Companies to pull ads from Coulter's Web site

[gldstwmn]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/05/coulter.ads/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- At least three major companies want their ads pulled from Ann Coulter's Web site, following customer complaints about the right-wing commentator referring to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."

Verizon, Sallie Mae and Georgia-based NetBank each said they didn't know their ads were on AnnCoulter.com until they received the complaints.

A diarist at the liberal blog DailyKos.com posted contact information for dozens of companies with ads on Coulter's site after the commentator made her remarks about Edwards at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday.

"One of the best ways to communicate one's distaste for Coulter's repeated incidents of hate speech is to respectfully but firmly let her advertisers know you are deeply troubled by their indirect support of bigotry through their advertising on Coulter's Web site," the blogger VolvoDrivingLiberal wrote on DailyKos.com on Sunday.

Verizon, Sallie Mae and NetBank said the ads were put on a variety of sites by a third party company. In many cases, advertisers do not know which sites feature their ads.

"Per our policy, the networked Web site ad purchases are supposed to be stripped of certain kinds of Web sites," said a Verizon spokesperson. "This one could be considered an extreme political Web site, should be off the list, and now it is off the list."

A Sallie Mae spokesperson said the company was only testing an online advertising agency, and that their ads were not meant to show up on Coulter's site. The company said they planned to pull ads from other political and religious Web sites as well.

A spokesperson for NetBank said Coulter's page "is not the kind of site we want to be on."

Coulter did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

[Livia]

:thumbsup:

[CelticGypsy]

She grates on my nerves:nod: Her jokes are not funny.

[HejiraNYC]

She thinks she's the ultimate conservative Republican piece of ass, when actually she looks like John Kerry in bad drag. I wouldn't **** that sknak with two bags over her head!

Let's see if she goes to rehab.

[JazmenFlowers]

I would rather eat vomit than listen, look or think to, at or of this woman.

and if you know me, you know how.serious.this.is.

[Johnny Stew]

Someone should hook her up with Howard K. Stern, so he could do us all a favor and bump her off too.

[strandinthewind]

Clearly she made that joke to get in the limelight, which she has been out of for the last year or so. And, it worked :shrug:

Retgarding her, I think she is a smart woman who knows how to work the public to make money. I also think she is a lying peice of shiite who takes a grain of truth and spins it her way, all while refusing to apply that twisted logic to her own party.

[Rickypt]

Glad to see companies pulling their money from her, but also long for the day when she does her lame thing and absolutely nobody pays attention. She thrives off of this stuff and is a rather sick woman.

[The Tower]

Clearly she made that joke to get in the limelight, which she has been out of for the last year or so. And, it worked :shrug:
The only problem is that she didn't make a joke, she uttered a direct slur. There was no comedic pretense to her statement- it was pretty direct.

I've always thought she has gone "too far" with her ridiculously false hyperbolic claims. I'm just glad that she finally went "too far" when it comes to the pulse of America (read: least common denominator).

[mikeschmike]

Someone should hook her up with Howard K. Stern, so he could do us all a favor and bump her off too.

:eek: Too soon Brian. Too soon.













:lol:

[strandinthewind]

The only problem is that she didn't make a joke, she uttered a direct slur. There was no comedic pretense to her statement- it was pretty direct.

I think she set it up as a joke in that she was attacking Edwards as well as the pattern of someone using a slur and then going into rehab as an excuse for it.

Personally, I have no huge issues with "faggot" -- but get that some do and totally agree that Coulter went too far for mainstream America, which was not the audience she was playing to when she made the remark.

Also, I LOVE how Fox News is spinning this into a sep. issue of why don't the liberals get equal bad press when they jokingly call for Cheney's assination a la Bill Maher. I mean do two wrongs make a right :rolleyes:

[ELIUD]

I think she set it up as a joke in that she was attacking Edwards as well as the pattern of someone using a slur and then going into rehab as an excuse for it.

Personally, I have no huge issues with "faggot" -- but get that some do and totally agree that Coulter went too far for mainstream America, which was not the audience she was playing to when she made the remark.

Also, I LOVE how Fox News is spinning this into a sep. issue of why don't the liberals get equal bad press when they jokingly call for Cheney's assination a la Bill Maher. I mean do two wrongs make a right :rolleyes:
I don't have any issues with gays being called "fag" or "faggot", eventhough it's all in bad taste. What I don't like about Coulter's joke was that she used it to describe someone who she hates for his political leanings (as she has done before about Bill Clinton and Al Gore). She keeps referring to them as fags or other gay slurs, so she's expressing her hate for these people by addressing them this way. It's directly a slur meant to express HATE. Not a comment on their sexuality.

And I watched Real Time with Bill Mahr - he never said such a thing. He was commenting on a blogger's statement at HuffingtonPost.com, that said he wished the bomb that exploded near Cheney had killed him. Bill Mahr then said he believes if Cheney were dead there'd be less killing in Iraq.

[The Tower]

I think she set it up as a joke in that she was attacking Edwards as well as the pattern of someone using a slur and then going into rehab as an excuse for it.
She knew exactly what she was doing. She was showing support for the concept that faggot/homosexual = male weakness. And she was showing support for the ability to use that word as a means to put someone down- menacingly, I might add.

Personally, I have no huge issues with "faggot" -- but get that some do...
I can handle my own against it- however, there are a lot of scared teenagers who see that word as quite a threat. Throwing it around as an accepted cheap shot is akin to talking about how great lynchings were with a "wink, wink" and a laugh.

...and totally agree that Coulter went too far for mainstream America, which was not the audience she was playing to when she made the remark.
The fact that her audience reveled in it makes it all the more disgusting.

Also, I LOVE how Fox News is spinning this into a sep. issue of why don't the liberals get equal bad press when they jokingly call for Cheney's assination a la Bill Maher.
Bill Maher making a statement about what would happen if Cheney had died in Afghanistan has no comparison to this. I won't even get into the comments made on Fox Noise. That they would have people on defending her statements is shameful.

[skcin]

What I don't like about Coulter's joke was that she used it to describe someone who she hates for his political leanings (as she has done before about Bill Clinton and Al Gore). She keeps referring to them as fags or other gay slurs, so she's expressing her hate for these people by addressing them this way. It's directly a slur meant to express HATE. Not a comment on their sexuality.



Exactly. :nod:

[strandinthewind]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/strandinthewind/tuesmike.jpg


www.ajc.com

[Rickypt]

The fact that her audience reveled in it makes it all the more disgusting.


That is indeed the troubling part of this whole story.

[The Tower]

That is indeed the troubling part of this whole story.
:nod:

I'm sure many, many of the audience members were thinking "Damn right John Edwards is a faggot. That pussy."

Coulter was on Fox Noise defending herself by claiming that the use of the word faggot is acceptable because it's a "schoolyard taunt". Can you believe this ****?!!? Doesn't anyone remember Matthew Shepard?

Also, according to Coulter, America is now the Soviet Union because people are trying to silence her. WTF??!? She's ****ed up in the head, big time.

The disingenuousness of conservatives is such bull****. Come out of the Bigot Closet fer chrissakes- just say what you believe and stick by it. This reminds me of when Dubya's mic was on when he called Adam Clyborn (sp?) from the New York Times an asshole.

[strandinthewind]

. . . This reminds me of when Dubya's mic was on when he called Adam Clyborn (sp?) from the New York Times an asshole.


:LAUGH: I actually had a tiny bit of respect for him for that comment :laugh:

But, back to Coulter - she would not know the truth if it bit her on the vagina, assuming she has one - it's that Adam's apple and all :eek:

[SuzeQuze]

:nod:

I'm sure many, many of the audience members were thinking "Damn right John Edwards is a faggot. That pussy."

Coulter was on Fox Noise defending herself by claiming that the use of the word faggot is acceptable because it's a "schoolyard taunt". Can you believe this ****?!!? Doesn't anyone remember Matthew Shepard?

Also, according to Coulter, America is now the Soviet Union because people are trying to silence her. WTF??!? She's ****ed up in the head, big time.

The disingenuousness of conservatives is such bull****. Come out of the Bigot Closet fer chrissakes- just say what you believe and stick by it. This reminds me of when Dubya's mic was on when he called Adam Clyborn (sp?) from the New York Times an asshole.

I think "she" just came out of it. I actually don't think she's all that bright. She's just smart enough to manipulate the media into paying attention to her. And Paris Hilton does that pretty well so it doesn't take much upstairs for it. Granted Paris doesn't write books but then Coulter can just barely write herself. Except to use tired phrases that get people riled up without any real substance behind them.

[DavidMn]

I wouldnt wipe my ass with her likeness on toilet paper.

[skcin]

Who does she think is trying to silence her? :shrug:

[ELIUD]

I wouldnt wipe my ass with her likeness on toilet paper.

Funny, I would.

[BlackWidow]

I want her to die in a fiery plane crash!

[Johnny Stew]

I want her to die in a fiery plane crash!That's not slow and painful enough.
Try again.

[strandinthewind]

Interesting take and yet an another gay egg on the face of the far right :rolleyes: Can you say Jeff Gannon redux :laugh:

___________________________________________

Max Blumenthal

03.07.2007

CPAC's Gay Porn Star Honoree, Ann Coulter, and the Politics of Personal Crisis

I don't know if David Horowitz knew Cpl. Matt Sanchez was once a gay porn star and male prostitute when he introduced him to me at last weekend's CPAC. But he did know that Sanchez was an eager yes-man, and a supposed victim of the campus PC thuggery Horowitz has made a career out of decrying.

As Horowitz played cardiologist, ranting to me about how each leftist "has hatred in his heart" and how members of the New Left to which he once belonged had "treason in their hearts," Sanchez stood faithfully by his side, muttering encouragement. "That's right. That's right," Sanchez would say, almost on cue. Whenever I spoke, Sanchez would mumble something under his breath like, "That's such a lie! Omigod!" or "See! Liberals are hateful."

Horowitz probably discovered Sanchez after the ex-Marine appeared on Hannity & Colmes alleging that while studying at Columbia University, he was called a "baby-killer" by members of that school's International Socialist Organization. This alleged episode, which was investigated by Columbia but never confirmed, also earned Sanchez a spot on the O'Reilly Factor.

For his supposed courage in the face of liberal cruelty, Cpl. Sanchez was presented with the Jeanne Kirpatrick Academic Freedom Award at this year's CPAC. Sanchez was the perfect vehicle for the conservative movement's ongoing attempt to wrap itself in the uniform, and to heap resentment on liberals for their supposed anti-military bias.

Soon, Sanchez was rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. Malkin posted a shot of herself beside the corporal on her blog. Sanchez was clad in full military regalia and Malkin wore a big smile. But Malkin is not smiling anymore. Like so many of Sanchez's boosters, she was mugged by reality.

As several gay blogs revealed late yesterday, Corporal Sanchez was known during his halcyon days as Rod Majors, a majorly well-endowed gay porn star. (Photos of Corp. Sanchez aka Rod Majors in action can be viewed here. I warn you, this link is NOT to be clicked on if you have minors around or if you're in a crowded workplace). According to Tom Bacchus, Sanchez was also a $200-an-hour male prostitute who advertised himself (here) as an "excellent top."

There is of course nothing inherently wrong with Sanchez being a gay porn star or a male escort. His past is only notable because he chose to join a movement that exploits anti-gay sentiment for political gain. Coulter's now-famous "faggot" remark was not an aberration, but rather a symbol of the politics of resentment that propels the conservative movement and its elected Republican surrogates; a reflection of the bigotry conservatives have sought to write into the Constitution through the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment. The ascendant "family values" wing of the right is also responsible for sabotaging legislation allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces, a maneuver that may now spell the end of Sanchez's career.

As Sanchez marched down the road from the gay sex industry to the conservative movement, he followed in the footsteps of Jeff Gannon, Ted Haggard and many others. Whether Sanchez knew the right was filled with people just like him, something about it must have appealed to him.

Ann Coulter behavior reflects a psychology similar to Sanchez's. Coulter has made a career out of criticizing the sexual peccadiloes of liberal icons from Ted Kennedy to Bill Clinton, who she dubbed "a horny hick." She appeared on James Dobson's radio show to promote her recent polemic accusing liberals of despoiling America's social fabric by advancing sexual libertinism, abortion and gay marriage. Like Dobson, Coulter has been a constant and especially strident critic of feminism. But few have benefitted more from the legacy of liberalism in general and feminism in particular than Coulter.

Coulter, after all, is a sexually liberated, career-minded, single woman in her 40's. At the height of the Monica Lewinsky drama, during which she acted as one of Ken Starr's "elves," Coulter was reportedly sired by Dinesh D'Souza, that paragon of morality who now blames "social liberals" for 9/11. There is little doubt that were it not for the wave of liberation that swept across America during the 1960's, Coulter's would have found fame and fortune unattainable.

In my video, "CPAC 2007: The Unauthorized Documentary," I asked Coulter how she could reconcile her defense of the sanctity of marriage with the fact that she has had three broken engagements and has never been married. She was unable to answer my question. Instead, she made an ambiguous remark about my appearance which I assume was a sarcastic insult. Some of my friends have insisted she was genuinely enamored with me, a theory that, if true, highlights Coulter's obvious sado-masochistic tendency. Either way, her response, or lack thereof, was predictable.

Coulter refused to address the gulf between her personal life and her public persona. Any acknowledgement of this contradiction would have cast her vitriolic attacks on deviant social groups as projections of her psycho-sexual issues. Like Haggard, Gannon, Sanchez or the countless right-wing hypocrites who have come and gone over the years, Coulter's contradictions are essential to understanding her reactionary posture. She is what I would call a CCC, or a Conflicted Conservative in Crisis.

CCC's are aggressive toward groups they privately identify with, like sexual minorities or independent women, but they are simultaneously submissive to those who might otherwise persecute them. Thus, Coulter assiduously cultivated the approval of James Dobson, an anti-feminist demagogue who advocates "women's submission;" Sanchez enlisted in the Marines, then joined the right's campus culture war; and Haggard inveighed against homosexuality from the pulpit. These CCC's scurried away from freedom for the tight confines of an authoritarian movement. For CCC's, backlash politics is a crude form of therapy.

The CCC phenomenon explains why so many of the right's most bigoted and hysterical figures are eventually unmasked as frauds. Sanchez may be drummed out of the movement after today's revelations, and Coulter may lose advertising revenue and allies after her latest paroxysm of hate, but the show will go on. So long as conservatism is propelled by the politics of resentment, it will continue to attract and generate CCC's.

Update: Sanchez conducted a "candid" interview with Joemygod that is to be published later today. According to Joe, "Sanchez is no dumb bunny." We'll see...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/cpacs-gay-porn-star-hono_b_42842.html

CAUTION - link contains link to a hot gay porn website as well as Mr. Dirty Sanchez's escort page :eek:

[strandinthewind]

Newspapers Pull Ann Coulter's Column Over John Edwards 'Faggot' Comment
Thursday , March 08, 2007



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WASHINGTON —

At least three newspapers have pulled conservative commentator Ann Coulter's syndicated column from their editorial pages after her comments last week calling Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards a "faggot."

Newspapers in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Michigan pulled the column after criticism from readers. In addition, reports say at least three companies, Verizon, Sallie Mae and NetBank, have dropped their advertising from Coulter's Web site after a liberal blogger launched a campaign to petition the firms to stop their support.


The Mountain Press in Sevier County, Tenn., pulled Coulter's column this week and called her comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week "distasteful and irresponsible," according to its note to readers on its Web site.

"When we agree to buy a syndicated column we expect the writer to offer responsible, reasoned opinion on national and international issues," said Stan Voit, editor of the Mountain Press. "We will not continue to publish the columns of someone who uses people as a punch line to get a cheap laugh and who so freely uses an offensive term to describe another human being."

The Mountain Press carried the column since last fall. It will replace Coulter's column with another female conservative columnist.

Coulter came under fire after appearing at CPAC last Friday and joking that she "was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'"

Besieged in the press and by three Republican presidential candidates, Coulter defended herself by saying she was mocking political correctness in America, not homosexuality.

"'Faggot' isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays," Coulter said on FOX News' "Hannity and Colmes."

"It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss,' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person."

But her explanation apparently didn't satisfy editors at The Oakland Press in Michigan and The Daily Lancaster New Era in Pennsylvania. According to a report by Editor and Publisher, both papers dropped her from their op-ed line-up.

The Lancaster New Era called Coulter's comments a "crude characterization of presidential candidate John Edwards as a homosexual."

"Coulter's use of name-calling, sarcasm and overstatement in her columns too often detracts from the arguments she seeks to make. Her writing leads her political opponents to respond with name-calling and vitriol," according to a note to readers on its Web site.

It's not the first time Coulter has been dropped from some of the partners of Universal Press Syndicate. In 2004, USA Today dropped her column after she called the Democratic National Convention in Boston "The Spawn of Satan convention."

Edwards launched a fundraising drive as a result of the remark. His campaign asked supporters to donate $100,000 in "Coulter Cash" to "show that inflaming prejudice to attack progressive leaders will only backfire."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257745,00.html

[gldstwmn]

Bill Maher then said he believes if Cheney were dead there'd be less killing in Iraq.

That is exactly what he said.

[gldstwmn]

I think "she" just came out of it. I actually don't think she's all that bright. She's just smart enough to manipulate the media into paying attention to her. And Paris Hilton does that pretty well so it doesn't take much upstairs for it. Granted Paris doesn't write books but then Coulter can just barely write herself. Except to use tired phrases that get people riled up without any real substance behind them.

Paris has also uttered her fair share of ethnic slurs.