Question about 9/11 widows? - Democratic Underground

AValdoux

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Wed Jun-07-06 03:31 PM
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Question about 9/11 widows?

Were they in an ad for Kerry in 2004? I didn't see any mention of that in their response to Coulter's appearance. I want to e-mail the Today Show but I would like to check my facts first. I remember them as being apolitical just working for improvements in national security.

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Synnical

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Wed Jun-07-06 03:35 PM
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1. Media Matters

http://mediamatters.org/items/200606060006

Although Coulter also criticized 9-11 widows for "cutting commercials" for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) during his 2004 presidential campaign against Bush, Lauer failed to note that other 9-11 widows made campaign appearances for Bush. As Newsday reported September 25, 2004:

(A)t the Republican National Convention, Debra Burlingame, whose brother piloted the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon, was one of three women who spoke in highly personal terms of their loss. She told the Associated Press yesterday she, too, was willing to make campaign appearances for Bush to outline her differences with the pro-Kerry families. "They want people fired, and I think we've moved on from that," she said."

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htuttle

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Wed Jun-07-06 03:37 PM
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2. I think one or two of them were in at least one ad for Kerry

Just as Bush had at least one pro-Bush widow of the 9/11 attacks in at least one of his ads.

:shrug:

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