[NYTr] The Shrill and the Boorish and the Criminal Ann Coulter
 
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:35:57 -0500 (CDT)


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The Nation blogs - Jun 27, 2007
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=208604

Ann Coulter, Out of Control

by Nicholas von Hoffman

We can't expect TV news to have standards, but it should have limits.
Not many, but a few. At least one limit. When a guest on Good Morning
America urges the murder of one of our leading presidential candidates,
somebody has exceeded the limit. A person who does that needs to be,
should be, ought to be, must be kicked off the air permanently. Please
look at this: [see original for video]

On another occasion, this time on CSPAN, Ms. Coulter had suggested her
targeted politician is a "faggot."

Such epithets are tasteless but they fall short of deserving banishment
from the airwaves. Making sport of the death of one of the Edwards'
children tends toward cruelty, but it still falls short of meriting
exclusion from the TV cameras.  [video]

Urging murder does not fall short. It is one thing for Ms. Coulter, a
notorious opponent of gun control, to argue that everyone ought to be
able to own one, but it is a different kettle of fish when she says on
national television which of her political enemies the gun should be
aimed at.

We live in the 007 age. A time of termination with extreme prejudice,
of targeted assassination, the surgical strike, men and women suicide
bombers, hit men, button men, killers for hire, killers for religion,
killers for politics. The air is heavy with menace. Every entrance and
exit from the ABC network building in which Ms. Coulter urged the
murder of John Edwards, is heavily guarded.

If confronted, Coulter will probably say that she was joking. A joke
like that at the airport ticket counter would get her arrested. A joke
like that should get her kicked off network broadcasting once and for
all. 

       
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