As a New Yorker who's knows a bit about the issues raised by the World Trade Center/Ground Zero, I understand that the "9/11 widows" can be formidable. I have been to meetings where those who had lost family; husbands, children, or parents, held up large photos of those that they had lost, as a way of emphasizing their points. It sure makes it harder to disagree with them. As well it should. In fact they do have a special interest in investigating what happened on 9/11, just as they have a special interest in deciding where the final ashes of their loved ones will reside. Coulter denies them this.
But it's legitimate to ask how much, if any, extra influence they should have on how these questions are ultimately answered.
Still, it is absolutely immoral to say that they have no right to have their voices heard. Ann Coulter, appearing on the Today show with Matt Lauer, said that "I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much." "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in article about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies."
Her need to use a huge, real national tragedy as a means of self-promotion saddens me. It's like the angry, young African American guy who only sees one way of being in the world - irate, irrational, and ultimately harmful to both self and those nearby. But there is a reason for his ignorance, and in a way, innocence.
May she go in Grace, but may she just go -
You unwittingly make Coulter's point.
Posted by: Rick | June 08, 2006 at 12:25 PM
A tad too cryptic, and witless, for my taste.
Posted by: bbbustard | June 08, 2006 at 03:26 PM
yes Rick, what do you mean?
Posted by: sybil | June 08, 2006 at 11:17 PM