June 9, 2006
Would NBC Allow a Domestic Terrorist on the Today Show to Promote a Book? Then Why Was Ann Coulter On, Again?
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Neo-Nazi Ann Coulter presents a challenge to BuzzFlash.
She is a self-promoter who knows controversy sells books. To this freakish right wing shock bigot, all news coverage is good news coverage because it publicizes her books -- and she makes more money. And it increases her fees on the speaking circuit.
So, do you cover her in BuzzFlash or ignore her?
We've thought about this dilemma quite a bit, and have decided ignoring her would be like pretending Goebbels didn't exist around 1932.
The most disgusting thing about Coulter is not that shameless, vile immoral creatures like her exist; it is that the mainstream corporate press has moved so far to the right that they give her a platform without a second thought.
As we point out in our BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: "That’s because Coulter is an individual who, if she were a Democrat, would be arrested on sight if she showed up in the NBC studios [or at any other television station]....Her calls for the deaths of 'liberals,' the bombing of the New York Times building, and the destruction of all Muslims (among other exhortations) makes her a terrorist provocateur, not just another shock troop GOP propaganda shill."
So you can't really ignore that a female right wing terrorist Mullah is given credibility and a megaphone by the big media companies that are in bed with the Republican Party.
It's not "fun" to talk with or hear Coulter, as Matt Lauer said at the end of their infamous interview. It's an embracement of a domestic terrorist and hate mongerer
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS