My sympathies are with the parents of the fallen soldier....but I was still able to see the left-wing Hillary butt-kissing in his speech. I don't like liberals and their political philosophy - period! And I will not be co-opted by emotional horse crap. There were two reasons he spoke at the convention: He is muslim, and he was willing to repeat the dem propaganda; I don't care who you are....if you want to spread the dem lies and propaganda - and use the grave of your hero son to do it - I will have ZERO respect for you. Sympathy, yes. Respect, absolutely not. Hillary doesn't give one tinker's dam that his son served and died....EXCEPT for her own political benefit - she played the father, and many "conservatives" like a Strad.
Ann just happened to point out the fact that the dems had no interest in Khan's service or patriotism - they just wanted to use his father, and Dad was apparently eager to be used.
There was a smear of the dems in her tweet, and Zakaria was smeared - Khan was NOT smeared - but the dems screamed because they understood that their craven motivations might be revealed. I am more disappointed in Podhoritz than I am Ann. Podhoritz has made it all the way to the enemy camp.
I will not argue with all that you said particularly that Khizr Khan appearance was political, of course it was. Then again what about the speakers of the GOP convention? Mary Ann Mendoza, Sabine Durden, & Jamiel Shaw whose children were killed by illegals? Karen Vaughn whose son was killed in Afghanistan? Were those not politicized?
As to Coulter’s tweet:
Ann Coulter ✔ @AnnCoulter
You know what this convention really needed? An angry Muslim
with a thick accent like Fareed Zacaria.
9:19 PM - 28 Jul 2016
First of all, in her Tweet, she was implying that there was something wrong or un-American because of Khan having a thick accent like Fareed Zacaria (correctly spelled Fareed Zakaria and who, while I don’t like him at all as a journalist or for his political view, is a naturalized American citizen originally from India and is a self-described secular and non-practicing Muslim).
Had Coulter stated more of what you stated above in your first two paragraphs, that would have been fair game and would have made a valid point, but no, Coulter had to go with the cheap shot of pointing out the man’s accent, Coulter becoming ever increasingly bigoted and losing focus on or making any meaningful comments.
And that brings me to my last point.
My father was born in Norway and he came here with his recently widowed mother in the late 1920’s when he was about 6 years old and neither could speak a lick of English. She met and married a man who was also and immigrant from Norway and they had two children together, my uncles.
The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, my father who had just turned 18 tried to enlist but was turned down because he was not yet a naturalized American citizen (and neither were his mother and step father yet.) But less than a year later he was drafted (go figure).
My father served with honor, distinction and valor (several metals for valor in combat) in the US Army in the SPT and was wounded twice (two Purple Hearts).
He officially became a naturalized American citizen shortly after the war, after he and my mother were married and my older brother was born. And I say “officially” because the judge who presided over his swearing in said that due to his service, it was a legal formality. My grandmother and grandfather also became naturalized citizens around the same time.
My grandparent however still had their thick “foreign accents” but were proud of their son and of their country – the United Stated of America and flew an American flag in front of their house every day my father was overseas.
If Ann Coulter wants to be taken seriously (ever again) she needs to get off Twitter, lay off the insults and start saying things of substance. Just as someone else should do.
