Horses Mouth March 9, 2007 10:58 AM

A Sixth Paper Drops Ann Coulter
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I just got off the phone with Billy Liggett, the editor of the Sanford Herald, in central North Carolina. He confirmed to me that his paper has decided to chuck Ann Coulter in the wake of her "faggot" comment.

"We typically ran her in our Sunday op-ed," Liggett says. "This Sunday, we are not going to run her, and we'll explain the decision in an editorial that day." Liggett -- who says his paper has a circulation of 10,000 to 12,000 -- tells me he received 834 emails today asking the paper to drop her. That brings our count to six papers who've decided they're not obliged to publish the work of someone who makes a healthy living calling people "raghead" and "faggot" and all manner of other sandbox epithets.

"We made the decision before that," Liggett says. "It was something we had talked about prior to her recent remarks. Those were kind of the last straw -- they sealed the deal as far as our decision goes."

As noted here yesterday, a list of some of the 100 or so papers that carry Coulter's columns compiled by Media Matters can be found here.

Today this blog is emailing every one of the newspapers on the list to see whether they are going to continue carrying Coulter's columns or whether they've decided to drop her. Stay with us.

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COMMENTS:

Go for it! Thanks for your efforts.

Posted by: Gummitch
Date: March 9, 2007 11:19 AM

thx -- we could use all of your help...

Posted by: greg
Date: March 9, 2007 11:19 AM

Good work. I look forward to the next installment.

Posted by: moe99
Date: March 9, 2007 11:20 AM

hmm - he indicates he will not be running her "this sunday" but does that imply she is being dropped altogether or just for one run? sounds like an artful dodge to me.

Posted by: sd
Date: March 9, 2007 11:24 AM

BTW, I counted that list and it's 44 newspapers long, counting the ones that are now listed as "DROPPED". Not a hundred or so. She'll be down to the Pittsburgh Trib-Review and the weekly Pennysaver any day now.

Posted by: Steppy
Date: March 9, 2007 11:24 AM

sd, he was pretty clear, he's dropping her...let's keep an eye out for his editorial. and yeah, steppy, you're right about the numbers. will correct

Posted by: Greg
Date: March 9, 2007 11:25 AM

The Oakland Press - a small daily in the Detroit suburbs - also dropped Coulter's column. http://www.michiganliberal.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8321

Posted by: MI paper too
Date: March 9, 2007 11:29 AM

That's cool. Let's not give her more credit than she deserves, yes?

Posted by: Steppy
Date: March 9, 2007 11:37 AM

There's always the Nuremberg precedent. Hate speech is an international crime.

Posted by: Mr.Murder
Date: March 9, 2007 11:42 AM

I'm sure Ann will fire back that only the F@# loving papers dropped her, or those papers were F@#$y anyway.

As far as the Oakland Press goes, it's actually got a decent circulation of several hundred thousand and it's a conservative paper so it's a blow.

I hope this keep avalanching.

Posted by: gaspare
Date: March 9, 2007 11:47 AM

On Crooks and Liars blog. There is reported more outrage over other remarks Coulter made. Coulter was caught saying that it is right for abortion doctors to be murdered, and it doesn't even come close to the millions of fetuses that have been murdered in Roe vs. Wade. Keep it coming Ann!

Posted by: Lisa
Date: March 9, 2007 11:52 AM

Stars & Stripes carries Ann Coulter every Monday.

Posted by: Phil
Date: March 9, 2007 11:52 AM

Let the martyr-ization of Coulter begin

Cant wait for all the free speech articles and liberal media nonsense that will spew for the RW websites......

Posted by: Lib4
Date: March 9, 2007 11:53 AM

I think we should have a prize for the person who finds the first instance of Coulter complaining that she's being attacked. Ideally she would be questioned as to whether this makes her feel like she's being lynched by a gay raghead.

Posted by: EH
Date: March 9, 2007 11:59 AM

well, it's funny, the winger sites have turned on her. I think they finally realized how damaging she is for their cause, whatever that is....

Posted by: greg
Date: March 9, 2007 12:00 PM

The Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register also carries Counter. It was not on the Media Matters list.

Jerry G. in Springfield

Posted by: Jerry G
Date: March 9, 2007 12:07 PM

I'm amazed that any respectable paper carries her. Aside from the fact that she's a vile hatemonger, she's also totally incapable of discussing any serious subjects above a the level of a schoolyard bully.

Posted by: Harry Lime
Date: March 9, 2007 12:15 PM

My grandmother lives in Sanford and my mother grew up there. She's the widow of a Baptist minister and let me tell you that this is conservative, small town North Carolina (though my grandmother is an amazingly liberal 90 year southern belle). That publications like the Sanford Herald are dropping Coulter has got to be freaking out her syndicator. This is the bread and butter red belt audience that she depends on and now they are turning on her.

Posted by: ChrisNYC
Date: March 9, 2007 12:19 PM

Ann Coulter is the equivalent of a tagger or a vandal. What she does is not 'speech' in any meaningful sense. It is mere incitement and hate-mongering.

Sadly, she knows her market and they eat it up.

Posted by: r€nato
Date: March 9, 2007 12:19 PM

thanks for the link to the list--I was astonished to see my "local" paper running her column...I had actually stopped reading it several years ago because of its strongly conserative bent in an community that has since turned considerably more liberal. It just seemed to me to be the "ol' folks" paper, at least in its views. However, seeing it listed as a Coulter carrier encouraged me to write them a polite note saying that, seeing how much they respected conservative viewpoints, they should choose conservative columnists more carefully and not bother with folks like Coulter who lower the level of political discourse.....so far, no answer!

(and my security code was "snake"--how appropriate!)

Posted by: psd
Date: March 9, 2007 12:29 PM

Hate to even prolong a discussion of this piece of trash, it always strikes me as funny, and many folks don't realize, that s/he is from an extraordinarily wealthy family from an extraordinarily wealthy town (New Canaan) in an extraordinarily wealthy part of the extraordinarily wealthy state of Connecticut.

As of the 2000 census, the median income for a household in the town was $141,788, and the median income for a family was $175,331.

And her "base" is made up of 'no-pot-to-piss-in' southern, rural Duke-Boy types.

Posted by: EatTheRich
Date: March 9, 2007 12:33 PM

I await this coming Sunday's Fox News when Ms Coulter sings her aria "Mea Culpa"

Posted by: philip snyder
Date: March 9, 2007 12:36 PM

Is there some minimum number of papers that she must be carried in before her syndicator drops her. I know the list is probably incomplete, but 44 seems awfully low. At some point it won't be worth it to the syndicator to keep her on. Then her number will go to zero.

Posted by: Jose Padilla
Date: March 9, 2007 12:42 PM

say what you will about utah, and there's lots to say, please take note that no papers here carry her, and that the SLC mayor Rocky Anderson is the favorite target of the wingnuts for his position that Bush should be impeached.

Posted by: rooney
Date: March 9, 2007 12:42 PM

EatTheRich:
Not "Duke Boy types"-- ol' Bo and Luke were always willing to look out for those who were different.

Posted by: jerc
Date: March 9, 2007 12:47 PM

With all the commentary on AC, it would be nice to see her referred to as "Republican icon Ann Coulter." Republicans have made singular use of her venom to stir up their base -- let's make sure the two stay strongly tethered.

Posted by: ndp
Date: March 9, 2007 01:28 PM

Please check Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids Iowa

They run her alternatively with Ivins

Posted by: cando
Date: March 9, 2007 01:37 PM

>>> Aside from the fact that she's a vile hatemonger, she's also totally incapable of discussing any serious subjects above a the level of a schoolyard bully.

The kernel of her appeal is that 30 - 40% of Our Fellow Americans are largely incapable of understanding most topics at a level above that of the schoolyard.

Posted by: Horton Heath
Date: March 9, 2007 01:40 PM

great news then... and great coverage on this issue by the way greg.

Posted by: sd
Date: March 9, 2007 01:59 PM

Utahn here as well. rooney's right. The three largest papers have never carried her as far back as I can tell. They cetainly wouldn't touch her now, what with their political star Romney on the rise.

FYI, I heard Hannity said something to the like of "I'll come out to SLC on my own dime to debate Rocky Anderson anytime." He's referring to a quip Rocky made on a local show about Hannity unwillingness to debate an intelligent person (Rocky was scheduled to appear on Hannity and Colmes over the impeachment issue, but was abruptly cancelled).

Hannity then said he'd sell tickets to the "debate" and give the money to charity.

He knows full well the audience would be disproportionently in his favor and therefore be able to "win" simply by having a favorable advantage from the audience. Right outside of SLC proper, it's gets as red as red can be.

Utah politics, thy name is oddball.

Posted by: GBC
Date: March 9, 2007 02:03 PM

This kind of campaign is exactly what right-wingers do when they don't agree with someone. A bunch of blog readers write newspapers Editors of towns they don't live in to demand they drop columns they don't read.

I'm happy when Editors decide to take out a vile person like Coulter and replace them with someone more palatable, but this campaign is about ganging up on papers you don't read because you're mad about something someone said.

Posted by: Matt Bors
Date: March 9, 2007 05:34 PM

Posted by: ndp
Date: March 9, 2007 01:28 PM

Say it three times quickly

the two stay strongly tethered.

We have ourselves a brand new tongue-twister.

Posted by:
Date: March 12, 2007 10:13 AM

I contacted the Pasadena, CA newpaper to complain. Never got a response.

Posted by: Jack
Date: March 12, 2007 10:54 AM

Mainstream media used to take things like gatekeeping and community standards seriously. Now they let any weirdo onto their editorial pages, but freak shows like her will always attract a certain demographic.

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A Sixth Paper Drops Ann CoulterMarch 09, 2007 -- 10:58 AM EST // View Comments (96) // Post a Comment

A Sixth Paper Drops Ann Coulter
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