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Making Up Lies to Attack Ann Coulter

Matt at Life and Deatherage has written a post about Ann Coulter titled, How she gets away with it:

Sigh.

First of all, Ann “gets away with it” because:

  1. It’s protected speech. That’s right — the First Amendment doesn’t only apply to burning flags, protesting wounded soldiers outside of Walter Reed hospital, and yelling down military recruiters on college campuses. It also applies to conservative pundits.
  2. There’s a large audience for her work. If there wasn’t her books wouldn’t be New York Times “Best Sellers”.

But let’s get right to your post and the lies you tell.

In the very first paragraph you write:

In the “book,” as quoted on the show, she wrote the *following about the widows of NYPD and FDNY members who died on September 11, 2001

Two big lies jump right out in just that first statement:

  1. First she did not write the quote you refer to about the widows of “NYPD and FDNY members who died on September 11, 2001″. Of course, if you had actually read the book (Chapter 5), you would have known that, in the full context of that quote, Ann was speaking specifically about the 4 women known as the “Jersey Girls”.
  2. The husbands of the Jersey Girls were not firemen or police officers. Kenneth Van Auken was a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald; Ron Breitweiser was a Senior Vice President at Fiduciary Trust International; John Casazza was a Senior Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald; and Alan D. Kleinberg was a securities trader at Cantor Fitzgerald.

If you want to disagree with Ann, fine. Go ahead. But could you at least try to base your arguments on facts, instead of just making shit up?

*referring to the controversial quote: “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.

UPDATE: Is the author of Life and Deatherage none other than Donald “Matthew” Deatherage, who was arrested in March, 1994 for having sex with a 14-year-old boy? The same Matt Deatherage whom police say shackled, tortured and molested that 14-year-old boy, and whose father later discovered sexually explicit email messages between the two? The same Matt Deatherage who pleaded “No Contest” to those child molestation charges?

Amazing that a man who tortured and molested a teenage boy has the temerity to say that Ann Coulter “is evil incarnate” and that she should “have no place in society”. Actually, Matt, most would agree that it’s sick pedophiles like you who are evil incarnate and have no place in our society.

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2 comments for “Making Up Lies to Attack Ann Coulter”

  1. It’s really best to ignore people like her.

    Posted by Dan | June 9, 2006, 9:00 am
  2. No, I prefer to read the book, as she is one of the smartest individuals in the counrty right now. I would be remiss if I did not mention she is hot, and the subject of several conservative fantasies I have running through my brain, but I digress.

    I agree with her comments, I do wish she had used the plethera of other examples for her point but the fact is she is RIGHT. It is not funny to me that the left wants freedom of speech for no one but those that agree with them, but does everything in their power to undermine what protects that freedom every chance they get.

    Posted by Wayne Altman | June 12, 2006, 8:26 pm

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