Yes, we’re all entitled to First Amendment protections of the Constitution, short of yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. But ultra-conservative right-wing commentator and author Ann Coulter seems to think it’s her birthright to criticize and lambaste whoever she wants, regardless of the facts or the impact of her vitriol.

In her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism, she discusses some of the 9/11 widows who became politically active following their husbands’ deaths. She writes that she’s “never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths,” as much as the so-called “Jersey Girls.”

In a testy interview with Matt Lauer, Coulter said that she felt the widows, who she dubbed “The Jersey Girls” and who were instrumental in the creation of the 9/11 Commission, had unfairly exploited their husband’s deaths in a national tragedy for their own gain. As part of her mean-spirited critique, Coulter, who has refused to express any sympathy for the widows, muses, “[H]ow do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies?”

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