4,653rd Time's The Charm(Media And Some On The Right Finally Realize Ann Coulter Is A Horrible Person)

Well, it sure has taken way, way, WAY longer than it should have, but Ann Coulter is finally being criticized in the "mainstream" media. Of course, liberal blogs, Air America, and Media Matters for America have been criticizing her for a long time, reporting the horrible things she says, waiting for the appropriate vilification and denouncement of her by the rest of the country, and getting no response.

Apparently, Coulter delivered the last straw on Friday:

Controversial columnist draws fire for gay slur

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outspoken U.S. conservative columnist Ann Coulter is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after publicly using a derogatory gay slur in reference to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards.

"Ann Coulter not only once again went out of her way to use a nasty epithet, she pushed her offensiveness up a notch," Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said on Sunday.

Coulter made the comments on Friday during a speech at the influential American Conservative Union's Political Action Conference, calling Edwards a "faggot."

[...]Coulter's Friday speech raised objections from Republican presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain of Arizona, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as well as Democrats.

This was what it finally took to get Ann Coulter to be denounced in the MSM and on the Right. I am glad that she is being denounced by them at all, but why did they not denounce her for what she said at the same conference last year:

At the same conference last year, she used the word "raghead" -- a slur against Muslims -- in referring to U.S. homeland security policies. In a column published in the National Review after the September 11 attacks she urged an invasion of Muslim countries and forced conversion to Christianity.

Coulter has deserved many times to be shunned for her hateful rhetoric. She is a demogogue who appeals to the most base and evil human emotions. Search for "Ann Coulter" on Media Matters for America's website and you will find hundreds of examples of Coulter's deplorable behavior like "joking" about assasinating President Clinton, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, and Supreme Court Justice Stevens, attacking 9/11 widows, or wishing Timothy McVeigh had blown up the NY Times building.

Coulter should not be and does not deserve to be given a platform to speak by any medium, yet she such is given to her all the time by the mainstream media. Hopefully, with news stories like these, that has come to an end:

Paper Drops Ann Coulter Column Over Her Use of Slur

NEW YORK At least one newspaper has canceled Ann Coulter's column after she implied that Democratic politician John Edwards is a "faggot."

The daily Lancaster (Pa.) New Era, in a note to readers, said it "halted publication of Ann Coulter's syndicated column following her crude characterization of presidential candidate John Edwards as a homosexual at a public appearance on Friday. Coulter's use of name-calling, sarcasm, and overstatement in her columns too often detracts from the arguments she seeks to make.

Four companies to pull ads from Ann Coulter's website

Ann Coulter may soon be feeling the effects of her remarks at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference in the pocketbook.

At least four companies have decided to pull advertisements from Coulter's website in the wake of the controversy that erupted after the conservative columnist called presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" last Friday, reports CNN.

Verizon, Netbank, and Sallie Mae have all removed ads from the website. The ads were pulled in part due to a grassroots effort by a DailyKos diarist, who is reporting that Washington Mutual has also pulled ads from the website.

Massive blowback: VRWC begins to abandon Ann Coulter

[...]If the nutters at RedState now consider Coulter unacceptable (apparently, prior calls for assassinations of President Clinton, half the Supreme Court and the New York Times editorial staff weren't offensive to them), it's over. When she's being portrayed as a 'liberal infiltrator', and top conservative voices take pains to distinguish other conservatives from her - witness the fabrication that her audience was silent, which is untrue, as the video clearly shows - then her adoring cohorts finally have gotten the message. Which means it's pretty much over for Ann.

Congratulations, Ann. You've finally managed to stoop so low that even the right is offended. Goodbye.

Unfortunately, Coulter can still depend on the Fox News Propaganda Channel to support her:

Aravosis is on CNN. Coulter isn't -- she's hiding out at FOX News, a network that should not host a Democratic debate

John [Aravosis] is on Paula Zahn tonight. He'll be appearing throughout the hour. However, as John predicted, Coulter chickened out. Instead, she's appearing on the refuge of the right wing: Fox News. And, to top it off, she's going on Sean Hannity's show. Coulter will get some real tough questions over there, huh?