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Fox News show raises ire by mocking Canadian Forces

Last Updated: Monday, March 23, 2009 | 10:42 AM ET Comments568Recommend364

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A government spokesman is calling for U.S. cable network Fox to apologize for a recent broadcast of derogatory comments mocking the Canadian Forces during an over-the-top, late-night show.

Dan Dugas, a spokesman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay, described the remarks made last week on the intentionally inflammatory Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld as "despicable, hurtful and ignorant."

"No one is laughing and they owe Canada — and, more importantly, the families of each one of our fallen heroes — an apology for their ill-informed mistakes," Dugas said.

The extreme late-night cultural commentary show — broadcast on Fox at 3 a.m. ET during the week — is hosted by Gutfeld, a former Maxim and Stuff magazine editor.

He moderates a round table of panelists who deliver off-the-cuff musings and crack jokes about a wide range of topics from the worlds of news, entertainment and sports. Commentators have included comedians, Fox News anchors, actors and Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis.

'… the Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white Capri pants.'— Greg Gutfeld, Fox News moderator

In the five-minute segment broadcast last week, Gutfeld mocked the Canadian Forces, noting Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie's recent comment that the military may need a year to recover after Canada's mission in Afghanistan ends in 2011.

"Meaning, the Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white Capri pants," Gutfeld said.

"I didn't even know they were in the war," panellist and comedian Doug Benson added. "I thought that's where you go if you don't want to fight. Go chill in Canada."

The panellists continued by joking about invading Canada and also poking fun at the RCMP.

Canadian soldiers, who have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, have spent the last four years in the country's most violent regions. On Friday, military officials announced that four more Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded in two separate roadside bomb blasts outside Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan.

Canadians express outrage

The Red Eye segment has sparked outrage from a range of Canadians, including thousands of comments on YouTube and Facebook.

"Our soldiers are dying for them and they have the audacity and the ignorance … to say something like that, it is insulting. It's the most ignorant thing I've ever heard," Sam Warren told CBC News after watching the segment.

The segment also drew criticism from Conservative author, columnist and commentator David Frum.

"The clip in question is a sequence of goofs about the feebleness, uselessness and absurdity of the Canadian armed forces. Why would I call that dumb? Here's why," Frum says on his New Majority.com blog before listing the Canadian soldiers, aid workers and a diplomat who have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002.

"Sorry I disrespected your show, Red Eye fans, but you disrespected the dead," Frum adds.

How stupid can the PMO be!!

PM tries to enlist Ontario gun owners to help scrap federal gun registry

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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper set his sights on the federal long gun registry Saturday, asking a meeting of recreational sportsmen to help him build enough support in Parliament to scrap the registry.

Harper urged members of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters to contact opposition MPs and pressure them to support legislation that would target the six year old program.

"We are looking to unite a majority of MPs in repealing the long gun registry," Harper told the group in a speech.

"The leaders of the opposition parties continue to be against this. But there are MPs in all these parties that know what we know, that law-abiding hunters and farmers are not part of the crime problem."

"I challenge you to press these MPs to follow their consciences."

In its entire lifetime, Harper's minority government has never brought a bill to abolish the registry to a vote, fearing there would not be enough support in the House of Commons.

Instead, the Tories have reduced the registry's budget and brought in fee waivers and amnesty for gun owners who haven't registered.

After Harper's plea to gunowners to get more involved, an official with the Prime Minister's Office frantically contacted the media to point out there is no government legislation currently before the House of Commons.

Dimitri Soudas would not say if the bill from the Tories' first mandate that died on the order paper would ever be re-introduced.

"We urge opposition MPs to work with the government in order to put an end to a wasteful program that did nothing to prevent crime," Soudas said in an email.

"(The registry) really should be abolished. He (Harper) is absolutely correct," said Frank DiRocco, an avid hunter and angler from Woodbridge, Ont., who was attending the Federation's 81st annual general meeting where Harper spoke.

"Hunters are not the ones on the streets breaking the law - they're enjoying the sport and the country," he said, adding he wants to teach his 12-year-old son to understand nature and respect the nation's resources, but feels the registry makes this very difficult.

Jim Magee, a cattle farmer from Drumbo, Ont., near Woodstock, called the registry "aggravation."

He said wild animals, like coyotes, will sometimes kill his livestock.

"As soon as I get my gun out and get my ammunition that's locked away, the coyote is a mile away," Magee said, who is also a former police officer.

"But if I keep (my gun) out and it gets stolen, I'm in trouble."

The registry was brought in by the former Liberal administration and has been constantly derided by the Conservatives for being a source of cost overruns and unnecessary red tape.

Harper told those gathered the registry was a prime example of how the previous government's approach to criminal justice was flawed.

"Instead of action on crime, we got the federal long gun registry, which became a bloated bureaucratic nightmare to responsible hunters, farmers and rural Canadians," he said.

"It cost taxpayers some $2 billion and it hasn't done a thing to reduce gun crime."

Magee said he was upset when the long gun registry was put in place for that very reason.

"It was a useless exercise to appease an urban population," he said.

"I don't have a problem with reasonable precautions - safe storage, and having an acquisition license."

Harper received applause as he told the group Ottawa is currently reviewing the Federation's "positive" proposal for legislation that recognizes Canada's recreational hunting and angling heritage enshrines their rights and responsibilities.

Harper made his comments as Vancouver has seen an recent upswing in gangland related firearm murders, although he never touched on the issue in his Saturday speech.

"(The registry cost is) huge money that could have been used in a lot of other areas instead of a falsehood - letting people believe it's going to solve crime," said Todd Orton, from Midland, Ont.

"That's not what the records are showing."

Harper also used the speech to convey condolences and make note of the "sacrifices" Canadian soldiers have made a day after four were killed in Afghanistan.

"We stand in awe and will stand in eternal remembrance of their devotion to their fellow human beings and to our country," he said.

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An Important Message to the Government of Canada about U.S. Iraq War Resisters
January 26, 2009 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, PC, MP, Prime Minister The Honourable Jason Kenney, PC, MP, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Dear Prime Minister, Minister, and Members of the Government Caucus:
On June 3, 2008, the House of Commons passed a motion calling for the government to: “...immediately implement a program to allow conscientious objectors and their immediate family members (partners and dependents), who have refused or left military service related to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations and do not have a criminal record, to apply for permanent resident status and remain in Canada.” That motion further recommended that the government should: “...immediately cease any removal or deportation actions that may have already commenced against such individuals.” Since then, on July 15, you allowed Robin Long, a United States soldier who had fled to Canada after refusing to take part in the Iraq War, to be deported. Upon his return to the U.S., Robin was punished for acting on his objections to this unsanctioned war by refusing to fight and for speaking out while he was in Canada. He is now serving a 15-month jail sentence as a prisoner of conscience and was given a felony conviction that will cause him hardship for the rest of his life—including preventing him from visiting his Canadian son in Ontario—because you did not stop him from being deported. Canada has a well-founded tradition of welcoming war resisters such as Robin and the estimated 200 other U.S. soldiers who have sought refuge here since the Iraq War began.		Now more than ever, it is obvious that Canada made the right decision not to take part in this unnecessary conflict and even you, Mr. Prime Minister, have agreed that the Iraq War is "absolutely an error". Amnesty International wrote to you, Minister Kenney, earlier this month to communicate its condemnation of the, "...forced removal from Canada of individuals who conscientiously express their opposition to serving with U.S. forces in Iraq" because it "does not generally believe that there are reasonable options open to individuals who conscientiously object to military service with U.S. forces in Iraq." As a country, Canadians continue to face a major economic crisis that demands the utmost attention. Members of Parliament need not be distracted from the task at hand by matters that should have been solved previously, nor should time be wasted re-taking decisions that have already been taken by our democratically elected representatives and are supported by the majority of Canadians. With five Iraq War resisters—Chris Teske, Cliff Cornell, Kimberly Rivera, Patrick Hart and Dean Walcott, most of them combat veterans—facing deportation before the end of this month, we write to respectfully urge you to take action on behalf of the 64 per cent majority of Canadians who agree to give these U.S. soldiers, their immediate families and all Iraq War resisters who are here, the opportunity to remain in Canada as permanent residents. Please implement the June 3, 2008 motion in support of war resisters today.
Yours Sincerely, (add your name)
Ursula M. Franklin C.C. FRSC University Professor Emerita, Senior Fellow Massey College Lawrence Hill Writer Anton Kuerti, OC, PhD Internationally renowned solo pianist Michelle Landsberg, OC Award-winning writer, social activist and feminist Stephen Lewis Former UN Ambassador Mary Jo Leddy, CM, PhD Writer, theologian and activist Tony Clarke Executive Director, Polaris Institute Michael C. Klein, MD Emeritus Professor of Family Practice and Pediatrics, Universityof British Columbia Elizabeth E. May, OC Leader, Green Party of Canada Judy Rebick CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University John Hagan, PhD, FRSC University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto Alex Atamanenko Member of Parliament, B.C. Southern Interior Govind Rao McMaster University Dale Dewar (Dr.) Clerk, Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Camilo Mejia Chairperson of the Board, Iraq Veterans Against the War (U.S.) Fred Franklin Jean Symes Vera Frenkel, FRSC, RCA Artist-in Residence, University of Toronto, Governor General's Award Laureate Mike Ford Musician (formerly of Moxy Fruvous) Ali Kazimi Film-maker/Asst. Professor, York University Dee Knight former editor, AMEX-Canada (1968-74), founding organizer and board member, National Council for Universal & Unconditional Amnesty (1973-77) John B. Chadwick Retired Navy Lieutenant (officer level O3), Life Member, Veterans For Peace (U.S.) Joyce Smith Tucson, AZ Tzeporah Berman Environmentalist Linda Newton Vietnam Veteran, member, Veterans For Peace, Seattle, WA Collette Lemieux co-chair, Canadian Peace Alliance Calgary, Alberta Dr. Barbara Glancy Portland, OR Bruce L. Beyer Vietnam era war resister, Buffalo, NY Ron Rancourt Chelsea, QC Don Currie Slocan, BC Mel Earley Halifax, NS David Pankratz Director, Institute for Community Peacebuilding, Winnipeg, Manitoba Roger Rolfe Toronto, Ontario Denise and William Conway American War Resisters, 1969, Toronto, Ontario Thomas P. Radcliffe Franciscan Brother, Victoria, BC Nathan Medcalf Burlingon, ON Richard Medernach Saskatoon Peace Coalition, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan David Heap People for Peace, London, Ontario Elenor Taves London, Ontario Julie Peters London, Ontario M. Chuk Montreal, PQ Terry Zehr Valleyview Mennonite Church, London, Ontario Brad Bossack Tumbler Ridge,BC Chris Stroud Halifax, NS Joan Wallace Nanaimo, BC Michelle LeBlanc Fredericton, NB Daniel W Metzger Nelson, BC Hagit Fishman Toronto, Ontario Andrea Meister Chilliwack, BC Karen Palsson Winnipeg, MB Cornelia Maher Augsber, Germany Michael Truscello Hamilton, ON Susan B. Boyd Professor of Law, UBC, Vancouver, BC Reynold Reimer Calgary, AB Sandra Stephenson Teacher, Montreal, PQ Stephen LaFrenie Green Party shadow cabinet - International cooperation/CIDA portfolio Rose DeShaw Kingston, ON Stephen Peppin Oxford University/Research Fellow, Stratford Tina Gauthier Mississauga, ON Allison Smith Greenwich, NS Collin Whitehouse Cobourg, ON David Wade Atchison, Kansas Nebojsa Piha Vancouver, BC Erich Jacoby-Hawkins Green Party shadow cabinet - Human Resources Portfolio, Barrie, ON Catharine Johannson Winnipeg, MB Peter Votsch Mississauga Coalition for Peace & Justice, Mississauga, ON Leonard Sawatsky Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Krista Benoit Ottawa, ON Gillian Ashton Ottawa , ON Chris Ormsby London, ON Jack Bridges Idaho Falls	The Right Reverend David Giuliano Moderator, The United Church of Canada Maude Barlow National Chairperson, Council of Canadians Joy Kogawa, CM, OBC Author Jane Orion Smith General Secretary, Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) Very Rev. Bill Phipps Former Moderator, United Church of Canada Antonia Zerbisias Columnist, Toronto Star Michael Lynk Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario Gina Barber Controller, City of London Martin Duckworth Award-winning documentary film-maker M. Jane Pritchard, M.D., C.C. F.P., F.C.F.P. Réjean Robidoux. PhD, FRSC Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa Donald Lafleur 4th National Vice-President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers Peggy Nash Assistant to the President, CAW James Clark Ontario representative, Canadian Peace Alliance Kelly Dougherty Executive Director, Iraq Veterans Against the War (U.S.) Mrs. Joanne L. Cvar member, Green Party Peace Network Edward Hasbrouck San Francisco, CA Derrick O'Keefe Editor, rabble.ca, Co-chair, StopWar Coalition Vancouver David Fennario Playwright Mary Ellen Davis Award-winning documentary film-maker Velcrow Ripper Film Director b.h. Yael Artist/Film-maker, Professor, Ontario College of Art & Design Chris Cook Managing Editor, Pacific Free Press Dennis W. Mills, PhD U.S. Army (1966-1969), Vietnam Veteran / Veterans for Peace – the Rachel Corrie Chapter 109, Olympia, WA Tana Hastings War Resisters League, Portland, OR Kaim Kassam Calgary, Alberta Ivy Rose Nightscales Williams International Action Center, Seattle, WA Imam Jamal Taleb London Muslim Mosque Judy Wapp Artist/writer, Nelson, BC Pat Garrison Mental health researcher/writer, Slater, SC Frances Smith Toronto, ON Cortney K. Dakin London, Ontario Kaitlyn Lankin Kratz Kitchener, Ontario John L. Whelan Grand Falls-Windsor, NL Mary Ann Steggles Winnipeg, Manitoba Marguerite Warner Winnipeg, Manitoba Hossam Amin Montreal, PQ Richard Lewis LSPIRG, Kitchener, Ontario J.C. Locatelli Halifax, Nova Scotia Alexandra Baron London, Ontario Patricia Hartman Penetanguishine, Ontario Charleen Jongejan Harder Pastor,Valleyview Mennonite Church, London, Ontario Gloriz Janzen London, Ontario Teresa Rutten London, Ontario Ruth Martin London, Ontario Kendall Jongejan Harder Pastor, London, Ontario Dianne Fortney R.N., London, Ontario Stephen Orlov Professor, John Abbott College, Montreal, PQ MK Emre Toronto, Ontario Aaron Keeler London, Ontario Allison Rose Gabriola, BC Susan Best Winnipeg, MB David Wood Freelance writer, Mildmay, ON Muriel Heaton Midland, ON Elizabeth Pickett Whitby, ON Elizabeth O'Connor member of Peaceworks, Midland, ON Kyle Hodnett Fredericton, NB DeEtte Waleed member, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Portland, Oregon Michelle Thompson Toronto, ON Laura Savinkoff Chair, Boundary Peace Initiative, Grand Forks, BC John Dorn Summerland, BC Rose Tavelli Toronto, ON Lawrence Levy Winnipeg, Manitoba C. Raven Nichols Charlottetown, PEI Peter A. H. Johnston Federal Councilor, Green Party of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta Ellen Michelson Green Party Shadow Cabinet - Peace & Security Portfolio, Toronto, ON Amy Collard Green Party of Canada, Natural Resources Critic, Burlington, ON Marlene Epp Associate Professor, Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Waterloo Melissa Devlin Ottawa, ON Paul Kemp President National Executive, Canadian Action Party, Scotsburn, NS E Ann Bending Bright's Grove , ON	Ann-Marie MacDonald Novelist, playwright and actor Shirley Douglas, OC Actress Ken Georgetti, CM, OBC President, Canadian Labour Congress Ken Lewenza National President, CAW Ken Neumann National Director for Canada, United Steelworkers Paul Moist National President, Canadian Union of Public Employees James Clancy President, National Union of Public and General Employees Wayne Samuelson President, Ontario Federation of Labour Michael Byers Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law, University of British Columbia Bernice Friesen Novelist Ester Reiter Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, York University Michael Connolly Documentary film-maker Carolyn Egan President, Steelworker Toronto Area Council Denise Hammond President, CUPE Local 1281 Ted Dyck, PhD Writer and editor, Moose Jaw, SK Esther Epp-Tiessen Peace Ministries Program Mennonite Central Commitee Canada Arnold Kotler President and Publisher, Koa Books (Kihei, Hawaii) Larry Towell Photographer Richard Fung Video artist, Professor, Ontario College of Art and Design John Greyson Film-maker, Professor, York University Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge Artists Peggy Gale Independent Curator, Toronto Mike Woloshin Veterans for Peace, Chicago Area Chapter 26, Dave Bergen Executive Secretary, Christian Formation, Mennonite Church Canada, Winnipeg, MB Ellliot Stoller Independent Media Center, Seattle, WA Mrs. Irene Bachelder Kenwood, CA Christopher John Teske Former Specialist US Army, Deserter – Deported from Canada Dick Cotterill Businessman; Vietnam era resister, Truro, NS Lorraine Michael, MHA Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi; Leader, New Democratic Party of Newfoundland & Labrador Helen Lofgren Halifax, NS Julie Barker Midland, Ontario Kim Vincent Montreal, Quebec Velcrow Ripper Film Director Karen King London, Ontario Wiyula Graham Victoria, BC Chris Powell Fredericton, NB Diane V. McLoughlin Publisher, Woodlawn Ashley Ansley Temagami, Ontario Valérie Prat London, Ontario Julie Michaud Fredericton, NB Victor Fast London, Ontario Kathleen Gallivan Toronto, Ontario Lorraine McNeil Professor, Fanshawe College, London, Ontario Yasmine El-Sabawi London, Ontario Mathieu Cain London, Ontario Cory Morningstar Chair, Council of Canadians - London, London, Ontario Rick Telfer London, Ontario Julie Mahfood Writer, Beaconsfield, PQ Scott Walmsley London, Ontario Roger Beck Toronto, Ontario Janet Beck Toronto, Ontario Francesco Ciabattoni Halifax, NS Surjit Sahota Brampton, ON Matthew Bin Writer, former member of the Canadian Forces, Oakville, ON Bob L. DeMarco Bright's Grove, ON Tonia Huculak Edmonton, AB Pauli Sommer educator/artist, Dungannon, ON George Richards Kootenay Region Branch UNAC / V, PCastlegar, BC Mai Nguyen Journalism Student, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON Kristina Pultz Edmonton, Albert SuMei Cheung Oakville, ON Brigid Kemp President, South Okanagan Boundar Labour Council, Penticton, BC Roberts Eweshen Creston, BC Calum Csunyoscka Toronto, ON Valerie Powell Green Party Candidate, Coldwater, Ontario Bill Clary Leader, Saskatchewan Ard Van Leeuwen Caledon, ON Cathy MacLellan Waterloo, ON Ted Finnigan Ottawa, ON David Hart Dyke Stoney Creek, ON David Donaldson Vancouver, BC Carrie McLaren Burnaby, BC	Alexandre Trudeau Film-maker and journalist Wayson Choy, CM Writer R H Thomson Actor and director Katherine Giroux-Bougard National Chairperson, Canadian Federation of Students Cathy Crowe, RN Author and street nurse Janet Davis, Paula Fletcher, Joe Mihevc, Gord Perks, Adam Vaughan Councillors, City of Toronto, Ontario James Loney Member of Christian Peacemaker Teams held hostage in Iraq Gordon Cressy & Joanne Campbell Angus McLaren, PhD, FRSC Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria Ron Hawkins Musician Dave Hubert Christian Peacemakers International Merrill Stewart Clerk, Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) Jim Stanford Economist and Author, CAW Robert Ramsay Chair, CUPE Local 3902 Chantal Sundaram CUPE 3902 Staff Representative Elliott Adams President, Veterans For Peace (U.S.) John Weier Writer and Luthier, Manitoba James S. Moy Dean, Faculty of Art, Ontario College of Art & Design Gerry Condon Director, Project Safe Haven (U.S.) June Schumacher Fellowship of Reconciliation, Seattle, WA Linda Jansen Seattle, WA S. Jenika Vietnam Veteran, Portland, OR Mary Kay Ryan Chicago, Illinois Elihu Edelson World War II veteran, Purple Heart Dorli T Rainey Seattle, WA Georgina Rhéaume Winnipeg Peace Coalition David Beringer Nelson, BC Kimberly Scot Teacher, Nelson, BC Victor Enns writer and editor, Winnipeg, MB Lauren Smith Waterloo, Ontario Dr. Munir El-Kassem Imam, Islamic Centre of South-West Ontario Bart Gerald Author, Ottawa, Ontario S. Joan Tate Toronto, Ontario Diane Allen Toronto, Ontario Masud Sheikh Oakville, Ontario Stephen D'Arcy Department of Philosophy, Huron University College, London, Ontario Lia Brewer Toronto, Ontario Gary Onderisin Guelph, Ontario Anton Wagner Cultural Historian, York University, Toronto, Ontario Kelly Dowdell Calgary, Alberta Tracy Glynn Fredericton, NB Angela Bischoff Greenspiration, Toronto, ON Homaira Siddiqui London, Ontario Joe Gibbons Welland, Ontario E.Hope Richards Penetanguishine, Ontario Louisa Szacon Centre for Social Concern, Mississauga, Ontario Lizzie Bergie London, Ontario Javier Davila Branch President, OSSTF12 Parkdale CI and Educators for Peace and Justice, Toronto, Ontario Jean Johnston London, Ontario Julie Stahlbaum Hamilton, Ontario Dave Shaw Atlantic Regional Organizer, P.S.A.C., Halifax, NS John Gilmore Member, The Writers' Union of Canada, Montreal, PQ Christine Ilott Richmond Hill, Ontario Lisa McMurry, MD Gatineau, PQ Caterina Fava Halifax, NS Doreen Good Exeter, ON Laura Kaminker Writer, Activst, Mississauga, ON Nancy Wolchok Langley, BC Hassan Hussseini Ottawa, ON Margot Izzard Duncan, BC Alissa Carnall Charters Settlement, NB Paul Chislett Windsor, ON Steve Staniek Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, Hamilton, ON Allan Wood Writer, Mississauga, ON Geraldine Sadoway Lawyer, Toronto, ON August J. 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4 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan bombings

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TORONTO (AP) — Four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others were injured Friday in two separate bombings in Afghanistan, Canada's top general in the country said.

It was one of the deadliest days for Canada since its Afghan mission started in 2002.

"Success in war is costly," Brig. Gen. Jonathan Vance, the commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, said at a news conference in Kandahar. "We are determined to succeed so that Afghan lives improve, but the insurgents are equally determined to challenge and prevent Afghanistan from flourishing as the nation it so wants to be."

He said two soldiers died and five were wounded in an explosion during a morning foot patrol in the Zhari district, west of Kandahar. He said an Afghan interpreter also died.

Vance said two other soldiers died and three were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in the Shah Wali Kot district, northwest of Kandahar.

The deaths bring to 116 the number of Canadian soldiers who have died as part of the Afghan mission since it began in 2002. Canada has about 2,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, mostly in the volatile south.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during the election campaign last fall that Canada would pull its troops out in 2011. President Barack Obama declined to ask war-weary Canada to stay longer in Afghanistan when he visited Ottawa last month.

Vance asked Canadians to remember that the soldiers believed both in the mission and in their jobs.

"Please do not think of this as a failure on the part of any person or of the mission itself," Vance said.

All of the soldiers were taking part in a major operation aimed at attacking Taliban command centers and supply lines.

a facebook Group we all need to join!!!!.

Ordinary Canadians DO SUPPORT the Arts, Mr. Harper. You are dead wrong.

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The September 24, 2008 Toronto Star carried a story saying that Prime Minister Stephen Harper believes that ordinary Canadians do not support nor care about art or artists in this country (ergo, he cut funding drastically). I, and thousands of other Canadians think his is dead wrong on this issue. What is a country, a people, without a vibrant arts community? We are a small country by population. Government helps underwrite arts. Rich patrons help continue the arts. But it is the great masses of ordinary folk who put their bums in seats and attend events and buy art and music and books and more who make art real and accepted. We attend the museums and galleries. We attend the folk festivals, film fests, music fests, theatre companies (large and small), and small town craft fairs. We are watching more Canadian films and television shows. We are the ones who buy CDs, DVDs, paintings, sculpture, pottery, posters, and everything else. Those all generate tax revenues that help fund the arts we are supporting with our own wallets. It's cyclical and a good investment. Want to help? Join this group and raise your voice. If you can vote, VOTE! Want to read more? Pick up the latest issue of Existere Journal of Arts and Literature and read my editorial. Also, read, read, read. Become an informed voter. Don't just take it from me. Read the newspapers and sites from coast to coast. Mr. Harper is wrong on arts funding and he must be made to understand that real people - ordinary Canadians - really do support the arts. Regardless of your political stripe. Send Mr. Harper a message through this site AND through your local candidates that you want arts funding restored. Thanks! -- Pass it on...! ******************* Les Canadiens Ordinaires SONT en faveur des Arts, M. Harper. Vous vous êtes trompé. Le Toronto Star du 24 septembre 2008 contenait un article qui disait que le Premier Ministre, Stephen Harper, croit que les Canadiens ordinaires ne supportent et ne s’intéressent ni aux arts ni aux artistes de ce pays (il a donc diminué de façon drastique le financement). Moi-même et des milliers d'autres Canadiens pensons qu’il s’est trompé. Qu’est-ce qu’un pays, un peuple, sans une communauté artistique vibrante? La population du Canada est petite par rapport à la taille de son territoire. Le gouvernement subventionne les arts. Des mécènes contribuent aux développement des arts. Mais, ce sont les grandes masses ordinaires qui se déplacent pour assister aux évènements culturels, qui achètent de l’art, de la musique, des livres. Plus important encore, ce sont eux qui font que l'art est réel et reconnu. Nous fréquentons les musées, les théâtres (grands ou petits), les galeries d’art, les festivals folkloriques ou de musique et les foires locales et provinciales. Ce sont nous qui achetons les CD, les DVD, les tableaux, les sculptures, la poterie, les affiches et tous les autres produits artistiques. Ceci génère des revenus sous forme de taxes. Nous soutenons les arts avec l'argent de nos bourses en fait. C'est de l'argent qui roule, c'est un bon investissement. Souhaitez-vous aider? Joignez-vous à ce groupe et faites entendre vos voix. Si vous le pouvez, votez. VOTEZ! Vous souhaitez lire plus à ce sujet? Consultez le dernier numéro de EXISTERE Journal of the Arts and Literature et lisez mon éditorial (en anglais). Lisez, lisez, lisez. Soyez des électeurs informés. Ne vous informez pas qu'auprès de moi. Lisez la presse et consultez les sites internet de tout le pays. Quelque soit votre affiliation politique, envoyez à Monsieur Harper un message par l'entremise de ce site ET par l'intermédiaire de vos élus locaux et faites lui savoir que vous souhaitez qu'il rétablisse les fonds attribués aux Arts. Merci! Faites circuler! (Merci to member Andrea Sales, Charles Turgeon, and Remi Caudron for the translation and corrections.) ******************* UPDATE (Sept 25, 2pm, Toronto): Thanks everyone! Your support is very encouraging. Lost of discussion and postings of other kinds. This is great! This group has existed for 30 hours and it already has over 7,000 members from coast to coast and a few beyond our borders. Keep spreading the word! UPDATE (Sept 25, Toronto): We are at 11,000 members. If this group cracks 17,100 members, it will have more than all four national parties' official FB sites combined. There is strength in numbers! Con = 5333 Lib = 3068 NDP = 3069 Green = 5626 UPDATE (Sept 25, 9pm, Toronto): We are at 15,000+ in just over 48 hours - that's 15,000 people who think the PM is dead wrong on his arts policies. Great work everybody. Keep the chatter up and keep it clean and civil please. Keep spreading the word. Note to racists and extremists: Your posts will be removed upon discovery. Take your slurs elsewhere. You are not welcome here. This is a place for open discourse and I'll give a lot of leeway, but I will not condone racist postings, postings suggesting violence, postings that harass, or postings portraying the PM as Satan or Hitler - that's going too far. Mr. Harper IS the PM and may be so again. If you don't like him, vote against him. If you are too young to vote, then volunteer for a party of your choice and help out that way. Spreading hate is not an option. UPDATE (Sept 26, 1:30pm, Toronto): In only 54 hours of existence, this group now has MORE members than official Facebook sites for ALL FOUR major Canadian political parties COMBINED. Congrats everyone. Now start posting this site everywhere you can so we can try to double that over the weekend. Start contacting your local media, too. Don't forget to ask your candidates where they stand on arts support (plus other important issues important to you). Sept 28: KEEP THE DISCOURSE CIVIL, PLEASE. Name calling and insults are not only rude, they are not necessary. Passions can run high both for and against this issue but let's respect our differences and stick to the issues at hand. This group is NOT meant to be an anti-Harper or anti-CPC group. It IS meant to be a pro-arts site with room for dissent and chatter from any political stripe. I want free and open debate here, not a mud-slinging pit. Keep it real folks. There are a lot of really good discussions, posts, and so forth. PERSONAL ATTACKS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Attack the argument, not the person. Those violating my simple rules of conduct and/or Facebook's Terms of Use policies will be asked to stop. Those who do not will be reported to Facebook and/or banned from this site. Keep it civil or take it elsewhere. UPDATE (Sept 30, 10:30pm, Toronto): Yesterday, we passed 40,000 members in only five days. Obviously, Canadians feel passionately about arts in Canada. Keep the discussions going. Feel free to post your art or art that is related to the issue at hand. I'll give a lot of leeway, but this is NOT a place to post advertising for commercial ventures, dating sites, or material on George W. Bush, the U.S. election, etc. Voting day is only two weeks away. If you can't make that date, make your vote count at an advance poll. Cheers and keep supporting the arts. UPDATE (October 01, 2008): Racist garbage and propaganda in text or visual posts will not be tolerated. They will be removed. Visual posts of dozens upon dozens of images not remotely related to the issues this site is supporting will be removed - particularly if it is by one person jamming any given section(s). UPDATE (Oct 02, 10:00 pm, Toronto): We passed 50,000 members in only 10 days. Truly, this is a much greater response than I could have anticipated. There is a lot of excellent discussions going on. Keep it up. UPDATE (Oct 10, 6:00 am, Toronto): Fifteen days ago, when I started this site, I thought I'd get a few hundred interested persons discussing the arts issue. I'm pleased, surprised, and amazed at the incredible response. We are now at 60,000 members and growing. Thank you all for your support. ********** http://www.elections.ca http://www.conservative.ca/ http://www.greenparty.ca/ http://www.liberal.ca http://www.ndp.ca/ http://www.presentpourlequebec.org ********** With just 7 days to go, the Conservatives FINALLY released their platform. To compare them, go here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080929.wplatformsfeature0929/BNStory/Front To read them each in detail, go here: http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/2008-election-campaign-political-party-platforms http://www3.thestar.com/static/election/quiz/index.html <--- QUIZ ******************** Edward Fenner discussed the new issue of Existere and this facebook site and the political arts issue with Myna Wallin on Ryerson Radio's "In Other Words" program Tuesday, October 14 at 2pm on CKLM FM (88.1 FM) http://www.CKLN.fm on the Internet. ******************* Since we have two camps that don't get along AND we seem to discuss more than just arts, I created two new sites. Not to worry, this arts site will remain for those interested. The new sites are: The Great Canadian Political Cage Match http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83193865537 This site is for HARDCORE Canadian political junkies wanting a more Wild West environment. The Great Canadian Political Coffee House of Parliament http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=30239542973 This group is a FAMILY-FRIENDLY site for talking Canadian politics and issues. ********************

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Recent News

Read The Star article that stirred me to start this FB group: http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/504811

Google search of sites commenting on or linking to this group:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Ordinary+Canadians+DO+SUPPORT+the+Arts%2C+Mr.+Harper.+You+are+dead+wrong.%22&btnG=Search&meta=

More:

We got a mention in the Vancouver Sun: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=d79c9337-fcc0-45c6-b8b4-6b2b28a89e4e


http://www.thestar.com/federalelection/article/419595 <--- Poll tracker

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/1882782 <--- Petition

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081007.wcocoalition08/BNStory/politics/home <--- Call for a coalition gov't

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081007.welxnpoll1007/BNStory/politics/home

http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/2008-election-campaign-political-party-platforms

http://www.macleans.ca/columnists/article.jsp?content=20081001_9537_9537&id=8&page=1

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/10/02/atwood-blasts-harper-s-dismissal-of-arts-community-he-s-supposed-to-be-good-on-the-economy.aspx

http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/videoplayer2.html

http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsOct0108.html

http://www.liberal.ca/story_14850_e.aspx

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080930.wvharperhowardspeech0930/VideoStory/politics/home?pid=RTGAM.20080930.welexnplagiarism0930

http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/508742

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080929/election2008_ignatieff_attack_080929/20080929?s_name=election2008

http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/507391

http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/507392

http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/507988

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080928.WConservativeplatform29/BNStory/politics/home

http://www.cfrb.com/node/796876

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/26/john-moore-a-working-man-s-case-for-arts-funding.aspx

http://federalelection2008.scena.org

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080926.wearts26/BNStory/politics/home

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080925.WBTaber20080925184759/WBStory/WBTaber/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080925.wdoyle25/BNStory/Entertainment

http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/505531

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080924.wcoarts25/EmailBNStory/politics/home

http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-letter-to-stephen-harper.html

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=q3zBPnIYavI

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67705440222&ref=mf

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/24/artist-protests.html?ref=rss

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=b8147cac-db8a-4a48-a282-916f28a002db

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=08d83220-14ab-4e33-9084-9e4363e029f3

http://www.winnipegsun.com/canadavotes/news/2008/09/24/6857986-sun.html

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZc66PcGe9k6Enn-Ys8o-MNWjxig

RALLY in Peterborough on Thursday, October 2nd at 5 PM at the Peterborough Lift Locks. Wear black and white. No link at present. Details forthcoming.

EVENT & RALLY in Kingston on October 5

http://artisyourstory.wordpress.com/
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26240074825&ref=share

EVENT in Toronto on October 5

http://artisyourstory.wordpress.com/

RALLY in Hamilton on October 7

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=33927746497&ref=mf

RALLY in Toronto on October 8

http://www.new.facebook.com/inbox/#/event.php?eid=39927359816

RALLY in Waterloo, ON region in support of the arts October 11:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=29350307771


VOTE SWAP site and application:

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25808609138

OTHER sites of interest:

http://www.ivoteforculture.com

http://www.box.net/shared/static/heqvkr3vf4.mp3 <--- SONG "You Have a Choice" also on http://avaaz.ca/

http://www.perfectthewayweare.ca/

http://www.canadianartscoalition.ca/en/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhaXsa4Czcs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j37sePKTZlM

http://www.voteforenvironment.com

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We got picked up by blogger Charlie Greenberg. Have a look and post fair and intelligent rebuttal:

http://charliegreenberg.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/government-funding-of-the-arts/

We also made York U's Newspaper, The Excalibur:
http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6327

Google search of sites commenting on or linking to this group:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Ordinary+Canadians+DO+SUPPORT+the+Arts%2C+Mr.+Harper.+You+are+dead+wrong.%22&btnG=Search&meta=

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Here's an activist heads up from member Kristalline Kraus...

Prime Minister Harper EVENT in Toronto OCT 10:

This Friday evening at 5:00pm at the Toronto Congress Centre (650 Dixon Road)

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Toronto&state=ON&address=650+Dixon+Road

Please note you will need actual security clearance to attend the inside rally by contacting a Tory candidate/ Please RSVP before Thursday at 6:00pm.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=28486709379&ref=mf

The September 24, 2008 Toronto Star carried a story saying that Prime Minister Stephen Harper believes that ordinary Canadians do not support nor care about art or artists in this country (ergo, he cut funding drastically). I, and thousands of other Canadians think his is dead wrong on this issue. What is a country, a people, without a vibrant arts community?

We are a small country by population. Government helps underwrite arts. Rich patrons help continue the arts. But it is the great masses of ordinary folk who put their bums in seats and attend events and buy art and music and books and more who make art real and accepted.

We attend the museums and galleries. We attend the folk festivals, film fests, music fests, theatre companies (large and small), and small town craft fairs. We are watching more Canadian films and television shows. We are the ones who buy CDs, DVDs, paintings, sculpture, pottery, posters, and everything else. Those all generate tax revenues that help fund the arts we are supporting with our own wallets. It's cyclical and a good investment.

Want to help? Join this group and raise your voice. If you can vote, VOTE! Want to read more? Pick up the latest issue of Existere Journal of Arts and Literature and read my editorial. Also, read, read, read. Become an informed voter. Don't just take it from me. Read the newspapers and sites from coast to coast.

Mr. Harper is wrong on arts funding and he must be made to understand that real people - ordinary Canadians - really do support the arts.

Regardless of your political stripe. Send Mr. Harper a message through this site AND through your local candidates that you want arts funding restored.

Thanks! -- Pass it on...!

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Les Canadiens Ordinaires SONT en faveur des Arts, M. Harper. Vous vous êtes trompé.

Le Toronto Star du 24 septembre 2008 contenait un article qui disait que le Premier Ministre, Stephen Harper, croit que les Canadiens ordinaires ne supportent et ne s’intéressent ni aux arts ni aux artistes de ce pays (il a donc diminué de façon drastique le financement). Moi-même et des milliers d'autres Canadiens pensons qu’il s’est trompé. Qu’est-ce qu’un pays, un peuple, sans une communauté artistique vibrante?

La population du Canada est petite par rapport à la taille de son territoire. Le gouvernement subventionne les arts. Des mécènes contribuent aux développement des arts. Mais, ce sont les grandes masses ordinaires qui se déplacent pour assister aux évènements culturels, qui achètent de l’art, de la musique, des livres. Plus important encore, ce sont eux qui font que l'art est réel et reconnu.

Nous fréquentons les musées, les théâtres (grands ou petits), les galeries d’art, les festivals folkloriques ou de musique et les foires locales et provinciales. Ce sont nous qui achetons les CD, les DVD, les tableaux, les sculptures, la poterie, les affiches et tous les autres produits artistiques. Ceci génère des revenus sous forme de taxes. Nous soutenons les arts avec l'argent de nos bourses en fait. C'est de l'argent qui roule, c'est un bon investissement.

Souhaitez-vous aider? Joignez-vous à ce groupe et faites entendre vos voix. Si vous le pouvez, votez. VOTEZ! Vous souhaitez lire plus à ce sujet? Consultez le dernier numéro de EXISTERE Journal of the Arts and Literature et lisez mon éditorial (en anglais). Lisez, lisez, lisez. Soyez des électeurs informés. Ne vous informez pas qu'auprès de moi. Lisez la presse et consultez les sites internet de tout le pays.

Quelque soit votre affiliation politique, envoyez à Monsieur Harper un message par l'entremise de ce site ET par l'intermédiaire de vos élus locaux et faites lui savoir que vous souhaitez qu'il rétablisse les fonds attribués aux Arts.

Merci! Faites circuler!

(Merci to member Andrea Sales, Charles Turgeon, and Remi Caudron for the translation and corrections.)

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UPDATE (Sept 25, 2pm, Toronto): Thanks everyone! Your support is very encouraging. Lost of discussion and postings of other kinds. This is great! This group has existed for 30 hours and it already has over 7,000 members from coast to coast and a few beyond our borders. Keep spreading the word!

UPDATE (Sept 25, Toronto): We are at 11,000 members. If this group cracks 17,100 members, it will have more than all four national parties' official FB sites combined. There is strength in numbers!
Con = 5333
Lib = 3068
NDP = 3069
Green = 5626

UPDATE (Sept 25, 9pm, Toronto): We are at 15,000+ in just over 48 hours - that's 15,000 people who think the PM is dead wrong on his arts policies.

Great work everybody. Keep the chatter up and keep it clean and civil please. Keep spreading the word.

Note to racists and extremists: Your posts will be removed upon discovery. Take your slurs elsewhere. You are not welcome here. This is a place for open discourse and I'll give a lot of leeway, but I will not condone racist postings, postings suggesting violence, postings that harass, or postings portraying the PM as Satan or Hitler - that's going too far. Mr. Harper IS the PM and may be so again. If you don't like him, vote against him. If you are too young to vote, then volunteer for a party of your choice and help out that way. Spreading hate is not an option.

UPDATE (Sept 26, 1:30pm, Toronto): In only 54 hours of existence, this group now has MORE members than official Facebook sites for ALL FOUR major Canadian political parties COMBINED. Congrats everyone. Now start posting this site everywhere you can so we can try to double that over the weekend. Start contacting your local media, too. Don't forget to ask your candidates where they stand on arts support (plus other important issues important to you).

Sept 28: KEEP THE DISCOURSE CIVIL, PLEASE. Name calling and insults are not only rude, they are not necessary. Passions can run high both for and against this issue but let's respect our differences and stick to the issues at hand. This group is NOT meant to be an anti-Harper or anti-CPC group. It IS meant to be a pro-arts site with room for dissent and chatter from any political stripe. I want free and open debate here, not a mud-slinging pit. Keep it real folks. There are a lot of really good discussions, posts, and so forth. PERSONAL ATTACKS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Attack the argument, not the person. Those violating my simple rules of conduct and/or Facebook's Terms of Use policies will be asked to stop. Those who do not will be reported to Facebook and/or banned from this site. Keep it civil or take it elsewhere.

UPDATE (Sept 30, 10:30pm, Toronto): Yesterday, we passed 40,000 members in only five days. Obviously, Canadians feel passionately about arts in Canada. Keep the discussions going. Feel free to post your art or art that is related to the issue at hand. I'll give a lot of leeway, but this is NOT a place to post advertising for commercial ventures, dating sites, or material on George W. Bush, the U.S. election, etc. Voting day is only two weeks away. If you can't make that date, make your vote count at an advance poll. Cheers and keep supporting the arts.

UPDATE (October 01, 2008): Racist garbage and propaganda in text or visual posts will not be tolerated. They will be removed. Visual posts of dozens upon dozens of images not remotely related to the issues this site is supporting will be removed - particularly if it is by one person jamming any given section(s).

UPDATE (Oct 02, 10:00 pm, Toronto): We passed 50,000 members in only 10 days. Truly, this is a much greater response than I could have anticipated. There is a lot of excellent discussions going on. Keep it up.

UPDATE (Oct 10, 6:00 am, Toronto): Fifteen days ago, when I started this site, I thought I'd get a few hundred interested persons discussing the arts issue. I'm pleased, surprised, and amazed at the incredible response. We are now at 60,000 members and growing. Thank you all for your support.

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http://www.elections.ca

http://www.conservative.ca/
http://www.greenparty.ca/
http://www.liberal.ca
http://www.ndp.ca/
http://www.presentpourlequebec.org

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With just 7 days to go, the Conservatives FINALLY released their platform. To compare them, go here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080929.wplatformsfeature0929/BNStory/Front

To read them each in detail, go here:

http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/2008-election-campaign-political-party-platforms

http://www3.thestar.com/static/election/quiz/index.html <--- QUIZ

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Edward Fenner discussed the new issue of Existere and this facebook site and the political arts issue with Myna Wallin on Ryerson Radio's "In Other Words" program Tuesday, October 14 at 2pm on CKLM FM (88.1 FM) http://www.CKLN.fm on the Internet.


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Since we have two camps that don't get along AND we seem to discuss more than just arts, I created two new sites. Not to worry, this arts site will remain for those interested.

The new sites are:

The Great Canadian Political Cage Match
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83193865537
This site is for HARDCORE Canadian political junkies wanting a more Wild West environment.

The Great Canadian Political Coffee House of Parliament
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=30239542973
This group is a FAMILY-FRIENDLY site for talking Canadian politics and issues.

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PRESS RELEASE #1 - December 01, 2008

http://www.yorku.ca/existere/PRESS_RELEASE_Dec_01_2008_EFenner.doc

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Coultergeist at work!

Legal and professional disputes

Irregularities in public registration

In September 2002, Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove wrote a column titled, "Mystery of the Ages", raising questions about Coulter's actual date of birth.^[73] At the time, Coulter was insisting that she was not yet 40, despite media reports to the contrary. Attempting to resolve the discrepancy, Grove noted that Coulter had given her date of birth as December 8, 1961 when she first registered to vote in 1980 (the year of the Reagan-vs-Carter presidential election), in New Canaan, Connecticut, where the legal voting age is 18. He said that Coulter's Connecticut driver's license also listed her birth date as December 1961, but pointed out that a driver's license issued to her years later in Washington, D.C., gave her date of birth as December 1963. In her emailed reply to Grove's inquiry, Coulter maintained that she was 38 years old. In April 2005, Time's cover story on Coulter reported, "Coulter says she won't confirm the date 'for privacy reasons' — she's had several stalkers. 'And I'm a girl,' she adds."^[22]

Factual inaccuracies, actual and alleged

Comedian, author and political commentator Al Franken has questioned the factual accuracy of her books, and also accuses her of citing passages out of context.^[74] Others have investigated these charges, and have also raised questions about the books' accuracy and presentation of facts.^[75][76][77] Coulter responded to these and similar criticisms in a column called "Answering My Critics",^[78] where she claims "the most devastating examples of my alleged 'lies' keep changing" and that some accusations of her factual inaccuracy are either outright wrong or really just "trivial" factual errors (e.g. referring to "endnotes" as "footnotes", or incorrectly identifying Evan Thomas' grandfather, Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas, as his father).

New York Times' NASCAR coverage

In the first edition of Slander, Coulter alleged that The New York Times did not cover NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt's death until two days after he died:

The day after seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt died in a race at the Daytona 500, almost every newspaper in America carried the story on the front page. Stock-car racing had been the nation's fastest-growing sport for a decade, and NASCAR the second-most-watched sport behind the NFL. More Americans recognize the name Dale Earnhardt than, say, Maureen Dowd. (Manhattan liberals are dumbly blinking at that last sentence.) It took The New York Times two days to deem Earnhardt's death sufficiently important to mention it on the first page. Demonstrating the left's renowned populist touch, the article began, 'His death brought a silence to the Wal-Mart.' The Times went on to report that in vast swaths of the country people watch stock-car racing. Tacky people were mourning Dale Earnhardt all over the South!^[79]

The New York Times did, in fact, cover Earnhardt's death the same day that he died: sportswriter Robert Lipsyte authored an article for the front page that was published on February 18, 2001. Another front page article appeared in the Times on the following day. Coulter cited an article indeed written two days after Earnhardt's death—Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize winner who grew up in the South, wrote a personal piece on Earnhardt and his passing—bringing the total to three days in a row in which the Times covered Earnhardt's death on its front page.^[74] (The paper also ran a prominent story about Earnhardt before his death.)

Coulter responded to this widely publicized error as follows:

In my three best-selling books—making the case for a president's impeachment, accusing liberals of systematic lying and propagandizing, arguing that Joe McCarthy was a great American patriot, and detailing 50 years of treachery by the Democratic Party—this is the only vaguely substantive error the Ann Coulter hysterics have been able to produce, corrected soon after publication. CONGRATULATIONS, LIBERALS!!! At least I didn't miss the Ukrainian famine (cf., Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Walter Duranty).^[78]

Coulter corrected the error in the paperback edition of her book.^[80]

Canadian troops in Vietnam

Coulter has been criticized for a statement she made on The Fifth Estate, an investigative journalism program produced by CBC television. During an interview by host Bob McKeown, Coulter said, "Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?" McKeown contradicted her with, "No, actually Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."^[81] On the February 18, 2005 edition of Washington Journal, Coulter justified her statement by referring to the thousands of Canadians who served in the American armed forces during the Vietnam era, either because they volunteered or because they were living in the USA during the war years and got drafted. (Between 5,000 and 20,000 Canadians fought in Vietnam itself, including approximately 80 who were killed.).^[82] John Cloud of Time, writing a few months later, suggested that Coulter may have been right, on the basis that "Canada [sent] noncombat troops to Indochina in the 1950s and again to Vietnam in 1972".^[83] However, Coulter's initial assertion was that Canada sent troops into Vietnam in support of the American position; in this connection, FAIR countered that Cloud made "quite a stretch to prove that Coulter was correct."^[84]

New York Times Christians/Nazis controversy

In her book Slander, Coulter also stated that the New York Times made several statements comparing Christians to Nazis. As examples, she cites a headline reading "Did the Nazi Crimes Draw On Christian Tradition?" and a quote, "The church was co-responsible for the Holocaust." She does not mention that the first quote was from a book review in which the reviewer disagreed with the thesis that the Nazi crimes drew on Christian tradition. The second quote was from a discussion printed in the Times, in which a historian also states that Pope Pius XII was responsible for saving 750,000 Jews.^[85]

Controversies and criticism

Coulter's polemics - she has described herself as a "polemicist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and doesn't "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do"^[86] - sometimes start firestorms of controversy, ranging from rowdy uprisings at many of the colleges where she speaks to protracted discussions in the media.

9/11 "Jersey Girls"

In Godless, Coulter criticized the four 9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls", writing:

These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president ... cutting campaign commercials... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy.^[87]

These statements received national attention after an interview on The Today Show, and were widely criticized.^{[88][89][90][91][92][93]} Coulter refused to apologize, and responded, "I feel sorry for all the widows of 9/11...[but] I do not believe that sanctifies their political message....They have attacked Bush, they have attacked Condoleezza Rice, they're cutting campaign commercials for Kerry. But we can't respond because their husbands died . . . I think it's one of the ugliest things 'the left' has done...this idea that you need some sort of personal authenticity in order to make a political point..."^[94][95]

Comments about the New York Times

Coulter has a long-running animosity toward the New York Times. Her book Slander accuses the news media of unfairly criticizing conservatives, and cites the Times as a prime example.^[96]

In an interview with George Gurley of the New York Observer shortly after the publication of Slander, it was mentioned that Coulter actually had friends and acquaintances who worked for the Times, namely restaurant critic Frank Bruni and correspondent David E. Sanger. Later in the interview, she expressed amusement at her recollections of the Times' gratuitousness in publishing two photos of George H. W. Bush throwing up at a diplomatic meeting in Japan, then said: "Is your tape recorder running? Turn it on! I got something to say...My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." Gurley told her to be careful, to which she responded "You’re right, after 9/11 I shouldn’t say that".^[13]

By way of context, during an interview earlier in June 2002 with Katie Couric to promote the same book, Coulter expressed frustration about "constant mischaracterization" through being misquoted. "The idea that someone can go out and find one quote that will suddenly, you know, portray me — just dismiss her ideas, read no more, read no further, this person is crazy... is precisely what liberals do all the time".^[97]

When asked by John Hawkins, the web manager of a right-wing blog, through a pre-written set of interview questions if she regretted the statement, Coulter replied by saying: "Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'"^[98][99] Lee Salem, the president of Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Coulter's column, later defended Coulter by characterizing her comments as satire.^[100]

The subject came up again when Coulter appeared on the Fox News program Hannity & Colmes. Alan Colmes mentioned Salem's claim, and said to her that remarks like saying "Timothy McVeigh should have bombed The New York Times building" were "laughable happy satires, right?" He then said that Coulter was "actually a liberal who is doing this to mock and parody the way conservatives think." She replied, "Well, it's not working very well if that were my goal. No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after The New York Times has leaped beyond — beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week". She was referring to a Times report that revealed classified information about an anti-terrorism program of the U.S. government involving surveillance of international financial transactions of persons suspected of having Al-Qaida links. Colmes continued in vein when he responded, calling her remarks "great humor", and that it "belongs on Saturday Night Live. It belongs on The Daily Show."^[101][102]

Comments on Islam, Arabs and terrorism

On September 14, 2001, three days after the 9-11 attacks (in which her friend Barbara Olson had been killed), Coulter wrote in her column:

Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.^[103]

Responding to this comment, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations remarked in the Chicago Sun Times that before September 11, Coulter "would have faced swift repudiation from her colleagues", but "now it's accepted as legitimate commentary."^[104]

David Horowitz, however, saw Coulter's words as irony:

I began running Coulter columns on Frontpagemag.com shortly after she came up with her most infamous line, which urged America to put jihadists to the sword and convert them to Christianity. Liberals were horrified; I was not. I thought to myself, this is a perfect send-up of what our Islamo-fascist enemies believe – that as infidels we should be put to the sword and converted to Islam. I regarded Coulter’s phillipic (sic) as a Swiftian commentary on liberal illusions of multi-cultural outreach to people who want to rip out our hearts.^[105]

One day after the attacks (before the culprits had been identified and when death toll estimates were higher than they later became), Coulter asserted that only Muslims could have been behind the attacks:

Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours.^[106]

Coulter has been highly critical of the U.S. Department of Transportation and especially its then-secretary Norman Mineta. Her many criticisms include their refusal to use racial profiling as a component of airport screening.^[107] After a group of Muslims were expelled from a US Airways flight when other passengers expressed worries, sparking a call for Muslims to boycott the airline because of the ejection from a flight of six imams, Coulter wrote:

If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.^[108]

Coulter also cited the 2002 Senate testimony of FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, who was acclaimed for condemning her superiors for refusing to authorize a search warrant for 9-11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui when he refused to consent to a search of his computer. They knew that he was a Muslim in flight school who had overstayed his visa, and the French Intelligence Service had confirmed his affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups. Coulter said she agreed that probable cause existed in the case, but that refusing consent, being in flight school and overstaying a visa shouldn't constitute grounds for a search. Citing a poll which found that 98 percent of Muslims between the ages of 20 to 45 said they would not fight for Britain in the war in Afghanistan, and that 48 percent said they would fight for Osama bin Laden,^[109] she asserted "any Muslim who has attended a mosque in Europe -- certainly in England, where Moussaoui lived -- has had 'affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups'", so that she parsed Rowley's position as meaning that "'probable cause' existed to search Moussaoui's computer because he was a Muslim who had lived in England." Because "FBI headquarters...refused to engage in racial profiling" they failed to uncover the 9-11 plot, Coulter asserted. "The FBI allowed thousands of Americans to be slaughtered on the altar of political correctness. What more do liberals want?"^[110]

Coulter wrote in another column that she had reviewed the civil rights lawsuits against certain airlines to determine which airlines had subjected Arabs to the most "egregious discrimination" so that she could fly only that airline. She also said that the airline should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them.^[111] In an interview with the The Guardian she quipped, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer replied by asking what Muslims would do for travel, she responded, "They could use flying carpets."^[112]

One comment that drew criticism from the blogosphere, as well as fellow conservatives,^[113] was made during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2006, where she said, referring to the prospect of a nuclear-equipped Iran, "What if they start having one of these bipolar episodes with nuclear weapons? I think our motto should be, post-9-11: raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences."^[114] Coulter had previously written a nearly identical passage in her syndicated column: "...I believe our motto should be after 9/11: Jihad monkey talks tough; jihad monkey takes the consequences. Sorry, I realize that's offensive. How about 'camel jockey'? What? Now what'd I say? Boy, you tent merchants sure are touchy. Grow up, would you?"^[115]

In October 2007, Coulter made more controversial remarks about Arabs, in this case Iraqis, when she stated, in an interview with the New York Observer

We’ve killed about 20,000 of them, of terrorists, of militants, of Al Qaeda members, and they’ve gotten a little over 3,000 of ours. That is where the war is being fought, in Iraq, that is where we are fighting Al Qaeda. Sorry we have to use your country, Iraqis, but you let Saddam come to power, ha-ha, and we are going to instill democracy in your country.^[116]

In a May 2007 article looking back at the life of the recently deceased evangelical Reverend Jerry Falwell, Coulter commented on Falwell's statement after the 9/11 attacks that "pagans", abortionists, feminists, and gays and lesbians, among others, helped make the attacks happen. In her article, Coulter stated that she disagreed with Falwell's statement, "because Falwell neglected to specifically include Teddy Kennedy and 'the Reverend' Barry Lynn."^[117]

In October 2007, Coulter participated in David Horowitz' "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week", remarking in a speech at the University of Southern California, "The fact of Islamo-Fascism is indisputable," she said. "I find it tedious to detail the savagery of the enemy . . . I want to kill them. Why don't Democrats?"^[118]

2007 John Edwards controversy

The next year, Coulter drew criticism for statements she made at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference about presidential candidate John Edwards.^[119][120] Coulter said:

I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions.^{[121][122][123]}

This was an allusion to Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington's use of the epithet and his subsequent mandatory "psychological assessment" imposed by ABC executives.^[124][125] This comment was widely interpreted as meaning that Coulter had called Edwards a "faggot",^[126] but Coulter has argued on a couple of occasions that she didn't actually do so, while simultaneously indicating she would not have been wrong to say it.^[127][128]

The audience laughed, but Edwards responded on his website by characterizing Coulter's words as "un-American and indefensible" and asking readers to help him "raise $100,000 in 'Coulter Cash' this week to keep this campaign charging ahead and fight back against the politics of bigotry."^[129] Coulter's words also drew condemnation from many prominent Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians, as well as groups such as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).^{[129][130][131][132]} Coulter responded in an e-mail to the New York Times: "C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean."^[130] She also posted a response on her website: "I'm so ashamed, I can't stop laughing!"^[133]

On March 5, 2007, Coulter appeared on Hannity and Colmes and said, "[f]aggot isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays. It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss'".^[134]

In response to this issue, three advertisers (Verizon, Sallie Mae and Netbank) pulled their advertisements from Coulter's website,^[135] and several newspapers dropped Coulter's column.^{[136][137][138]}

Responding to the controversy, Coulter said:

Just for the record, I've never attempted to revise, or extend, nor have I apologized and the attempts to silence me have made me even more money…Those newspapers pay me about 25 cents per month, but I picked up a LOT of speeches...Attempts to censor me have really backfired.^[139]

She also said, "I wasn't saying it on TV. I was saying it at a right-wing political convention with 7,000 college Republicans. I didn't put it on TV." The CPAC convention was, in fact, broadcast on C-SPAN. In an interview with Glenn Beck, she said, "Sarah Silverman uses the word, and, oh, liberals don't mind it when she uses it."^[140]

This controversy revived an earlier dispute originating from a 2003 column where Coulter disparaged Democratic Presidential candidates who mention family tragedies in their campaign speeches — including Edwards, who, she stated, talks frequently about the death of his son Wade in a traffic accident.^[141]

In a June 25, 2007 appearance on Good Morning America, Coulter said: "But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack -- so I've learned my lesson: If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."^[142]

The next day, on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Coulter received a phone call from Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards’ wife, asking her to stop the personal attacks and to stick to discussing the issues. Coulter responded, saying that the Edwards campaign was “raising money off it” and denied "saying anything about him [Edwards], actually, either time." Mrs. Edwards also confronted Coulter for writing that they had a bumper sticker on their car saying "Ask me about my dead son" in reference to the death of their son Wade. Coulter responded by characterizing Edwards' call as an attempt to silence her and by attacking Edwards for his activities as a trial lawyer.^[143][144]

Coulter refused to apologize, and explained her response to Mrs. Edwards in a subsequent column: "Edwards is...the trial lawyer who pretended in court to channel the spirit of a handicapped fetus in front of illiterate jurors to scam tens of millions of dollars off of innocent doctors...Apparently every time Edwards began a story about his dead son with 'I've never told anyone this before,' everyone on the campaign could lip-sync the story with him... If you want points for not using your son's death politically, don't you have to take down all those 'Ask me about my son's death in a horrific car accident' bumper stickers? Edwards is like a politician who keeps announcing that he will not use his opponent's criminal record for partisan political advantage... As a commentator, I bring facts like these to the attention of the American people in a lively way."^[142]

John Edwards responded by calling her a "she-devil." He immediately added, "I should not have name-called. But the truth is - forget the names - people like Ann Coulter, they engage in hateful language."^[145]

Disenfranchisement of women

Time magazine's John Cloud observes that Coulter "likes to shock reporters by wondering aloud whether America might be better off if women lost the right to vote."^[22] For example, in a May 2003 interview with The Guardian, Coulter said:^[112]

...It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950—except Goldwater in '64—the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

^[146]

Wikinews has related news: Ann Coulter: Take away women's votes because "women are voting so stupidly"

Again, in an October 2007 interview with the New York Observer, Coulter said:^[147]

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care—and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'

Comments about Jews on The Big Idea

During an interview with Donny Deutsch on his CNBC program The Big Idea (October 8, 2007), Coulter stated that the United States is a Christian nation and suggested Christians viewed themselves as "perfected Jews".^[148] Deutsch, a practicing Jew, told Coulter he found the comments personally offensive and anti-semitic; Coulter replied that she could not understand his reaction.

DEUTSCH: You said—your exact words were, "Jews need to be perfected." Those are the words out of your mouth.^[149]
COULTER: No, I'm saying that's what a Christian is.
DEUTSCH: But that's what you said—don't you see how hateful, how anti-Semitic—
COULTER: No!
DEUTSCH: How do you not see? You're an educated woman. How do you not see that?
COULTER: That isn't hateful at all.
DEUTSCH: But that's even a scarier thought. OK—
COULTER: No, no, no, no, no. I don't want you being offended by this. This is what Christians consider themselves, because our testament is the continuation of your testament. You know that. So we think Jews go to heaven. I mean [Jerry] Falwell himself said that, but you have to follow laws. Ours is "Christ died for our sins." We consider ourselves perfected Christians. For me to say that for you to become a Christian is to become a perfected Christian[sic] is not offensive at all.

In an interview published in Adweek three days after the interview, Deutsch noted that when he challenged her comments, Coulter appeared "to back off" and "seemed a little upset", adding, "I think she got frightened that maybe she had crossed a line, that this was maybe a faux pas of great proportions. I mean, did it show ignorance? Anti-Semitism? It wasn't just one of those silly things."^[150]

Dennis Prager, a conservative talk show host, commented that although, as a practicing Jew, he obviously did not agree with Coulter's comments, they were not anti-Semitic.^[151] He noted that: "There is nothing in what Ann Coulter said to a Jewish interviewer on CNBC that indicates she hates Jews or wishes them ill, or does damage to the Jewish people or the Jewish state. And if none of those criteria is present, how can someone be labeled anti-Semitic?"^[152] Conservative activist David Horowitz's reaction was similar: "If you don't accompany this belief by burning Jews who refuse to become perfected at the stake why would any Jew have a problem?... Why do some Jews think that Christians should not really believe what they believe while it's okay for Jews to really believe they are God's Chosen People? I don't get it."^[153]

In response to Coulter's comments on the show, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement saying it "strongly condemns Ann Coulter for her anti-Semitic comment", and that to "espouse the idea that Judaism needs to be replaced with Christianity and that each individual Jew is somehow deficient and needs to be 'perfected,' is rank Christian supersessionism and has been rejected by the Catholic Church and the vast majority of mainstream Christian denominations."^[154] The American Jewish Committee issued a statement asserting that "Ms. Coulter's assertion that Jews are somehow religiously imperfect smacks of the most odious anti-Jewish sentiment."^[155] The National Jewish Democratic Council, self identified as "the national voice of Jewish Democrats",^[156] called on media outlets to stop inviting Coulter as a guest commentator/pundit."^[156][155]

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115. ^ Coulter, Ann. Muslim bites dog. February 15, 2006
116. ^ Tea With Miss Coulter
117. ^ Coulter, Ann. "Jerry Falwell -- Say Hello to Ronald Reagan" AnnCoulter.com May 16, 2007. Retrieved on May 23, 2007.
118. ^ Trounson, Rebecca (2007-10-25). "Coulter's appearance at USC prompts ovations, protests". Los Angeles Times. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/la-me-islamo25oct25,0,7812911.story. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
119. ^ TAHMAN BRADLEY "Controversial columnist draws fire for gay slur." ABC News. March 5, 2007. Retrieved on December 24, 2008.
120. ^ Isaiah Washington Enters Treatment Facility!
121. ^ "Ann Coulter uses slur to describe John Edwards @ CPAC." March 2, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
122. ^ https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/coulter Flash video on Edwards' website
123. ^ "Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur". CNN.com: Politics. Cable News Network. A Time Warner Company.. 2007-03-04. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/index.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-05.
124. ^ Lopez, Kathryn Jean. "Breaking News: Ann Coulter Was Ann Coulter at CPAC." National Review. March 3, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
125. ^ Ann Coulter Defends Edwards Comments FoxNews.com, March 6, 2007
126. ^ Media Matters - Coulter reference to Edwards as "faggot" gives rise to questions for media
127. ^ http://mediamatters.org/items/200706260001 "...I did not call John Edwards the 'F' word. I said I couldn't talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word."
128. ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21016080/ incl. video excerpt of MSNBC Hardball June 26, 2007 "...I didn't say anything about him [Edwards], actually, either time".
129. ^ ^{a b} Staff Writer. "Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur" CNN March 4, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
130. ^ ^{a b} Nagourney, Adam. "G.O.P. Candidates Criticize Slur by Conservative Author" New York Times March 4, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
131. ^ Peak, Alexander S. "An Open Letter to Ann Coulter" March 3, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
132. ^ E&P Staff. "Edwards Campaign Responds to Coulter Calling Him 'Faggot'" Editor & Publisher March 3, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
133. ^ Staff Writer. "Coulter Under Fire For Anti-Gay Slur" CBS News March 4, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
134. ^ Staff Writer. "Ann Coulter Fires Back at Critics Over John Edwards 'Faggot' Barb" Fox News March 6, 2007. Includes Flash video of exchange. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
135. ^ Hamby, Peter. "Companies to pull ads from Coulter's Web site" CNN March 5, 2007. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
136. ^ Astor, Dave. "Two More Newspapers Drop Ann Coulter's Column" Editor & Publisher March 7, 2007. Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
137. ^ Staff report. "Statement by Shreveport Editor Today on Dropping Ann Coulter" Editor & Publisher March 8, 2007. Retrieved on March 8, 2007.
138. ^ Staff Writer (March 11, 2007). "Has Ann Coulter Hit Her Tipping Point?". MSN. http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=254652&GT1=7703. Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
139. ^ Hannity and Colmes
140. ^ "Coulter defended CPAC comment about Edwards: "I wasn't saying it on TV"". Media Matters for America. June 28, 2007. http://mediamatters.org/items/200706280009. Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
141. ^ Coulter, Ann; "The Party of Ideas"; uexpress.com; November 19, 2003.
142. ^ ^{a b} That Was No Lady -- That Was My Husband
143. ^ Elizabeth Edwards confronts Ann Coulter
144. ^ John Edwards' better half?
145. ^ Edwards Calls Coulter 'She-Devil'
146. ^ Democrats would also have won in 1976 (Jimmy Carter) and 1992 (Bill Clinton), had only male votes been counted.^{[citation needed]}
147. ^ Gurley, George (October 2, 2007) "Coulter Culture" The New York Observer retrieved October 5, 2007
148. ^ « Coulter: We Want Jews To Be "Perfected" », CBS News website, October 11, 2007
149. ^ Actually Coulter's exact words were "we just want Jews to be perfected", although the CBS article that contains the transcript showing that nonetheless leads off by saying "...Ann Coulter... said during an interview yesterday that Jews need to be 'perfected' into Christians."[3] and Fox News also created a fake "quote", declaring "Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians'".[4] Media Matters, which had supplied a transcript later deemed problematic by CBS but which had quoted Coulter correctly on this point responded to her later comment "'...as I say in my current book, if the things I say are so outrageous, why won't they quote me accurately? I am never quoted accurately and, once again, I'm not being quoted accurately here.'" with "Coulter did not offer any purported evidence of her 'not being quoted accurately.'" The transcript Media Matters provides shows host Michael Medved immediately doing it for her.[5]
150. ^ « Deutsch on Coulter's 'Big Idea' Comments », Adweek, October 11, 2007
151. ^ Denis Prager Show October 12, 2007.
152. ^ Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian -- So What? by Dennis Prager (October 16, 2007)
153. ^ Jewish pundit defends Ann Coulter
154. ^ ADL Condemns Ann Coulter's Comment That Jews Need 'To Be Perfected'
155. ^ ^{a b} "Jewish Groups Condemn, Boycott Ann Coulter". CBS News. 2007-10-12. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/12/national/main3361954.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-12-10. (originally included a transcript cited to Media Matters; as revised it contains a more complete version)
156. ^ ^{a b} Mission Statement || National Jewish Democratic Council

Bibliography

• Coulter, Ann H. (1998). High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. Washington, DC; Lanham, MD: Regnery Pub. and distributed to the trade by National Book Network. ISBN 0895263602. OCLC 39380711.
• Coulter, Ann H. (2002). Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right. New York, NY: Crown. ISBN 1400046610. OCLC 49673076.
• Coulter, Ann H. (2003). Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. New York, NY: Crown Forum. ISBN 1400050308. OCLC 52133318.
• Coulter, Ann H. (2004). How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter. New York, NY: Crown Forum. ISBN 1400054184. OCLC 55746549.
• Coulter, Ann H. (2006). Godless: The Church of Liberalism. New York, NY: Crown Forum. ISBN 1400054206. OCLC 69594152.
• Coulter, Ann H. (2007). If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans. New York, NY: Crown Forum. ISBN 9780307353450. OCLC 156784826.
• Coulter, Ann H. (2008). Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America. New York, NY: Crown Forum. ISBN 9780307353467. OCLC 230728938.

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