Posted 12:32 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Columbia Journalism Review Mentions Me--Almost
I finally saw the Columbia Journalism Review article on errors and misrepresentations in Ann Coulter's Slander. It is a short article written by Michael Sherer and Sarah Secules. I was hoping I would be mentioned by name. No such luck but the article mentioned "liberal columnists and bloggers [who] alleged that [Coulter's] new book Slander misreads history, selectively (and deceptively) presents facts, and misquotes the media..." I think this is important because it was bloggers like me, the Daily Howler, Dr. Limerick, and Tapped who were the first to point out the gross distortions in the book; The reviews of Slander in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post dropped the ball big time. The article points out that CJR examined forty alleged errors in the book and determined that twenty-one of the assertions Coulter made "would not pass [a fact-check] without major debate." One of these twenty-one problematic assertions was something I uncovered: Coulter's misrepresentation of a Frank Rich column. Open memo to Glenn Reynolds: Psst, Glenn, I know how much you are concerned about literary integrity. You had a major beef with the methodology in Arming America. How about getting on the bandwagon and addressing the intellectual dishonesty in Slander?