BITCH COULTER FIRED! "Final straw: during elect when she attacked Cleland"

[Karenca]

After one year, time to bid farewell to Ann Coulter

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Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has been replaced with conservative columnist Michelle Malkin.

Erie Times-News Editorial Page Editor Bryan Oberle sums it up best when he says Coulter simply did not meet our standards. We gave the always controversial syndicated columnist a year on the op-ed page — an election year at that — opposite outspoken liberal columnist Molly Ivins. But Coulter, it seemed, did not only not meet basic standards for excellence in writing and commentary, but seemingly met no journalistic standards for civility. Apparently, the vitriolic Coulter has none.

"It was with great reluctance we turned over the column space to Ann Coulter," Oberle said. "We understand she already had a loyal following, but her columns are more exercises in grenade-throwing than column-writing. There is a mean-spirited tone that dominates all her columns." Looking back, Oberle said, "The final straw came during the election when she attacked triple amputee Max Cleland, stating so matter-of-factly that he wasn't a war hero but was instead some sort of fraud. Enough is enough."

There's plenty more to say about Coulter — her description of Muslims as smelly, her shrill hatred of all Americans who do not agree with her, and perhaps her most infamous comment shortly after 9/11 that "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."