NBC to ban Ann Coulter for life

[RJ Connors]

Breaking on Drudge http://www.drudgereport.com

Thoughts. Comments.

On Edit: The freeptards are having a hissy. Fascism is here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159211/posts

[Joanne98]

1. GOOD!

[Taverner]

2. They should have kept her jaw wired shut

[RJ Connors]

4. Everytime I see Coulters name I can't help but think

Bill Clinton. Gay, when it comes to evil crazy bitches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7NcfDOL71o

[Still Sensible]

3. I didn't know January 5 was a holiday!

damn....

[RJ Connors]

7. It is now!!!!!

Now if the other cable channels will do the right thing and ban her bony ass maybe we won't have to hear of her anymore.

[liberalmuse]

5. I'd like to think of it as 'quarantined'.

She's like a fucking virus.

[tigereye]

6. boy is that an ugly website!

Made me look - she's disgusting, and banning her from a variety of media would be all right by me! :thumbsup:

[RJ Connors]

8. Man, if you think that was ugly then don't look at this.

Truly representative of what she is, an evil crazy bitch.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7NcfDOL71o

[Harry Monroe]

30. AHHHHHHHH!!

Dammit, warn us before you show a picture of her!! You scared the shit out of me. Now I'll have that bitch's image on my brain for hours!! Thanks a lot!!

[saracat]

9. If what Drudge says is true, this is wrong. I loathe Coulter but censorship is always wrong.

Coulter has always been an abomination and she is the same abomination she was when they invited her. I do not think this has anything to do with PE Obama and everything to do with whatever she said about them. Either way, it is wrong. I never though to see a day when I would defend Coulter but it isn't about Coulter but Free Speech.

[tridim]

10. No, it's about not inviting proven liars onto your television network.

[saracat]

12. It is wrong if Drudges cited reasons are true.

She shouldn't be prevented from criticizing Obama, or NBC. If they ban her for lying, that is another matter.

[Kookaburra]

22. What would prompt us to think anything drudge says is true?

Just asking. I don't usually believe anything attributed to that fool until I've read in at least 2 other more reliable places.

[Career Prole]

37. Were you ever invited on NBC to criticize bush?

I have to ask because I don't know for sure...perhaps you were. I know I was never invited, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a violation of my right to free speech...even if I asked them pretty please to provide me some airtime to say what an evil turd bush is. I just wouldn't help the ratings. They wouldn't even return my calls.

I know your heart's in the right place.

Don't worry, though. Horseface's nasty new book will have no trouble getting onto and not subsequently being banned from library shelves. That, as we know, would be censorship. She can also stand on the street corner and badmouth liberals all day long and I'll join you in defending her right to do so.
I just don't think any television station owes her airtime as some sort of right, though...especially when it's entertainment rather than news.
The whole thing was probably a ratings decision to begin with and now they're probably pleased as punch Sludge is stirring it up.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Ah, but the government isn't preventing her from speaking.

A network has decided not to give her airspace. Well, geez, they don't give me airspace either. Does that mean they're violating my rights?

[saracat]

13. Again, it is wrong if the reasons cited are true. No one should be banned for criticizing the P E

or any other official. And I don't think they should be banned for criticizing a network. I have always had a problem with how the airsplace allegedly is public property yet the networks decide according what makes them money. Odd how that works. What I question is if it is for the reasons cited whether they have the right to ban her.That is a government issue.

[geckosfeet]

16. Drudge is as big a partisan liar as she is.

[foxfeet]

23. And rapidly becoming as irrelevant as she is.

:boring:

[RJ Connors]

21. Absolutely correct

As a business owner I have the right to operate my business in a way that I think is in the best interest of the business, it's shareholders, and it continued existences. So, if NBC has decided that the future of political commentary is not divisive rhetoric that has questionable or blatantly no foundation, it is there right to adjust their programing to accommodate their audiences preferences and the business continued success.

[izquierdista]

14. 'Free' speech

Has nothing to do with it. NBC obviously can't sell her crap to advertisers anymore, that's all. She's as free as any other nutcase to stand on a soapbox in the park and flap her gums to whomever will listen.

[qazplm]

15. good gravy on toast

it is not "censorship" unless the government does it.

it is not "censorship" unless the government does it.

it is not "censorship" unless the government does it.

Please repeat ad infinitum!

A private entity can "ban" whomever they want, whenever they want. There is no "right" to appear and speak on television.

[saracat]

17. Public Airwaves, Public airwaves, Public airwaves.

Free speech even applies to people we don't like. If this was Keith Olberman or Randi from AAR, most would be screaming their heads off! I remember screaming my head off about Bill Maher.That was wrong too!

[roseBudd]

26. remember andrew dice clay?

[Prophet 451]

18. She still has free speech

No-one has a "right" to appear on tv. She still has free speech, they're just refusing to give her a megaphone.

[rpannier]

19. And if NBC was a government agency I would agree

But like Fox, they have the right to pick who they will allow on their network and who they won't.

She is not being silenced, as she can go on ABC, CBS, CNN and/or Fox to promote her book.

[Still Sensible]

27. I disagree

this isn't censorship, this is simply an example of someone in the MSM deciding not to give equal voice to someone who clearly doesn't deserve it. How many times have we been frustrated by total bullshit the last 8 years (and longer) getting coverage and time in the interest of "fairness"--in reality in the interest of pushing the right's agenda.

She has not been censored--someone still publishes her BS.

[Harry Monroe]

29. And would it be a twist if the ACLU were to defend her right to free speech??

Oh the irony!!

[Caretha]

33. You need to get a grip

and study what the meaning of censorship is.

[canucksawbones]

35. It's not censorship...

Censorship is something government does. If Coulter is "banned" (and I doubt it as only Drudge and Coulter have claimed that)it means that the network has made an editorial decision to not give a forum to an inflammatory idiot who continually out and out lies in her books. Coulter does not have a right to be on TV promoting her books any more than I have a right to be on TV. She won't get an invite, I won't get an invite. No problem.

[Aristus]

36. NBC didn't say she couldn't publish her book; that would be censorship. All they did was say

she couldn't be on their network anymore. That's taking out the trash.

[poverlay]

20. I just read a freeper compare Coulter with Maddow. That's like sending a yappy little shitzu up

against a golden retreiver.

I would LOVE to see that matchup.
All of Rachel's facts would be very confusing to the freeps and their lame, tame, attack Coulter.

[emilyg]

24. Don;t believe it.

[Miss Authoritiva]

25. I don't believe it either.

Drudge and Coulter have a long skanky history together. I'm guessing Coulter legitimately got bumped (not unheard in television programming history) and she and Drudge are taking the opportunity to get some buzz going. If NBC/MSNBC didn't "ban" Coulter after her horrendous Lauer exchange years ago, when Coulter claimed the 9/11 "Jersey Girls" were just a bunch of merry widows, then why would they do it now. Besides, nobody gets "banned" from those shows. The telephone just stops ringing.

[saracat]

28. I think you may be right. This will certainly give her leverage on other networks!

And Coulter loves controversy, real or imagined.

[SargeXXX]

31. I canceled my subscription to TIME when they put her on the cover.

[RamboLiberal]

32. NBC denies she was banned

She was pulled to allow more time for coverage of Middle East. Coulter and Drudge then went on a publicity witch hunt against NBC. Numerous threads on this in GD.

[santamargarita]

34. She leaves that stinking burnt rotting pork smell everywhere she goes

:silly:

[gmoney]

38. I heard a little of her on Hannity radio yesterday, hating on single moms

not sure what her point was... yes, I'm sure many single moms wish the daddy could stick around, but I didn't catch if she was proposing taking kids away from single moms, pairing them up and enforcing marriage, or what.

[rpannier]

39. Like Bristol Palin?