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.

[aimeekligman]

Ann Coulter has outlived her usefulness, if she ever had any. She should become invisible.

[afelig1]

Ann Coulter is a worthless ***.

My comment isn't offensive to women. It has nothing to do with women," Shazboot said. "It's a schoolyard taunt, meaning wench. And unless you're telling me that Ann Coulter is a woman, it was not applied to a woman."

[firststate]

jlhudg23
In case you didn't grasp the difference, the papers weren't paying Dean for his comments. They do pay columnists like the Macho Ms. and have the right to decide to stop purchasing the right to publish their opinions. People like Butch Coulter need to insult someone because they find doing so empowering. The "N" word won't fly these days, so she had to move on to another minority. It's just a shame that this kind of person is so lacking in self-respect that they need to defame others. She seems to have decided that good manners are either above her or beneath her. I have an opinion about which it is, but not being as rude as she, I'll keep it to myself.

[rharrin1]

The difference between a northern girl and a southern girl
a northern girl says yes you can

a southern girl says yall sure can

[jlhudg23-2009]

Did any of these alleged "news" papers drop coverage of Howard Dean after his "I hate Republicans and everything they stand for" outrage?

{sound of crickets chirping}

[rafterman1]

"Out of the last 40 senators that have run for the presidency, they are 0-40."

I think your stats are a little off. JFK was a Senator from Mass (1952-1961) before being elected president.

[neoconrcrazy]

A truely divisive individual without merit, simply put, a sciolist.

[dukeudevil]

Ms. Coulter, what goes around finally comes around. But then, you're hardly old enough to have learned that lesson. How does it feel to be on the receiving end of your very own stupidity in this instance?

[leebella]

Coulter herself has found the crux of the problem with her ***/ed comment: it's a schoolyard taunt. We have little enough intelligent discourse as it is to be subjected to fourth grade stupidity, especially when it is fed to us as palatable brainfodder. It is not. Furthermore, I invite all the papers who are dropping their grade-school colt to contact me at hotmail under my last name for a sample of the columns I can provide them with...an old mare,

Lee Bellavance

[leebella]

Coulter herself has found the crux of the problem with her ***/ed comment: it's a schoolyard taunt. We have little enough intelligent discourse as it is to be subjected to fourth grade stupidity, especially when it is fed to us as palatable brainfodder. It is not. Furthermore, I invite all the papers who are dropping their grade-school colt to contact me at hotmail under my last name for a sample of the columns I can provide them with...an old mare,

Lee Bellavance

[leebella]

Coulter herself has found the crux of the problem with her ***/ed comment: it's a schoolyard taunt. We have little enough intelligent discourse as it is to be subjected to fourth grade stupidity, especially when it is fed to us as palatable brainfodder. It is not. Furthermore, I invite all the papers who are dropping their grade-school colt to contact me at hotmail under my last name for a sample of the columns I can provide them with...an old mare,

Lee Bellavance

[leebella]

Coulter herself has found the crux of the problem with her ***/ed comment: it's a schoolyard taunt. We have little enough intelligent discourse as it is to be subjected to fourth grade stupidity, especially when it is fed to us as palatable brainfodder. It is not. Furthermore, I invite all the papers who are dropping their grade-school colt to contact me at hotmail under my last name for a sample of the columns I can provide them with...an old mare,

Lee Bellavance

[randalds]

Condeliar should have Coulter travel with her. Those two wouldn't need security. Mike Tyson would walk around those two on a dark street.
Posted by firststate at 01:31 AM : Mar 09, 2007

Bush's mistress and Coulter on the same trip? Good Gawd! I don't know who'd get kicked out of bed first? Condi, Nazi Ann or Georgie boy. Though I suspect it'd be Georgie.

[firststate]

Condeliar should have Coulter travel with her. Those two wouldn't need security. Mike Tyson would walk around those two on a dark street.

[waynabq]

Man Coulter is the epitomy of the Bush supporting right wing war mongers. It is a transgendered, anorexic hermaphrodite that doesn't belong in the human race. Coulter is not a he or a she, Coulter is an "It" not of his planet.

[randalds]

Coulter could be a mistress for Gingrich or Guiliani.
Posted by newsjeff at 12:18 AM : Mar 09, 2007

I didn't know they were g*ay. lol! hell Coulter's more manly then Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld and even if I saw her naked (shudder) I still won't believe it's a female.

[candojj1]

she says the same stuff about democrats period. she said it about Gore. She said it about Clinton and she's said it about Edwards One was called gay. One was called homosexual and one was called fa*gg*ot.
Anyway, let's get real. Out of the last 40 senators that have run for the presidency, they are 0-40. Yet they keep running. Why waste time on them? I believe this statistic is on sitting senators. So why pay attention to Clinton or Obama? What chance does Edwards have? It's time to turn to a real candidate like Gov. Bill Richardson . He is at about 6 or 7% of the democratic vote and rising with absolutely no funding and worth a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson_%28politician%29

[newsjeff-2009]

Maybe Ann Coulter and Newt Gingrich should get together. I read on CNN news how Gingrich said he should "not be called a hypocrite," even though Gingrich has admitted just now mind you that he himself was having an extramarital affair when he and all his Republican buddies were bashing the Clintons for Bill Clinton's bad behavior. Gingrich called Bill Clinton a "convicted Felon". Let's see Ann Coulter calls people ******** or homosexuals, Gingrich calls Clinton a felon for is bad behavior, but Gingrich thinks it was Okay that he married his high-school teacher, then later divorced her, remarried and few years divorced again and married the mistress he was fooling around with during Clinton's impeachment trial. Coulter said she couldn't stop laughing over her insult to John Edwards; shoot I can't stop laughing over how Gingrich,Coulter, and Guiliani have screwed up personal lives and marriages and then claim to be "conservative". Coulter could be a mistress for Gingrich or Guiliani.

[dumbwoman]

I have no ill will of any kind towards ***, and I use the word *** as an insult all the time. Before the word was used as a gay slur, it was a term used to describe the underlings in boarding school, and before that it meant a pile of sticks. To impose your own meaning on what someone says, regardless of the meaning it was intended to have by the person saying it (although Im sure she knew she was baiting the easily offended) the way the ***-whipped media seems to do really is quite fascistic. Think about it.

[firststate]

In my opinion, the term in her oblique reference to Edwards fits as well as the possibility of her membership in ***** on Bikes. She's at least as masculine as he is effeminate. I'd bet that she could take those three comedians, Hannity, Orally and Limbaugh in consecutive wrestling matches in one afternoon without breaking a sweat.