Sunday, June 11, 2006
Ann Coulter Receives Congressional Letter
NewsMax - Ann Coulter criticized four of the women whose husbands died on 9/11, and now a congressmen from the New York/New Jersey area has written a scathing letter - signed by nearly two dozen other congressmen - to the author.
In Coulter's new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," she wrote, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," and that the four were "reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis."
In response, House Democrats from Long Island and New York City have signed their names to a letter drafted by Democratic Rep. Steve Israel of Huntington demanding that Coulter apologize.
"Their personal loss should never be minimized, especially in such a cold and callous way as you attack these victims in your book," Israel wrote.
"It's lawmakers who have seen firsthand what [the 9/11 widows] went through and are outraged by what Ann Coulter wrote about them," Israel told Newsday.
"We understand that you are in the book business and that controversy might make for good sales," Israel wrote to Coulter, "but we would urge you to consider that making mean-spirited comments about women trying to do the right thing might not be worth the resultant rise on the best-seller list."
In his letter, Israel called the women "responsible citizens" who raised their voices in keeping with American tradition, Newsday reports.
Asked by Reuters why she had written about the four women, Coulter replied, "I am tired of victims being used as billboards for untenable liberal political beliefs.
"A lot of Americans have been seething over the inanities of these professional victims for some time," she added.
NewsMax - Ann Coulter criticized four of the women whose husbands died on 9/11, and now a congressmen from the New York/New Jersey area has written a scathing letter - signed by nearly two dozen other congressmen - to the author.
In Coulter's new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," she wrote, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," and that the four were "reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis."
In response, House Democrats from Long Island and New York City have signed their names to a letter drafted by Democratic Rep. Steve Israel of Huntington demanding that Coulter apologize.
"Their personal loss should never be minimized, especially in such a cold and callous way as you attack these victims in your book," Israel wrote.
"It's lawmakers who have seen firsthand what [the 9/11 widows] went through and are outraged by what Ann Coulter wrote about them," Israel told Newsday.
"We understand that you are in the book business and that controversy might make for good sales," Israel wrote to Coulter, "but we would urge you to consider that making mean-spirited comments about women trying to do the right thing might not be worth the resultant rise on the best-seller list."
In his letter, Israel called the women "responsible citizens" who raised their voices in keeping with American tradition, Newsday reports.
Asked by Reuters why she had written about the four women, Coulter replied, "I am tired of victims being used as billboards for untenable liberal political beliefs.
"A lot of Americans have been seething over the inanities of these professional victims for some time," she added.
