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Monday, June 12, 2006 11:05 p.m. EDT
Media Proves Coulter Right

In their outrage over Ann Coulter's new book, "Godless: The Church of
Liberalism." the media have proved the very point they dispute -- the
church of liberalism has a doctrine of infallibility and liberals hide
behind a bevy of sacred cows to defend its tenets.

In her book, Coulter writes that ever since Rush Limbaugh and Fox News
Channel broke the monopoly on the news and the floodgates opened, the
leftist media and the Democrats have been trying "to re-create a world
where they can hurl slander and treason without anyone arguing back
they needed a doctrine of infallibility" that would prevent critics
from answering back, leaving their fallacious doctrines unchallenged.

"They would choose only messengers whom we're not allowed to reply
to," she writes. "That's why all Democratic spokesmen these days are
sobbing hysterical women. You can't respond to them because that would be
questioning the authenticity of their suffering."

Among them, Coulter writes, are "people with "absolute moral authority"
in the words of Maureen Dowd describing Cindy Sheehan -- Democrats with
a dead husband, a dead child, a wife who works at the CIA, a war record,
a terminal illness or as a last resort being on a first-name basis with
Nelson Mandela."

And so we get the likes of the "Jersey Girls" exploiting the deaths of
their husbands on 9/11, Sheehan exploiting the death in Iraq of her son
to attack President Bush, Joe Wilson, Rep. John Murtha and other
untouchables. To challenge their assertions is blasphemy and "over the
line." And an assault on the "sacred."

In her book Coulter writes of all of the above unchallengeable
messengers, but the liberals in the media have focused on one group
the Jersey Girls -- four New Jersey 9/11 windows who have blatantly
exploited the deaths of their husbands exactly as Sheehan has exploited
the heroic death of her son -- to castigate the president and his
administration, and become lionized millionaires in the process.

And, just as Coulter has written, she has been lambasted by the media
and such liberal Democrats as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for daring
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The Jersey Girls - Kristen Breitweiser, Mindy Kleinberg, Lorie Van
Auken and Patty Casazza - "scarcely representative of the hundreds of 9/11
widows" as Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote in the Wall Street Journal, are,
being widows, allegedly exempt from being criticized, not for their
widowhood, but for their exploitation of it for the crassest of
political motives.

The four, three of whose husbands worked for the Wall Street firm
Cantor Fitzgerald, first attracted attention when they came together to
complain that the average settlement of $1.6 million the government was
planning to pay 9/11 victims' families was not enough.

After succeeding in getting their payments increased they began
attacking Bush for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks. They demanded
the establishment of a commission to explain why the government had not
prevented the attack. From the beginning their target was never the
hijackers who murdered 3,000 people, including their husbands, but the
Bush administration.

They cut commercials for Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential
campaign, launched vicious attacks on Condoleezza Rice and leapt to the
defense of Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton administration Justice Department
official who had erected the so-called "wall" that prevented
intelligence agents from sharing information with law enforcement
agents about suspected terrorists in the U.S.

Two years ago, long before Coulter focused on the Jersey Girls, the
Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote about their "venerable
status"

"Who, listening to them, would not be struck by the fact that all their
fury and accusation is aimed not at the killers who snuffed out their
husbands' and so many other lives, but at the American president, his
administration, and an ever wider assortment of targets including the
Air Force, the Port Authority, the City of New York?" she asked. "In
the public pronouncements of the Jersey Girls we find, indeed, hardly a jot
of accusatory rage at the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. We have, on
the other hand, more than a few declarations like that of Ms.
Breitweiser, announcing that "President Bush and his workers ... were
the individuals that failed my husband and the 3,000 people that day."

"The venerable status accorded this group of widows comes as no surprise
given our times, an age quick to confer both celebrity and authority on
those who have suffered. As the experience of the Jersey Girls shows,
that authority isn't necessarily limited to matters moral or spiritual.

All that the widows have had to say -- including wisdom mind-numbingly
obvious, or obviously false and irrelevant--on the failures of this or
that government agency, on derelictions of duty they charged to the
president, the vice president, the national security adviser, Norad and
the rest, has been received by most of the media and members of Congress
with utmost wonder and admiration. They had become prosecutors and
investigators, unearthing clues and connections related to 9/11, with,
we're regularly informed, unrivalled dedication and skill."

And untouchable, as Coulter has charged.

As Coulter said in a TV interview Saturday night, the media has
portrayed her comments about the Jersey Girls as an attack on all 9/11
widows. This, she explained, is "specifically about four women who have
turned themselves into political activists against the President,
defending Bill Clinton, [and] attacking Condoleeza Rice ..."

Coulter went on to explain that her chapter was about liberal
infallibility and how they "keep sending up these human shields to make
pure partisan political points. Like Cindy Sheehan, like the Jersey
Girls ..."

Coulter explained that in the chapter "I have a whole slew -- plenty of
other examples of the use of human shields ... sending out spokesmen we
can't respond to."

NBC's Brian Williams saw Coulter's criticism of the Jersey Girls as
crossing the line. In introducing the segment on Coulter's remarks,
Williams said, "just when you think that it seems that there are no
limits on anything, someone comes along and makes a comment that goes
over the line -- the line that is shared by just about everybody
because some things are, it turns out, still sacred."

And there you have it. The politicized Jersey Girls represent something
"sacred." They must not be criticized -- to do so is to challenge the
Liberal Doctrine of Infallibility. They are the sacred cows who immunize
the indefensible liberal insanities and slanders of the Democratic Left
from scrutiny, solely by virtue of their massively exploited widowhood.

Just as Coulter said.