Progressive Democrat Issue 115: MEDIA ACTION: Taking Down Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter, terrorist advocate who makes a living through hate speech, continues to be the target of a backlash. Advertisers fled her website like rats from a sinking ship. Since then 9 newspapers have dropped her column because of the outcry over her recurring use of hate speech and outright advocacy of violence. Media matters has a campaign to reach out to 39 more papers that carry her column. I want to highlight those efforts both here and in the local action sections of this newsletter.

Here is a mere sampling of the kind of thing Ann Coulter says on a regular basis:

* "[P]rofiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan."
* Liberals are "fak[ing] a belief in God."
* 9-11 widows are "cruel" and "put a lot of other women at risk for becoming widows."
* The New York Times staff should be "executed."

In addition she has publicly advocated:

* Bombing the NY Times building
* Poisoning a Supreme Court Justice
* Beating up American citizens with baseball bats

Interestingly, one of the first newspapers to drop her column due to her disgusting rhetoric was, long ago, the conservative National Review. They dropped her column after she responded to the 9/11 attacks by stating that America should "invade their [terrorists'] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

You can see more about her here.

And if you want to urge other papers to follow the example of the National Review, you can find a list of papers still carrying her hate speech here.

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