The reaction to Ann Coulter's Jersey Girls reference in her new book, Godless, The Church of Liberalism, proves the point she was making.� You cannot be critical of, or in any way respond to the leftist message that comes from someone classified as victim.
Think of Christopher Reeve and Cindy Sheehan.� These people were used by liberals/Democrats to get a message out that could not be challenged by the Right for fear of demonization.�Reeve, because he was paralyzed, carried the water on embryonic stem cell research; Sheehan, because her soldier son died in the Iraqi war, carried the bucket with the� 'withdraw the troops' message.
Truth is, the Jersey Girls�were termed 'rock stars of grief,' back in 2004.� Not by Ann Coulter, but by another member of the 9/11 families, who had encountered the women on more than one occasion and, of course, watched their actions closely.� It was Debra Burlingame, whose brother was a pilot on one of the hijacked flights, who made this astute observation.�
So, the reaction we're now seeing to the chapter in Coulter's book that deals with this victim—as—messenger phenomenon, once again, proves her point.�
J. James Estrada�� 6 8 06
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