E&P: Coulter 9/11 Widow Comments Treated Different From Ted Rall's

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Newspaper Clients Stick With Coulter Despite Incendiary Comments
By Dave Astor
Published: June 16, 2006 1:40 PM ET

NEW YORK Ann Coulter hasn't lost any of her 100-plus newspaper clients, according to Universal Press Syndicate, despite her nasty remarks about 9/11 widows and her comment implying that U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) should be shot.

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Coulter is apparently being rewarded with extra book sales for calling some 9/11 widows "witches" who have been "enjoying" their husbands' deaths. Another Universal creator, liberal editorial cartoonist Ted Rall, also satirized some 9/11 widows in a 2002 drawing -- but, in his case, was hurt financially.

Rall, who called Coulter's comments "a lot meaner" than his cartoon, noted that he lost WashingtonPost.com as a client.

And, in a Tuesday column linked on Rall's blog, Phil Reisman of The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y., discussed other fallout from that 2002 cartoon: "Rall was effectively roasted by the conservatives. For example, right-wing bloggers flooded Men's Health magazine, where his cartoon appeared, and he lost that outlet. His work used to appear frequently in the political cartoon section of The New York Times Week In Review, but that was stopped. In the end, Rall figures the backlash cost him $40,000 to $50,000 in business."

Reisman added: "One thing is certain: Coulter's screaming flatulence, tiresomely disguised as tell-it-like-it-is candor, is hardly being condemned by the more prominent righties like Sean Hannity. On the contrary, Hannity has promoted Coulter's book on his Web site. She's gotten a million dollars and counting in free publicity. Hannity, who once called Rall 'mean, cruel, and thoughtless,' evidently feels that Coulter by contrast is a deep thinker who fairly examines the facts and then delivers the truth as she sees it with tender loving care."

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HYPOCRISY????

It's the liberal media.... It's the liberal media.... It's the liberal media.... It's the liberal media....

that has interviewed her has asked about the allegations against her in Palm Beach regarding voting fraud.

Not fucking journalism.

why is it that the rightwingnut blogs and their flood of emails can cause an outlet to dump Rall, but we aren't able to launch a protest against publication of Coulter's rants?