Eating Raoul

Please do me a favor and let me know if you can determine if there is even a shred of logic in this freeper rant that was published in the Letters section of the Inquirer yesterday (some of their screeching is just too ridiculous to ignore):

Coulter is right
Re: "Consider the source," June 11:

This editorial is an introduction to the "Bizarro World" of left-wing thought. Like the fictional setting of some Superman adventures, The Inquirer Editorial Board gets everything backward and considers it normal. Claiming Coulter's real objection is that the "Jersey Girls" didn't support Bush, the editorial leaves out the names of the women campaigning for John Kerry. Yet it highlights Debra Burlingame's appearing at the GOP convention.

The editorial praises the "Jersey Girls" for supporting the 9/11 commission, a commission that could not understand that Jamie Gorelick [deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration] needed to be a witness, not a commissioner. A commission that played politics, demanding that the president appear before it, hoping a refusal would tarnish the White House. Bush appeared and two of the most vocal Democrats clamoring for exactly that - Bob Kerrey and Lee Hamilton - took off early.

Because Coulter has identified the real issue, the left is whining about it. It is not that the left respects the "Jersey Girls." The left hoped to use conservatives' sense of decency to shield the cold and calculated decision to initiate the use of families of those murdered on 9/11 for political advantage. Read criticisms of Coulter's book carefully. Any editorial board or columnists insinuating that Coulter insulted all 9/11 families are themselves playing the same game Coulter exposed.

Raoul Deming
Chester Springs

Uh, what does campaigning for John Kerry have to do with Coulter’s sickening, cowardly attack on the 9/11 widows as part of publicizing her latest hateful screed? What significance does Jamie Gorelick have to do with the fact that Dubya fought the creation of this commission and only agreed to it when the families of the 9/11 victims pressured Congress into doing so? And how exactly did Bob Kerrey and Lee Hamilton “take off early” (of course, Thomas Kean, Sr., a Republican, was the other committee co-chair besides Hamilton, a Democrat, a fact Deming conveniently ignores).

And how nice for Deming to have “the left” as a convenient bogeyman for every single real or imagined offense.

I actually Emailed this guy and let him know what thought, so I’m sure I’ll receive back some overwrought, hostile missive with all kinds of trivia and a lengthy critique of Ward Churchill and his “little Eichmanns” remark. I’ll keep you posted.