Ann Coulter Losses All Grip In Reality, World Shocked & Stunned
Okay not really, we all already knew she was crazy.
I just took a look at my feed reader and saw something interesting- at the top of the list in last Google Trends item was "john edwards affair". Now of course I had to check that out.
It turns out that conservative hatemonger Ann Coulter went on the MSNBC show Tucker and claimed that presidential candidate John Edwards had an affair while his wife was undergoing cancer treatment. When pressed on the subject she claimed she's put proof of the affair on her website later in the day. And what was this proof she claimed to have? A link to a National Enquirer story.
So there you have it folks, a woman who's been caught lying several times (including on her voter registration card) is citing supermarket tabloids as irrefutable proof. Could some of you Republicans please shut this woman up? It's the Democrats job to make Republicans look bad.
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the original story started at that bastion of right wing nuttery 'the huffington post'/-
Have you forgotten the half-dozen or so stories that the tabs have broken over the past few years? There's been a few stories that the MSM ignored, that the tabloids tracked down. Both the NYT and the National Enquirer have lawyers. We really only hear about the sensational tabloid lawsuits. But the "legit" papers settle quite frequently and they also have their share of public lawsuits.
Just because it appears on the Washington Post or the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal doesn't mean it's automatically true.
Just because it appears in a paper that's displayed among the candy and gum and Tic-Tacs doesn't mean it's automatically false.
Lately, the tabs are on a roll.
This is going to get very interesting.
I'm not registered as a Republican (I'm independent), but I tend to vote that way. I'm doing my part to shut her up. I don't listen to her.
I'm also using this technique against Al Franken, Al Gore and many others.
Any politician (either party) that shows up on Leno/Letterman immediately gets turned off too. I don't mix politics with entertainment.
I don't have a problem with mixing politics and entertainment, it's just that Coulter frequently crosses a line. Love him or hate him, I've never heard of Al Franken calling anyone a "total fag".
Ann Coulter is definitely over the line. You won't get an argument from me on that.
I also think the free market should remove her from the air. Start petitions, boycott stations that carry her, write advertisers, whatever. Heck, I might even sign a petition on that.
I've heard Al Franken do worse. He's the reason I started turning off Letterman and Leno when politicians are on the show. The free market already told him what they thought of his radio program.
Al Franken is a comedian and I'm sure he's probably said some outrageous things as jokes, but I've never heard of him trying to pass things off as facts (it's possible though).
As for his radio show, he had one of the networks biggest shows (though I never listened to it or any other radio show regularly). His departure was necessary because of his Senate run.
He had some very nasty things to say about President Bush and he wasn't joking.
I never listened to his radio program. I tried to listed to the Air America (I think that was the name of the network) program one morning when I was leaving Raliegh. Not sure who the host was, but her attitude was as bad as Ann Coulter's, only from the other side. I never listened again.
I've been thinking about this. I think Edwards should find a good trial lawyer and sue Ann Coulter and her publishers (along with Enquirer). Ok, the part about him finding a trial lawyer was a joke, but the suit part isn't. Too many publications and radio personalities have gotten away with too much for too long.
I'm going on the assumotion that the charges are without merit.
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