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[Sean] Hannity, [Ann] Coulter falsely suggested Ariz. paper dropped Coulter's column to "keep conservatives out"
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 01, 2005 05:54pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, September 1, 2005 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | On the August 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Sean Hannity and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter suggested that anti-conservative bias was the impetus behind the Arizona Daily Star's August 28 decision to drop Coulter's syndicated column. According to Coulter, the Star, like MSNBC, has "had excellent success in keeping conservatives out." In fact, the Star made clear that Coulter was dropped because her "shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited" commentary was unpalatable to even its self-identified conservative readers. And rather than "keeping conservatives out," the Star replaced Coulter's column with that of another conservative: Fox News host Tony Snow -- a fact Coulter and Hannity neglected to mention.
Hannity began his interview with Coulter by selectively quoting Star editor and publisher David Stoeffler's August 28 column, in which he announced that the newspaper would no longer feature Coulter. Hannity said: "The Arizona Daily Star dropped Ann Coulter because, quote, the publisher says, 'many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited.' " Hannity omitted Stoeffler's next sentence, however, which read: "And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives." Media Matters for America has documented numerous examples of shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited commentary in Coulter's columns. |
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