Progressive Democrat Issue 121: CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Fighting Ann Coulter in California

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 a list of California papers with contact info. PLEASE write them and urge them to follow the example of the National Review and drop Ann Coulter's column. We really need to pressure these people. I particularly urge you to contact the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune since I know the demographics of these areas are slowly changing and these papers may be more open to pressure.

(Palmdale) Antelope Valley Press
Jana Treece
editor@avpress.com

Pasadena Star-News
Steve O'Sullivan
steve.osullivan@sgvn.com

(West Covina) San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Steve Scauzillo
letters.tribune@sgvn.com

Whittier Daily News
Linda Beckman
letters.tribune@sgvn.com

(Yreka) Siskiyou Daily News
Jean Smith
editor@siskiyoudaily.com

BUT IT IS TIME TO EXPAND THE PRESSURE...and I need your help. To my readers in California, PLEASE check out the above mentioned papers 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. And I can really assure you that when we act together, we DO make an impact.

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