Ann Coulter Banned in New Jersey?

News mac | 6/10/06

[1000 silverlings]

Give it time. Darwin Central will try (unsuccessfully, I might add) to get her banned from FR too.

They hate her with a passion normally reserved for just Creationists, lol.

[ahayes]

No link, so I can't determine what actually was said.

We are asking New Jersey retailers statewide to stand with us and express their outrage by refusing to carry or sell copies of Coulter's book.

If this is the limit of it they're asking people to voluntarily take an action, not legislating it. This is as much an infringement of Coulter's free speech as your local Christian book store refusing to carry pornography infringes the rights of pornographers. Business owners can carry the merchandise that they wish to market.

[Eagles Talon IV]

"It's New Jersey. I've lived here for nearly 30 years and no one I know says joisey."

Dats becawz youse doan no da rite peeple. I lived dere for 45 yeers an da owny peeple wut sa 'new jersey' are peeple what never new nuttin.

[Fudd Fan]

Well thanks for taking it so well. It's one of my real pet peeves... I wasn't born in NJ and didn't grow up here, but my husband is born & raised and after living here for so long, I completely understand why he was always touchy about it.

When I was new to FR, I posted something in which I called MA "massa-two-sh*ts." I was quite rightly chastized! lol

[ahayes]

Darwin Central will try (unsuccessfully, I might add) to get her banned from FR too.

Hmm, hysteria. You can talk about whatever silly topic you like here.

[peggybac]

And they call conservatives close minded, bigoted, Nazis, etc. etc.

[Jameison]

"You heard me. They were tasteless."

Yeah?
A New Joisey who's elected wrote a book "about going up and down the Parkway to find sex with other men..." are exactly the kind of people to lecture the rest of th country on good taste right?

[Fudd Fan]

Thanks, Mr. Soprano. lol

[Fudd Fan]

I grew up in Queens, NYC for the most part. I've done my best to lose the accent.

[ahayes]

Stop that. Rationality is not welcome in Ann Coulter threads!

[Mamzelle]

re: Give it time. Darwin Central will try (unsuccessfully, I might add) to get her banned from FR too.)))

LOL--Those Who Must Not Be Spoken To--

[SuzyQue]

McCarthyism!  Censorship!

[jude24]

A New Joisey who's elected wrote a book "about going up and down the Parkway to find sex with other men..." are exactly the kind of people to lecture the rest of th country on good taste right?

That may be the dumbest argument I've read on the entire Internet. An entire state is marginalized because of the actions of an ex-governor who had to resign in disgrace?

[rock58seg]

My God!!! It could have been a place that actually mattered.

[Tribune7]

LOLOLOL

Ann C. is going to have to send Joan Quigley and Linda Stender a thank you note.

Or better yet, she can write it & send them a Quicktime file of her ripping it up.

[Enterprise]

"In a joint press release issued Friday, New Jersey Assemblywomen Joan Quigley and Linda Stender say they want New Jersey retailers to "ban the sale of [Coulter's] book throughout the state."

Well, words have meaning Mike. I can agree that Quigly and Stender are not calling for a Government ban on the book. But they are asking for someone else to "ban" the book. They are not asking for a "boycott," they are asking for a "ban."

[SandRat]

...New Jersey Assemblywomen Joan Quigley and Linda Stender say they want New Jersey retailers to "ban the sale of [Coulter's] book throughout the state."

That's an illegal restraint of trade and 1st Amendment Law suit in the making; IMHO.

[Jameison]

"Stop that. Rationality is not welcome in Ann Coulter threads!"

Because the Ann Coulter threads attract all the Kos/DU trolls at FR to come spew out their moronic DU talking points.

[sirchtruth]

No, we wouldn't. We'd be calling for boycotts at worst, and the leftscum would scream that we'd be trying to "censor" Ward Churchill. But when actual politicians call for actual censorship, the leftscum can't see the difference.

Ok, I'm not going to disagree, but just asking businesses not to sell a book is perfectly within the rights of Free Speech from anyone. It may be asinine in this case, but founded on pure constitutional precepts.

You do not have a "Right" NOT to be offended - Rush Limbaugh

[stop_fascism]

Pretty harsh words. Don't they realize that Ann is just trying to repair her shattered life after the tragic death of her pet hamster.