Editor’s note: The following letter is in reference to Ann Coulter’s June 25 appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, in which she said: “If I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
The conservative goddess Ann Coulter has stirred the muck again. Of course, if there weren’t so much muck available to stir, she’d likely have nothing to do. I don’t agree with what she said, but I do agree with her right to say it, as well as her severely overlooked purpose. Though the MSM (mainstream media) won’t explain the issue, she is guilty of saying something that was obviously inflammatory. I don’t believe it ranks as “hate speech,” as most of the media portrays it. Basically she intimated that Bill Maher’s crass comment against Vice President Cheney should be matched by one for Edwards. Maher stated that Cheney should be killed, but there seemed to be no outrage over that. When Coulter determines that Maher’s statement should also be applied to Edwards, then it goes “over the top,” our good ol’ biased news at work again. Coulter was simply proving a point. She has nothing to gain by the death of Edwards, and I doubt she wishes for his death at all, as with Maher and his Cheney comment. The fact is Coulter was setting a mine field for the media to step in, and leap they did. Once more proving the unbalanced measure and lack of journalistic ability most of our media is willing to apply in the name of sensationalism and political bias. If one comment was worthy of overlooking, so must the other be. It is time for our media to apply an even measure, or better – that they apply none at all. As Dragnet character Joe Friday put it, “Just the facts, Ma’am, Just the facts.”
