Ghouliani spending 9/11 Anniversary with sleazy Coulter, who bashed 9/11 widows (TPM)

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Rudy Planning To Spend Part Of 9/11 Anniversary With Noted Basher Of 9/11 Widows
By Greg Sargent - September 11, 2007, 3:58PM

Rudy Giuliani may be running for President on his 9/11 performance, but that hasn't stopped him from planning to spend part of the sixth anniversary of the attacks with a high-profile pundit who's repeatedly bashed the 9/11 widows, calling them "self-obsessed" and accusing them of "enjoying their husband's deaths."

According to Sean Hannity's Web site and to the New York Daily News, Rudy is one of the speakers at Hannity's event this afternoon commemorating the attacks, the summer's final "Freedom Concert." Another one of the concert's planned speakers is pundit Ann Coulter.

From Hannity's site:



Here are some of the things Coulter wrote about the 9/11 widows in her book Godless:

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.
And:

hey believed the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was an important part of their closure process.
And:

These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.
Coulter has also claimed the 9/11 widows "use" the fact that they lost their husbands to make their points heard.

Coulter's comments were so harsh that they even drew condemnation from New York's former Republican governor, George Pataki, who coped with the disaster along with Mayor Rudy. "I was really stunned and I don't think it's at all fair or accurate,” Pataki said of Coulter's comments in June 2006, according to the Associated Press.

The 9/11 widows have been sharply critical of Rudy in the past.

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1. Look who else will be there: Joe Lieberman

Just to keep the event "bipartisan", I guess. I better get away from this thread before I start thinking bad thoughts.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Ugly Americans

The Republicans took a tragedy like that and turned it into personal political and financial playthings.

Disgraceful.

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3. They made have had the '04 convention in NYC, but '08 is in Minn..

home of the foot-tapping men's room at the airport.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!


I guess someday now, I should stop being amazed at how stupidly Gules is running his campaign and who he surrounds himself with.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Hadn't made that connection yet...good one