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Fired Conservative Columnist Anne Coulter Getting 'Great Publicity'
CNS News ^ | 10/2/01

Posted on 10/02/2001 9:14:04 AM PDT by truthandlife

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, fired from her contributing editor perch at the National Review Online, blames it on free-speech hysteria in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a recent online column, Coulter opined that the United States should respond forcefully to the terrorist attacks: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," she said. The comment provoked an uproar, and the National Review Online subsequently refused to run another Coulter piece in which she referred to "swarthy males." When Coulter complained, she was fired. Tuesday's Washington Post quotes Coulter as saying she doesn't need friends like that. "Every once in awhile they'll throw one of their people to the wolves to get good press in left-wing publications," she told the newspaper. National Review Online Editor Jonah Goldberg told the Post, "We didn't feel we wanted to be associated with the comments expressed in those two columns." Coulter told the Washington Post she's getting great publicity as a result of the flap.


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To: truthandlife
Count me among those who think that if NR had problems with Coulter's column they should have addressed them before putting it/them on their web site.

I've wondered for months now how National Review could stoop so low as to hire some no-talent hack like Jonah Goldberg. He does not write well. I've yet to see from him a single example of original thinking. Heck, I get embarassed for NR every time I read his column.

Nevertheless, they still have many excellent articles by top-notch writers, and I consider it a must-read publication. I'll just choose to ignore Jonah.

161 posted on 10/02/2001 10:44:17 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: Dumb_Ox
Where is that suggested? I see this stated again and again by posters, but I don't see it in the text. As I assume Miss Coulter has a Christian aversion to coerced conversion, I see no reason to insinuate such an idea.

Let me quote her again:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity"

How can you read this to suggest something other than forced conversion? She didn't say "preach them the gospel". She said "convert them". If you see anything in her words which suggests she favors allowing them a choice, please explain it to me.

162 posted on 10/02/2001 10:44:23 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: LarryLied
He should be the center of attention, not Anne. His writing is entirely derivative--

DERIVATIVE? or devisive? Stick to your guns and bombs, Anne. Turn all Islam toward Christianity.

163 posted on 10/02/2001 10:44:36 AM PDT by let freedom sing
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To: Restorer
A little more clear? I got it immediately. Certainly, the entire NR editorial staff aren't collectively less intelligent than I am?!
164 posted on 10/02/2001 10:44:58 AM PDT by Beep
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To: angelo
"Your self-righteousness is breathtaking."

Kool, - - It's about that you took a breath! - (and read a dictionary or two)

165 posted on 10/02/2001 10:45:23 AM PDT by editor-surveyor
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To: let freedom sing
Harry Bowman, a graduate student at Cornell, stood up and began to speak. For a few moments he rattled on about how his ancestors were white slaves, and then discussed, an a Cosmo-Kramer-like, incoherent manner how Ann Coulter was destroying the Republican party. After lunging at Coulter, in what appeared to be an attempt to attack her, Bowman was ejected from the room by members of the College Republicans.
166 posted on 10/02/2001 10:45:50 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: FormerLurker
You've got to admit, that's a bit on the extreme side. The first two comments are OK, but I'm sure a lot of people would have a problem with the last remark. Many people believe in God, but not all of them are Christians.

You're not one to believe that hyperbole has a place in creative writing?

Being a Christian, I would no more want those people in my religion as I would hyenas.

167 posted on 10/02/2001 10:46:28 AM PDT by Publius6961
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To: editor-surveyor OWK
No, he doesn't understand enough about the Gospel to disagree with it; his fear has prevented him from studying it. - This thread is a perfect textbook example.

You obviously don't know OWK very well. Also, have the courtesy to flag a person when you are talking about them.

168 posted on 10/02/2001 10:47:36 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: OWK
assorted idiots who took this situation as an opportunity to set their hair on fire and run about in circles screaming "look at me, LOOK AT ME!!".
Coulter, Browne, Falwell, Robertson, Maher, and counting.

Small correction:

"Coulter, Browne, Falwell, Robertson, Maher, Owk... and counting."

169 posted on 10/02/2001 10:49:41 AM PDT by Publius6961
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To: Physicist
Force is clearly implied by the fact that it immediately follows, "Invade their countries" and "kill their leaders". I somehow don't get the impression that she's inviting them to a Promise Keeper's rally and hoping they'll see the light.

Thanks, Physicist. You said it better than I did.

170 posted on 10/02/2001 10:49:42 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: dubyaismypresident
You and others subsequently have suggested that the article was satire. I only skimmed it, when it was first posted on FR and didn't catch on. Do you by any chance know the link? I tried Drudge's link, but it only gives you her most recent article.
172 posted on 10/02/2001 10:50:39 AM PDT by Aurelius
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To: Anthony Bruni
They hired Jonah Goldberg as an editor. That says everything about the standards NR wants to maintain. On-line, off-line, doesn't matter. Their name is at stake.
173 posted on 10/02/2001 10:51:27 AM PDT by LarryLied
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To: StacyMac
I believe it is because we are hooked up to the Creator. Just look at Moslem or Buddist or Hindu and pagan god societies. Have they contributed anything comparable in inventions to humanity?

By gosh, you're right. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Albert Einstein were all devout Christians.

174 posted on 10/02/2001 10:51:46 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: onehipdad
Ironically, NRO has run an article by Paul Johnson that agrees with you. Islam materially diminishes every civilization in which it becomes dominant.
175 posted on 10/02/2001 10:52:02 AM PDT by RobbyS
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To: Alkhin
What Anne said was no different than what Jonah said.

Question #1: Do you contend that there is no ethical distinction whatsoever between Jonah warning Nineveh of God's impending judgment (leaving their response thereunto in their own hands), and Ann Coulter's advocacy of forced conversion?

Question #2: Do you contend that God specifically told Ann Coulter what to say, as He told Jonah?

Conversion by the Sword:
1.) Is unBiblical; and
2.) Doesn't work.

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life... And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." -- John 6: 63, 65 KJV

176 posted on 10/02/2001 10:52:04 AM PDT by Uriel1975
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To: Physicist
Anne Coulter's suggestion was to revoke the freedom of Moslems

Muslims have freedoms?
Care to list which countries?

You wouldn't be parsing your words would you?

177 posted on 10/02/2001 10:52:05 AM PDT by Publius6961
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To: OWK

Ann attacked by the leftist of Cornell.

either you are with us or against us......boycott national review here at FR freep anyone that puts up some spew from them here. Their phones are ringing off the hook today LOL

178 posted on 10/02/2001 10:52:11 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: Jim Scott#156
Right on. Don't apologize, Anne. Stick to your guns. We don't need any more flacid apologies for thin-skinned, politically correct liberals.
179 posted on 10/02/2001 10:52:43 AM PDT by let freedom sing
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To: Iwo Jima
It's ok to joke about burying them in pig shit, bombing them with pig urine, shooting them with bullets dipped in pig fat, vaporizing them with neutron bombs, incinerating them with napalm (or the modern day, new and improved versions) but it's not ok to joke about converting them to Christianity. Didn't you know this? Didn't you get your FR PC handbook when you registered?
180 posted on 10/02/2001 10:53:12 AM PDT by Critter
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