The Long Fuse on Ann Coulter's Bomb

Washington Post by Howard Kurtz | Mar. 6, 2007 (News Analysis)

At first, Ann Coulter's anti-gay crack at a Washington conference Friday drew almost no media coverage, although it was witnessed by hundreds of journalists and political operatives and captured by television cameras.

But after some Democrats and liberal bloggers slammed the professional provocateur -- and were joined by a number of Republicans and conservatives -- it became a news story, albeit a modest one. Journalists could simply quote critics ... Full Story »

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by Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

Kurtz still doesn't really get it, in many odd ways. Why does he say the unmentionable (at least in the WaPo) word is "offensive to gays?" I find it offensive as well, and I'm not gay. And why does he conclude that "journalists have never quite resolved the question: Is what she says news?" Obviously what Coulter said is news, given the reaction and the amount of words and images devoted to the controversy--not to mention the fact that it was said at CPAC and forced three Republican presidential candidates to dissassociate themselves from Coulter and repudiate her comments!