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Ann Coulter Censored Again
Editor & Publisher, a newspaper trade magazine, slammed Ann Coulter again.
The latest installments in the magazine's jihad against Coulter includes a story that Georgia's Augusta Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Coulter's nationally syndicated column. The magazine said Coulter's "stridency" has crossed the line.
Story Continues Below Since Coulter's new book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," shot to the top of the best-seller lists, liberal media outlets have been furious that Coulter criticized four of the 9/11 widows for their political activities. [Editor's Note: Decide for yourself! Get Ann's book for just $4.99 -- Save $23 Go Here Now.]
Under the headline "Augusta Editor Explains Why He Dropped Coulter Column,” E&P quoted Chronicle Editorial Page Editor Michael Ryan: "We're a conservative editorial page."
Ryan noted that the paper also runs columnists such as Robert Novak, George Will, and Walter Williams along with liberal Ellen Goodman.
Ryan told E&P that the paper wouldn't have dropped Coulter if she had made "one or two" controversial comments.
"But it came to the point where she was the issue rather that what she was writing about," he told E&P. He also claimed that Coulter's reputation had become mixed even among conservatives. But conservatives have rallied to Coulter's defense. An online NewsMax poll surveyed more than 200,000 readers and found that about 80 percent agree with Coulter's criticism of the 9/11 widows. The same number have a "favorable" view of the blonde-haired pundit. Ryan also observed that the situation was "becoming kind of a broken record." "Personally, I continue to be an Ann Coulter fan," Ryan admitted. "I think her logic is devastating and her viewpoint is right most of the time."
He added that the Chronicle would even consider bringing Coulter back if she somehow "became less of a lightning rod."
"This editorial page stands for many things, and we make no bones about it,” Ryan explained. "But one of the things we stand for is civility. Pulling Ann Coulter's column hurts; she's one of the clearest thinkers around. But you've got to stand by your principles, even - especially - when it's painful." E&P happily added that the Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, also dropped Coulter this month. And The Times of Shreveport, La., is thinking of following suit.
In a second story in the July 24 issue, E&P writes about a planned TV series, "Brothers & Sisters," due to air this fall.
E&P reports that Calista Flockhart, best known for her role as Ally McBeal, will play a Coulter-like conservative newspaper pundit.
But E&P hastens to assure readers that unlike Coulter, she's a nice, sane columnist.
E&P quotes the show's producer, Ken Olin, as saying that the Flockhart character is "not Ann Coulter. She's not insane."
Added the show's writer, Jon Robin Baitz, once described by Bomb magazine as "a little bit of a communist, in the way that Tolstoy was a little bit of a communist," [the Flockhart character] is "a thoughtful conservative. She's ideologically, in some respects, very much in mind with the older parts of the party, the sort of Eisenhower Republican, the William Buckley conservative. She's also a humanist."
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