Progressive Democrat Issue 121: VIRGINIA FOCUS: Fighting Ann Coulter in Virginia

This is REALLY important, folks. Ann Coulter has not only been using anti-gay slurs and advocating terrorism, she has been specifically targeting Barack Obama, trying to link him to terrorism. Absurd, no doubt. But this still gets attention because she is PART OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA! If we don't fight her, her rhetoric helps define the national dialogue. So I continue this from last week with an addition.

As I highlighted above, Ann Coulter hate speech continues, and so she is once again the target of a progressive boycott. Above I discuss contacting advertisers on her website. Here I want to urge you to contact newspapers that carry her column wherein she advocates terrorism against Americans. 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." 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. 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.

Here is the one Virginia paper that still carries her column, with contact info. If we can reach them and convince them that Coulter's hate speech is contrary to what is acceptable in Virginia, we could get Coulter out of all Virginia newspapers. PLEASE write them and urge them to follow the example of the National Review and drop Ann Coulter's column.

(Harrisonburg) Daily News-Record
Peter Yates
pyates@dnronline.com

BUT IT IS TIME TO EXPAND THE PRESSURE...and I need your help. To my readers in Virginia, PLEASE check out the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg and find three major advertisers. Contact those advertisers and send their information to me. If you do this, I can compile a list of advertisers to focus on and publicize it. This way we can put financial pressure on the paper to STOP CARRYING COULTER'S HATE SPEECH AND TERRORISM ADVOCACY. Without your help, I can't do much here. WITH your help, we can make a very real impact.

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