Posted by
Michael on Sunday, March 04, 2007 6:04:19 AM
Over at
Crooks and Liars, John Amato cites a major "MSM blackout" on Coulter's comments regarding John Edwards.
Now, John may be right when it comes to the major cable networks and the newspapers. I haven't read anything about it from any major newspapers. I don't think that would be an issue of Left or Right, however, and one of the commenters on C&L, by the name of
"detepe," tried to say, predictably, that the Right was trying to whitewash the issue:
It's disturbing that all of the so called pro-family types, like Romney
et al, aren't standing up and loudly denouncing Coulter and hate speech
in general. I'm a grown woman and I don't like it when I read hateful
blog comments. Vulgarity and vitriole don't persuade - they inflame.
If there's any pundit that I would describe as "pro-family," it would be
Kevin McCullough. He had this to say about Ann Coulter's comments:
Today at CPAC Ann needlessly painted a target not on herself, but on the Conservative movement as a whole. Within minutesliberals were willing to lay the blame for the idiocy of her remarks
- which were unnecessary and accomplished little than cheap laughs - at
the feet of the conservatives gathered at CPAC, and in addition by
extension the GOP/Conservative candidates for President of 2008....So... long story short - truly
toooooo bad that Ann had to go off and in an all too obvious way create
the storm of publicity for herself, while quite literally leaving the
"movement" for which she is so well known in the dust having to clean
up her slop, and put the parts back together again.
Hugh Hewitt took the gloves off and compared Coulter to Michael Richards:
I cannot imagine Coulter being invited to any panel or television
appearance on which I would want to appear. Colleges and universities
must also stop inviting her to appear as a representative of the
conservative movement in America. She is not. You want smart,
accomplished and funny conservative women? Ask
K-Lo,
Laura Ingraham or
Carol Liebau to appear, or chose from scores of others. But not Ann Coulter --she represents only a snarl and a deep need to be noticed.