Coulter's "beef" with some of the 9/11 widows is that they have not cowered in their grief like a good hausfrau should, allowing the Busheviks to define 9/11 entirely to their own ends. No, they became activists. And in the midst of their personal tragedy, they pushed hard for the 9/11 commission, swaying public opinion and overcoming Bush's hard opposition to its creation. And since they opposed Bush, they are "harpies," which must mean they are also liberals, and since they are just a bunch of suburban women(who should leave politics to the pros--like Coulter) they must be "tools of the left."
And what's worse, they might be millionaires(ohmygod!!)who must be stupid to not understand that they are betraying their own kind(don't they understand tax cuts??). I mean, Bush has been so kind to all millionairs(at the expense of everyone else), so why can't they get with the program? Coulter's use of that word, millionaire, pejoratively in referring to these widows, as if it discredits them somehow, making it some sort of right wind populist rallying cry, is the pinnacle of irony.
If Coulter ever had to stick to truth or any actual issue, she would be speechless. As it is, I give her credit for defining the vanguard of the republican attack machine. The politics of personal destruction never had a more creative advocate.
Unfortunately, what she and the entire republican machine represent is the view that all our troubles are someone else's fault. We don't make mistakes. Not Bush, not Rumsfeld, not America. The other guys are bad. They're the ones doing it to us. And so she, like Bush, like every other right wing pundit, talk show freak and streetcorner evangelist contribute to the pool of grievance that fuels the endless cycle of vengeance that fires the islamic world against our lily-white, bible-spouting (if not exactly toting) neocon righteousness. She, and America, are trapped in a hell of our own making. |
