Coulter banned for life from NBC or something; Update: NBC denies
posted at 6:37 pm on January 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
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The nation’s top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
Banned for life!
“We are just not going to have her on any more, it’s over,” a top network source explains…
“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”
Media Matters pushed them to cancel but there was no nutroots groundswell that I’m aware of. They knew what they were getting when they booked her considering what happened the last time she was on and her tendency to refer to The One in interviews as “B. Hussein Obama.” Scheduling her put them in a spot where they’d either have to go through with it and spoil their new liberal Olber-brand or cave and be ridiculed endlessly for lefty pandering by O’Reilly and Fox. So, er, why’d they do it? And why would someone at the show give a quote that juicy to Drudge knowing what he’d do with it, given that he’s a friend of Coulter’s and dependably promotes her books whenever a new one drops? Anyone else find this strange/stupid, even by NBC’s standards?
Update: Stranger still.
Late today, NBC News denied the story with this statement: “We’ve had Ann Coulter on ‘Today’ many times, but because of the news in Washington and the Middle East, we decided to cancel her appearance tomorrow. Understanding the media as well as she does, we are sure she knows this happens from time to time. We look forward to welcoming her back in the future.”…
The Drudge story says NBC “replaced Coulter with showbiz reporter Perez Hilton,” who also has a book being released tomorrow. NBC tells TVNewser Hilton is just appearing in the fourth hour and had been booked far in advance.
“The news in Washington and the Middle East” is sufficiently dire to leave no time for Coulter but some time for Perez Hilton?
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Another ‘Best Seller’ and she don’t need their air time anyway.
thomasaur on January 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM
The real mystery is why with so many great authors of great books out there anyone would select to interview someone who writes such worthless schlock to being with.
alex342 on January 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM
that quote alone probably makes the case for her new book. Guess I’ll have to buy it now ad read it with the other books I’m reading.
theguardianii on January 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Nice one, NBC. You just raised the stakes on her popularity. Keep it up.
What if Fox banned a lib?
macummings on January 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM
To put it quite simply, I think they’ve fully embraced being a propaganda organ–they’re just no longer making an effort at hiding it anymore.
Matt Helm on January 5, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Because she doesn’t like The One. Duh. And to answer the second question, not in the least.
gryphon202 on January 5, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Personally, I like her. If she weren’t so popular, she wouldn’t command that much money.
macummings on January 5, 2009 at 6:42 PM
NBC hasn’t made sense for a while now, so I’m not surprised. I hope the other stations report and help her book sales….funny.
grif99 on January 5, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Great. If I ever get television(as in cable or satellite or rabbit ears, which I don’t), I’ll filter out all NBC channels and affiliates. If they want to be a propaganda network, fine.
Truth is, I’m no fan of Coulter. I think she’s as obnoxious as a lot of loony lefties a lot of times and she comes across as nervous and unsure. However, this is unconscionable.
NBC, go to hell, where your ratings are.
MadisonConservative on January 5, 2009 at 6:43 PM
I can only guess it’s so when she is eventually brought back on NBC for an interview, millions will tune in. Like how Letterman pretended to hate Oprah. Just a stunt, that’s my guess.
LastRick on January 5, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Yet another career-ending moment for Ann.
Too funny.
rogersnowden on January 5, 2009 at 6:43 PM
If it pisses off NBC then I just have to buy the book. Sorry Allah.
redrock on January 5, 2009 at 6:43 PM
NBC just can not handle blondes smarter than anyone at NBC… The truth and nothing but…
vulcannomad on January 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM
And so it begins…
You will worship Dear Leader. No ill will be spoken of him.
We will not tolerate it. It is a downer.
NBC – All Obama. All the time.
kingsjester on January 5, 2009 at 6:45 PM
I guess NBC agrees with McCarthy after all.
29Victor on January 5, 2009 at 6:45 PM
+1
I’m sure Ann is really worried… not.
Y-not on January 5, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Does NBC have a stake in her publisher? This smells of a publicity stunt.
LevStrauss on January 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Totally messing up the vibes that barry deserves man!
thomasaur on January 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Um, isn’t that offering money for an assault? That can’t be legal.
trubble on January 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM
The real mystery is why with so many great authors of great books out there anyone would select to interview someone who writes such worthless schlock to being with.
Probably because she sells more books than 90% of the so-called “Liberal” authors currently plagiarizing/writing books.
Chuck145 on January 5, 2009 at 6:47 PM
I haven’t watched NBC in years. So who cares who they ban? Maybe Jennifer Aniston can tell them about policy – appears to be NBC’s intellectual heft anyway.
Maybe FNC can have her on Red Eye all the time. She’s funny as all get out on that show.
mjk on January 5, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Sorry Ann.Don’t spoil our dream.
Uh Hoh Jeezus H.Christ.
What’s that …a secret or something…?
It’s finally publicly known policy.
No criticism of the Messiahed One will be tolerated on NBC.
They are no longer a news organization but opinion vendors giving their leftie audience what they want.
NBC says “if you don’t like it go bleep yourself.We can love anybody we want to”.
The truth is dead.
NeoKong on January 5, 2009 at 6:48 PM
And if Fox News had done this with Al Franken?
Oh wait… only LIEBERAL stations can censor people.
Skywise on January 5, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Way for NBC to actually give Ann Coulter even greater publicity for her new book by canceling her interview.
Liberals are extremely stupid. It’s so funny.
nitzsche on January 5, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Ann’s low self-esteem is evident from her hair-tossing and bad mini-skirts.
If she really thought she was as smart as she says, she’d be more comfortable in her skin. Just my 2 cents.
She can be funny as hell at times though, and she grates the moonbats so much that I can’t help but like her. She’d be fun to have a beer with and shoot the sh!t one on one.
omnipotent on January 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Anyone remember Kitty Kelly?
Joan of Argghh on January 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM
It has been NBC’s policy for years not to say anything bad about the President, it’s not what their audience wants.
Wade on January 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM
The latest “Suppress the Truth” project from the Left…..
DL13 on January 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM
GO ANNE!
Has anyone else ever been “Banned” from NBC?
upinak on January 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM
I’m in that category. This is just weird. There’s got to be more to this story.
meltenn on January 5, 2009 at 6:50 PM
ALL blondes are smarter than anyone at NBC.
OldEnglish on January 5, 2009 at 6:50 PM
NBC must be looking to get in on the media bailout.
pedestrian on January 5, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Banned from NBC? That just boosted sales by atleast 1 million.
The only thing NBC is good for anymore is the Olympics every 2 years and even that is sketchy coverage.
portlandon on January 5, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Because he’s to afraid to do it himself??
Be really funny if Coulter caught that simpering douche bag on one of his? little lap dog red carpet boot-lick-athons and said ‘Here I am big boy…bring it’….
BigWyo on January 5, 2009 at 6:52 PM
You’re messing with us, aren’t you? ;-P
drjohn on January 5, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Could we offer someone $1,000 to hit him with a rock?
drjohn on January 5, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Step One in a Stalinist/Hitlerian state: Ostracism/banishment
Step Two: Prison
Step Three: Execution/assassination.
Please tell me I’m dead wrong here, fellow Conservatives.
Liam on January 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM
OFF TOPIC:
Hugh Hewitt is dismantling Glen Greenwald (sock puppet) on his radio show right now, listen if you can.
Funny stuff.
omnipotent on January 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Anyone else find this strange/stupid, even by NBC’s standards?
I’m bettin’ someone at NBC is a little more pro-Coulter than they oughter be…
MYounger on January 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Very stupid move by NBC, though no surprise there!
Why do I see a plum of a topic for another book for Ann to talk about whenever she’s on the radio or any other TV station?
Jack.
Jack Deth on January 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Bernadine Dorhn, who, like, say, Keith Olbermann, is so not a downer, is anxiously waiting in the wings to take Ann’s place.
Buy Danish on January 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Maybe because it seemed like a perfectly sensible decision to them, similar to way in which the auto industry execs saw absolutely nothing wrong with taking separate private jets to DC to ask for taxpayer dollars or with taking out expensive newspaper ads to say “thanks for the money.”
In NBC’s defense, the dinosaurs probably didn’t see the asteroid coming, either.
Infidoll on January 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Ann Coulter scares the living sh!t out of the libs. They have never won a single argument with her so they have decided to take their bat and ball and run away from the filed. Typical lib maneuver.
progressoverpeace on January 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Heh, as I write the update is posted and it might, or might not, be on. Whatever it is, it just made her more relevant and them more stupid and irrelevant.
She stood by Drudge, he stands by her.
Entelechy on January 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Maybe the need to make “sacrifices” to get in line for a bailout.
the_nile on January 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM
When NBC says “our audience” they are damn well likely telling the truth….
how hard can it be to take demographics and opinion survey polls on 5000 people?
sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Maybe the NBC staffer that dropped it is secretly a conservative who respects Ann Coulter and wants to see NBC in some shit for being an outlet for the DNC?
jimmy the notable on January 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM
I guess you people aren’t opposed to questionable stories from anonymous sources when it suits what remains of your political philosophy.
benny shakar on January 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Thank you……come again!
/Apu
omnipotent on January 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Coulter works better on “Red Eye” because there’s nothing outrageous she can say there that can’t be equalled and/or topped by the host or the guests. On the other networks she often lacks patience, and can’t wait for them to serve up a great big liberal shibboleth softball of a statement and goes out and tries too hard to be provocative on her own.
A good way to sell books — and she deserves kudos for getting this kind of boost from NBC right before her next tome hits the store shelves — but over time, the act is as predictable as the next clueless New York Times editorial.
jon1979 on January 5, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Nah Mr. Shaker we just have no trouble believing DNBC will crawl under the high jump bar once again no matter how low we set it.
sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Setting aside the “merits” of your analysis of Ann Coulter’s personality for a moment, how is her confidence level (or lack thereof) relevant?
In any event, I’d say that the journalist whose psyche is most requiring of analysis is Olbermann’s, not Coulter’s.
Y-not on January 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM
I love her on Red Eye.
jimmy the notable on January 5, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Who is this NBC?
flyoverland on January 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
NBC should just get it over with and change their trade name to Pravda!
RocketmanBob on January 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
This stinks. This really really rotten-eggs stinks. NBC, you suck!
gryphon202 on January 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Joe Scarborough betting behave himself. He might be next.
kingsjester on January 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
hmmmm
“news in Washington”….
they mean the coronation
“news in the Middle East”
they mean the news that Bambi seems to use as “tunes to surf to”??
Chicago Jesus can find time to shake the markets with his stammer but can’t be bothered to go intervene in the affairs of Nations he visited as “Chicago Jesus with New Kung Fu Foreign Policy Grip” earlier last year???
“one
emperorPresent at the time after all….sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Wow Benny, that was quite a sophisticated post, and you didn’t tie it into Sarah Palin at all. Your slipping.
portlandon on January 5, 2009 at 7:04 PM
betting=better
oops.
kingsjester on January 5, 2009 at 7:04 PM
It’s hard to sway public opinion when you don’t always sound like you believe what you’re saying (ie. an unconvincing salesman).
Don’t get me started on Olberdouche. (shudders)
I just want to know, what’s up with the miniskirts???
omnipotent on January 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I thought I was the last human on earth that didn’t have cable, satellite, or rabbit ears!
jbh45 on January 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Kudos to you, Ann. Well done, whatever it was that you did or didn’t do to (allegedly) get banned from the Nothing But Commies propaganda wing of the Obama regime. If true, then it is indeed an honor and you should celebrate by snagging a lot of TV appearances and publicly hate on NBC. They deserve it.
Philly on January 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM
How can they claim there is more important stuff when they are subbing her for Perez Hilton?!
Dadvocate on January 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM
She is busy selling by far her best feature….(other than her wit and acerbic views)…
she was not blessed with the drop dead gorgeousness of Sarahcuda…so she makes allowances.
sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Yep. I’ve been enjoying Morning Joe for a bit, now. It seems that Joe’s conservativism is coming back out. I can even stand Mika’s idiocy, since she’s so darn sexy, and Barnacle makes me laugh with his utter stupidity. The unreal leftwards slant of the guests always gets to me eventually, though they also provide some good comic relief. But if Joe doesn’t tone down the rationality and common sense, they’re definitely going to can him.
progressoverpeace on January 5, 2009 at 7:08 PM
come now let’s be reasonable….
I know whenthere are such “Earth shattering events” as are going on in the ME and DC that there is no voice of reason or analysis I’d value more than Perez “no not Paris” Hilton’s…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV4AMdk_iEk
sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 7:09 PM
I’ve been looking forward to tomorrow when her book arrives in the bookstore. I love her brutal honesty and sarcasm when it comes to the left.
Vegi on January 5, 2009 at 7:10 PM
NBC is just keeping an empty chair for Bill Ayers when B. Hussain decides he needs another mouthpiece on any panel.
Bicyea on January 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM
She has nice legs. I’d show mine off if I had legs that long. Book covers are for marketing purposes. I’m not sure if I’ve seen her legs on an interview program. If I have, that’s the “fault” of the directors for making a point of showing them, imho.
The problem with your argument is that it could easily be applied to Governor Palin or any other attractive female in public life. This isn’t Saudi Arabia.
Y-not on January 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Just seems a bit shallow for a strong, conservative woman.
Michelle doesn’t trot out her full hotness in every TV appearance.
Ann is smart, she doesn’t need the sideshow (she DOES have great legs).
omnipotent on January 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Who wants to bet that they will still welcome Bill Ayers and Rev Wright as guests with open arms.
Michael in MI on January 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM
All the maroons at NBC did was prove Ann right and to give her free publicity so that more people will read her books. Nobody disproves her factually they just say “she’s mean”. Note to NBC: being critical of the president is supposed to be the job of a unbiased media but you guys haven’t known that since the news became “infotainment” and the talking heads became “celebrities” and pissed away their credibility trying to influence presidential elections.
Dadzilla on January 5, 2009 at 7:12 PM
I agree for the most part, and I find her over the top act to be as counter productive as some of the “schtick” certain Conservative talking heads engage in.
They excel at choir preaching 101, but the fact is we have a batch of indoctrinated 18-26 year-olds who simply refuse to rebel against their re-education they received in High School and college.
Annie’s ok in my book.
sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 7:14 PM
NBC (or any mass media outlet for that matter) has standards? What are these things called standards of which you speak? I know of no journalistic standards nowadays.
(I’m actually being 10% snarky and 90% serious. I assumed journalists threw standards out the window years ago.)
Michael in MI on January 5, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Why wouldn’t Fluffer NBC be upset? To be criticized for heaping such ecstasy on the O!? It sends a tingle up my leg, how upset they must be.
EMD on January 5, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Meh, If Hilton is in the 4th hour, then its the useless Kathie Lee/Hoda hour which is perfect for it.
Ripclawe on January 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM
“The News in Washington and The Middle East” is code for:
“We don’t want ANYONE who will bring up how evil and morally corrupt Hamas is.
jimmy the notable on January 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Dude looks like a lady.
The Race Card on January 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Ditto
omnipotent on January 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM
So, is NBC officially the Cuba of the airwaves now?
chunderroad on January 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM
I read the Media Matters article, I could not find a single attempt to provide a single shed of proof that Coulter lied as they claimed.
What I did find was a bunch of words strung together saying she lied. When I see this kind of accusation I want it supported with evidence, without evidence it is just propagana-a media matters speciality.
Remember Media Matters is a Soros funded web site. With their funding coming thru several other Soros sites.
allrsn on January 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I don’t know what the problem with miniskirts is. Ann’s arguments are always the centerpeice of any appearance she makes, and that’s more than good enough for me – especially as her arguments are always well-constructed, to the point, and leave liberal body parts all over the set when she’s done.
progressoverpeace on January 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I’d suggest you go talk to a therapist…especially since your little potential predicament has been removed from the DSM and all….
Target identification can be an issue for some folks.
sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 7:19 PM
NBC is a propaganda arm for teh one now, guess Jeff Immelt went all-in on PEBO to bring GE back form the dead…
ginaswo on January 5, 2009 at 7:19 PM
The fourth hour is basically just that crap anyway. Isn’t that when Kathie Lee Gifford struts her botox injected ass out there?
malan89 on January 5, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Miniskirts = good
However, the way she wears them on most interviews, the miniskirt is to Ann as the mallet was to Gallagher.
omnipotent on January 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM
So it turns out she’s only banned until there’s peace in the Middle East.
Don’t you feel silly making a big deal out of this now?
logis on January 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM
I love this:
“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals.
Why is that? I mean, explain what the HELL you’ve been doing to George BUSH for the last 8 years?!? Everyone on your STAFF has been highly critical of a SITTING PRESIDENT in a time of WAR! What assholes the elite media are.
Sponge on January 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM
OT, but don’t forget to vote for HA as the year’s best blog.
BadgerHawk on January 5, 2009 at 7:27 PM
They can do what they want but if that is the reasoning…it is one of the more bizarre things I’ve seen.
tomas on January 5, 2009 at 7:28 PM
This book criticizes the media.
They may just do the news blackout bit since being perpetually outraged just gets Ann MORE books sold.
this book embarrases them – therefore she needs to be ignored.
winged on January 5, 2009 at 7:28 PM
If I had legs like Ann’s, I’d wear a micro-mini all the time.
Maybe her burqa was at the cleaners when she wore a mini on air. Big deal. She’s intelligent and that’s what matters.
Philly on January 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM
The libs have always been afraid to debate.
They have no facts. They’re always wrong. And they have small penises.
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on January 5, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Translation (in petulant voice):
Do they actually believe that people are not aware that they are The All-Obama Network?
kingsjester on January 5, 2009 at 7:32 PM
‘zactly …. seditious wankers.
ex-Democrat on January 5, 2009 at 7:32 PM
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