{"id":21,"date":"2001-10-03T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-03T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2001-10-03T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-03T23:33:00","slug":"21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=2\">So I&#8217;m over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\">Metafilter<\/a> this morning, reading about how <em>The National Review<\/em> has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A55454-2001Oct1.html\">let columnist Ann Coulter go<\/a>, and I&#8217;m genuinely amazed that anyone could view her as a martyr to free speech. This is the woman who called her editors spineless girly-boys (among other things) on national television and in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> when they refused to print a column where she angrily called for the detainment of all &#8220;swarthy males&#8221; in the wake of last month&#8217;s terrorist attack. <em>The National Review<\/em> is under no obligation to print anything she writes, and if they reach an editorial impasse and refuse to print an individual column, that&#8217;s not the same thing as censorship. Coulter was not let go because of a difference of opinion or because her editors feared the backlash from a politically correct Left. As <em>National Review<\/em> editor Jonah Goldberg so eloquently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/nr_comment\/nr_comment100301.shtml\">points out<\/a>, her syndicated column was dropped because of poor writing and her subsequent insubordination in the national press. &#8220;Ann didn&#8217;t fail as a person&#8230;&#8221; Goldberg writes, &#8220;she failed as WRITER, which for us is almost as bad.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=2\">In other news, Dean Allen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\">Textism<\/a> suggests, &#8220;Do not measure distance in kilometres; use gila monsters instead.&#8221; Oh, and guess who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegian.psu.edu\/archive\/2001\/10\/10-03-01tdc\/10-03-01dnews-10.asp\">come to town<\/a>?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, Dean Allen of Textism suggests, &#8220;Do not measure distance in kilometres; use gila monsters instead.&#8221; Oh, and guess who&#8217;s come to town?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}