Posted on 01/05/2009 4:38:42 PM PST by MovementConservative
The nation’s top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
Banned for life!
“We are just not going to have her on any more, it’s over,” a top network source explains… “We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”
{Allahpundit} Media Matters pushed them to cancel but there was no nutroots groundswell that I’m aware of. They knew what they were getting when they booked her considering what happened the last time she was on and her tendency to refer to The One in interviews as “B. Hussein Obama.” Scheduling her put them in a spot where they’d either have to go through with it and spoil their new liberal Olber-brand or cave and be ridiculed endlessly for lefty pandering by O’Reilly and Fox. So, er, why’d they do it? And why would someone at the show give a quote that juicy to Drudge knowing what he’d do with it, given that he’s a friend of Coulter’s and dependably promotes her books whenever a new one drops? Anyone else find this strange/stupid, even by NBC’s standards?
Update
Late today, NBC News denied the story with this statement: “We’ve had Ann Coulter on ‘Today’ many times, but because of the news in Washington and the Middle East, we decided to cancel her appearance tomorrow. Understanding the media as well as she does, we are sure she knows this happens from time to time. We look forward to welcoming her back in the future.”…
The Drudge story says NBC “replaced Coulter with showbiz reporter Perez Hilton,” who also has a book being released tomorrow. NBC tells TVNewser Hilton is just appearing in the fourth hour and had been booked far in advance.
{Allahpundit} “The news in Washington and the Middle East” is sufficiently dire to leave no time for Coulter but some time for Perez Hilton?
Whatever else, Ann knows how to sell a book. She’s playing them like sheet music...
It seems NBC considers Perez Hilton an expert on the Middle East?
A patented publicity stunt to remind despondent conservatives to buy her new book....facilitated by her south FL pal Matt Drudge.
NBC = NoBody Conservative
“replaced Coulter with showbiz reporter Perez Hilton,”
Wow - that’s hard-hitting journalism! I’m sure Miss Showbiz will really challenge the minds of NBC viewers!
Amen! Beatem like a Drum Anne!!
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That's MR. Showbiz to you, sweetie.
Yes, I'm sure NBC would love to see her book go to the top of the NYT list.....
Break it down.
She's "banned," but not "forever."
NBC denies it? But but, my anonymous reliable expert source that we have verified with multiple sources inside NBC says its the truth, so we’ll stand by it.
Don’t you love it when anonymous sources get turned back on MSM. They love to use it on the rest of us
“A patented publicity stunt to remind despondent conservatives to buy her new book....facilitated by her south FL pal Matt Drudge”
Worked on me. After seeing the Drudge headline, I immediately went to Amazon and ordered the book.
I would have any way.
I don’t doubt that the original story is true — NBwhatever just wasn’t happy that it leaked out to the whole world.
Besides, their excuse is lame. If the newz in DC and the Middle East is so friggin important, why did they substitue Pissant Hilton?
NBObama got busted.
I don’t think I can recall ANYONE who is a Bush basher, regardless of how hateful, being banned from NBC. No bias there!
Ah, yep.
I don't know how my Annie can keep a straight face on this one. The NBC idiots just doubled her book sales (and Ann knows it, doncha know?).
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Darn, they cropped me out of this one.
I wouldn’t believe NBObama if they told me today is Monday.
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