BOZELL: COULTER CRITICS ARE MORAL, EDITORIAL HYPOCRITES

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Monday, June 13, 2006

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BOZELL: COULTER CRITICS ARE MORAL, EDITORIAL HYPOCRITES

Liberal Media Cry Outrage at Coulter’s Remarks, Ignore Insults Against Conservatives

Alexandria, VA—Many liberal journalists are up in arms over Ann Coulter’s controversial remarks about certain 9/11 widows, but the same reporters regularly ignore or downplay the grossly insulting comments made by some liberals against conservatives. It is a clear double standard, proving, once again, the liberal media bias against conservative issues and conservative leaders.

“Many of Coulter’s critics are moral, editorial hypocrites,” said Media Research Center President Brent Bozell. “Where were they when Julianne Malveaux wished Clarence Thomas would eat fatty foods, get high cholesterol and die? When Senator Hillary Clinton accused Congress of running a plantation, or when Helen Thomas said she’d rather kill herself than have ‘liar’ Dick Cheney run for president? Americans must be wary of those who selectively abuse conservatives while turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to appalling remarks by the left.”

Full Quotes of Liberal Attacks

“Would it kill you, Godless author Ann Coulter, to do us all a favor and kill yourself? (Oh, well, yeah, I guess it would kill you.)” – Simon Dumenco, in Advertising Age, June 12, 2006
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is “a handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.” – movie director Spike Lee
“When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about” – Senator Hillary Clinton, Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem in 2006
“Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality …. And that is what the [Republican Party’s] nuclear option seeks to do to … the Standing Rules of the Senate.” – Sen. Robert Byrd
“The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side. … [Bush] has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.” – Julian Bond, as director of the NAACP

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