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At Least 3 Newspapers Cancel Conservative Pundit's Column Over Anti-Gay Slur
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The papers – The Oakland Press of Michigan; The Mountain Press of Sevierville, Tenn.; and the Lancaster New Era of Pennsylvania – pulled Coulter's column after she used the word "faggot" to describe Democratic presidential contender John Edwards during an address to a conservative group in Washington.
"She's really gone into the realm of wanting to be, whatever, a personality, a celebrity flame-thrower," Glenn Gilbert, executive editor of The Oakland Press told The Associated Press on Thursday.
"The reason we wanted her, we wanted a conservative columnist. She's obviously betrayed conservatives," Gilbert said.
Announcing his newspaper's decision, Stan Voit, editor of the Mountain Press, wrote: "We will not continue to publish the columns of someone who uses people as a punch line to get a cheap laugh and who so freely uses an offensive term to describe another human being."
Coulter was quoted last week during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington as saying: "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I - so kind of an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards."
The remarks were denounced by Democrats and Republicans alike. All three leading Republican presidential contenders – Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – quickly distanced themselves from Coulter.
Coulter defended her comments during an appearance on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes."
"It isn't offensive to gays. It has nothing to do with gays," Coulter said. "It's a schoolyard taunt, meaning wuss. And unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person."
The Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights organization, has launched a campaign to get other Coulter newspaper clients to drop her column, the trade publication Editor & Publisher reported on its Web site.
A spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Coulter's columns, said the service has no plans to stop offering Coulter's columns, which she said are distributed to about 100 clients.
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See all 174 CommentsIt isn't?? Next she'll call Jesse Jackson the N-word and say it isn't offensive to African-Americans.
..or do you mean those just those neo.con jerks who can't even spell the party name correctly and are ignorant enough trash to think they belong in the party of Lincoln?
Also from this sl uts mouth comes things like "Send poison food to Liberal Supreme Court Justices". Quite a person to represent Conservative Values!!!
LMFAO!
LMFAO!
Posted by Terrapin78 at 04:19 PM : Mar 08, 2007
Funny but true.
I'm still laughing!! Personally I enjoy watching her and reading her books. I don't understand why everyone doesn't understand her humor.
Coulter is a self-hating lesbian.
Now if we could just drop her. Off that new sky-walk above the Grand Canyon. Of course we'd get a ticket for dumping toxic waste in a national Park, but what the hell, I'll pay the fine.
I'm still laughing!! Personally I enjoy watching her and reading her books. I don't understand why everyone doesn't understand her humor.
Posted by SouthGirl2
Jeffrey Dahmer couldn't understand why everyone doesn't eat human flesh.
Coulter figured out long ago that if she is going to have a career, she'll have to pander to the lunatic fringes of her party. She loves the contraversy.
I have to admit though, you have helped liberals (like myself) more than one can imagine. Your hate filled attacks on racial groups, democrats, and even the 9-11 widows, have helped us win back the Congress, the Senate, and soon...The White House.
Posted by omanwill1 at 04:47 PM : Mar 08, 2007
True word there. She's done an even better job of driving people over to the democratic side then Rush Limbaugh or Bill Orally and I didn't think anyone could be a bigger as*sholes then them. Outside of the White House that is of course.
Not married, my guess is anything that ugly is probably a virgin too. I wonder if she is one of the 70 that a muslim martyr gets? uuugggghhhh!!
There isn't enough slurring and hate-mongering in the world. Cutting Ms. Coulter off like that is a reduction of our right to laugh at other people.
Ann Coulter has advertisers on her web page. If you think she's is hateful and devisive, go to anncoulter.com and contact her advertisers. Let them know that you will not support them if they support her. Boycott.
Posted by dallison7 at 04:40 PM : Mar 08, 2007
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Jeffrey Dahmer must have been a Democrat! (like you?)
Posted by SouthGirl2
No, just mentally ill... like you.
Ann Coulter has advertisers on her web page. If you think she's is hateful and devisive, go to anncoulter.com and contact her advertisers. Let them know that you will not support them if they support her. Boycott.
It works! She's already lost three sponsors.
The filth and lies she spews constitute the only education she received, at the hands of her mother, an itinerant prostitute that died at the end of a coat hanger.
She deserves the same kind of death - alone - in an alley.
ROTFLMFAO!!!!
ROTFLMFAO!!!!
That is the beauty of our country. I hope we all remember that.
Posted by cbscrash07 at 05:13 PM : Mar 08, 2007
Bush called himself the "Decider", not someone on the left.
Howard Dean demanded that Republican presidential candidates denounce Ann Coulter. Have the Republicans ever demanded that the Democrats denounce the New York Times or the Washington Post for the name calling that passes for analysis in their editorial pages?
It's OK for celebrities to call the President of the United States a "Dumb F*ck," for journalists to compare him to Hitler and conservatives to Nazis, so why isn't it ok for Coulter to do the same thing to a Democrat running for president?
Remember, Ann Coulter does not hold and is not seeking any office. She is a writer, commentator, and humorist. Similar to Al Franken on the left.
It was very much politically incorrect. But political correctness is just a way to inhibit freedom of speech.
Still laughing at her crashed website!
Posted by beckajw at 04:51 PM : Mar 08, 2007
Sure it is and she has the right to say it. Just like her advertisers have the right to dump her, as well as the newspapers. Just like I have the right to say it's bigoted hate speech and that anyone who agrees with her is a bigot.
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