I will say this about National Review: they were irresponsible for not cutting Coulter's infamous line in the Barbara Olson column ("We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity"). I'm not sure how the editorial chain of command works, but if I were the man in charge I'd give whoever edited Coutler's piece holy hell.
As for Coulter crying "censorship" because her editor told her she couldn't use certain language in a column — tough! Maybe no one informed her, but here in America we have something called private ownership. At any publication, just like at Free Republic, the only real free speech belongs to the person or people with final say over content. Coulter's rhetoric was getting too caustic for NR, so they let her go (I suspect after she pitched a fit about an editor cutting her columns). That's their perogative. The fact that she's whining about it proves to me that they made the right decision.
Dumping one hysterical, semi-talented jingoist pundit from the columnist roster is no black mark on NR in my book. I'm keeping my subscription.
They own their magazine. I don't have to buy it.
Now Ann's "trash"?? How soon some of us forget.
With all due respect to you and the NR, who are assumingly on the same "team" -- Conservatism -- EVERY "team" needs a Ray Lewis (of the World Champ Baltimore Colts) to shake things up and go-for-the- throat-no-holds-barred sometimes.
When you play hard there's bound to be a little "collateral damage" now and then.