Posted
1:25 PM
by Scoobie Davis
Oh Really?
I didn't read the Time cover story on Coulter. I just read the following from John Cloud's Time story on Atrios' blog:
Coulter has a reputation for carelessness with facts, and if you Google the words "Ann Coulter lies," you will drown in results. But I didn't find many outright Coulter errors.
What the fuck!
If you Google "ann coulter lies", the first two sites that pop up are sites administered
by me and
Dr. Limerick. Both give numerous examples of Coulter's outright deception in just the book
Slander. In fact, research by Dr. Limerick and me as well as by other bloggers such as Bob Somerby led to a repudiation of Coulter and
Slander in the
Columbia Journalism Review.
For more on Coulter's intellectual dishonesty,
click here and
here.
This is egregiously shoddy reporting by Cloud.
UPDATE: I checked out my Sitemeter stats for my Coulter site that pops up for a Google search of "Ann Coulter lies" and found that there's a big spike in hits from surfers who Googled "Ann Coulter lies."
I updated the site accordingly.