No update on Ann Coulter's voter fraud case, but her recent name-calling at a conservative conference continues to entertain.
So far, nine papers have dropped her syndicated column. She reportedly has 100 johns, er, clients, most of them small papers. So this has cost her maybe 10 percent of them. She's also lost some big advertisers on her Web site, including AT&T and Verizon.
Some of those papers decided to drop the column after being pressured by a gay-rights group, the Human Rights Campaign. Interestingly, liberal columnist Ted Rall opposes the campaign -- Perhaps because some of the campaign rhetoric is obnoxious:
In a Wednesday letter announcing his organization's campaign targeting individual newspapers, HRC President Joe Solmonese wrote: "Yesterday, we asked you to send a message to [President and Editor] Lee Salem ... of Universal Press Syndicate. ... You leaped into action and sent over 20,000 e-mails to Lee demanding Universal ... drop Coulter’s column. By responding so quickly, you sent a strong message that our community will not stand by silently while UPS continues to serve as a platform for hateful and destructive language in the media.
"As you may know by now, UPS has flatly defied the protests of thousands of fair-minded Americans nationwide by refusing to stop distributing Coulter’s column. ...
Bleh. Coulter is a troll, but whenever someone starts using "fair-minded Americans" to justify suppressing a viewpoint, I break out in hives. Bash her for what she says; even boycotts of advertisers is okay. But don't try to get her quashed just because you don't like what she says.
civil liberties, Coulter, politics, midtopia
1 comment:
But suppressing opposing viewpoints is par for the course coming from liberals. It's nothing new. They have dominated the mainstream news for so long, they cannot take competition.
Here in Dallas, we have liberal Professors at SMU expressing THEIR freedom of speech by marching against the Bush institute----a conservative think tank that is planned for the Bush Library. And yet they don't want conservatives to have a venue to espouse THEIR views and debate THEIR ideas. I'm sure they have no problem with liberal think tanks, though.
AS I said, typical for liberals.
JP5
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