In a recent blog post on Ann Coulter's personal webpage titled "Did Anyone Talking About Trump's Speech Actually Hear It?" she contends that the media, mainly the left-wing media, is picking and choosing the parts of his speeches that vilify him the most. She believes that reporters are refusing to truly understand his speeches and are instead cherry-picking the parts that help push forward their opinions that Trump is "not presidential." To further emphasize that this is a partisan attack being carried out by the liberal media, she refers to several Washington Post articles from when Bush was President that indicate they were doing the same things to him, another Republican. She gives further evidence that this kind of discrimination is truly being carried out when she references an article written Ron Fournier. She pulls several examples from his article that make it seem like he is being way too hard on Trump because "he didn't call it." She also makes references to a Trump tweet and a comment that Fournier made that make it seem like Fournier is completely ignoring Trump's comments. She finishes her blog by suggesting that if people actually read or listened to Trump's speeches they would be able to deduce all of this themselves.
Coulter's post is clearly targeted to people who listen to the media and believe them instead of listening to the candidates. However, her argument is not very effective if this is truly her audience. Her comments are too forceful and seemed filled with anger. Someone reading this would think that she is attacking them, not just the media, merely because they believe what the media is feeding them. She seems to be attempting to inform others about what Trump truly is saying but it comes across as an attack, which just turns people away faster. If she truly wanted to persuade people that Trump is the best candidate, she should not have let her emotions get in the way and she should have stuck with the straight facts.
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