Outrageous but True

Ann Coulter has taken an unrelenting verbal beating from the left concerning her comment that the "Jersey Girls were enjoying their husbands death". Ann's bluntness is typically only exceeded by her ability to recognize the truth. Although her description of the frolicking foursome is exactly correct, she might have worded it a bit better.

The Jersey girls are revelling in the celebrity that their tradgedy has brought them. Much like Cindy Sheehan they are milking their situation for everything it's worth. It's the rank opportunism of exploiting ones personal hardship in pursuit of furthering an agenda. It's a formula that has been used by professional politicians for time immemorial, it's employment by "civilians" however, is a newer phenomenon. Using the backs of their dead husbands and sons as a soapbox from which to spew their misguided ideology is both a disrespect and dessecration. It matters little if they are playing out their own designs or are simple useful idiots, it's wrong and Ann was right to call them on it.

These people who choose to thrust themselves into the public spotlight also become infuriated when they are challenged as if their personel tradedy should somehow insulate them from public comment and scrutiny. BS, they opted to enter that kitchen if it's too hot for them they can shut the hell up.

Regardless of how correct Ann Coulter is, she needs to choose her words a scoach more carefully. She is after all one of the most recognizable conservative pundits on the scene today. The more "out there" the left and EM can portray her the less credible she becomes as a reliable conservative voice. When her message is marginalized, all of us on the right feel it's effect.

Considering I am not an author and hence not in the business of selling a book, my ultimate motivations on this issue are somewhat different. Indeed one of the reasons that Ann has made it to the top is her duly earned designation as provocateur extraordinair. The balancing act between being amenable and provocative is tenuous indeed.

It's a given that had this particular passage in Ann's book been worded differently, the left most certainly would have dug up another. We all know Liberals will never allow one of her books to exist without expressing some substantial degree of incense and outrage.