WHY ON EARTH AM I EVEN WRITING ABOUT ANN COULTER IN THE FIRST PLACE


Howard Kurtz covers [instert clever-ish compound adjective here] Ann Coulter's much remarked about recent remarks about the semi-famous New Jersey-based women known as the "9/11 widows," "terror widows," and sometimes the "Jersey girls." The New York Times' David Carr issued a harsher take on Coulter this weekend — with the above graphic representation of her career — and the subject is certainly tearing up the Internets today.

Now, I've tuned out Ann Coulter ever since about "invade their countries," etc., so I didn't really look and see what she actually said until just today. So, how bad was it? Methinks:

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

Hmm, I guess I can see that.

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

Huh? And I don't think she has citations for "reveling."

I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.

I really can't recall ever seeing Kristin Breitweiser in a good mood.

And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies?

Um, do you know that they were?

Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy.

Okay, I thought that was funny. But overall, Ann Coulter is just doing Ted Rall's grotesque shtick about five years late.

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posted by WWB at 5:25 PM |