{"id":1201,"date":"2006-06-09T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T06:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/09\/ann-coulter-were-missing-something\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T07:41:31","slug":"ann-coulter-were-missing-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/09\/ann-coulter-were-missing-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Coulter: we’re missing something"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking a break from art because nobody is saying the obvious about this story. Here is a short link<\/a> to it, and here is a video<\/a>; basically, Coulter accuses the 9\/11 Widows who have been outspoken about their political agenda for Homeland Security of "enjoying their husbands deaths," hogging the spotlight, being rich ladies loving the news, and so on. Obviously, heaps of lefties and righties are all ganging up on her calling her heartless – and deservedly so.<\/p>\n

The thing is, that’s the easy part; but no one has addressed her actual point yet. Her point, she says (watch video<\/a>), is that the Widows are taking a personal platform rather than political one, and that "no one is allowed to answer them" because of it – said debaters would be accused of attacking these women’s "authenticity."<\/p>\n

Here’s the problem: not only is Coulter attacking their authenticity, but she is attacking only<\/strong><\/em> that. She has not bothered to address their political stances on security in a public forum, not once.  After her attack, it was the 9\/11 Widows who only briefly answered\/accused Coulter of libel\/slander, then immediately brought the point back home to the political. If the crux of Ann’s blitz is to shut down the emotionally-charged, and bring in more political, debate, then why was it up to the Widows to do just that? Politics is always, always, always personal (and people like Coulter only enhance this – her political drive has shown to consist of almost entirely hate, fear, revenge and religion; all things personal), but you have to occasionally rebut with actual, rational, political, facts. That’s her point, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Then I have to ask, Ann, where are<\/em> yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking a break from art because nobody is saying the obvious about this story. Here is a short link to it, and here is a video; basically, Coulter accuses the 9\/11 Widows who have been outspoken about their political agenda for Homeland Security of "enjoying their husbands deaths," hogging the spotlight, being rich ladies loving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-jn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1074,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/12\/do-bush-followers-have-a-political-ideology\/","url_meta":{"origin":1201,"position":0},"title":"Do Bush followers have a political ideology?","author":"nathaniel","date":"12 February 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Greenwald says, a lot better than I ever could, what I have been trying to say for years: there is nothing Conservative left in the Conservative party; it is based on fear and hate and the blind following of a 'Good Leader.' 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