Papers Drop Coulter Column

At Least 3 Newspapers Cancel Conservative Pundit's Column Over Anti-Gay Slur

(CBS/AP)  At least three newspapers have dropped conservative pundit Ann Coulter's column following her use of an anti-gay slur in a speech last week.

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.

[pfoster4]

So if it is a paper I read or buy I will stop buying or reading them. I like her. She says what most of us replubicans think.

[misspp-2009]

pfoster4: If that's what most of you republicans think, then you are insensitive and illogical. I assume then that you also agree with her comments about the 9/11 widows?

[anvilheadsix]

So she's 50, has no kids, has never been married, and listens to the Grateful Dead. Sounds like a lebian to me.

[omega39-2009]

She%u2019s a nasty little shill that adds to the discourse and gridlock to this country%u2019s political system allowing big business and the GOP to destroy the middle class.

[dogband]

An idiot with with a big mouth.

[mnelsonix]

More PC krapp. A "***" is a cigarette isn't it? Maybe she should stuff a cheese burger in her mouth...she could use a few pounds and it might shut her up for a minute.

[macusweil]

its about time we shout down this neo.con mouth piece of hate and intolerance, should have been done long ago and for sure after she disgraced herself attacking the 9/11 widows

[anvilheadsix]

"It isn't offensive to ***. It has nothing to do with ***," Coulter said.

It isn't?? Next she'll call Jesse Jackson the N-word and say it isn't offensive to African-Americans.

[mnelsonix]

I can't believe the c they censored the word, "*******." It is in the article you know...

[macusweil]

"So if it is a paper I read or buy I will stop buying or reading them. I like her. She says what most of us replubicans think."

..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?

[stevex47]

My guess is Rush is selling her drugs. She looks and sounds like a crack head.

[pared1]

She is scum and getting what she deserves. Anyone who listens to her dribble deserves the same thing.

[last121868]

pfoster4, if all of you "replubicans" think the way she does, then it is a sad day in this great country!

[stevex47]

Yes reich wing nut jobs, praise her, she is your mouthpiece, keep her in the press please. She's doing you a world o good.

[terrapin78]

This is a professed Christian who uses language like that. How Christian can one get?

Also from this sl uts mouth comes things like "Send poison food to Liberal Supreme Court Justices". Quite a person to represent Conservative Values!!!

[gunownerdan]

Ann Coulter is a good example of what's wrong with conservatives, just like Rosie O'Donnell is a good example of what's wrong with liberals.

[lochlan-2009]

Well she always has fox news, they'd love her ignorant babbling over there. Of course, I don't know how much tax payed for Bush propaganda income is there, nobody with intelligence listens to fox.

[rharrin1]

put a mattress on her back put her on a street corner and she can give curb service.

[terrapin78]

Ann Coulter is the female version of Ted Haggard!!??
LMFAO!

[beehive21-2009]

Is he gay ? If so who cares,he has no chance of being elected President.

[gunownerdan]

For the sake of America and freedom itself, we should all hope that John Edwards has a better chance than Hitlary or Barack.

[anvilheadsix]

Ann Coulter is the female version of Ted Haggard!!??
LMFAO!
Posted by Terrapin78 at 04:19 PM : Mar 08, 2007


Funny but true.

[southgirl2]

I love her!!! She tells it like it is!!!
I'm still laughing!! Personally I enjoy watching her and reading her books. I don't understand why everyone doesn't understand her humor.

[frankly6]

Coulter is a self-hating lesbian.

[randalds]

"Papers Drop Coulter Column"

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.

[dallison7]

I love her!!! She tells it like it is!!!
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.

[frankly6]

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 news Anne, lots of people were offended by your ignorance.

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.

[randalds]

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.

[dallison7]

I just took another look at her picture... GOD SHE'S UGLY!!

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!!

[aaabee-2009]

A bit of recognition for Ms. Coulter's type of humor by these three newspapers.

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.

[beckajw]

It is called freedom of speech.

[beckajw]

It is called freedom of speech.

[frankly6]

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.

[southgirl2]

Jeffrey Dahmer couldn't understand why everyone doesn't eat human flesh.
Posted by dallison7 at 04:40 PM : Mar 08, 2007
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Jeffrey Dahmer must have been a Democrat! (like you?)

[dallison7]

Jeffrey Dahmer must have been a Democrat! (like you?)
Posted by SouthGirl2


No, just mentally ill... like you.

[stevex47]

coulter/southgirl '08 ya !!

[cjmdallas74]

Anne is at it again. She's always been about generating hate. She doesn't care if you hate the people she hates or if you hate her. She just wants everybody to hate somebody. ... and she wants to be in the center of the storm that is created, so she can make money off of the celebrity

[frankly6]

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.

[beckajw]

The use of a term that some may find offensive is not the same as yelling fire in a crowded theater. The Constitution does not say you have the freedom to say whatever you want as long as others are not offended. It says you have the freedom of speech.

[plowhandle]

Ann Coulter embodies the filth and depravity that ARE the Republicunt Party.

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.

[beckajw]

Wow, plowhandle, that is just hateful. You will be judged as you judge others.

[anvilheadsix]

Her Website crashed!!! So many people went there to see who her advertisers are and contact them that her site crashed!


ROTFLMFAO!!!!

[anvilheadsix]

Her Website crashed!!! So many people went there to see who her advertisers are and contact them that her site crashed!


ROTFLMFAO!!!!

[Syndicate]

I've never cared for Ann Coulter. Frankly I don't care much for the name calling she uses. Its imature and I beleive a sure sign of stupidity. You see alot of similar acts from the left. You know the 'Decider and Cheif', 'Shrub' and so on. As for freedom of speech well I'll defend any body's. Including the newspapers that decided they wanted to express themselfs by canceling her articles. Ann used to be a regular on FOX news But I have noticed them moving away from her.

[beckajw]

cbscrash, I agree the papers have the right to drop her. But she has the right to say what she wants without and everyone has the right to say that she is awful. But those who are saying she is awful, need to remember that they have that right because she has the right to say what she wants.

That is the beauty of our country. I hope we all remember that.

[anvilheadsix]

You see alot of similar acts from the left. You know the 'Decider and Cheif', 'Shrub' and so on.
Posted by cbscrash07 at 05:13 PM : Mar 08, 2007


Bush called himself the "Decider", not someone on the left.

[beckajw]

Edwards has sent out a request for more money. The Edwards campaign now wants to raise $100,000 in "Coulter Cash. I don't recall Republicans trying to raise "Dixie Dough" to combat the frequent insults hurled by the Dixie Chicks.

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.

[anvilheadsix]

HA HA HA HA

Still laughing at her crashed website!

[randalds]

It is called freedom of speech.
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.