Summary: For the third time in a week, NBC provided a forum for Ann Coulter's hateful rhetoric and continued to milk the controversy that surrounds her. On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Coulter again discussed her attacks on the widows of 9-11 victims. Media Matters for America asks what other NBC show will try to capitalize on the ratings boost the network clearly thinks Coulter brings.
For the third time in a week, an NBC host or anchor purported to disapprove of right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's invective against the widows of 9-11 victims, while the network continues to milk the controversy it helped create and continues to bolster sales of her new book -- Godless: The Church of Liberalism -- in which her attacks on the widows and many others can be found. This time the host was Jay Leno and the show was the June 14 broadcast of The Tonight Show. But just as Today co-host Matt Lauer and Nightly News anchor Brian Williams shined a spotlight on Coulter and her most inflammatory comments, Leno gave Coulter yet another opportunity to promote herself and her book, even as he characterized her comments in the book as "harsh" and "nasty."
Media Matters for America asks what other NBC show will try to capitalize on the ratings boost the network clearly thinks Coulter brings: Meet the Press? Dateline? Deal or No Deal? Perhaps Fear Factor ...
From the June 14 edition of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on which Coulter appeared with comedian George Carlin:
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It really isn't that LONG -- yet -- so you can still read through the WHOLE THING rather QUICKLY.I re-sized most of the MARVELOUS (new!) photos of Ann posted there, so that it loads MUCH FASTER for (those folks on dial-up connections) than it did YESTEDAY. :o)