Sunday, March 11, 2007

Newspapers Drop Coulter

Jamison Foser, of Media Matters writes a compelling piece on the nastiness we're seeing from Coulter, Down, Mattews, & gang:
"The MSM's failure to properly convey the extent of Ann Coulter's bigotry, nastiness, and irresponsibility hasn't resulted in her being 'marginalized' -- it has helped her become an icon of the right without any accountability for the conservative movement that embraces her. Coulter's column, receptacle of much of her hate speech, appears in numerous newspapers across the country. Media Matters, outraged emailers -- 834 by one editor's count -- and others have begun to put a real dent in her reach. Yesterday, we posted a list of papers running her column, as well as their email addresses, and the parade of op-ed pages announcing that they are dropping her is growing almost by the hour."
Let's hope in 2008 we have an election on the issues and not a rehash of the vile rightwing smears we've seen since seeminly forever.