Ann Coulter Censored Again

NewsMax ^ | July 24, 2006 | NewsMax

[kddid]

Editor & Publisher, a newspaper trade magazine, slammed Ann Coulter again.

The latest installments in the magazine's jihad against Coulter includes a story that Georgia's Agusta Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Coulter's nationally syndicated Coulter. The magazine said Coulter's "stridency" has crossed the line.

Since Coulter's new book, "Godless, The Church of Liberalism," shot to the top of the bestseller lists, liberal media outlets have been furious that Coulter criticized four of the 9/11 widows for their political activities. [Editor's Note: Decide for yourself! Get Ann's book for just $4.99 -- Save $23 Go Here Now.]

Under the heading "Augusta Editor Explains Why He Dropped Coulter Column,” E&P quoted Chronicle Editorial Page Editor Michael Ryan, "We're a conservative editorial page."

Ryan noted that the paper also runs columnists such as Robert Novak, George Will, and Walter Williams along with liberal Ellen Goodman.

Ryan told E&P that the paper wouldn't have dropped Coulter if she had made "one or two" controversial comments.

"But it came to the point where she was the issue rather that what she was writing about," he told E&P. He also claimed that that Coulter's reputation has become mixed even among conservatives.

But broadly conservatives have rallied to Coulter's defense. An online NewsMax poll surveyed more than 200,000 readers and found that about 80 percent agree with Coulter's criticism of the 9/11 widows. The same number have a "favorable" view of the blonde-haired pundit.

Ryan also observed that the situation was "becoming kind of a broken record."

"Personally, I continue to be an Ann Coulter fan," Ryan admitted. "I think her logic is devastating and her viewpoint is right most of the time."

He added that the Chronicle would even consider bringing Coulter back if she somehow "became less of a lightning rod."

"This editorial page stands for many things, and we make no bones about it,” Ryan explained. "But one of the things we stand for is civility. Pulling Ann Coulter's column hurts; she's one of the clearest thinkers around. But you've got to stand by your principles, even -- especially -- when it's painful."

E&P happily added that the Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, also dropped Coulter this month. And The Times of Shreveport, La., is thinking of following suit.

In a second story in the July 24 issue, E&P writes about a planned TV series "Brothers & Sisters," due to air this fall.

E&P reports that Calista Flockhart, best known for her role as Ally McBeal, will play a Coulter-like conservative newspaper pundit.

But E&P hastens to assure readers that unlike Ann, she's a nice, sane columnist.

E&P quotes the show's producer, Ken Olin, as saying that the Flockhart character is "not Ann Coulter. She's not insane."

Added the show's writer Jon Robin Baitz , once described by Bomb Magazine as "a little bit of a communist, in the way that Tolstoy was a little bit of a communist," [the Flockhart character] is "a thoughtful conservative. She's ideologically, in some respects, very much in mind with the older parts of the party, the sort of Eisenhower Republican, the William Buckley conservative. She's also a humanist."

[RFC_Gal]

Some don't like her baseless attacks on modern science.

[pageonetoo]

It's not a valid ANN thread without pics!

[Michael.SF.]

the people who want to put up machine guns on the border and gun down illegal aliens... they are probably nice guys

ROFLMAO.

You forgot your sarcasm tag................. I hope.

[Indiana Man]

Ann Coulter is awesome, adds Freeper Indiana Man.

[randog]

E&P quotes the show's producer, Ken Olin, as saying that the Flockhart character is "not Ann Coulter. She's not insane."

Any bets that the "Flockhart character" is portrayed as a naive, bumbling, racist, idiot? Anyone? Bueller....?

[Darkwolf377]

Coulter herself, far from playing the victicrat, takes pleasure from this sort of thing

Excellent point. Like Rush, when people attack her, you can imagine her smiling and thinking 'I got to those limp-wristed girly men again!'

She's like a good version of the Hydra--lop off one newspaper, and new fans grow in its place.

[trumandogz]

What ever happened to the First Amendment?


Coulter's First Amendment rights have been violated.

[mrsmel]

Any bets that the "Flockhart character" is portrayed as a naive, bumbling, racist, idiot? Anyone? Bueller....?

Or else she'll be a conservative like Arlen Spector is a "conservative".

[Sam Hill]

Read the deep thoughts of "concerned conservative":

Top 10 flaws in the conservative agenda- part 2

5. The "war on drugs" - Nobody rational thinks cocaine and heroine should be legal because widespread use would constitute a clear and present danger to the Republic. But at the same time it isn't rational to fill up the prisons with non-violent users of soft drugs who just wanted to quietly get intoxicated. We might as well have a "war on saturated fat" for all the good that does.

4. Writing off the blue states. Yes, the majority rules in a democracy but in our Republic minorities have rights too. A conservative seeking to live his life without being oppressed in a blue state is just as valuable and just as many rights as if he lived in a solid red state.

3. Attacking dissenters. One important principles is for each person to be true to his beliefs even in the face of a majority who disagrees. You didn't see Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan changing their position because of some new poll. When a conservative breaks with the majority of his party on principle we need to respect that and not attack him personally. Otherwise we wind up with only sheep who don't dare think for themselves and a few leaders who think their job is to maintain purity.

2. Falling for the obvious. A mother blames the president for her son's death in Iraq. Conservative bloggers quickly go after her. Someone suggests the Teletubbies are gay - conservatives quickly want them banned. The Dixie Chicks say they are ashamed to be from the same state as the President - conservatives flood radio station with demands that their songs be banned. These knee jerk reactions to things that "conservatives" don't like just makes the conservative movement look intolerant and foolish. It is so predictable. And here in Atlanta when the bloggers discredited one grieving mother, the newspaper just picked a different grieving mother to focus on and the conservatives look both vicious and ineffective. These people are allowed to speak and if we disagree we should argue our side, not fall for the obvious and go for the censorship knockout.

1. Being mean in general. It is one thing to disagree. It is another to attack those who disagree. President Bush43 gets this - that is why he is President. Conservatism means respecting traditional rights and values not about hurting others. It feels like too many conservative pundits enjoy the battle more than the principles. On the biggest conservative board you can be banned for suggesting looking inward - if we treat those who disagree decently we don't need to be afraid to look inward.

posted by Paul from Atlanta at 3:26 PM 1 comments   

Top 10 flaws in the conservative agenda

10. Privacy - the abortion debate debate has led conservatives to argue that there is not right to privacy - nothing is more conservative that the right to privacy - in our homes, in our cars and in our persons.

9. Equating conservatism with the religious right. Not all conservatives wish to impose morality on others. many conservatives recognize the right individual choices and then taking responsibility for those choices. Even Barry Goldwater was attacked and ostracized for addressing this point.

8. Intelligent Design: I believe in intelligent design - God is intelligent and he designed the universe. But ID has become a means to sneak religion into public schools. This is bad because it is dishonest and it is bad because it requires attacking science and makes conservatives look backwards. If we want religion in public schools we should change the constitution to allow it personal expression of religion anywhere including school.

7. Global warming. The earth is warming - it really is. Conservatives are wasting their time arguing that global warming is a myth when 100+ years of scientific evidence and the U.S government say the climate is getting warmer. Conservatives should refocus on the cause of the warming - if it is not man-made then it may not be in our power to stop it and while the Kyoto accords may be useless the problem is still real.

6.The relationship with minorities: Lincoln, Republican, freed the slaves (at least that what people believe), and most minority communities share many conservative values but they don't vote conservative? Why? I believe it is because conservatives has lost sight of the importance of individual freedom - this is particularly important if you are a minority. Minorities and conservatives are a natural alliance if we re-focus on individual rights and freedoms - classic conservative values.

Next post - the top five flaws in the conservative agenda.

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He sounds real conservative, doesn't he?

[LegendHasIt]

Yeah, I fully agree. This is not censorship any more than us not buying Dixie Chits CDs is censorship.

Besides, every article like this makes Ann "laugh all the way to the bank".... They add to sales of her books 10 to 1 for every dollar she loses from one pitiful little syndication outlet. And she couldn't buy the PR for a hundred times the price.

[SandRat]

Notice how those who so fervently claim absolute protection of the 1st Amendment are so gleeful to deny it to others.

[mrsmel]

Coulter's First Amendment rights have been violated.

Hardly.I think that they're stupid and weak for doing it,but no one's rights have been violated.

[goodnesswins]

You must be a VICTICRAT if you believe Ann's First Amendment Rights have been violated......In the PRIVATE ENTERPRISE system, the gov't is NOT supposed to muck around.

[Lizavetta]

It's censorship when government does it.

It's free enterprise and private business decisions when a newspaper does it.

Sorry Newsmax, you're wrong.

[Texas Eagle]

What ever happened to the First Amendment? Coulter's First Amendment rights have been violated.

Now, now. Everybody knows we live in "Two Americas" as John Edwards pointed out a couple of years ago.

The Constitutional provision some people refer to as "The First Amendment" are clearly designed to protect the speech of people like Ward Churchill and Cornell West.

You know...Liberals.

It's a double-standard thing. You wouldn't understand.

[Jack Wilson]

This thread violates one of the oldest Free Republic by-laws.

[mrsmel]

Her rights haven't been violated. This isn't a government newspaper. Ann has a right to speak(and I love to hear her),but a private entity isn't obligated to provide a platform.

[AppyPappy]

My old hometown newspaper pulled a conservative columnist for making statements that could be construed as "racist".

The same newspaper that chose to run letters to the editor condemning "race mixing". Go figure

[monkapotamus]

[Junior]

Only governments can censor.