leaders" who ALLOW THE VILE Ann Coulter to DOMINATE a given week's media discourse, WITHOUT SERIOUS EFFORTS BY Dems to LINK Coulter's HATEFUL rhetoric to the Bush-Rove White House spin machine.
Ok, Ok.... readers of this post might argue, "If C-dems.blgspt.com states that the Bush White House is the font of frauds, corruptions, crimes, and incompetence, what right do we have to scold Ann Coulter for partisanship?"
Well, in the first place, Ann Coulter has a HELL OF A LOT OF NERVE to talk about "self-obsessed millionaires" "reveling in their status as celebrities." Talk about "a pot calling a kettle black" - THAT is the very DEFINITION of Ann Coulter and her inside-the-beltway celebrity pundit cohorts! Who, it must be remembered, attained THEIR celebrity status turning Bill Clinton's damn consensual affair into a constitutional crisis. (The list of current 'celebrity pundits' who became famous during the Monica scandal include Tim Russert, Chris Mathews, Matt Drudge, and dozens of others.)
And #2., a woman who has used the mainstream media cable and TV networks to call for the terror-bombing of the New York Times building, the "killing of Muslim leaders," and who treats torture and the trashing of the Geneva Conventions as an American birthright, has a hell of a lot of nerve talking about people "enjoying horrific deaths."
There are tons of tomes on the psychology of victims and perpetrators of the Nazi death camps that proliferated throughout Europe during WWII (and somewhat fewer tomes on the even larger death-labor camps under Stalin's reign), how both victims and perpetrators were contemptuous of each other; how even women and "trustees" could join in the macabre sadism and mass-murder machine.
Ann Coulter serves to remind us that America was never entirely exempt from the murderous social forces that lead to such horrific abuse of humans - if you want a citation, this Amazon.com link lists books which document the murderous conditions in POW prisons ON BOTH SIDES during the Civil War, with, according to Amazon's editorial description, an AVERAGE MORTALITY RATE in Northern AND Southern prisons somewhere between ELEVEN PERCENT and FIFTEEN PERCENT, with the Union Prison at Elmira, New York 'boasting' A TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT DEATH RATE for captured Southern war prisoners!
Is it going too far to say that Ann Coulter is America's face of the "B**** of Buchenwald" a half-century later, sanitized only by the American media's ongoing CENSORSHIP of torture, "collateral damage", and US-sponsored death-squads in Iraq?
Amazon.com link "Elmira: Death Camp of the North"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811714322/104-3493809-4388729?v=glance&n=283155
_____________________________________________________
A Shameful Silence On Coulter’s Spewing
By: Joe Conason
Date: 6/19/2006
Page: 5
http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=12963&ic=Joe+Conason
With the predictable regularity of a locust plague, Ann Coulter and her enablers at the once-reputable firm of Random House have issued yet another volume of fascistic entertainment. Now the hard-drinking, trash-talking, fortysomething bachelorette bills herself as a Christian moralist, in holy battle against the liberal heathens.
That whiff of brimstone in the air may only be the match she is striking for her next cigarette.
But her version of “Christianity” turns out to be a strangely modern and convenient faith, which encourages heaping scorn on bereaved widows, bearing false witness against them on television and publicly gloating over the ill-gotten profits thus attained. Leaving behind the golden rule of the Gospels to “do unto others as you would have them do to you,” she embodies a new rule of gold: You can never be too rich, too thin or too vicious.
Too vicious, however, is the only way to categorize Ms. Coulter’s attempted assassination of the 9/11 widows known as the Jersey Girls, whom she accuses of “enjoying” the horrific deaths of their husbands in the World Trade Center inferno. She harangues them as “broads,” “witches” and “millionaires,” guilty of being “self-obsessed” and “reveling in their status as celebrities” while they are “lionized on TV and in articles about them.”
Coming from an energetic publicity seeker like Ms. Coulter, who still whines bitterly about her elongated cover shot in Time magazine, those insults are an exercise in self-parody.
She goes on to complain that the widows, by telling their personal stories of loss, were able to shut down their critics with sentimentality. But that charge too is obviously false, since she is now reaping profits and publicity by savaging them. She is also a hypocrite, having freely brandished the name of her late friend Barbara Olson, tragically killed on 9/11, to lend impact to her own arguments.
The truth about the Jersey Girls—Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie van Auken—is that they loved their husbands deeply, of course. They and their children continue to suffer from the loss that Ms. Coulter so heartlessly mocks. The truth is that in their suffering, these courageous women joined with other widows and family members to demand a serious investigation of 9/11. Together, they organized, researched and lobbied for thousands of hours to win the appointment of an independent commission, against the determined political opposition of the White House. The truth is that their success was an important victory for every American, without regard to party or ideology, and a vindication of grassroots democracy. The nation owes them all a debt of gratitude.
What is most disturbing about this episode is not that these women can be victimized by a brutal bully like Ms. Coulter, nor even that the mainstream media, which abandoned traditional standards of fairness and decency years ago, would eagerly assist her. That is our hideous political culture. What is most disappointing is the abject dereliction of the prominent politicians who worked so closely with the Jersey Girls.
John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, the Senate sponsors of the bill that created the 9/11 Commission, both believed that an independent investigation was essential for reasons of honor and national security. They both know that they could not have prevailed against the White House—and the Republican Congressional leadership—without the help of the widows.
In the fall of 2002, when their bill passed the Senate and the House, Mr. McCain acknowledged the efforts of the widows and their comrades. “I also want to put in a special word for the families,” he said after thanking his fellow statesmen. “Without their unstinting support and efforts, we would not be where we are today.”
In the summer of 2004, when the commission’s reform recommendations were debated, Mr. Lieberman praised all of the 9/11 families, including a special acknowledgment for the Jersey Girls. “I continue to be awed and inspired by your ability to turn your personal tragedies into better public safety for this nation,” said the Connecticut Senator.
And in the fall of 2005, when Mr. McCain needed citizen support for his worthy amendment to ban torture in the war against terrorism, the Jersey Girls rallied to his cause. He was glad enough of their support then.
But that was then, and this is now—and these two pious politicians remain silent in the face of a malevolent attack visited on their erstwhile friends. Both men know that it is a lie to call these women partisans or profiteers. Both know that these women—and the families they helped to lead—brought honor and purpose to a legislative process that is often petty and corrupt.
Shame on the silent Senators. And please, let’s hear no more from either of them for a while about tolerance, respect and decency.
NO WONDER! voters are AS DISGUSTED with Democrats (and Congress) as they are with the serial frauds, corruptions, crimes, and incompetence of the Bush White House.
This article by Joe Conason documents YET ANOTHER instance of Democrat's COWARDLY BETRAYAL of (former) friends and constituents, in this case the "Jersey Girls" 9-11 Widows, who FOUGHT TO BRING ABOUT the 9-11 COMMISSION despite MONTHS worth of White House STONEWALLING OBSTRUCTION of such efforts to get to the bottom of the nation's 9-11 calamity.
While Conason writes this article about LIEBERMAN's back-stabbing BETRAYAL of his former allies, the same could be written about ALL Democrat "leaders" who ALLOW THE VILE Ann Coulter to DOMINATE a given week's media discourse, WITHOUT SERIOUS EFFORTS BY Dems to LINK Coulter's HATEFUL rhetoric to the Bush-Rove White House spin machine.
Ok, Ok.... readers of this post might argue, "If C-dems.blgspt.com states that the Bush White House is the font of frauds, corruptions, crimes, and incompetence, what right do we have to scold Ann Coulter for partisanship?"
Well, in the first place, Ann Coulter has a HELL OF A LOT OF NERVE to talk about "self-obsessed millionaires" "reveling in their status as celebrities." Talk about "a pot calling a kettle black" - THAT is the very DEFINITION of Ann Coulter and her inside-the-beltway celebrity pundit cohorts! Who, it must be remembered, attained THEIR celebrity status turning Bill Clinton's damn consensual affair into a constitutional crisis. (The list of current 'celebrity pundits' who became famous during the Monica scandal include Tim Russert, Chris Mathews, Matt Drudge, and dozens of others.)
And #2., a woman who has used the mainstream media cable and TV networks to call for the terror-bombing of the New York Times building, the "killing of Muslim leaders," and who treats torture and the trashing of the Geneva Conventions as an American birthright, has a hell of a lot of nerve talking about people "enjoying horrific deaths."
There are tons of tomes on the psychology of victims and perpetrators of the Nazi death camps that proliferated throughout Europe during WWII (and somewhat fewer tomes on the even larger death-labor camps under Stalin's reign), how both victims and perpetrators were contemptuous of each other; how even women and "trustees" could join in the macabre sadism and mass-murder machine.
Ann Coulter serves to remind us that America was never entirely exempt from the murderous social forces that lead to such horrific abuse of humans - if you want a citation, this Amazon.com link lists books which document the murderous conditions in POW prisons ON BOTH SIDES during the Civil War, with, according to Amazon's editorial description, an AVERAGE MORTALITY RATE in Northern AND Southern prisons somewhere between ELEVEN PERCENT and FIFTEEN PERCENT, with the Union Prison at Elmira, New York 'boasting' A TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT DEATH RATE for captured Southern war prisoners!
Is it going too far to say that Ann Coulter is America's face of the "B**** of Buchenwald" a half-century later, sanitized only by the American media's ongoing CENSORSHIP of torture, "collateral damage", and US-sponsored death-squads in Iraq?
Amazon.com link "Elmira: Death Camp of the North"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811714322/104-3493809-4388729?v=glance&n=283155
_____________________________________________________
A Shameful Silence On Coulter’s Spewing
By: Joe Conason
Date: 6/19/2006
Page: 5
http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=12963&ic=Joe+Conason
With the predictable regularity of a locust plague, Ann Coulter and her enablers at the once-reputable firm of Random House have issued yet another volume of fascistic entertainment. Now the hard-drinking, trash-talking, fortysomething bachelorette bills herself as a Christian moralist, in holy battle against the liberal heathens.
That whiff of brimstone in the air may only be the match she is striking for her next cigarette.
But her version of “Christianity” turns out to be a strangely modern and convenient faith, which encourages heaping scorn on bereaved widows, bearing false witness against them on television and publicly gloating over the ill-gotten profits thus attained. Leaving behind the golden rule of the Gospels to “do unto others as you would have them do to you,” she embodies a new rule of gold: You can never be too rich, too thin or too vicious.
Too vicious, however, is the only way to categorize Ms. Coulter’s attempted assassination of the 9/11 widows known as the Jersey Girls, whom she accuses of “enjoying” the horrific deaths of their husbands in the World Trade Center inferno. She harangues them as “broads,” “witches” and “millionaires,” guilty of being “self-obsessed” and “reveling in their status as celebrities” while they are “lionized on TV and in articles about them.”
Coming from an energetic publicity seeker like Ms. Coulter, who still whines bitterly about her elongated cover shot in Time magazine, those insults are an exercise in self-parody.
She goes on to complain that the widows, by telling their personal stories of loss, were able to shut down their critics with sentimentality. But that charge too is obviously false, since she is now reaping profits and publicity by savaging them. She is also a hypocrite, having freely brandished the name of her late friend Barbara Olson, tragically killed on 9/11, to lend impact to her own arguments.
The truth about the Jersey Girls—Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie van Auken—is that they loved their husbands deeply, of course. They and their children continue to suffer from the loss that Ms. Coulter so heartlessly mocks. The truth is that in their suffering, these courageous women joined with other widows and family members to demand a serious investigation of 9/11. Together, they organized, researched and lobbied for thousands of hours to win the appointment of an independent commission, against the determined political opposition of the White House. The truth is that their success was an important victory for every American, without regard to party or ideology, and a vindication of grassroots democracy. The nation owes them all a debt of gratitude.
What is most disturbing about this episode is not that these women can be victimized by a brutal bully like Ms. Coulter, nor even that the mainstream media, which abandoned traditional standards of fairness and decency years ago, would eagerly assist her. That is our hideous political culture. What is most disappointing is the abject dereliction of the prominent politicians who worked so closely with the Jersey Girls.
John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, the Senate sponsors of the bill that created the 9/11 Commission, both believed that an independent investigation was essential for reasons of honor and national security. They both know that they could not have prevailed against the White House—and the Republican Congressional leadership—without the help of the widows.
In the fall of 2002, when their bill passed the Senate and the House, Mr. McCain acknowledged the efforts of the widows and their comrades. “I also want to put in a special word for the families,” he said after thanking his fellow statesmen. “Without their unstinting support and efforts, we would not be where we are today.”
In the summer of 2004, when the commission’s reform recommendations were debated, Mr. Lieberman praised all of the 9/11 families, including a special acknowledgment for the Jersey Girls. “I continue to be awed and inspired by your ability to turn your personal tragedies into better public safety for this nation,” said the Connecticut Senator.
And in the fall of 2005, when Mr. McCain needed citizen support for his worthy amendment to ban torture in the war against terrorism, the Jersey Girls rallied to his cause. He was glad enough of their support then.
But that was then, and this is now—and these two pious politicians remain silent in the face of a malevolent attack visited on their erstwhile friends. Both men know that it is a lie to call these women partisans or profiteers. Both know that these women—and the families they helped to lead—brought honor and purpose to a legislative process that is often petty and corrupt.
Shame on the silent Senators. And please, let’s hear no more from either of them for a while about tolerance, respect and decency.
posted by verifi at 10:57 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home