I’ve written before about Ann Coulter. Why Is Ann So Skinny, and The Trouble With Ann attempted to make the point that she’ll say anything just to get attention. If ever I was proven right, it was this week, when she appeared on the Today show to hawk her new book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.”

So here she was, given a full eight or nine minutes one-on-one with Matt Lauer, to say whatever she wanted to say. According to Media Matters, this was apparently the third time in eight months that she has been on the show. So what did she say this time? I hesitate to give her words more distribution, but I’m also hoping that reasonable people who read this here blog and who previously thought that Coulter actually represented some kind of legitimate position on anything will see the error of their ways. Apparently, these are quotes from her book (which I have no intention of reading).

The first quote Matt asked her to justify was, “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths as much [as the widows of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks].” The actual full quote is, “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.” Now, apart from being a totally reprehensible thing to say, it’s just not very, um, “godly,” is it? Is that something a Christian would say? If you don’t like the women making a political issue out of their grief, that’s one thing. But to use the word “enjoying,” is just plain hateful. HATEful.

I’ve talked about Ann’s hate before. She’s consumed with it. She hates and hates and hates, writes books about hating, then goes on television talking about how much she hates certain whole swaths of people — you know, THOSE people… Those… LIBERALS…

Then she pulls a classic neo-con move… Turning her position into that of the victim. She takes the stance that no one is allowing conservatives to simply respond to liberal positions. She tells Lauer, “They were using their grief in order to make a political point while preventing anyone from responding.” Lauer then mentions that no one was telling her she couldn’t respond. Then she says, “now you’re getting testy with me.” Ann, you have been given more airtime to put forth your hatred than any of these widows. How dare you play the victim.

So what did this group of widows do after they lost their husbands in the WTC terrorist attack? Damn them, they had the GALL to pressure those in charge to investigate whether or not anything could’ve been done to stop the attacks before they happened. Why did they do that? Gee, could it have anything to do with the fact that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney initially were against a full public investigation into what happened on September 11th? And even after they eventually were pressured into it, they dug in their heels and tried to impede the investigation in any way possible. These were women who lost their husbands due to major foul-ups in the government, and they just wanted answers.

We live in the NY Metro area. So does Ann Coulter (she has a multimillion dollar penthouse in Manhattan). She should know that a Zogby poll after the attack noted that half of NYC residents and 40% of NY State residents believed that the government knew about the attacks before they happened but did nothing to stop them. With that many people in the area where the attacks occurred thinking that the government messed up here, would it not make sense that those who were most affected would make their voices heard when the government was refusing to take responsibility? For this, they are told they’re “enjoying” their husbands’ deaths?

I think perhaps before Ann got license to write a book about ‘Godlessness,” she should have first admitted that she is no Christian.

It’s kind of funny, because she actually lies about her Christianity as well. Check out this piece at Raw Story. Apparently, Ann was featured in an article in Time magazine, which talked a lot about her supposed “church” and how she always brought people there. Turns out Redeemer Presbyterian’s Communications and Media Director Cregan Cooke couldn’t confirm if Coulter had ever been there. Of course, that doesn’t mean she never has, but given how enlightened Coulter believes herself to be, one would think she’d be right up there in the front row singing Godly songs at the top of her lungs. Guess not.

The UK-based Guardian has one spot where you can see the most un-Christian of Coulter’s drivel. There, you’ll find such Coulter gems as “you’re no longer a grieving mom; you’re a C-list celebrity trolling for a book deal or a reality show” (talking about Cindy Sheehan), “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building,” and my favorite, “Frankly, I’m not a big fan of the First Amendment.” This, despite the fact that she believes that people are always trying to keep her from “responding.”

Well Ann, you’ve done it again. You’ve whored yourself out to sell more books. You’re #1 at Amazon.com, and for all I know you’ll be #1 on the NY Times list. All publicity is good publicity, right? Everyone’s talking about you. The problem is now, with all your insane quotes so well documented in the blogosphere and elsewhere, there is now a legitimate and lengthy record of the difference between who you claim to be, and who your words say you are.

I really and truly hope there is a god. And I’d really really love to be there when Coulter attempts to “respond” to him (or her) when taken to task on the hatred she spread while she was here, all under cover of being “godly.” And how funny, and how ironic it would be, if god interrupts her and says, just before closing the Gates in front of her, “you know, I’m not really a fan of the First Amendment either…”

Posted by Aaron on Friday, June 9th, 2006 at 6:01 pm.