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In [[1996]], the fledgling television network [[MSNBC]] hired Coulter as a legal correspondent and [[pundit (politics)|political pundit]], launching her media career. Though she was allowed to make many partisan and controversial comments as a panelist, she was fired in [[1997]] after an exchange with [[Bobby Muller]], president of the [[Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation]], in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost" ([[MSNBC]]'s ''NewsChat'', October 11, 1997).
Coulter was contributing editor and syndicated columnist at the ''[[National Review Online]]'' (NRO) when she was asked by the editors to make changes to a piece written in 2001 directly after the [[September 11 attacks]] in which her friend [[Barbara Olsen]] had been killed. Coulter went on the national television show ''[[Politically Incorrect]]'' accusing ''NRO'' of [[censorship]] and claiming her pay was only five dollars per article (accounts of Coulter and the website differ over which piece was in dispute. [Coulter, July 2002, "Donahue"]). ''[[National Review Online]]'' then dropped her column and terminated her editorship. Despite media reports to the contrary, [[Jonah Goldberg]], editor-at-large of NRO said, "We did not 'fire' Ann for what she wrote.... We ended the relationship because she behaved
Coulter was contracted by ''[[USA Today]]'' to cover the [[2004 Democratic National Convention]], but was replaced by Goldberg of ''NRO'' after a "disagreement over editing" (Memmot, 2004). Her one article from the convention began "Here at the Spawn of [[Satan]] convention in [[Boston]]", and referred to some (unspecified) female attendees as "[[corn-fed]], no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant [[hippie]] chick pie wagons." The newspaper did not print the article, but Coulter published it on her website. (Coulter, [[July 2004|July]] [[2004]])
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