NBC's Ann Coulter Ban Begins To Backfire Badly

ANN BAN PANNED

Could NBC Blockheads Propel 'Guilty' Sales?




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*** REBOOKED ON TODAY SHOW? ***

*** CBS RADIO CUTS AT WBZ, KDKA, WCCO CREATE LISTENER BACKLASH ***

In the glory days of Top 40 radio, a move by broadcasting executives to ban a new record release often meant massive worldwide chart success, as curious listeners wondered what the fuss was all about. In 1984, for example, Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" famously rocketed up the charts after the BBC blocked disc jockeys from playing the song, due to its suggestive lyrics and cover art.

In 2009, however, there's no need for vulgarities, as one can be banned for life by a major network merely for expressing political viewpoints that conflict with its de facto corporate stance.

In this case, it's conservative Ann Coulter, whose newly-released Guilty has apparently offended insiders at the far-left Obamist NBC network. The result: an "unbooking" from the ultra-liberal Today Show and a (since disputed, but not convincingly) "lifetime ban" from appearances on any NBC channel, including Keith Olbermann's MSNBC.

Even if subsequently undone, could this boneheaded move propel Guilty sales into the stratosphere? With the book hitting store shelves today, the timing couldn't be better.


At NewsBusters, Tim Graham notes that not only are lefty Coulter-haters OK with the Ann Ban, they are angry with CBS for not following NBC's lead! She will appear on that network's Early Show later this morning.

During Monday evening's Hannity & Colmes Show on the Fox News Channel, co-host Alan Colmes used the already oft-repeated lefty argument that more pressing matters led to the unbooking, including the Gaza-Israel conflict. In response, Coulter pointed to her replacement: gossip blogger Perez Hilton, an outspoken liberal foe of the conservative commentator.

And since when do network morning shows spend four hours covering overseas conflicts?

Clearly seeing a PR meltdown in the making, NBC suits are quickly backing down (with the Huffington Post reporting they may have already offered to rebook her), but is it too late? Guilty is now in position 11 on Amazon's ranking of bestsellers.

If NBC's boneheaded edict results in a sales explosion, Ann Coulter could for the first time in her life have something in common with 1980s pop bands that ran afoul of music censors.

Could life be any more unpredictable?


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