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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Coulter Calls 9/11 Widows 'Witches'

From the LA Times:

Conservative author Ann Coulter sparked a storm Wednesday after describing a group of Sept. 11 widows as millionaire "witches" who were "reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by "grief-arazzis."
"I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," she writes in her new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism."
...Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) lashed out at Coulter for a "vicious, mean-spirited attack," and Coulter's comments were abuzz on websites across the political spectrum, such as Wonkette, Huffington Post and Michelle Malkin. The New York Daily News' front-page headline was "Coulter the Cruel."


I realize that Coulter is mainly concerned about selling copies of 'Godless' with her special brand of harsh, silly hype, but is she — as a result — chasing moderate voters/thinkers away from the 'right'? I can't imagine that any respectible conservative would be too excited about the dust storm she's kicking up, especially since the nation's wounds following 9/11 have barely healed.

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