Friday, June 30, 2006
Ann Coulter: Still Bomb N.Y. Times
Ann Coulter, whose book, "Godless, The Church of Liberalism," has reached runaway best-seller status, won’t back down on comments made about bombing the New York Times main office building in Manhattan.
Coulter’s comments are reverberating around the journalism world. This weekend, Editor & Publisher magazine featured this story: "Coulter Affirms Prevous Statement About Bombing 'NYT' Office.”
Coulter had stated that her "only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
She added such a bombing would have been appropriate only if Times’ reporters and editors were inside.
Editor & Publisher noted that recently Lee Salem, the head of Universal Syndicate, wrote to the publication explaining that Coulter was simply engaging in satire and did not seek violent harm to liberals.
But E&P says Coulter doesn’t feel the same way.
Asked if she would recant her "bomb the New York Times" remark by Alan Colmes during her appearance last Thursday night on Fox News, Coulter said she stood by her comment.
"No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after the New York Times has leapt beyond -- beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week," Coulter said.
Coulter was referring to what she called "the latest of a long list of formerly top-secret government anti-terrorism operations that have been revealed by the Times," noting that "last week the paper printed the details of a government program tracking terrorists' financial transactions that has already led to the capture of major terrorists and their handmaidens in the U.S."
An angry Colmes shot back with sarcasm: "This is great humor. This belongs on 'Saturday Night Live.' It belongs on 'The Daily Show.'"
Despite their upset over violence talk, neither Colmes or E&P have yet to express outrage when left-leaning figures called for the killing of prominent Republicans, including:
During the 2000 election, "The Late Show with Craig Kilborn" showed footage of George Bush while the words "Snipers Wanted" was superimposed.
Actor Alec Baldwin appeared on "Late Night With Conan O’Brien" and called for Republican Congressman Henry Hyde and his family to be murdered. Baldwin said: "I’m thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all, right now, all of us together ... would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! Wait! ... Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families."
Al Franken told Matt Lauer on NBC’s "Today” show that Karl Rove and Lewis Libby should be "executed." The comment drew a laugh from Lauer. Franken's comments drew no criticism from the major media, including NBC News.
Ann Coulter, whose book, "Godless, The Church of Liberalism," has reached runaway best-seller status, won’t back down on comments made about bombing the New York Times main office building in Manhattan.
Coulter’s comments are reverberating around the journalism world. This weekend, Editor & Publisher magazine featured this story: "Coulter Affirms Prevous Statement About Bombing 'NYT' Office.”
Coulter had stated that her "only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
She added such a bombing would have been appropriate only if Times’ reporters and editors were inside.
Editor & Publisher noted that recently Lee Salem, the head of Universal Syndicate, wrote to the publication explaining that Coulter was simply engaging in satire and did not seek violent harm to liberals.
But E&P says Coulter doesn’t feel the same way.
Asked if she would recant her "bomb the New York Times" remark by Alan Colmes during her appearance last Thursday night on Fox News, Coulter said she stood by her comment.
"No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after the New York Times has leapt beyond -- beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week," Coulter said.
Coulter was referring to what she called "the latest of a long list of formerly top-secret government anti-terrorism operations that have been revealed by the Times," noting that "last week the paper printed the details of a government program tracking terrorists' financial transactions that has already led to the capture of major terrorists and their handmaidens in the U.S."
An angry Colmes shot back with sarcasm: "This is great humor. This belongs on 'Saturday Night Live.' It belongs on 'The Daily Show.'"
Despite their upset over violence talk, neither Colmes or E&P have yet to express outrage when left-leaning figures called for the killing of prominent Republicans, including:
During the 2000 election, "The Late Show with Craig Kilborn" showed footage of George Bush while the words "Snipers Wanted" was superimposed.
Actor Alec Baldwin appeared on "Late Night With Conan O’Brien" and called for Republican Congressman Henry Hyde and his family to be murdered. Baldwin said: "I’m thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all, right now, all of us together ... would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! Wait! ... Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families."
Al Franken told Matt Lauer on NBC’s "Today” show that Karl Rove and Lewis Libby should be "executed." The comment drew a laugh from Lauer. Franken's comments drew no criticism from the major media, including NBC News.
