Second paper drops Coulter.
By on Mar 6th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Second paper drops Coulter.
The Oakland Press (California Michigan) has joined the Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania) in announcing plans to no longer run Ann Coulter’s column after her remarks about John Edwards.
UPDATE: Human Rights Campaign has an action alert: “Contact Universal Press Syndicate, the largest independent newspaper syndicate in the world, and let them know that carrying Ann Coulter as a syndicated columnist is not acceptable.”
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Maybe the “Assault on Reason” is getting a bit old. :)
This “movement” of conservative insanity is coming to an end. We all know what kind of “movement” it has been. Thank God it is ending.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:47 pmAdvertisers dropping first, now newspapers. Wow, that 15 minutes was fast!
March 6th, 2007 at 9:49 pmI thought you needed an injection of antibiotics to do that….
March 6th, 2007 at 9:49 pmBe nice if TP drops Coulter.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:50 pmBe nice if TP drops Coulter.
Comment by ForTruth
My thoughts exactly.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:58 pmI say, keep reporting Coulters outrages and those who applaud them.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:00 pm#
Be nice if TP drops Coulter.
Comment by ForTruth
My thoughts exactly.
Comment by Zooey — March 6, 2007 @ 9:58 pm
I couldn’t agree more. Stop feeding it and it starves.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:02 pmHow doe’s that old saying go.? Oh yah ” Money talk’s, *hit walk’s” looks like coulter will be on a long hike just as soon as every one turn’s away from her and stop’s noticing what she does….Blessings
March 6th, 2007 at 10:03 pmC’mon papers and advertisers, pile on! the more, the merrier. : D
March 6th, 2007 at 10:04 pmHey Uncle Ho, gonna be around for a few minutes? I can find that paragraph I put up for you before, and re-post it.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:10 pmOr, ignore the gangrene and eventually they’ll have to cut off your entire leg…
Glad to see Ann get what she deserves… I think it was made possible by the outrage and publicity of that outrage…
Just my two cents
March 6th, 2007 at 10:12 pmCoulter needs to be put into a mental institution for her own good.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:15 pmTo clarify my position. The MSM ought to be reporting, TP doesn’t have to keep giving that creepy woman even more attention.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:17 pmSecond paper drops Coulter.
I’d like to see someone actually drop her, preferably from very tall building.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:23 pmDo you think that the MSM doesn’t pick stuff like this up until there’s enough internet buzz about it?
I agree, talking about her isn’t pleasant, but I’ve noticed that unless it gets considerable attention in the blogosphere, the MSM doesn’t notice… Almost as if the blogs are their test boards for ‘ratings’…
At least she’s been demoted to a grey box :)
March 6th, 2007 at 10:24 pmZooey; I’m still here, at least for a little while longer. On eastern time zone here and approaching 2300. Bedtime coming up fast.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:27 pmThat’s true, unbelievable. The MSM didn’t pick this up right away, did they?
Thank heavens for the grey box.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:28 pmOk Uncle Ho. I’ll be quick — I hope. :)
March 6th, 2007 at 10:30 pm…unless it gets considerable attention in the blogosphere, the MSM doesn’t notice… Almost as if the blogs are their test boards for ‘ratings’…
At least she’s been demoted to a grey box :)
Comment by unbelievable — March 6, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
The Internet in general, and the blogosphere in particular, is what drives much of the MSM coverage these days. A friend of mine in the industry freely admits that most media outlets pay very close attention to what people are reading online and to what folks are searching for.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:30 pmZoo,
I think it’s why the insane trolls come here trying to disrupt us… Because our collective voices in intellectual political blogs like TP, DailyKOS and others really have replaced the 18-25 year old horny male demograpic when it comes to television news… And they know that if we talk about something enough, it’s as good as public information. Walter Reed went this direction too.
Just a pattern that seems to exist. And, for a change, it’s a positive one…
Well, night guys… Sun comes up earlier here on the eats coast :)
March 6th, 2007 at 10:34 pmA friend of mine in the industry freely admits that most media outlets pay very close attention to what people are reading online and to what folks are searching for.
Comment by Bob’s Your Uncle — March 6, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
Good to know… There seemed to be a correlation. Whatever we talk about the most gets the most air time – with a one to three day delay… sometimes less.
That’s a big responsibility, but frankly, I’ve been here for almost a year and a half, and for once, I think that responsibility has been given to the right people – those who have read the Constition, reject fear as a lifestyle and have triple digit IQs.
If anyone has “changed the world”, it has been liberal blogs and their commenters.
Okay, I’m really going now… ‘Night!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:38 pmI couldn’t agree more. Stop feeding it and it starves.
Comment by Chris — March 6, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Actually, when the newspapers and cable stations and booksellers stop feeding her, that’s when it starves.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:39 pmUncle Ho,
I have been in touch with Jean Chabut, who is the Public Health Administration Chief Administrative Officer for the Michigan Department of Public Health.
Basically, she said the survey apparently had a very low response rate so the information was not reliable enough to be used. There is a report on the Agent Orange survey, but they need your address in order to send it to you.
Also, there were other studies done at the time that you might be interested in.
If you want the emails, let me know, and I’ll forward them to you.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:40 pmUnb; Good night.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:40 pmYeah Unbelievable you are tired, you had like 3 typos. :)
March 6th, 2007 at 10:41 pmGood night Un, I’m signing off as well….I think..The Bear had me up early and am tired…Blessings all..
March 6th, 2007 at 10:44 pmDamnit! Maybe Uncle Ho is not meant to have that information.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:45 pmZooey; thanx. please post the e-mails and I will check this thread in the a.m. I’m going to follow unb’s lead and turn in.
On another thread I posted that Jane Fonda still gives the reichwing fits. Flood their sites with ‘Jane Fonda for president’ slogans. It will drive them up the wall. snark.
Good luck and good night.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:49 pmClearly the Oakland Press are just a bunch of f*ggots.
[/coulter]
March 6th, 2007 at 10:51 pmAmanda,
It appears to me that this particular Oakland Press is in Michigan, not California. The link takes us to a michiganliberal.com web site, and Oakland is the name of a county in Michigan. I’ve lived in Oakland, California lo these past 21 years and I’ve never heard nor seen any paper by that name here.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:10 pm[...] March 7th, 2007 · No Comments Second paper drops Coulter. [...]
March 6th, 2007 at 11:13 pmThere was once a Coulter-GEIST called Ann
March 6th, 2007 at 11:14 pmWhose RABID REMARKS were a MERE FLASH IN THE PAN!!!!!
Wise, reasoning Presses
Got tired of her MESSES
AND KICKED HER/HIS/ITS SORRY ASS OUT ON ITS CAN!!!!!
#28 – Uncle Ho,
ME: A friend of mine, who is a Viet Nam veteran, filled out an Agent Orange Survey he received in the mail from the Michigan Department of Public Health. This was a few years ago. He never heard back about the survey, and now would like to know what came of it. I wonder if you would be able to provide any information about the results of this survey, or point us to the proper department?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you are able to provide.
MS CHABUT: (Zooey) – that was many years ago – back in the 1980s and a report was developed that I recall as “unremarkable” in its findings; however, I will make inquiries to see if anyone still has a copy and let you know if I find anything.
MS CHABUT: We found the report, but no survey results. [ see attached] If you want the report, send Dr. Miller your address and we’ll mail it.
ATTACHMENT: Harry said he had a box of Agent Orange information in his office, including the Commission’s final report. He is having a copy of the report sent to me.
Per Harry, the survey the requestor is asking about had a very low
response rate therefore the information was not reliable enough to be used. However, the commission report speaks to several other studies that were done at the time which may be of interest to this requestor.
If she would like to give an address we could have a copy of the final report sent to her.
ME: I never thought I’d hear back so quickly! I’ll let my
friend know what you’ve told me, and let you know how he wants to proceed.
Thank you!
MS CHABUT: :-} Glad we could be of some help.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:17 pmIt’s about time that this vitriolic woman started reaping some of what she’s sown. Coulter is, of course, free to speak her mind — but those companies who carry her column and advertise on her website are equally free to stop doing business with her if and when they become concerned that the way in which she chooses to express herself might tarnish them by association and potentially be detrimental to their interests. After all, conservatives thought it perfectly reasonable that Linda Ronstadt lost a performance contract as a result of her decision to express her opposition to the War In Iraq and her admiration for Michael Moore — so any objections they might make to the pullout by Coulter’s business associates would be hypocritical (I notice that the usual suspects have by and large chosen not to comment on this topic as of yet…wonder where Firehead, Patrick1, Seixon, et al. have got to?)
Conservatives like Coulter claim to believe in taking personal responsibility and in accepting the consequences for one’s choices — well, now we have the perfect opportunity to see whether the woman can practice what she preaches or whether her real principle is “do as I say, not as I do.” After all, nobody forces Coulter to make the sort of comments that she chooses to make — she does so of her own free will. Based on the way that she’s tried to avoid facing the consequences of her behavior already — namely, by trying to excuse her comments with the claim that it was a “joke” and that what she said wasn’t really offensive to anyone — my guess is that she’ll object to the pullout and claim that it’s unfair.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:42 pmI disagree with those who say TP should give her less attention. Do you really think papers would be dropping her if it weren’t for pressure from the blogs? I am a bit ambivelent about the papers dropping her though. The more she talks, the worse the right looks.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:56 pmIronic to see you so upset by Ann Coulters remark, yet where was your outrage over…
BILL MAHER ADVOCATING THE DEATH OF VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY?
wishing someones death is acceptable to the democrat party?
March 7th, 2007 at 12:27 amdeath is the answer?
so you’re all for the death penalty now?
To imply that John Edwards is a homosexual in a tone that would suggest homosexuality is wrong goes beyond the pale, especially after all the nice things that homosexuals have had to say about Ann over the years.
Liberal Larry
March 7th, 2007 at 12:29 am#35 Bill Maher doesn’t speak alongside Democratic candidates. Do you understand the difference? Bill Maher lost his job for that. What are the consequences to Coulter?
March 7th, 2007 at 12:32 amAnd ballbuster, where were you when Patty was calling for the assassination of Chavez? Probably right behind Robertson. Literally.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:34 am#36 There you go muckdog. It is all those fags fault that Coulter is a hate filled hag. Nice spin.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:35 amI have never seen someone so despicable and full of hate as Ann Coulter. I provide counseling for meth addicts and I can truly say her attitude is similar to that of a rebel junkie kicking meth. Horrendous!!!! First impression I got when I heard her say “…you have to go to rehab if you use the word faggot…” was like hmmmm sounds like she’s in tweaker hell. I was almost convinced for a moment. Who knows what this evil skank has really been up to. God have mercy on that lost soul!!!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:56 amHUH? he sure as hell supports nothing but democrat party candidates.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:57 ammaher is part of the Fringe left.
To imply that John Edwards is a homosexual in a tone that would suggest homosexuality is wrong goes beyond the pale, especially after all the nice things that homosexuals have had to say about Ann over the years.
Liberal Larry
Comment by muckdog — March 7, 2007 @ 12:29 am
So muckd*ck – when someone uses the n-word, they’re just suggesting the person is ‘black’? You’re a fcuking bigoted fool!
March 7th, 2007 at 1:00 amHUH? he sure as hell supports nothing but democrat party candidates. maher is part of the Fringe left. Comment by ballbuster — March 7, 2007 @ 12:57 am
Actually he constantly b*tches about Dems, and supported many GOP positions over the last several years. Including on Iraq. Maher is a libertarian – and those typically vote Republican.
He’s as moderate as McCain is – are you saying McCain is a Fringe Left? We certainly know what a right wingnut you are – if you call a libertarian a fringe left – you fcuking idiot!
March 7th, 2007 at 1:01 amIronic to see you so upset by Ann Coulters remark, yet where was your outrage over…
BILL MAHER ADVOCATING THE DEATH OF VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY?
wishing someones death is acceptable to the democrat party?
death is the answer?
so you’re all for the death penalty now?
Comment by ballbuster — March 7, 2007 @ 12:27 am
This is pretty much what passes for reasoned discourse on the Right these days.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:20 amWell ballbastard, there you go again. I watched the Real Time episode you are referring to. Conservative former congressman Joe Scarborough was a guest panelist and admitted on his own MSNBC show that that is not what Bill Maher was inferring. They were discussing Arianna Huffington removing posts from her blog that were derogatory toward VP Cheney while he was allegedly nearly bombed. The tenets of freedom of speech, if you will. The only thing Bill did say was that more people might be alive if Cheney had been killed referring to Cheney’s lies and distortions about Iraq that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. You know, actual human beings, including over 3100 American service men and women.
Dick Cheney and the rest of the PNAC megalomaniacs should be held accountable for their treacherous misdeeds against the people of this nation and be tried for treason for their blatant disregard and abuse of the Constitution of the United States.
So, in short, ballbastard, go swallow a turd and choke it down with a Cheney flavored glass of kool-aid.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:23 amAnyone who claims that Coulter’s remarks were a joke doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Conservatives have no sense of humor, and as such, are genetically incapable of saying or doing anything even remotely funny.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:24 amBallbuster put down your grouping airbrush. I am not a Democrat nor am I for the death penalty. Anne has spoken of poisoning judges. If you were to send an email to the Whitehouse advocating such you would be charged and thrown into the hoosegow.
Anne, as a lawyer, should especially know better than to make such statements. The media is a powerful form of inducement. Lets not forget the blogger, Castagana, who sent white powder (As Anne said she did), and who got jailed for that.
Castaganas ‘joke’, and threatening letters, were not funny. I don’t hate Anne Coulter (I’m stoopit that way about all people) because of her political views, but her bias laden attack methodology is growing quite tiresome. Anne has (in jest, I assume) claimed to have sent that mysterious white powder to The New York Times. (Roll out the copy cats)
Now, Ballbuster, this kind of stuff isn’t funny (BTW I don’t watch Maher) and this guy (a freeper) Castagana apparently has mimicked the extreme views of blow you up pundits. Does that make all freepers as nutty as Castagana? Certainly not, it would be ludicrous for me to assume and post such non-facts.
Many people, unfortunately, take their TV pundits seriously. Anne is not funny, never has been, if she wants to make jokes she should hire a comedian to help her out. Radical statements create radical fans.
I don’t agree that Anne, nor any person, should be dropped from a building because of a political ideology; but these people, pundits, need to realize that they are taken very seriously by some of their viewers.
And please, BB, stop grouping people you do not know. To say ‘you Democrats all want the death penalty’ is not a correct statement and I am sure you realized that before you even posted your remark. I am truly sick and tired of this media and blogger frenzy of grouping by association in effort to create controversy, moreover, many have actually come to believe in their own opinonated group theory as I see it here, and elsewhere, daily.
I recognize it and you probably should as well. I am glad the media is starting to realize that this divisive rhetoric is not helping but harming our country.
United we stand; divided we fall.
And yes, it is true that you people here are listened to quite intently, you have surely noticed by now, so it is important that you make your words and statements count. Use your head and not your bias when making your points. Validate them with links and other pertinent data.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:34 amTo be slightly irreverent, I showed the photo of Ann-thrax on the original thread about her “faggot” remark to three Japanese women. Two weren’t sure of her/his gender, and one thought she/he is a long-haired man. Incidentally, the Japanese word for “Adam’s apple” is “nodobotoke”–literally meaing, the “Buddha in the throat.”
March 7th, 2007 at 7:35 amZooey; thanx.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:40 am[...] Progress – Second Paper Drops Coulter Companies to pull ads from Coulter’s Web [...]
March 7th, 2007 at 8:09 amwishing someones death is acceptable to the democrat party?
death is the answer?
so you’re all for the death penalty now?
Comment by ballbuster
Knowing that millions of iraqis have exiled, hundreds of thousands of dead civilians in two of the most devastated countries in the world, I wouldnt feel sorry at all if the people behind these atrocities along with their supporters, just die.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:28 amOh WAA. Compared to the acidic, hateful, violent things I have read here, or heard liberals say, (we would be better off with Cheney dead??) etc etc, ad nauseum, what she said was tame. Shame on you for doing what you find hateful in someone else. That is as hypocritcal as you can get.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:00 amThis is a very good sign. No paper should want stuff written by this disgusting person in it.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:44 amCompared to the acidic, hateful, violent things I have read here, or heard liberals say, (we would be better off with Cheney dead??) etc etc, ad nauseum, what she said was tame. Shame on you for doing what you find hateful in someone else. That is as hypocritcal as you can get.
Comment by Douglas G. — March 7, 2007 @ 9:00 am
Ok, I would like you to provide the quote in which someone said–verbatm–”we would be better off with Cheney dead,” complete with proper and verifiable attribution. You can’t, simply because no one said that. On the other hand, we have Coulter’s words about Edwards, Gore, Clinton, the 9/11 widows, etc., etc., in print and on screen.
Conservatives are constantly griping about lies from the so-called “liberal media,” and yet guys like this apparently think nothing of having their information spoon fed to them straight from Sean Hannity’s ass.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:32 amCoulter makes the “Faggot” comment and conservatives laugh and glap. Why are we surprised?? Do you remember the wearing the “Purple ban-aid” on their cheeks at the republican convention for george?? These are sick ass people these repukes.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:53 amDamn…Coulter really is radioactive.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:55 amCoulter makes the “Faggot†comment and conservatives laugh and glap. Why are we surprised?? Do you remember the wearing the “Purple ban-aid†on their cheeks at the republican convention for george?? These are sick ass people these repukes.
Comment by marcus robinson — March 7, 2007 @ 10:53 am
Back in 2004, conservatives were all in a lather about the suggestion that RNC Chair Ken Mehlman might be gay. The yapping pack animals over at Powerline were especially outraged by the whole thing.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:00 amBill Maher never advocated the killing of Dick Cheney. I saw the program. I later saw a videotape — it didn’t happen, but the rabid mouths at Faux-TV are saying it, so it must be true, right?
March 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pmBallbuster, I am afraid you don’t have your facts straight. Maher makes fun of Democrats and Republicans — so does the Daily Show — it’s just that the Repugs give them so much more material since Bushie is in office.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:58 pmYou really must read a little more, and find your remote control for the TV, you simply can’t watch Fox all the time and know the truth.
[...] humor or outright bigotry, we would not have distributed them in her column.” So far, two papers have announced plans to stop running Coulter’s column. 1:04 pm | [...]
March 7th, 2007 at 1:04 pm#Marie,
March 7th, 2007 at 5:08 pmBill Maher also wrote a piece for the huffingtonpost site denying the rumors being spread by Faux News and other reichwingers and explaining what he really said.
Zooey; thanx.
Comment by Uncle Ho
Anytime, Uncle Ho.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:48 pm