[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10446]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            CRITICIZING THE HATE-FILLED WORDS OF ANN COULTER

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, as United States citizens, we are blessed 
with many freedoms. Among those is the right to freely speak our minds. 
While freedom of speech is one of the things that makes our country 
great, it also means we have to endure the words of a hatemonger like 
Ann Coulter.
  In her new book, the goddess of the right slanders the 9/11 widows, 
writing, ``These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in 
articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and 
stalked by grief-arazzies. I have never seen people enjoying their 
husbands' death so much.''
  Lest Ms. Coulter forget, more than 3,000 Americans were killed simply 
because they lived in the United States. That doesn't matter to Ms. 
Coulter, because she is doing it to enrich herself.
  But there is something more sinister in Ms. Coulter's words. The hate 
she spews is the same kind of hatred we are battling in the war on 
terror. As a country of thought and reason, I urge all of us to reject 
it.
  I must ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, does Ann 
Coulter speak for you when she suggests poisoning Supreme Court 
Justices or slanders the 9/11 widows? If not, speak now. Your silence 
allows her to be your spokesman.
  She should apologize to all of us who have lost our fellow citizens 
on 9/11.

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