Tuesday, June 13, 2006
An apology
Rarely have I ever felt that I have misspent city-appropriated funds designated for purchasing books for our library. But after seeing Ann Coulter on "The Today Show" last Tuesday, I want to apologize for purchasing Coulter's new book, Godless. After hearing her vile statements about the 9/11 widows ("...reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people [actually she called them broads] enjoying their husbands' deaths so much"), I regret having added a few City of Dover dollars to her income stream. Yes, we had requests for her new book and yes, we have all her others, but her venomous and deliberately hurtful diatribe turned my stomach. My best hope is that it was just a shocking ploy to sell books. Regardless whether you are a conservative or a liberal, and you'll find both views represented equally in our collection, a human being with any compassion would never be able to write those words. I find her statements repulsive and her comments indefensible.
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While I appreciate your sensitivity and outrage on behalf of the 9/11 victims, I find your apology wholly unnecessary. I feel stongly that libraries must provide access to materials from all points of view. And I trust you, libraries and librarians, to provide me with information free from institutional editorials. Whether or not I agree with her stand, I believe Ann Coulter's book does have a place on the shelves of my local library. If I intend to soundly criticize her, I must read the book first and I'd prefer dover residents pool our resources than each buy a copy and support such a person. This debate seems especially appropriate today, Flag Day, and reminds me of it means.
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