Rahm Emanuel Attacks Ann Coulter for Humiliated Hillary


Top Hillary Clinton aide-turned-congressman, Rahm Emanuel, is blasting conservative author Ann Coulter for her critique of four 9/11 widows in her new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" - after Coulter humiliated Mrs. Clinton last week.

"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," Emanuel complained on the House floor Thursday.

The Illinois Democrat stepped up to the plate after Coulter managed to silence Hillary, who had complained the day before that the writer's comments about the 9/11 widow's group, the Jersey Girls, were "vicious and mean-spirited."

The conservative firebrand fired back by suggesting that Mrs. Clinton should "have a talk with her husband" if she was worried about being mean to women - mentioning two of Mr. Clinton's accusers by name. Mrs. Clinton has been mum on the Coulter controversy ever since.

Enter Mr. Emanuel, who was part of Mrs. Clinton's crisis management team in the early days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The one-time Hillary lieutenant told his House colleagues that Coulter was really little different from an al Qaeda terrorist, explaining: "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."

Rep. Emanuel then demanded that the conservative writer apologize "to all of us who have lost our fellow citizens on 9/11."