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WAS SUPER-PUNDIT Ann Coulter targeted by a journalistic hoax? On September 1, editor Bob Unger published an open letter telling Miss Coulter she was "fired" – that is, that he was dropping her syndicated column from his paper, the Centre Daily Times (CDT) of State College, Pennsylvania. Two days later, Unger told Editor & Publisher (E&P) that he was swamped with supportive e-mails. E&P reported Unger’s claim, apparently without checking its accuracy. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News likewise made no attempt to question or challenge anything Unger said in a September 18 interview. Despite the puppy-dog trust some interviewers have...

WAS SUPER-PUNDIT Ann Coulter targeted by a journalistic hoax? On September 1, editor Bob Unger published an open letter telling Miss Coulter she was "fired" – that is, that he was dropping her syndicated column from his paper, the Centre Daily Times (CDT) of State College, Pennsylvania. Two days later, Unger told Editor & Publisher (E&P) that he was swamped with supportive e-mails. E&P reported Unger’s claim, apparently without checking its accuracy. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News likewise made no attempt to question or challenge anything Unger said in a September 18 interview. Despite the puppy-dog trust some interviewers have...

REMEMBER that regional newspaper editor who made a big show of "firing" super-pundit Ann Coulter last month? Well, the guy is now out of a job. The moral of the story: Don’t mess with Ann. Actually, Bob Unger did not fire Miss Coulter, because she never worked for him. He simply stopped running her nationally syndicated column. However, he did so in such an abusive and public manner, that people were forced to take notice. Unger announced his move with an open letter accusing Miss Coulter of "hate." "[W]e don’t welcome haters, Ann, and that’s what you are…," wrote Unger....

Bob Unger, editor of something called the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania got a lot of notoriety when, in what he saw as a defense of the freedom of speech, he dropped Ann Coulter's column because the acid tongued writer insisted on exercising her right of free speech. He also got himself fired. Unger wallowed in what he claimed was an avalanche of mail patting him on the back for "firing" the best selling author of "Slander" taking what he thought was a free ride on the back of the massive nationwide publicity his target was getting as...

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon," writes leftist agitator Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals "… it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage." Super-pundit Ann Coulter has turned the left’s own tactics against them. Her new book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right makes laughingstocks of the media. It is paralyzingly funny. Predictably, the media have attacked like rabid wolverines – proving, with each snap of their drooling jaws, that they are every inch the totalitarian fiends Coulter says they are. Even before the book was published, leftist editors tried to strangle it in its cradle....