Well, I don’t get telvision in my home, and I haven’t seen the Today Show in 25 years, so I don’t suppose I could threaten to stop watching. Anyway, here’s the letter I sent to the Today Show on the occasion of the latest outrage by Republican shill Ann Coulter. I haven’t gotten a response yet.
NBC and the Today Show’s producers know well by now that Ann Coulter is an inflamatory hate-monger. That is her schtick; that is what she does: she spews hate and mocks those who are in pain, especially those who are in pain as a result of service to the United States of America.
So now she has slandered the so-called “Jersey Girls”, the group of September 11 widows, who, thrust into a role that none of them sought, and at a great cost that Ms. Coulter is unable to comprehend, being herself neither wife nor mother, have dedicated themselves to the noble task of trying to save us the kind of pain that they have had to endure.
Will NBC apologize for inviting that wretched Coulter onto their show? Will they apologize for condoning and enabling slander?
Most importantly, will the Jersey Girls be given the chance to respond to this hateful, vile, obscene, America-hating, cruel lying harpie, Coulter?
NBC’s producers, and managment, and staff — including you, whoever you are reading this note– bear some measure of responsibility for Coulter’s remarks. Especially the hosts and the producers. Were this the first time that Coulter had done this kind of hateful stunt, you might be excused on the grounds that you didn’t know what a horribly deranged person she is. But you have no excuse now, in June, 2006. Everybody knows that shit-stirring is Coulter’s stock-in-trade. She is a shit-stirrer; that is what she does. If you invite a clown to perform on the the Today Show, you expect a clown’s performance. And if you invite Coulter, you expect coprophilia. Well, congratulations, you’ve made the Today Show into a bucket of shit. You can either accept this situation — who knows, you may love the aroma, may even love painting your face with faeces– or you can attempt to clean and disinfect and air out your studios and your reputation.
For NBC to begin to redeem itself, the Today Show must perforce allow the slandered persons a chance to respond. Under whatever studio conditions they stipulate.
That’s only step one. Other steps towards rehabilitation are evident to any persons possessed of common decency.
Frankly, I have a hard time imagining that the Today Show will ever again be, in my eyes, anything but a moneygrubber’s cesspool. I would be delighted to be proved wrong.
Sincerely,
John Sundman
Vineyard Haven, MA
“The Rude Pundit” is suggesting Coulter plagarized parts of her latest book. http://rudepundit.blogspot….
The print press is starting to pick it up.
The fact that Coulter still gets invited to speak on the Today Show and similar tells you all you need to know about the so-called mainstream media (what I generally call the Corporate Media). Let’s say that they invited me on the show, and I alleged that Ronald Reagan had been a goatfucker, and that he had a secret stable at the White House where he kept his favorites for quickies in times of stress. Think I would be invited back again? Neither do I. And furthermore, that would be proper. Yet Coulter comes on and says things much more obscene, and after appropriate tittering and tsk-tsking, she’s invited back to do it again.
For Coulter herself I feel mostly contempt, with a little bit of liberal’s pity– for after all, she’s clearly fucked up, and we liberals often feel pity for the mentally incompetent, often to our chagrin.
I have no pity for the producers of the shows who put her on the air. For them I feel more than contempt; I feel a deep loathing, a visceral disgust, and a strong urge to spit.
The Rude Pundit, of course, is great. Thanks for the link.