Mary Matalin: Adam's Apple Annie jost doing her job ("her stock & trade")

Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/10/matalin-coulter/

Yesterday on Imus, Mary Matlin — a former counselor to Vice President Cheney and an influential strategist for the White House — defended Ann Coulter’s vicious attack on the 9/11 widows. (In a new book, Coulter says the widows are “enjoying their husband’s deaths.”)

Matalin passed on multiple opportunities from Imus to condemn or distance herself from Coulter’s comments. (Instead, Matalin said she agreed with Coulter’s “larger point.”) She also argued the outrage against Coulter was misplaced, saying “She calls somebody a harpy and you’d think that the world was on fire.” Watch it:



Transcript:

IMUS: What did you make of the Ann Counter deal?

MATLIN: I take her larger point that in the absence of being able to make persuasive arguments you throw out messengers that — can’t be — it’s politically incorrection to argue with, you know the verbiage is a little, a little stressful.

IMUS: So you thought her comments about these women…

MATLIN: I take her larger point, which is —

IMUS: Why can’t you comment on her calling these women harpies.

MATLIN: Because that’s not her point. That’s completely not her point.

IMUS: Well no, but saying that they were happy their husbands got killed and were going to divorce them. And yeah, that they’re getting long in the tooth. Maybe they ought to think about appearing in Playboy, which is an option.

MATLIN: What do you think about her point? Her point that you can’t — you know Cindy Sheehan — if you throw yourself in the political arena, then you should be able to address political issues, and people should be able to speak back to you.

IMUS: I agree with her point.

MATLIN: Well, then that’s what I agree with.

IMUS: But i think it’s repugnant and repulsive and gutless to, and cheap and cheesey to call these women all these names. I mean, whether it’s right or not, it’s just something there’s just. You don’t go there.

MATLIN: That’s her stock and trade.

IMUS: But i’m surprised that you won’t condemn her for these repugnant remarks.

MATLIN: I don’t know her. I haven’t read the book.

IMUS: You don’t have to know her. You know what Hitler did. Did you you him? You condemn what he did.

MATLIN: Are you comparing her to Hitler?

IMUS: No, I’m not. Of course not.

MATLIN: This is the point. This is complete the point she’s making. These lefty crazy people go around calling us (unintelligible) and Hitlers and Nazis and everything and nobody say anything. She calls somebody a harpy and you’d think that the whole world was on fire.

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that will have to do. I disrespect James for still being married to this bitch.

James Carville, his opinions, his judgement, or his sincerity -- EVER.

TC

sometimes I can barely be in the same room with him. I cannot imagine being married to one. They are like Blackwater hitmen of politics apparently. $$$$$

These people are GOOD.

to BEING GOOD?

Whare are their Philosophies which reflect GOODNESS over EVIL? Nada.

completely turning things around, not that they are GOOD good.

from bad...

:beer:

Look,fast on his feet Imus isn't. All those drugs keeps your mind from operating at light speed--his is running somewhere around the speed of a Yugo with a real low tire. I would have bitch slapped that rag for comparing what Coulter is doing to what Cindy Sheehan is doing.

Jesus....

"She's a shrew one."

He should not have agreed with Coulter's point. She is wrong.

Coulter cannot talk about an issue without killing the messenger. It should be very easy to state an opinion that may differ from another--no matter who it is. She cannot do that without getting personal and therein lies the problem. Sometime while under the rock in which she slithers, she learned at least some decorum--and is complaining that she cannot denigrate the grieving widows (yet still manages to do just that.)

I disagree with those parents whose children died in Iraq--you know the ones that Bush parades in front of the cameras to use as political tools? I can disagree with them without getting personal. Ummm...have Matlin and Coulter brought up those parents and the way Bush uses them? Likely not the hypocrites.

as hating America. According to republicans, if you criticized, you were siding with Terrorists, or with France. Cleland, Kerry, Clark, Murtha, retired or other Americans who served in combat - all slammed, mocked.

So let's take down the spouses of those killed on 9/11. Let's take down Cindy Sheehan. They too are not supposed to speak.

Let's be clear - Anne Coultergeist is not saying she disagrees and would like to dispute a point - she is challenging their right to speak at all. Again, she won't debate the issues - no discussion on issues - it is challenging your right to speak at all.

his "work" with the KKK, do you Mary?

Anyway, I hope Mary gets to meet what's her name and they become great friends.

They apparently have a ton in common. Love of hate

shouldn't be calling someone else names? He does it all the time!