I don't know whether this was already posted when it first came out about a couple of weeks ago, but if anybody ever wonders why the self-indulgent media and literati types in the US aren't behind us in the war against terrorism, here's a shining example of a young, spoiled brat of a writer who has access to the media. I am against hitting women, but I'd surely suspend that rule just once to give her a sock in the jaw, and I wouldn't lose a moment's sleep over it. What a sad case- too bad there are so many liberal media types like her...

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PAGE SIX

By JARED PAUL STERN with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON


February 20, 2002 -- Liz, get back on the Prozac

LOOPY literary pin-up Elizabeth Wurtzel says New Yorkers "overreacted" to
the Sept. 11 terror attack, but her main complaint seems to be that no one
hired her to write about it.

"I just felt, like, everyone was overreacting," Wurtzel told a Canadian
journalist last week about her experience being near Ground Zero on Sept 11.
"People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me."

Wurtzel - whose debut book "Prozac Nation" is being made into a movie
starring Christina Ricci, while her follow-up, "Bitch," flopped - also
declares that when her mother called to tell her a plane had crashed into
one of the Twin Towers, "My main thought was: What a pain in the ass."

Despite numerous frantic phone calls to her Greenwich Street apartment, not
far from the World Trade Center, the emotionally stunted scribe couldn't be
bothered to get out of bed until the second plane crashed, reports the
Toronto Globe and Mail.

When she finally did drag herself to a window and saw the towers collapse,
Wurtzel says, "I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought, 'This
is a really strange art project.' " Then her windows blew in and airplane
chunks landed on her roof.

(cont.)

She may not have been moved by the horrific spectacle of the massacre but,
in retrospect, Wurtzel says, the towers' destruction "was a most amazing
sight in terms of sheer elegance. It fell like water. It just slid like a
turtleneck going over someone's head. It was just beautiful."

Wurtzel says she "cried for all the animals left there in the neighborhood"
after the attack, but as for the 3,000 human victims, "I think I have some
kind of emotional block. I think I should join some support group for people
who were there."

Wurtzel acknowledges she'd never dare say such things in the U.S., noting,
"You can't tell people this. I'm talking to you because you're Canadian."

Wurtzel was up north last week plugging her third book, "More, Now, Again: A
Memoir of Addiction," which details the trials and tribulations she
supposedly endured writing "Bitch," a collection of essays about powerful
women. It didn't sell well despite the fact that Wurtzel posed nude for the
cover.

Summing up her feeling post-9/11, Wurtzel muses: "You know what was really
funny? After the fact, like all these different writers were writing these
things about what it was like, and nobody bothered to call me." Of course,
she says, "I don't want to tell other people's stories."

Add her name to my list!  Now strike a line through it!

[s]Elizabeth Wurtzel[/s]

No good c#m grurgling "Bitch"!

I guess I'm overreacting just like a New Yorker too.

Do people actually take these friggin' idiots seriously?

Oh yeah... Clinton was elected twice.

Who's Elizabeth Wurtzel?  

Is she important?

Why do her feelings matter anyway?

yeah, but that pic of her on the cover of 'bitch' is something else! mmmmmmm![:P]