Letters to the Editor
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Excuse me, Joan Walsh
I understand that you are, uh, a person of some influence at Salon.
So why don't you do what the net is better at than any other print media -- show entire clips of the Coulter comments in question. I've seen them. They are the most ordinary, only slightly edgy, informed bits of satiric political dialogue.
The "terrorist" story is particularly egregious when you watch Ann Coulter's comments in context. She was, very explicitly, taking her comments out of the first person context and was saying, "What I should say is..."
You correctly point out that Ann was in error to say that Bill Maher "wished" that Vice President Cheney had been killed by terrorists. You are right that that is an inappropriate shorthand. Just as you are wrong in using shorthand to say Ann Coulter "called John Edwards a faggot." She didn't, and if you had the integrity to put it all in context, even the wild-eyed Coulterhaters of Salon just might get it.
Anyway, thanks for flogging this story some more. I'm liking it.