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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:59 p.m. EDT

Coulter Jokes About NYT Powder

In yet another report on Ann Coulter, Editor & Publisher magazine (E&P) is now wondering if Coulter meant it when she joked about being the person who sent a letter filled with corn starch to the New York Times.

According to Women's Wear Daily (WWD), a source at the Times, known only as anonymous, told WWD that the corn starch attack "makes all of Ann Coulter's comments a little less funny. I wonder if she considers herself at all responsible when lunatics read her columns and she says that we should be killed."

Eager to join the fray, WWD sent an e-mail from the publication's Memo Pad feature to Coulter and promptly got a reply saying: "So glad to hear that the New York Times got my letter and that your friend at the Times thinks I'm funny. Good luck in journalism and please send me your home address so we can stay in touch, too.

"P.S. If we get hit again, don't forget to ask the NYT if they consider themselves responsible since they have repeatedly exposed classified government programs designed to prevent another terrorist attack."

E&P commented that Coulter's reply was "in jest, we assume."