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Ann Coulter Gets Fired...........Again
CentreDaily.com ^ | 3 September 2002

Posted on 09/03/2002 2:28:07 PM PDT by SheLion

Editor's File | A letter to Coulter


Dear Ann Coulter:
You're fired.
It's not that extreme viewpoints are unwelcome on the opinion pages of the Centre Daily Times. All political viewpoints, from Cal Thomas on the right to Molly Ivins on the left, are welcome here.

But, we don't welcome haters, Ann, and that's what you are.

Well, you are either a hater or a hypocrite who calls names and spews enmity because you believe it will get your pretty face on television more or sell more copies of your best-selling books.

In either case, we won't be publishing your Friday column anymore . We decided not to publish a piece of yours a few weeks back because it was nothing more than a sexual history of some of your enemies -- i.e., private citizens who dared to give money to the Democrats.

I wrote a column about why we held the piece and told readers then that if you continued to cross the line, we'd can you.

Your Friday column, in which you declared that liberals are "no good," then trashed the entire Kennedy clan as a collection of "heroin addicts, convicted killers, cheaters, bottleggers and dissolute drunks," crossed that line. I'm not going to defend the Kennedy family or liberals; either group can argue with you if they'd like.

But, Ann, you're mean -- vicious, really -- which is why we do not believe that you in any way serve the public good.

On a late summer morning almost a year ago, all of us -- Republicans, Democrats and everyone else -- witnessed what hate is capable of.

Since that day, Americans have tried to remember that they are on the same side, regardless of differences in skin color, nation of origin, religion or political viewpoint. It has not always been easy because, more than ever, those who are different can seem more threatening. But we're trying because what we have in America is worth keeping.

And, Ann, you're not helping. You do nothing to elevate our spirits, to celebrate the great bond that holds us this unruly people together and makes us a nation.

Hate is easy; love is hard.

Our great nation gives you the freedom to hate all you want and even to make a buck off it if you can. But, even better, it gives us the right not to have to listen.

So, Ann, you're fired. I expect some of our readers are going to be mad at us over this, but we hope they'll understand that while we joyfully publish a wide spectrum of political and social viewpoints, we condemn hate where we find it.

You won't miss us much, Ann. Heck, you're rolling in money. And your fans can find your column on the Internet anyway.

We'll start looking for someone to replace you. It won't be easy because you sure are flashy and a lot of folks like flashy. But political conservatism has produced other columnists of merit whose ideas will provide subjects fit for public consumption and debate -- writers who do not believe those who disagree with them are traitors, or worse.

Sincerely,

Bob Unger, executive editor

Bob Unger can be reached by
e-mail at runger@centredaily.com or by phone at 231-4640.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; books; column; coulter; michaeldobbs; publish; tv; viewpoints
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To: brownie
"The reason I like Ann, is not because she is the most intelligent of the conservative columnists,..."

Please don't tell George Will this - but again I don't know how you define intelligent.
141 posted on 09/03/2002 4:32:37 PM PDT by SEGUET
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To: SEGUET
Other Opiates. How leftists are trained to be arrogant idiots (the author is more polite than I am).
142 posted on 09/03/2002 4:33:59 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: MissAmericanPie
"Fox is really dropping the ball not having Ann."

No network - and you can't consider FOX a real network - would touch her with a 35' syringe.
143 posted on 09/03/2002 4:35:37 PM PDT by SEGUET
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To: Diddle E. Squat
A meaningless State College, PA newspaper

Indeed, State College is an island of liberals in the central PA sea of conservatism. For those who don't know, it's a college town (PSU), most of whose residents are attached to the University. I used to cover the borough council meetings as a journalism major at PSU and I saw firsthand how the libs hold sway in everything.

144 posted on 09/03/2002 4:35:40 PM PDT by witnesstothefall
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To: technochick99
Wasn't that sweet of him. Talk about hate...
145 posted on 09/03/2002 4:38:26 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: princess leah
I remember when Teddy was beating up on Bork, saying he (Bork) would return women into the stone age or something...a Republican wit suggested that Bork simply respond with something like, "Well, Senator, at least when I take a girl our on a date, she comes back alive."

I love scorched-earth politics. Therefore I love Ann. A shame the Republicowards have never heard of it.

--Boris

146 posted on 09/03/2002 4:38:37 PM PDT by boris
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To: SEGUET
define real, slick.
147 posted on 09/03/2002 4:40:02 PM PDT by galt-jw
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To: SheLion
Your Friday column, in which you declared that liberals are "no good," then trashed the entire Kennedy clan as a collection of "heroin addicts, convicted killers, cheaters, bottleggers and dissolute drunks," crossed that line.

Mmmmmmhhhhh....I can't find anything here that is untrue.

148 posted on 09/03/2002 4:41:34 PM PDT by Shenandoah
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To: Utopia
The less you read Ann, the more for the rest of us. She is a danger to all the femibortionists that an attractive single woman would not worship at the alter of the aborted fetus is sacrilage. To have her be a self made woman is even a bigger danger. She must be lynched by the braindead libs just like The Honorable Justice Thomas by the NAADNCP>

Pray for GW and the Truth

149 posted on 09/03/2002 4:42:25 PM PDT by bray
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To: SheLion
Since when are termination letters released to the press/media?..Admire both Hannity and Ms Coulter but find more independent theory on freerepublic.com. Interesting post.
150 posted on 09/03/2002 4:43:21 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: SheLion
ROFL! That is a beautiful column! Right on! You know, the only reason Ann was "fired" (an overly dramatic characterization of a syndicated columnist. It would be more correct to say that her column was dropped) was because she was right. Sometimes being right is a lonely place.
151 posted on 09/03/2002 4:43:25 PM PDT by supercalifragilistic
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To: MissAmericanPie
You mean we're not the only conservative family to have been cursed by having a flaming liberal for a daughter-in-law?

If she hadn't made my son so happy, or birthed such lovely well mannered and educated grandchildren -- I couldn't have contained my horror...

But, we have been seeing signs of late - that this beautiful woman may be having second thoughts about turning her children over to the care of Government School brainwashers.... She is becoming SUSPECT! That is a very good sign in deed..

Can you offer any encouragement....is it possible to coexist with a liberal in the family? Or, is it possible that concern for her own children will ultimately turn her to the light of RIGHTeousness?
Semper Fi

152 posted on 09/03/2002 4:46:09 PM PDT by river rat
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To: Dave S
That leaves the dredded independents."

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153 posted on 09/03/2002 4:47:24 PM PDT by boris
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To: boris
Oops, I screwed one up:


154 posted on 09/03/2002 4:48:23 PM PDT by boris
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To: Onelifetogive
What a moron this guy is!!!

Typical liberal. He calls her names.... for calling other people names. DUH!!!!!

And what are you doing ?

155 posted on 09/03/2002 4:49:45 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: mombonn
I am SO sorry. And no, I did NOT notice the past tense. My sincere apologies~~~
156 posted on 09/03/2002 4:52:38 PM PDT by justshe
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To: SheLion
But, Ann, you're mean -- vicious, really -- which is why we do not believe that you in any way serve the public good.

No, Bob. Ann tells it like it is. Which is why you have to assassinate her character.

On a late summer morning almost a year ago, all of us -- Republicans, Democrats and everyone else -- witnessed what hate is capable of.

O.K. Point taken. But what we really saw was a group of hate-filled assassins murder 2,800 innocent Americans while liberals like you, Bob wrung your hands and spouted your vitriol about why exactly America deserved it.

Hate is easy; love is hard.

And I'm sure we'll need a Ph.D. professor from some secular liberal university to show us how to do this because the great unwashed scum that you hold in such contempt, Bob are so incapable of it.

. . .political conservatism has produced other columnists of merit whose ideas will provide subjects fit for public consumption and debate -- writers who do not believe those who disagree with them are traitors, or worse.

What can I say, Bob. If the shoe fits, wear it.

157 posted on 09/03/2002 4:53:56 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum
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To: SheLion
..that liberals are "no good," then trashed the entire Kennedy clan as a collection of "heroin addicts, convicted killers, cheaters, bottleggers and dissolute drunks,"

Best definition of a 'liberal' (leftwinger) and a Kennedy I have seen.

If it wasn't for someone who loaned Joe Kennedy's father the money for passage to the USA, the Kennedy clan would still be harvesting potatoes for the Duke of Wexford County (Ireland).

158 posted on 09/03/2002 4:54:21 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: republicman
I can't remember the last time a lib was fired for spreading hate, even though, that's for the most part, all they do.

Case in point, Maureen Dowd.

159 posted on 09/03/2002 4:55:00 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum
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To: SheLion
So, Ann, you're fired...

...unless you let me "do" you.
160 posted on 09/03/2002 4:56:53 PM PDT by pyx
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