NBC vs. Ann Coulter
A fresh controversy coincides with the conservative author's book launch
Ann Coulter: Generating controversy, and sales
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“A TV cancellation has never been such wonderful PR,” said Carrol Van Stone in Examiner.com. NBC’s decision to cancel a TODAY Show appearance by Ann Coulter—and, according to the Drudge Report, to flat-out ban her from the network—should do more to drum up sales for her new book than any TV appearance could. The controversy feeds her premise that the media is hopelessly skewed to the left—“some authors have all the luck!”
That’s why banning Coulter is a bad idea, said Aaron Barnhart in the Kansas City Star online. It just encourages her to continue to “leave flaming turd bags” filled with extreme-right vitriol on their doorsteps. The best way to deal with her is to ignore her, and let her wail away where she belongs—“on the non-MSM fringe.”
You have to hand it to Coulter, said Earl Ofari Hutchinson in American Chronicle. She knows that “all she has to do is shake that stringy blonde hair, prance around in tight mini skirts, show her rail thin, pale white legs, spew foul-mouthed expletives about her favorite whipping boy–liberals and the so-called liberal media–and the tongues roar furiously.” And the books fly off the shelves.
They always do, said Matt Lewis in AOL News. And this time will be no exception, thanks to vintage Coulter attacks on Michelle Obama as a Jackie Kennedy Onassis imitator, along with frequent snipes at "B. Hussein Obama." The question is whether this "William F. Buckley meets P.T. Barnum character" helps or hurts the conservative movement.
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Posted by halifax, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 3:38 pm Only in America could a pea-brained, self-promoting windbag like Coulter be a financial success. She brings disrepute to anyone associated with her, even tangentially. NBC got smart. Too bad CBS didn't. I don't know what caused her jaw to have to be wired, but it wouldn't be too hard to believe that she might have been on the receiving end of a left hook. Message to Ann: You're in your 40s. Stop dressing like a cheerleader. Anorexia is not a fashion statement.
Posted by Decca, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 3:55 pm NBC marched in step with the typical Liberal policy 'silence any voice that disagrees with us!' If Ms. Coulter offends you it is because you have no sense of humour.
Posted by David Smith, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 4:58 pm I want to get Ann Coulter Pregnant. Wait, only biological women can get pregnant. A guy with a sex change cannot get pregnant.
Posted by JohnforAmerica, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 5:01 pm David Smith, you are my hero!
Posted by Joyce, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 7:23 pm Ann Coulter says hateful things. I definitely do not agree with her perspective on political matters; however, we are in the USA and she has the right to freedom of speech. Thankfully, I do not have to buy her book and I can turn off the TV.
Posted by Kam, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 8:19 pm Well the ultra-libs have bit themselves in the behind again. NBC couldn't have given Coulter a bigger PR boost than if they had bought the first one thousand books. Fascinatingly, libs project Coulter as a "pea-brained, self-promoting windbag" while ignoring her excellent education culminating in a J.D. degree and an acknowledged Constitutional expert and scholar. She openly admits to being one-sided. The dems on the other hand, submit Al Franken (the joker and hate monger) as a regular guy and can't understand how repubs know that they are hypocrites.
Posted by Rick, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 9:33 pm I had a wife once with her same attributes!!
Posted by Michael J. Gorman, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 10:49 pm Why is Ann Coulter free to sell her mania and spew her embarrassingly juvenile bile, when, with the cooperation of two psychiatrists or psychologists, she could be placed where she belongs -- in a padded room of a very secure mental institution?
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