The Ted Rall of the right

This time, it's Ann Coulter's turn to make fun of 9/11 widows:

When their husbands were killed on 9/11, four New Jersey widows tried to find out why - and now no-holds-barred conservative pundit Ann Coulter is mercilessly denouncing them as "witches."

"I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," Coulter writes in her new book.

Her brutal words were challenged yesterday on national television by "Today" host Matt Lauer - and she was slammed by the widows she derided as self-absorbed, limelight-seeking "harpies."

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In "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," the uncompromisingly right-wing Coulter writes the Jersey Girls have no right to criticize President Bush or any of the failures that led to the terror attacks.

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

"And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy. . .

"These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."

Coulter has every right to criticize the widows' politics, but this is several hundred miles over the line. I've contacted Pajamas Media, with whom I have an advertising deal, to ask that no more ads for Coulter's Godless appear on this site.

Damian P.

Update: there's a 48-hour turnaround time before PJM can remove an advertisement from your site, so that's why the Coulter ad is still coming up.

Posted by damian at June 7, 2006 07:00 PM