Ann Coulter Quotes
The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.
Coulter, Ann. "Kerry's 'Christmas in Cambodia'." Universal Press Syndicate, 11 Aug. 2004.
The story had been placed by Republican dirty tricksters throughout the press. Reston, then the editor of the New York Times, was totally uninterested in whether or not the story was true. He, in contrast to some other NYT staff was not a JFK enthusiast in general. but saw such material as not news and certainly not “fit to print.”—the newspaper’s oldest journalistic standard He removed the reporter from the assignment but in such a climate, it is easy to see in retrospect why the JFK sex scandals were not covered by the press.
There is no written record of this conversation. The source is the Nixon Oval Office tapes.
The queen was a lot more sophisticated about the newspapers than politicians in the 21st century.
Ann Hart Coulter is an American conservative media pundit, best-selling author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer.