Rep Dingell and 20 other Dems Slam Ann Coulter for her racism

[RamboLiberal]

http://clips.mediamatters.org/pdf/dingell_coulter.pdf

asks for an apology for her "serial anti-Arab bigotry".

says of Coulter
"if not for her venom she couldn't come up with enough words to fill a classified ad, let alone a column."

[ewagner]

1. Mixed emotion about this

On one hand, if anybody ever richly deserved to be criticized, it's Coulter.

On the other hand, I hate to give the flaming witch any publicity of any kind.......

[Toots]

46. Don't tell the Christian Right she is a witch or they will burn her.

:+

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[ChiciB1]

6. She Already Has An Awful Disease....

HER HOOF & MOUTH DISEASE!! Can't get much worse. And if I were a male, I would PISS on her too!!

If I had enough in me I would write Boy King EEIIDIOT'S WHORE!!!

[Warpy]

10. Can you imagine having to live

in that incredibly ugly little world she creates for herself and her fans?

That is the worst curse I can think of for any of them, and it's the one they all embrace willingly.

No amount of riches can compensate for the lack of joy.

[Drifter]

3. Isn't she (or wasn't she)

dating an Arab guy?

Cheers
Drifter

[Clark2008]

16. He's Indian or Pakastani

Not Arabic.

[Zenlitened]

4. This a good step.

There are people on the right who need to be "outed," in a way. Their statements fall well outside what any responsible news organization should tolerate.

I'd like to see our leadership call the media on it, frankly. No one's going to change the minds of evil people like Coulter, but she and her ilk should not be granted air time/print space in supposedly "mainstream" media over and over again.

[New Democrat]

5. This is stupid

By asking Ann to apologize all they are doing is giving her more attention. She likes this. Everyone needs to act like she doesnt exist.

[RamboLiberal]

7. No what needs to happen is to make her poison for the cable

nets to air her filth! And this is the way to do it. She needs to be neutered.

[Zenlitened]

14. Exactly. The media must be made to see that...

... it is inappropriate to feature someone like this as a regular analyst and commentator.

[Ganja Ninja]

21. She's a prime example of the media's extreme RW bias.

Can you think of anyone on the left that has so little to contribute to the national debate yet still gets the air time she does? Is there any raving lunatic left wing equivalent to her? Is there is any person on the extreme left calling for violence against the right that gets any kind of MSM air time? The answer is no on all counts. They are considered nut cases or part of the radical fringe. There's no need to give air time to nut cases or radical fringe kooks unless they happen to be right wing nut cases or kooks.

[Tempest]

8. Actually, this is a good idea

Karl Rove has made it clear he wants to improve the Repug's image with minorities, particularly Blacks. They've even gone as far as set up meetings between Bush and conservative Black leaders.


By pointing out Coulter is the kind of person who represents the GOP, they are driving a wedge between the Repugs and minorities.


On edit:
In hindsight, they're not so much as driving a wedge as they are preventing defections.

[New Democrat]

20. We shouldn't ask her to apoligize.

She won't and she is an attention whore and will love the publicity. Asking her to apologize ends up giving her more attention and more money. I think it may be a good idea to ask any newspapers that run her columns to apologise or any news programs that run her. That is unless they run a left wing wacko like Ward churchill to counter her nonsense.

[Tempest]

23. Ask the newspaper's to apologize?

That's the same as shooting the message and not the messenger.

Annthrax wrote it, Annthrax should be the one to apologize for it.


And anyway, the newspaper's who ran the story changed "Arab" to "dyspeptic", so they have nothing to apologize for.

http://tinyurl.com/6psuq

[New Democrat]

24. I mean only the newspapers that are biased.

I have no problem if a newspaper carries Ann, as long as they carry someone to balance her. My newspaper carries her column, but they dont carry a left wing wacko to counter her.


About asking Ann to apoloigize, Its like asking David Duke to apoligize. She wont apologize and it only gives her more attention.

[Tempest]

27. The more attention the better

The more people who see Annthrax for what she really is the better.


I live in the most conservative part of California, and they stopped running her columns sometime back in the conservative paper because of her vileness.

They didn't apologize for running her columns, but they did make it clear why they wouldn't run them any longer.

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[New Democrat]

13. lol

[SeveneightyWhoa]

29. But she does exist.

And the "liberal media" allows her to spew her garbage to a wide audience.

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. Since the letter is coming from a Congressman

I think it carries some weight. And it's about time we started fighting back. Mann Coulter is just vile. She's a perfect place for Dems to start our own hate campaign.

[sphincter]

44. You beat me....

Was goint to say he same thing. Seems like she feeds on negative comments about herself like a leech feeds on blood, and any negative comment about her can be used as ammunition to flame "them libruls". Ignore her, and she'll go away.

[AValdoux]

9. She's popular

We should be asking ourselves who's buying her hate speech. That's the problem. Her books sell. We have to accept we live in a hate filled society to do anything aboout it. So much for right-wing family values. Expose them for the hateful bigots they are.

AValdoux

[Tempest]

11. Who's buying her books?

Richard Mellon Scaife.

He has a three car garage full of rightwing author's books, and probably several rental spaces full of them.


Any time you see a conservative author's book on the NY Times bestseller list, especially Annthrax's books, look for the (b) after the title.

The (b) means the book is being sold in bulk orders.

[chicagojoe]

15. re: Scaife

It's documented that this character buys up conservative books in order to make them bestsellers. Do the "authors" of this crap have to kick back some of the big money they receive due to this "service"?

[Hamlette]

22. currently, there have been bulk sales of Men in Black and God's Politics

I'm wondering who is buying God's Politics. You wouldn't think the right would be. Is the left doing some bulk buying too? Anyone know?

(Men in Black appears to be a hit piece on the US Supreme Court for all the wrong reasons...the book thinks the Suppremes are too easy on terrorists and giving out civil rights.)

[Tempest]

25. Only two non-conservative books that I can remember having a (b) after it

There's only two non-conservative book in recent memory (the last year or so) that was being bought in bulk, Jon Stewart's "America" and Bill Clinton's "My Life".

"America" had a (b) only after it had been at number one for several weeks. And the (b) only appeared for one week, it was gone the next.

Clinton's book didn't get a (b) until after it had left the bestseller's list. The bulk orders put it back on the list months later. Usually when bulk orders are received for a book after it leaves the bestseller list is because of library and educational institution purchases.


And yes, I follow the NY Times bestseller list weekly. Don't ask me why, it's some kind of compulsion.

[Hamlette]

28. pleased to meet another geek

I check the NYTimes list every week, and check for bulk sales, among other things. It's a competitive sport for me. Wanna know how many conservative vs liberal books are on top.

[Clark2008]

18. I didn't realize this!

I see this a lot after rightwing books.
Thanks for the heads up. Now I can laugh when I see it and know it's some conservative bigot buying up stock to make it look like its a top seller.

:hi:

[Tempest]

19. Look up the Sarah Scaife Foundation

The foundation spends millions buying conservative author's books and gives them away.

[jdots]

31. you are correct......best sellers can be best smellers

All those swell dupe-o-netics books that were best sellers are probably in a warehouse.
Ask the bookstore staffs about sales of O'Rielly and all the brilliant wingnut books,they all say the are not flying out of the stores. people that listen and watch the hate mongers only read
t.v. guide .

[LynnTheDem]

43. Moran sites such as Grudge Retort also buy bulk and give away free

Only morans would want such inaccurate, incorrect, misleading, lying BS as what's in an Ann Coulter book.

Which of course is why they watch Faux Moos; 80% being misinformed is a good thing to rightwingnuts.

[stanwyck]

17. My question is

why do supposedly legitimate news organizations, with decades of giving Americans factual news from reliable, hard-working newspeople, now feel that giving Coulter visibility is justified? Would Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite give Ann airtime? Are we going to be subjected to KKK members and extremist fundamentalists on the nightly news? Is no one vetted anymore? Are there no standards at all? Coulter is a rabid froth-at-the-mouth hater with little credibility and no scholarship. Her only draw is that she's outrageous. She provokes. She's the Jerry Springer of political commentary. (and he's much more informed and intelligent).
So...why does Brian Lamb have Coulter on his show? And all the others?
They should be ashamed. They've lowered the bar. On themselves. And they wonder why we hold them in such low esteem.

[Cocoa]

35. I'm e-mailing this letter to C-span

I've already complained to them about Coulter's appearance twice, first right after the appearance then again after her slur against Thomas.

[e-mail].

[progressoid]

26. Good - The RW either needs to defend her bile or get rid of her.

either way, we win.

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[Bridget Burke]

32. I've wondered what kind of person listens to Rush....

Here you are!

The sort of person who TIVO's Fox?

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[applegrove]

36. I think it was just a bomb to try and take the heat off of Gannon, SS,

and all other problems. Didn't take like they had hoped.

Actually I have no idea but I would not put it past them and I am sure 'people in the know (an editor) get to see her column before she publishes it'. That was left in for a reason.

[bloom]

37. Different publishers did edit it out.

But it remained the way she wrote it on her website (or so I heard - I didn't want to patronize it myself).

[applegrove]

38. I still say she dropped a bomb. It is too obvious. Hate is just another

tool to manipulating & activating the masses. I think she could very well have been trying to get attention away from something. Of course I knew that other sites had edited it. But Ann made a mistake you do not make when you are a famous mouth-piece.

[bloom]

39. I think she is a tool as well

She's partly funded by Horowitz according to the Media Transparency site.


She probably gets her talking points from either Rove or some think tank - that would like nothing better than for Dems to appear apoplectic.

[applegrove]

45. Would not surprise.

[Eric J in MN]

47. The editor at Universal Press edited it out, but she posted the

original to her own website.

[proud2BlibKansan]

40. Good for Dingell

Now let's get him going on Michelle Malkin and Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly and Tucker Carlson and Armstrong Williams and the whole ad nauseum group of RW 'journalists'.

[LynnTheDem]

42. How about her LYING and her STUPIDITY? Hey Annie, Canada DID NOT

send troops to Vietnam, you silly old mare.

[buzzard]

48. That one always makes me laugh, oh maybe we did they were undercover.