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Weekly Paper Drops Coulter Column
The beat goes on over at Editor & Publisher magazine (E&P) -- the long-running beat-Ann-Coulter campaign that is. On July 24 the magazine ran not one, but two anti-Coulter stories, now on July 26 they couldn't wait to let the world know that a weekly newspaper, no less, had dropped her column.
Yes! Weekly, a Greensboro North Carolina weekly that sells photos of busty blondes in bikinis told E&P that Coulter's yearlong stint at their paper had come to an end because polling of their readers and "other considerations" made the move necessary.
Under the headline "Another Newspaper Decides to Drop Ann Coulter's Column," E&P told its readers that this action "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." The weekly will replace Coulter with William F. Buckley Jr. [Editor’s Note: Get Ann’s book for just $4.99 – Save $23! Go Here Now]
Story Continues Below In an editorial in its current issue, Yes! Weekly explained: "Ann Coulter is gone from these pages . . . gone like the leaves in December, like the fringes of the polar ice caps, like the last vestiges of Tom Cruise's rational mind.
"We began running her column last August in an effort to widen the playing field, so to speak, in the discussion on our 'Voices' page. She certainly did that, but in the last few months Ann Coulter has been a very naughty girl indeed."
Those at the paper failed to provide any examples of her alleged naughtiness, however. Instead, they merely announced that they would be replacing her with Buckley. Buckley was described as one of the foremost voices for the conservative and libertarian movements and a very smart man who has worked as a CIA spook, run for mayor of New York City, reportedly been a member of Skull and Bones while at Yale, founded a magazine (National Review) and a TV show ("Firing Line") and authored the quote, "One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
"That's good stuff," Yes! Weekly enthused.
The editorial said that letters and a Web site poll "show that our readers approve cutting her column at a ratio of 2-1. And numbers don't lie (unless, some would say, they're being wielded by Ann Coulter)."
As is their policy, E&P repeated what has become its mantra in all their papers-drop-Coulter stories reporting once again that "A fourth paper, the Shreveport (La.) Times, has said it is strongly considering dropping Coulter." In a July 13 story, however, E&P reported that "The Shreveport [La.] Times is currently leaving the decision of whether or not to keep Coulter up to its readers," not "strongly considering" dropping Ann. In a July 3 column E&P wrote "Craig Durrett, editorial page editor of the Shreveport (La.) Times, revealed in a column in his paper that he is considering dropping Ann Coulter as a columnist." No strongly there, either. [Editor’s Note: Get Ann’s book for just $4.99 – Save $23! Go Here Now]
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