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  • Saturday, April 07, 2007

    Progressive Democrat Issue 116: WISCONSIN FOCUS: Continuing the fight against Ann Coulter

    As I highlighted last week, Ann Coulter is slowly being dropped by paper after paper because of her hate speech and advocacy of violence. 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." Wow...what kind of anti-Muslim nut case are we talking about here?

    Since then her hate speech has only gotten worse. She has compared Islam with the KKK and routinely advocates violence against liberals and insults homosexuals. You can read more about what she advocates and says here. She has the right to say what she wants. And newspapers have the right to carry it. But, we have the right to fight back as well. Last month highlighting her anti-gay rhetoric led to practically all her advertisers (other than Amazon.com) to pull their ads off her website. Now we are asking newspapers that carry her column to stop giving her hate speech a platform.

    Here is a list of Wisconsin papers that carry Ann Coulter's column with contact info. PLEASE write them and urge them to follow the example of the National Review and drop Ann Coulter's column.

    Watertown Daily Times
    John McFadden
    news1@wdtimes.com

    (West Bend) Daily News
    Jill Badzinski
    dailynews@conleynet.com

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