Posted on 10/22/2002 6:29:28 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Bob Unger, editor of something called the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania got a lot of notoriety when, in what he saw as a defense of the freedom of speech, he dropped Ann Coulter's column because the acid tongued writer insisted on exercising her right of free speech. He also got himself fired.
Unger wallowed in what he claimed was an avalanche of mail patting him on the back for "firing" the best selling author of "Slander" taking what he thought was a free ride on the back of the massive nationwide publicity his target was getting as a result of her book.
Unger says the Coulter incident had nothing to do with his sudden departure.
"I don't think that had anything to do with it," Unger told Editor & Publisher. His leaving, he said was a mutual" decision between himself and publisher Henry Haitz.
Sure it was.
Last month, in a column he publicized widely, he announced that he had "fired" Coulter claiming that her nationally syndicated column was "mean." E&P noted that the decision angered Coulter's huge army of fans but Unger said that "80 to 85%" of the more than 5,000 e-mails he ultimately received supported his decision.
"I know that doesn't represent the general population, but it represented the people who wrote me," he told E&P Online.
He left the paper, he said because there was "a difference in style and objective" between him and Haitz, who took over as publisher of the paper several months ago. The terms of his separation agreement, he said, were confidential.
Mr. Unger has learned the hard way what a lot of people on the liberal side have learned: don't monkey around with Ann Coulter. Liberal editors of small newspapers trying to attract attention to themselves and boost their egos by sniping at nationally prominent hard-nosed conservatives such as Coulter, usually end up no longer being liberal editors of small papers.
Unger, who had been executive editor for 2 1/2 years, told E&P he had no immediate job prospects but was working on his second novel.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
His first, Dearth in the Valance, a study of window treatments among the poor, is being used to prop up his coffee table. He will also blow people for food.
There's no need for Limbacher to diss the Centre Daily Times.
It's a fine, local newspaper.
And while Mr. Unger apparently thought he'd get support from the liberal activists that infest the campus of my Alma Mater (Penn State), he found out the hard way that Centre County is actually a VERRRRRY conservative region.
Good riddance, Mr. Unger! Happy Valley has given you the boot!
Bwahahahahahaha!
In the words of another liberal, John Lennon:
Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
heheheheh
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