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In my opinion, National Post reporter lies regarding Ann Coulter… on page A-3

SHELDON ALBERTS is his name, and I believe he lied in a “news” story printed in the National Post today.  He said “the bestselling author told ABC’s Good Morning America she hoped the White House contender would be killed by terrorist assassins.”

No. She did not say that.  As such that would make that a lie to my way of thinking.  It may not have been intentional, but I think it was.  In fact, that was the same lie perpetuated by an Associated Press report.  Ann Coulter has also called that a lie.  And she’s right. 

Here’s a video of the ABC showI wrote about it fairly extensively, as have others.  Actual facts about this are abundant and easy to find, even from Canadian sources, and I feel as though he didn’t look beyond the left-wing smear sites for his research. 

So therefore this was just another cheap, deceitful hit piece against Ann Coulter by a liberal media reporter—this one by Sheldon Alberts—and nothing more, in my opinion.  In the National Post, which I thought had editors. And actual grown-up reporters.

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Alberts even seems to sheepishly admit it later in his hit “news” piece—like any liberal Coulter-bashing smear-site blogger would, when he quotes her, sort of, right out of context of course because that’s what crappy mendacious reporters without a case or a story do—by clipping out the most germane parts of what she actually did say.  He wrote that she said: “So I’ve learned my lesson about John Edwards. In the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”  (From that he derives that “the bestselling author told ABC’s Good Morning America she hoped the White House contender would be killed by terrorist assassins.”  Funky.)

He semi-acknowledged that she was making a reference to something political talk-show host Bill Maher had once said.  Well yes, Alberts.  Get a clue.  “Ms. Coulter said the latter comment was taken out of context, and that she was actually making a cryptic reference to a similar statement by liberal comedian Bill Maher about Dick Cheney, the Vice-President.” That was the whole point, fool. So to be intellectually honest, as a reporter, one would have to include that remark in context.  But apparently intellectual honesty is not the goal here. 

Here’s what she 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.”

At the time, the mainstream media said virtually nothing—NOTHING—when Bill Maher said that.  Get it, dim wit? 

As Ann Coulter wrote in her column yesterday:

…Here is my full sentence on “Good Morning America,” which the media deceptively truncated, referring to a joke I told about Edwards six months ago that made liberals cry: “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.”

The usual nut Web sites posted a zillion denunciations of my appearance on “Good Morning America” immediately after I appeared Monday morning. But it didn’t occur to any of them to simply lie about what I had said. No, it took them nearly 36 hours to concoct a version of that quote that included the Edwards part, but not the Maher part, or what English language speakers call: “the point.”

By tomorrow it will be: “Ann Coulter tried to kill John Edwards on ‘Good Morning America’!” …

He also wrote that Ann Coulter called John Edwards a “faggot”.  Well not exactly.  She did not call him a faggot. And what she did say was in the context of a joke and in what even she described as a silly school-yard taunt. And it was in a similar context as above—which is the question of just what it is that one is allowed (by the liberals) to say, today.  So I say he lied again in my opinion. 

He concludes by saying that she said on MSNBC:  “I’m a little sick of being browbeaten by a bunch of harridans about why I chose this word or about why I told that joke.”  The reporter still ascertains no clue.  And actually, I believe she said that on Fox News Channel, on Bill O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Factor.  Perhaps the reporter didn’t want to utter the words “Fox News Channel” or “Bill O’Reilly”, because if he did, more brain poo would likely ooze out, betraying his real motive. 

 

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