DU sez: Coulter to blame for USSC justices receiving rat poison treats

Typical brainless offal from the place we fondly call "the DUmp:"

cat_girl25 Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Fri Nov-17-06 08:02 PM
Original message
Ann Coulter should be held responsible for enticing people to poison the USSC!

--``We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' creme brulee,'' Coulter said in a Jan. 27 appearance at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., regarding Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She later explained she was joking about the justice, whose votes have upheld Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision legalizing abortion.
http://wcbs880.com/pages/44818.php?contentType=4&conten...

Justice Recalls Treats Laced With Poison
By LINDA GREENHOUSE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 — A discussion of recent threats to judges’ safety, at a bar association conference in suburban Dallas last week, became startlingly specific when Sandra Day O’Connor, the retired Supreme Court justice, recounted that each justice had received in the mail “a wonderful package of home-baked cookies” that contained “enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court.”

Although the episode was not publicly disclosed when it occurred in April 2005, it had a public, although little-noticed, denouement last month when the sender of the poisoned cookies was sentenced in federal court here to 15 years in prison.

The sender, Barbara Joan March of Bridgeport, Conn., pleaded guilty to 14 counts of “mailing injurious articles.” The 14 recipients included the nine justices; the chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; and the director and deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The packages, containing either candy or baked goods, were laced with rat poison.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/washington/17threat.h...

So what's wrong here, you may ask? The rat poison-laced treats were sent to the justices in April of 2005. Ann made that joke on January 27th...









...wait for it...









...2006.

Oops. Little bit of a timeline problem there, guys. Better luck next time.

[Hat tip: Carol on the Conservative Underground forums.]

Of course, we card-carrying members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy all know that Ann used the VRWC Time Machine to go back in time to make this woman send the treats last year. Shh! Don't tell the liberals!

UPDATE: They've realized their error, but they've done their usual song and dance to skirt around it:

cat_girl25 Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Nov-18-06 12:24 AM
Response to Reply #9
11. Granted Coulter didn't say this until 2006. The poisoned cookies

happened in 2005. Of course we're just finding out about this. Maybe Ann knew something no one else did?



Senator Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Nov-18-06 12:35 AM
Response to Reply #11
12. It wasn't published until then

But she makes lots of speeches. Often for private, "red meat" audiences.

Who's to say her hardcore fans hadn't been hearing this from her for years.

Enquiring (and prosecuting/litigating) minds want to know.

"Who's to say" indeed! Obviously this liberal loon is and that's what he (and his fellow loons) will believe to his dying day - lack of proof be damned!

UPDATE: DU and others are trying really hard to blame the right for this woman's actions. Unfortunately for them, the facts of the case jump up and bite them in the biscuits (as usual). From Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute:

So let's check the sentencing memorandum (8 page .pdf) for Ms. Barbara Joan March. This starts at the bottom of page six:

Third, the defendant's conduct does not appear to have been motivated by any personal, political or professional animosity toward the intended recipients of the letters. Rather, interviews with the purported senders of the letters, as well as factors cited in the presentence investigation report, suggest that the defendant's conduct likely was motivated by a misplaced anger toward the purported senders of the letters, former friends and colleagues who in the defendant's mind somehow had abandoned or wronged her.1 See Presentence Investigation Report at ¶88. The fact that the defendant chose to mail the letters to high-level public officials in a misguided attempt to cause more harm to the purported senders has increased her sentence by approximately five years.2

I seriously doubt this information will do anything to dissuade the far-left loons from believing that Ann or any other conservative is to blame for these attacks.