Posted on 7/5/2006, 3:04:52 PM by SirLinksalot
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.
It's insufficient to have only the editors and reporters ~ we must have the stockholders (both classes), other "owners" and "stakeholders", managers, editors, writers, reporters, pressmen, systems people, advertising sales people, as well as all the associated critters from their field offices in that building first.
Then Tim McVey can do his thing.
Of course Tim is dead so this can all be seen as nothing more than hyperbole and cynical satire.
AlQ certainly won't bomb the NYT. If they ever get the chance to nuke NY, they will probably call the NYT ahead of time to warn them to get out of the city. And no, the NYT will not tell anyone else.
Go Annie!
Like I'm gonna get upset about somebody suggesting we should off traitors to our country. Yeah, try again, libs.
Why should she back down now, after the NYT proved her correct?
"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."
I remmember this one... my jaw dropped to the floor!
Thank you Ann, for making us look like crazy people
When someone on the left like Ward Churchill says the victims of 911 were "little Eichmans"and deserved to die,it's ok.When Ann speaks her mind,it's simply horrendous,gross insensitivity,etc...
Speak for yourself, I agree with Ann 100%!
The only people that agree with you are quislings.
She forgot to mention the recent one, at the fundraiser for Schumer, I believe, where the guy introducing him said he wanted the shot George Bush in the forehead.
Ah yes, the new 'conservatism'. Death to those we disagree with. Dissent is verboten eh comrade?
I don't give a d#mn what someone says. I don't care if it makes my blood boil to hear it. There is no way to condone what she (or you) said as conservative, Christian, or civil in any manner.
Your statement is nothing more than partisanship and nationalistic fervor.
YOU GO ANNIE!!! I've been wishing someone would do just that.
Turning it around, when Churchill says stuff like the 9/11 victims deserved to die is bad, but when Coulter says people deserve to die it's just Ann being Ann?
She's just giving them a dose of their own bile...
So your point, and Coulter's, is not that McVay was wrong to blow up men, women, and children. He just blew up the wrong ones. Oztrich Boy is right. You and she do make conservatives sound like nuts.
The "..guy introducing him..." was NYC Mayor Bloomberg.
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