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‘Rantings’ need a disclaimer
According to a March 11 article in The Washington Post, “The scandal over treatment of outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has focused attention on the Army’s decision to privatize the facilities support workforce at the hospital, a move commanders say left the building maintenance staff undermanned. Some Democratic lawmakers have questioned the decision to hire IAP Worldwide Services, a contractor with connections to the Bush administration and to KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary.”
This administration has been in office for more than six years and it amazes me how some people still blame Bill Clinton or the Democratic Party for all the country’s problems.
If Coulter’s column is going to continue in Stripes, maybe the editor should put a disclaimer on her rantings to state that this is entirely her very biased opinion and not necessarily based on facts. Either that, or move her articles to the comic section.
Coulter shows her bigotry
What has happened is that certain privately owned newspapers have decided that Coulter’s column is no longer for them. This is their right. In fact, it would be a bizarre and gross violation of freedom of the press if it were forced to continue to run her column.
Stripes readers should be exposed to the broadest variety of opinion. To present the same old views each week would be a disservice. By all means, give us liberal columnists who criticize Condoleezza Rice’s failed Middle East diplomacy, and give us conservative columnists who criticize Joe Lieberman’s vote against banning same-sex marriage. But the moment a columnist applies a racial slur to Rice, or an anti-Semitic insult to Lieberman, that writer stops arguing rationally and enters the territory of bigotry. It is also the same moment that writer would be looking for a new job. Coulter has loudly staked a claim in this territory and is mature enough to deal with the consequences.
Drop her column. Doing so is not censorship. It is the day-to-day administration of a newspaper that purports to be taken seriously.
There is also a letter in support of Coulter, but it is so poorly written in its use of logic, that its doubtful Ann herself would claim it as "helpful" to her cause.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=44502
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