The Drudge Report is blaring that conservative author, columnist, and poison-pen pundit Ann Coulter has been "banned for life" from appearing on NBC News shows, according to an anonymous "top" insider. "We are just not going to have her on any more." Coulter has been a glaring exception to the usually observed if unwritten rule that top-selling conservative authors don't get booked on the networks.
If this is true, NBC would be bowing deeply to liberal devotees of the Unfairness Doctrine, who are still complaining that Coulter is slated for a Tuesday morning appearance on the Early Show on CBS.
Earlier, Michael Calderone at Politico reported on the Coulter website messages:
Coulter wrote: "TODAY SHOW AND TODAY SHOW FOURTH HOUR: CANCELLED!"
"I guess this ends the 'they just want to get ratings' argument about liberal media bias," Coulter wrote underneath.
Even if Coulter had appeared, the fourth hour is a long way from her usual pose-striking in the first hour. How would Ann joust with Kathie Lee Gifford? Although it does remind us that one Rosie O'Donnell still lobbed some bombs from that location.
UPDATE: Geoff Dickens reminds me of the Coulter-Lauer battle of 2006. He reported then:
Matt Lauer has two different sets of standards for politically provocative authors. If you are on the left he laughs with you, if you are on the right he slams you. On this morning’s Today show Ann Coulter’s statements drew outrage from Matt but last October when Al Franken suggested Karl Rove and Lewis Libby be executed for treason Matt and the Today show crew laughed.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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I saw this on Drudge. It
January 5, 2009 - 18:53 ET by Chris NormanI saw this on Drudge. It said "More..." - but then, didn't. All in all, pretty sketchy...
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
This is fantastic..
January 5, 2009 - 18:58 ET by bobthemanEven though I don't agree with everthing she writes, I consider myself a Coulter fan... and NBC just handed conservatives a rallying cry. I knew NBC was stupid, but they defined a whole new level... a little late for Christmas, but I'll take it nonetheless.
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Who Cares
January 5, 2009 - 19:05 ET by RD KingI banished myself from watching their news programs several years back, and thank God I did, what a tub of hogwash.
Yep, same here
January 6, 2009 - 07:32 ET by 10ksnookerI haven't watched one of the stupid shows for years.
Ordered Ann's book yesterday from Amazon.
NBC = Nothing But Chickens
January 5, 2009 - 19:06 ET by R D Helm:-)
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -Because enough is enough.
The dolts at NBC can't
January 5, 2009 - 19:07 ET by midnight cowboyThe dolts at NBC can't handle the intellectual firepower that Ann is capable of delivering. Love the time she was asking Lauer at the end of an interview, "Hey where's Katie, did she leave or something?"
Kathy Griffin
January 5, 2009 - 19:22 ET by Dustin JolleyNow, if only we could get Kathy Griffin banned for life from CNN! Lol!
If you weren't planning on
January 5, 2009 - 19:29 ET by thebutlerdiditIf you weren't planning on buying Coulter's book, then this is a great reason to do so now. Anyone that pos network bans is my hero, 4-evah. I think it's a hoot! Anyone remember her getting into with the "perky one?" Ann just sat there looking at the Katester like she was the idiot she is. Lovely. Plus, she was the first one to slam Edwards for being a douche'. Mega-points for that.
I was just thinking that
January 5, 2009 - 19:35 ET by RR GOPI was just thinking that there are probably no true conservatives left-and then I read this and remembered Coulter (and Malkin).
I also remember some time back Coulter going on about how the FDR administration was rife with Communists and how the Communists have been steadily taking over the Democratic Party especially. I thought she was a crackpot.
Then I started to learn about stuff like the Venona files, the Herlong Communist goals, how many people the HUAC and McCarthy accused of being Communists really were extreme leftists, Communist Party members, Soviet agents and so on...I have seen the light.
Anyway, I'm sure her and the Leftist MSM get along like oil and water, so this would be no surprise to me.
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Ann
January 5, 2009 - 19:45 ET by charlietexasWe love Ann here. Can't wait for her new book. NBC is such a wimp. Scared of Ann....lol
mom
Pravda Lives
January 5, 2009 - 19:50 ET by sawing battaonce again, the Lefty media/nbc shuts down opinion it disagrees with...interestingly, they were fine with having an admitted terrorist, Bill "we didnt go far enough" Ayers, on the show recently.
Nice Job NBC
BUY THE BOOK
January 5, 2009 - 19:55 ET by Redrowan2000Support Coulter and buy the book. Then call or e-mail the sponsors for National Bullsh__ Company. Tell them you won't buy their products. Nothing may happen , just make them very uncomfortable. The only ones with balls on the right are Coulter Malkin and Palin--President--VP and Secretary of State in 2012
"Don't let the bastards grind you down"
Red
Nothing unexpected...
January 5, 2009 - 20:04 ET by PewahWhy should the Today Show have any outspoken conservatives on for at least the next 4 to 8 years? They are first team MSM'ers and having successfully put Obama and friends into power they now have no reason to even pretend objectivity.
Can you even imagine reading this story about a loud-mouthed liberal being spiked on a national news talk show when Bush was just taking his place as president? The outcry by the MSM would have been deafening.
The 'Media Matters' links
January 5, 2009 - 20:13 ET by kgThe 'Media Matters' links are funny.If you read them they say Coulter isn't correct "per se". But after they explain thing and reword things you can still tell Coulter was correct. Too funny.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
The silver lining . . .
January 5, 2009 - 20:19 ET by GalvanicAnn Coulter should feel honored.
She joins an ever-increasing number of TV viewers who are no longer associated with NBC.
NBC, Nothing But Communism
January 5, 2009 - 20:23 ET by AuH2oWell, I have my agenda set for tomorrow.
Go to the local Barnes & Nobel, wade through all the- lord most merciful abomination garbage they have displayed and, buy Ann's book.
Next, ban NBC and anything made by GE from my house.
Constituency Televison?
January 5, 2009 - 20:28 ET by Kirk TurnerNBC is furthering my thesis that all television and print media are constituency based. We have always had constituency-based political parties; now, with the facilitation of some of the most ideologically driven and highly regarded academic programs in the country, the media are no more than mere "franchises" for the political parties and ideologies.
Independent thinking is rare. Investigative jounalism is rarer yet. Finding a niche audience on either side of the political spectrum is a guaranteed ratings booster and money maker (see Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly).
NBC had long been a center-left democratic franchise, but recent events ( Clinton Impeachment, Bush/Gore election, Iraq War) have made us all media savvy. Now, we can easily identify the constituency of a given media franchise. By the way, Ann Coulter is a center-right media franchise too, but a least she is honest about it (and she is a tremendous writer and is funny!).
The defining characteristic of the franchises is that the right admits to it, and the left does not (e.g. Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, et. al).
I heard a little bit of Ann
January 5, 2009 - 20:31 ET by bigtimerI heard a little bit of Ann this afternoon on Hannity's radio show, yep, she's heart-broken over this, all upset, in fact she is going to be crying all the way to the bank once again!
NBC/msnbc don't realize they just increased her book sales...dumb dolts.
Ya' gotta' love it!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Ann, Katie & Hillary
January 5, 2009 - 20:43 ET by DanSchwartzI still remember Joy Behar asking Ann if she had ever seen two women having sex, and Ann replied "Yes, the last time Katie Couric interviewed Hillary"
What was even funnier was a couple of weeks later when the Perky One confronted Ann directly!
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LMAO
January 5, 2009 - 20:53 ET by botg“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
Dan, that is the first I've
January 5, 2009 - 21:35 ET by bigtimerDan, that is the first I've heard of that. leave it to Ann to have a great come-back like that...I'm also LMAO like did.
Thanks for the post, we sure need laughter in this country now.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Missed opportunity.
January 5, 2009 - 20:46 ET by CTI guess this means we will never see Ann vs the Mancow.
Ann's view
January 5, 2009 - 20:52 ET by TjexciteI have been trying to find Ann's view of George W. Bush, to ask the Internet I might as well yell out the window and wait or ask a wall get the same results. She does like Sarah Palin (at least thats what I found) but, it was too early for her to run and run with McCain.
Long live George W. Bush liberator of Millions.
Live well B. Hussein Obama
My opinion of Ann Coulter
January 5, 2009 - 20:56 ET by cocodrieEverything I like about women concentrated in one beautiful package.
That does it - I am buying
January 5, 2009 - 21:13 ET by gopsteveThat does it - I am buying her book! I hadn't planned on it because I am cheap...but to spite the libs in the msm (I know, redundancy), I'll do it!
Just saw on Drudge where
January 5, 2009 - 21:21 ET by thebutlerdiditJust saw on Drudge where they are "rethinking" this decision at NBC. Also, where Scarborough wasn't too thrilled with the plan.
This is all about demonizing
January 5, 2009 - 21:25 ET by SmartypantsThis is all about demonizing anything conservative, and Ann is one of the few left that truly represent conservatism. The truth is that she does not espouse any kind of "radical" views whatsoever. Her views are pretty much in line with those that were in favor for most of the existence of the United States. Media outlests, such as NBC, have successfully convinced the masses that anyone with Coulter's views is an extremist. You will never see anyone holding similar left wing views labeled this way. Only conservatives are extreme in their views; there is no such thing as someone who is too liberal.
True enough. One can
January 5, 2009 - 21:35 ET by HockeyKidTrue enough. One can almost see them sitting about, musing, "If only she had used her wit for niceness instead of conservatism." (Apologies to Get Smart fans everywhere.)
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Haven't managed to finish
January 5, 2009 - 22:33 ET by ThatDudeHaven't managed to finish that movie yet. I have been pulled away every time I tried to sit down and watch.
Rearrange Book Displays
January 5, 2009 - 21:29 ET by MystapittAlways make sure that when you go into a Borders or Barnes and Noble, that you rearrange the book displays. They usually have the conservative titles hidden or not prominently displayed. Nothing gets the liberal woosies that work theirs goat then to place a Coulter stack in place of ohhhhhhhhh say, Audacity of Hope?
Mystapitt
January 5, 2009 - 22:04 ET by thebutlerdiditO my goodness! I thought I was the only one who did this! I do it in the grocery store, the pharmacy, etc. I even move the real offensive ones like Michael Moore, Al Franken, Jimmy Carter, etc., and put them behind the decorating magazines or the Dora the Explorer coloring books. If you rearrange the B&N displays, they sometimes get huffy with you. I think I got banned from there, not sure.
Mystapitt
January 5, 2009 - 22:04 ET by thebutlerdiditO my goodness! I thought I was the only one who did this! I do it in the grocery store, the pharmacy, etc. I even move the real offensive ones like Michael Moore, Al Franken, Jimmy Carter, etc., and put them behind the decorating magazines or the Dora the Explorer coloring books. If you rearrange the B&N displays, they sometimes get huffy with you. I think I got banned from there, not sure.
Not Booking Coulter? Not
January 5, 2009 - 21:32 ET by HockeyKidNot Booking Coulter? Not Best Choice.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
The War over the Fairness Doctrine has Begun
January 5, 2009 - 22:01 ET by LCT688With this foolish act the MSM (Malignant Sociopathic Morons) have made it clear that it’s going to be all out war over the Fairness Doctrine. But rather than launching so sort of damaging salvo all the have managed to do is make sure that one of their most intellectually dangerous foes munitions bunkers will be fully stocked. I can’t wait to hear Ann's return salvo at NBC. I’m sure it will leave a smoldering crater at Rockefeller Center.
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one."
Alexander Hamilton
Who gives a shiite what NBC
January 5, 2009 - 22:06 ET by nadadhimmiWho gives a shiite what NBC does? If they can lionize Walter Duranty and his Stalinist ass kissing, they are capable of anything. But I wish Ann would jump on the liberals disguising themselves as Republicans more, you know , people like McCain, all Bushs, Lugar, that lunkhead Schwartzenegger, et al. We have an Oligarchy where the parties take turns playing good cop, bad cop, and screw over the working people.
NOTHING BUT COMMIES
January 5, 2009 - 22:07 ET by WorriedI am embarrassed by the MSM who cannot hide their adoration for the fraud about to take over the White House. Does the following not speak volumes or do you all think they are just messing with our heads?
"We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now," a TODAY insider reveals. "It's such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience wants, either."
That is downright disgusting. The dolts act like they are living in a fairy tale.
Worried, they are living in
January 5, 2009 - 22:16 ET by bigtimerWorried, they are living in a fairy-tale...msm made.
They helped created this monster...they will have to live with the creation, and any/all results that come from him.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Just a few more days and
January 5, 2009 - 22:31 ET by celatorJust a few more days and Obama will become president-neglect. Wonder if the MSM will stop their goose stepping into oblivion then?
cel... Prez-Neglect....I
January 5, 2009 - 23:44 ET by bigtimercel...
Prez-Neglect....I love it!
Priceless.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Thanks. I felt like Thomas
January 5, 2009 - 23:53 ET by celatorThanks. I felt like Thomas Edison when the thought came to me--the low wattage lightbulb over my head just got brighter. <groan> ;+}
I remember discussing
January 6, 2009 - 00:04 ET by cocodrieWhen I graduated high school I remember discussing with my friends how things would be in the yrar 2000. That was a year or two ago in '57
I just pray that in 2012 I still live in the United States of America and not in the Fifty-Seven States of Bankrupt Insanity.
celator...You're kidding...
January 5, 2009 - 23:50 ET by PrairieSkyright? Not a chance...
Get ready for 4 nauseatingly uninterrupted years of MSM generated goose-stepping and swooning come January 20th.
(And 'president-neglect' is great!)
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
Yea, not much chance the
January 5, 2009 - 23:57 ET by celatorYea, not much chance the MSM goose-stepping will stop. They are too used to the Obama cadance to stop now. They will never ever live this down.
celator...You betcha'!
January 6, 2009 - 00:03 ET by PrairieSkyThe MSM is way too invested in Obamessiah to desert him now or ever. They helped build him and I don't see them ever being the ones to dismantle him...It would reflect too negatively on them and show how dead wrong they all have been.
Perish the thought!!!!
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
Thank you, NBC
January 5, 2009 - 22:23 ET by northoneIf this report is true, Ann owes NBC a big thank-you. Their censoring of her from the network should ensure a major bump in sales for her book, thanks to all the free publicity. The MSm will never learn!
So, the lefties are scared
January 5, 2009 - 22:28 ET by robert108So, the lefties are scared to death of two little girls(Ann and Sarah)?
Too funny!
I don't know about this
January 5, 2009 - 22:39 ET by ThatDudeI don't know about this one. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to debate Coulter either. The woman is good at what she does.
Ann's looking pretty hot
January 5, 2009 - 22:49 ET by ckc1227Ann's looking pretty hot on H&C right now.
"Libs never let you down. You don't have to talk to one very long before the stupid comes out."
She is good
January 5, 2009 - 23:09 ET by mountainman08Ann Coulter is one of the best and she is good at what she does. It won't be long and another new's company will hire her. She looked real good on H&C tonight. I wouldn't be suprised if Fox Network hired her.
You Go Girl!!!!!!!!!!!
She's been offered jobs with
January 6, 2009 - 01:15 ET by thebutlerdiditShe's been offered jobs with them before, and radio programs, etc. She turned them all down. I like the fact people call her a liar, but if you read one of her books, she has the most detailed research and footnotes you've ever seen. She doesn't screw around with half-baked crap like Olbermann and Maddow et al.
Thats It
January 5, 2009 - 23:14 ET by third eyeMy order for the NBC News “Yes We Can!” the story of Barack Obama DVD is so canceled.
http://www.nbcuniver...
Ann and Palin evidence the Republicans are hotter!
January 5, 2009 - 23:28 ET by jarrett.edwardsAnn came to my college, a couple of years ago, and she was great! She knows how to put the libs in there place thats why they can't stand here, she way too smart for them and so much better looking than any of their women. I usually wait until the book comes out in paperback cause I am cheap, however I am buying it tomorrow cause after this election I need a good pick-me-up!
"We are just not interested
January 5, 2009 - 23:49 ET by Kevroy"We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical
of President-elect Obama, right now," a TODAY insider reveals. "It's
such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience
wants, either."
Right now? How about "NEVER"?
Anybody see her on H&C a
January 5, 2009 - 23:55 ET by bigtimerAnybody see her on H&C a bit ago...as usual...she was great.
If you didn't, google it if interested.
Make sure to block sound when Colmes opens mouth and puts his foot in it...it must be a ritual with him when he has guests like Ann on of being forced to taking days to get that clod-hopper of his out of his interrupting yapper.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
I was gonna wait for the
January 5, 2009 - 23:57 ET by TN MomI was gonna wait for the paperback, but buying this book is Item#1 on my agenda tommorrow!
NBC= National Barack Corporation
Whose Life?
January 6, 2009 - 00:25 ET by CaringwhiteguyAnn Coulter "banned for life" from NBC! Whose life, Coulter or NBC? My hunch is that Sweet Annie will outlive the Peacock, and by doing so she'll get the last laugh.
Cwg... That she
January 6, 2009 - 00:30 ET by bigtimerCwg...
That she will...all the way to the bank...as NBC still tank.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
That does it for me!
January 6, 2009 - 01:18 ET by Legacy76I was going to post replies, but several people have the same sentiments. I have never bought an Ann Coulter book.
Tomorrow, the minute I get off work, this will change. Thank you, NBC, for increasing Ms. Coulter's book sales.
NBC Ann Coulter
January 6, 2009 - 01:22 ET by charlietexasThis is the end for NBC. the "enlightened ones" are snuffing out free speech lifting up the right. How nice of them. We get to see them go down further and watch Ann go upwards. Hoorah!!!!!!!!!!1
First of all, there is
January 6, 2009 - 01:38 ET by jdhawkFirst of all, there is nothing that remotely resembles news on NBC news. It is liberal propaganda 24 X 7 X 365.
Let's all make it our New Years resolution to not watch the propaganda crap on the alphabet networks.
Meanwhile, make Coulter's new book #1!
Ann C
January 6, 2009 - 06:45 ET by jackssnIf you haven't seen the interview on H&C you should see it. It was the best put down of C I've ever seen.
Wow! Liberals are clever
January 6, 2009 - 10:07 ET by BlueCat57Here's a post from Media Matters on Ann Coulter.
WE don't have to allow or tolerate this skank known as anne coulter to be on our Public Airwaves.
It's no violation of that skank's First Amendment Free Speech, not to allow her on our Public Airwaves: because if it were, then so are yours and my Freedom of Speech being violated, as neither are we allowed to broadcast our opinions on the Public Airwaves, are we?
But still we have our Freedom of Speech, despite having no right or permission to broadcast our opinions on the Public Airwaves.
The same is true of the skank known as anne coulter.
And you know, when you get right down to it, even CBS seems to be abusing their FCC License (or more exactly, the many Licenses held by them and by those they contract with, to air their broadcasts)...
Maybe we don't need to give any more permission to CBS, for them to use our Public Airwaves (especially if they insist on broadcasting the hateful, and manipulative by design, political opinions of the skank anne coulter).
It would be no violation of CBS's Free Speech either, to deny them the privilege of broadcasting on our Public Airwaves.
If you haven't actually read Media Matters "About Us" you should. It is good for a laugh. Seems that the MSM farts roses as far as they are concerned. Here's the link to it:
http://mediamatters.org/about_us/
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.