Interesting letter (not mine): Responsible paper would drop column

[question everything]

Responsible paper would drop column

(snip)

In her calm moments, she (Coulter) trades in name-calling and trash talk. She adds nothing constructive or useful to the political dialogue. Beyond that, Coulter advocates mass imprisonment of those who disagree, forceful mass conversion of others to her religion and terrorist attacks upon her opponents.

Most notoriously, Coulter has advocated bombing an iconic office building in New York: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building" (New York Observer interview, Aug. 20, 2002). Asked repeatedly if she may have been misquoted, or perhaps intended these filthy comments to be funny or satirical, Coulter says she meant them literally.

In the 1960s, public figures like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin advocated violence against American institutions. More recently, Louis Farrakhan has spoken in hateful rhetoric against other citizens. Until Coulter, these kinds of extremists were not syndicated in mainstream newspapers. Instead, they were marginalized by the media and the rest of society.

The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) has dropped Coulter's column because "many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives" (editorial, Aug. 28, 2005). I hope the Daily Bulletin will do the same. Coulter's sick and destructive rhetoric should have no place in a responsible newspaper.

SCOTT D. WHITE
Ontario

From http://www.dailybulletin.com/themail/ci_3408695

[lebkuchen]

1. Stripes has printed numerous letters unfavorable to Coulter

Here's the latest.

Can’t scare away Constitution

Ann Coulter tells us in her Jan. 9 (print edition) commentary (“Situation warrants putting safety first”) that “Every once in while the nation needs a little reminder of why the Democrats can’t be trusted with national security.” What is her evidence?

She claims that we should be willing to overlook the domestic spying scandal because Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act judges had the temerity to reject six requests for warrants out of a total of 5,645. She also complains that the FISA judges requested the modification of 173 (3 percent) of the requests. Never mind that these requests can be made after the fact. Never mind that an approval rate of 97 percent suggests that the FISA judges are men and women also deeply concerned about the safety of their fellow Americans.

That this level of oversight should cause Coulter to think that we should abandon the Constitution is deeply disturbing. People like Ann Coulter who want to scare us into giving up our freedoms are repugnant to me. I wear the uniform to protect our freedom and I do not like anyone, left or right, trampling on them.

Staff Sgt. Blake K. Baxter
Ooltewah, Tenn.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=34263

[400Years]

2. I wish they would just add someone like Chomsky to balance it

instead of taking away some vitriol why not add some truth.

Of course I would really like to see them do both.

[rurallib]

3. Molly Ivins maybe? She's a good balance!