Posted on 10/23/2002 2:02:10 PM PDT by marylandmike
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:03:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LETTERS What is The Daily Times up to -- trying to prove there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy?
To an op-ed page already lopsidedly conservative, the editors have added Ann Coulter.
What have readers done to deserve this? Wasn't Bill O'Reilly punishment enough?
(Excerpt) Read more at delmarvanow.com ...
Ann was just being kind.
Yeah, and that editor was recently fired! Here's the NewsMax account:
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.
The article is posted here.
You may like Coulter, but if you address substance of the letter rather than take sides, nothing in it should leave you speechless.
Coulter engages in a time-honored tradition of rhetorical hyperbole. She is James Carvile with morals, intelligence, honesty, and a sense of humor. Most of all, she is effective.
Obviously she will not win converts. Her task is to amuse the troops.
Ann Coulter is a peach and she does her research and that research hurts the politically correct and other socialists.
Typical response from a liberal who is afraid that their subversive agenda might be uncovered for all to see. Number one tactic of the liberals is offensive projection. Take what we are and accuse the other side of our characteristics first before we are found out for what we are.
What "facts" does the letter-writer use to substantiate this claim?:
Coulter is not stupid, but she hopes readers are. Maybe if she repeats the same lies over and over, we will mistake them for truth.
He doesn't cite any lies, he states that he does not agree with her characterizations of the truth.
I, too, find Ann is sometimes harsh in her wording, but she is much more often than not, telling the truth, as evidenced by her documented excerpts in Slander. As far as trying to find any substance in the letter to the editor, the only "substance" I found was the name-calling and vitriol. The author seems to have out-Coultered Ann by his personal attacks.
Note the numbers for Erlich for Governor on the Eastern Shore. Don't bother to flame the newspaper. I'll bet they ran this letter as an unpaid advertisement for their latest columnist, Ann Coulter.
Congressman Billybob
Ann was being to soft on them. She should have added that the Democrats are the party of perjury and obstruction of justice, voter fraud, class envy and class warfare, corruption, race-baiting, and sedition as well as treason.
What are you.....some kind of panty-waist pinko?
The difference between her and her leftist counterparts is I cannot determine anything that she says to be untruthful.
She puts her opposition back on their heels & I'm damn glad somebody is.
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