TV News Not Calling Coulter

March 12, 2007

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She’s good TV, you have to give her that.

Television news shows have always loved having Ann Coulter around because she’s blond and frisky and articulate and loves to say outrageous things.

But then last week she used a gay slur in reference to John Edwards during remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference, and some on TV are wondering whether her shelf life is expiring.

Many were angered by her use of the ''f-word''. Coulter later said she considered it a ''schoolyard taunt.'' She said it was a joke about ''Grey's Anatomy'' actor Isaiah Washington saying he would seek counseling after using the word to refer to a fellow actor.

At least four daily newspapers have dropped Coulter as a columnist, citing her comment about Edwards.
Head-turning remarks are hardly anything new for the author of ''Godless: The Church of Liberalism'' and ''How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must).'' In ''Godless'' last year, she wrote of World Trade Center widows: ''I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.''

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