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stephanie
03-06-2007, 12:38 AM
:uhoh: :cow:

From Peter Hamby
CNN
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- At least three major companies want their ads pulled from Ann Coulter's Web site, following customer complaints about the right-wing commentator referring to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."

Verizon, Sallie Mae and Georgia-based NetBank each said they didn't know their ads were on AnnCoulter.com until they received the complaints.

A diarist at the liberal blog DailyKos.com posted contact information for dozens of companies with ads on Coulter's site after the commentator made her remarks about Edwards at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday. (Full story)

"One of the best ways to communicate one's distaste for Coulter's repeated incidents of hate speech is to respectfully but firmly let her advertisers know you are deeply troubled by their indirect support of bigotry through their advertising on Coulter's Web site," the blogger VolvoDrivingLiberal wrote on DailyKos.com on Sunday.

Verizon, Sallie Mae and NetBank said the ads were put on a variety of sites by a third party company. In many cases, advertisers do not know which sites feature their ads.

"Per our policy, the networked Web site ad purchases are supposed to be stripped of certain kinds of Web sites," said a Verizon spokesperson. "This one could be considered an extreme political Web site, should be off the list, and now it is off the list."

A Sallie Mae spokesperson said the company was only testing an online advertising agency, and that their ads were not meant to show up on Coulter's site. The company said they planned to pull ads from other political and religious Web sites as well.

A spokesperson for NetBank said Coulter's page "is not the kind of site we want to be on."

Coulter did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

CNN's Eric Weisbrod contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/05/coulter.ads/

avatar4321
03-06-2007, 12:45 AM
Do they really think it matters? I doubt she made the website because she planned to pull in billions with the advertisers.

stephanie
03-06-2007, 12:55 AM
Do they really think it matters? I doubt she made the website because she planned to pull in billions with the advertisers.

You said it...

Besides Verizon....

I've barely heard of Sallie Mae...

And Never heard of Net bank....

:poke:

Merlin
03-06-2007, 02:52 AM
I guess they are trying to say we can't call a faggot a faggot any more. But if they don't want me to call them faggots, they damn sure ain't going to like what I will call them in the future.

glockmail
03-06-2007, 07:14 AM
When did the word faggot become the new F word? We used it all the time when I was a kid. I think it became that because the gay lobby made it so. That's so gay.

trobinett
03-06-2007, 07:58 AM
Just another example of PC being taken to the extreme.