Why Ann Coulter Loves the Media

Ann Coulter loves the world she lives in. Her life revolves around the media and she has every reason to love the people who work for the media. Why? Because they have always let her say and do anything she wants. And in many cases she uses this opportunity to spew hate and offense to an audience of millions.

Generally speaking, I like hearing varied opinions from different people. And since opinions in this country seem to usually fall in either the conservative or liberal category, those are the pundits whose voices I most hear. I try to give both sides their due time, whether I like or believe in what they are saying, because I like to hear other people’s thoughts and ideas.

For all that I have seen and heard, Ann Coulter seems to be a relatively intelligent woman, but one who often offends people. Kind of like when she attacked 9/11 widows with the offensive words, “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”

But Ann Coulter has now sunk to a new low.

Just this past week while being interviewed on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Coulter said that Jews need “to be perfected” and intimated that the American nation would be better off if everyone were Christian.

Donny Deutsch (who is Jewish), pushed her to retract her comments, but Coulter stuck to her guns, trying different ways to say she did not mean to offend, but that Christians have the “fast-track” program and that they consider themselves to be “perfected Jews.”

The following morning on NBC’s Today Show, Deutsch and Today host Meredith Viera discussed the exchange. While Deutsch defended Coulter’s right to appear in the media due to free speech, he did say that we (the media) are creating “these critters.” That until people like Coulter do something controversial, they don’t exist.

Deutsch went on to say that media is playing with “dangerous words in our society.” “There’s no accountability, there’s a glibness that we in the media kind of elevate,” Deutsch said.

Deutsch says he is tired of this glibness, thinks Americans are tired too and will start to tune out people like Coulter, ultimately rendering them obsolete.

But I am not so sure. And this is why Ann Coulter loves the media.

Deutsch says he is tired, but will he invite her again? Possibly. But I wouldn’t like to bet on it.

So how will the public start to tune Coulter out if she continues to appear on all the other numerous television networks? Maybe I’ll turn the TV off the next time I see her, but many others won’t.

Yes, I agree with Deutsch, on the theory behind Coulter’s right to appear. There IS the issue of free speech, but that doesn’t mean people who spew hateful rhetoric need to be given a public platform. They CAN talk. Just let them find their own private soapbox from which to rant.

The media should have learned its lesson with Don Imus, but it didn’t. Yes, the well-known radio shock-jock was fired from his CBS job last April after on-air racist and sexist comments about the Rutger’s University women’s basketball team. He was essentially persona non grata for many months. But guess what? I just read that he will be returning to the airwaves in December on WABC in New York.

Punishment over. Slap on the wrist. Welcome back!

Ann Coulter SHOULD love the media for they are her bread and butter. She is a savvy woman who knows her rights. Many other hateful people also know their rights too. Free speech is one thing, but how we respond to these kinds of free speech may need some further discussion.

I once heard a former NBC boss of mine describe the media’s responsibility as being akin to being a consumer advocate. The media is supposed to provide us with a service, give us information. True, it may not always give us what is accurate, happy or nice. We can sometimes almost forgive some of these transgressions. But as media consumers, we do have a right to expect our media providers to not reward hate with golden contracts or return appearances.

Maybe the time has come for political correctness to take a back seat to the correctness of defending what is right for our fellow man