Open Letter to Justin H.

Justin:

You have once again succeeded brilliantly in making a complete ass of yourself. In a recent post, you stated that:

Ann Coulter is under attack because of a series of comments she made about an infamous group of 9/11 widows known collectively as “The Jersey Four.”

What were those comments, Justin? Do you have the guts to repeat them on your own blog? ALL of them?

It certainly seems that you do not. Why do you suppose that is?

All she said is that the widows shouldn’t go unanswered. Coulter answered the widows in a big way.

That’s an utter and complete lie, Justin, and you damn well know it. She said a good bit more than just “the widows shouldn’t go unanswered”. Of course, by now, no one has any expectation that you will discuss anything with any measure of truthfulness.

“These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted like the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony.”

“The 9/11 widows are witches and harpies.”

“I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”

“And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren’t planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they’d better hurry up and appear in Playboy.”

There’s a reason you didn’t actually post Coulter’s actual comments, Justin: You know in your heart that what she said is utterly indefensible. Not to mention that they don’t match the fairy-tale world in your head.

God help you when you get out into the real world and have to deal with people who don’t live in the fantasy world you inhabit. You’re going to pay a heavy price thoughout life for your inability to deal with facts that you don’t like, as well as your habitual dishonesty.

UPDATE 06/12/06 18:38 PM: I see you managed to screw your courage to the sticking place, Justin. Much good has it done you.

Let’s go over Coulter’s spewings, and your justifications thereof. Pay attention — you may learn something about the fine art of critical thinking.

COULTER: “These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted like the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony.”

JUSTIN: “As for the first one, she was addressing the fact that they are constantly flaunted as experts on 9/11, and no one is brought up to make counter-points.”

Coulter says nothing whatsoever here about the widows being “constantly flaunted as experts on 9/11”. She makes a claim about the widow’s beliefs for which she provides absolutely no factual support whatsoever. And there was, so far as I am aware, no ban of any sort on anyone, anywhere, “mak[ing] counter-points” to what the widows had to say. Can you explain — with factual examples — how this alleged ban worked in practice?

COULTER: “The 9/11 widows are witches and harpies.”

JUSTIN: “The second one, is once again referring to the manipulative ‘Jersey Four.’”

No, Justin. She says nothing about them being ‘manipulative’. She merely calls them names. Pay attention to what is actually said, and you’ll make fewer silly mistakes like this.

Now can you provide factual examples in which any of the widows were overtly ‘manipulative’? You remember facts, don’t you, Justin? Search your memory. Surely you’ve been exposed to one or two in your brief lifetime.

COULTER: “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”

JUSTIN: The next one is referring to them being media whores, which they are.

Again, dead wrong. Coulter says nothing in this comment about the widows being ‘media whores’. As usual, Justin, when you are cornered, you panic and make shit up out of whole cloth.

Try real hard, Justin, and see if you can dredge up some fragment of empathy for another human being. I’m sure there were times in your early childhood when you could still summon that trait. Ask yourself if you can truly believe that each and every one of the widows truly enjoyed, relished, rejoiced in the fact that their husbands died fiery, horrible deaths. Do you really think ordinary human women have those feelings when their mates are killed?

Never mind. I just realized I’ve asked far too much of you.

COULTER: “And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren’t planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they’d better hurry up and appear in Playboy.”

JUSTIN: “As for the last one, I don’t really agree. I don’t think she should have attacked their personal life.”

Good God, Justin, PAY ATTENTION! What is Coulter doing throughout the entire tirade? Attacking these women because of something that happened in their personal lives. Neither she nor you can construct one single cogent counter-argument to what the 9/11 widows said. Neither she nor you have even tried.

Like Coulter, personal attacks against these women is all you’ve got. It’s sadder than that, really — it’s all you can conceive of.

UPDATE 06/12/06 20:16 PM: Steve Young has a hilariously spot-on parody of Coulter’s latest pukings:

Chapter 12 – Like We’re Supposed To Care?

I have never seen children enjoying their incurable diseases so much.

It seems to be all the rage for witches of want with a so-called “terrible illness” to try and turn their maladies into some sort of whining, cause-celeb begathon for medicines and research to cure their condition or relieve their pain.

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Parents of the perpetually sick just throw good money after bad. If the child is going to die, dragging it out isn’t going to make her or him any more alive.

People will defend the screams of agony from these health-wannabes with a liberal doctrine of infallibility, saying that we can’t question their neediness because they’re sick or are going to suffer some horrible death. Their shelf-life is dwindling. Don’t be surprised to see whatever is left of this sicklings soon stripping off their feeding tubes and bandages on the pages of Playboy.