Bloggasm

One thing that perplexes many bloggers is the fact that many mainstream news outlets like Fox News and MSNBC continue to invite Ann Coulter onto their shows. So she says outrageous, controversial things: so what? You can find any number of nutballs on the street who can say things even more outrageous things than her, and this doesn’t explain why she is allowed to weigh in on very important issues, as if her side is one on the balance scale that goes equally with the other side. This is the woman who, in her new book Godless, calls evolution “the atheist’s creation myth.”

Thanksfully, another newspaper has decided to drop her column, after a reader poll showed that everyone who read the newspaper hated her.

Following on the heels of daily papers in Augusta, Ga., and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a weekly in Greensboro, N.C., has decided to drop Ann Coulter’s regular column, distributed by Universal.

“Yes! Weekly”, which has carried the conservative firebrand since last August, announced the move after polling its readers, among other considerations. She will be replaced by another conservative, William F. Buckley.

This follows the pattern at the other papers that had dropped Coulter, where she was replaced by conservatives Michelle Malkin in one case, David Limbaugh in the other.

A fourth paper, the Shreveport (La.) Times, has said it is strongly considering dropping Coulter.

Mainstream News Outlets should all issue a boycott against Ann Coulter, and stop allowing her to come on to promote her shitty, dishonest (and plagerized, recent reports show) book. It’s utterly ridiculous that she’s brought on as a “consultant” to many important debates.

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