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'''Ann Hart Coulter''' (born in ], ], ], ]) is a controversial bestselling ] ] ] and ]al ]. | |||
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| birth_name = Ann Hart Coulter | |||
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'''Ann Hart Coulter''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|oʊ|l|t|ɚ|audio=en-us-Coulter.oga}}; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative ], ], ], and lawyer. She became known as a media pundit in the late 1990s, appearing in print and on cable news as an outspoken critic of the ]. Her first book concerned the ] and sprang from her experience writing legal briefs for ]'s attorneys, as well as columns she wrote about the cases.<ref name="Howard Kurtz">{{cite news|last=Kurtz|first=Howard|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/coulter101698.htm|title=The Blonde Flinging Bombshells at Bill Clinton|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 16, 1998|access-date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411100354/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/coulter101698.htm|archive-date=April 11, 2013|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite news|last=Cloud|first=John|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050304,00.html|title=Ms. Right: Ann Coulter|magazine=Time|date=April 17, 2005|access-date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309012557/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050304,00.html|archive-date=March 9, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter's syndicated column for ] appears in newspapers and is featured on conservative websites. Coulter has also written 13 books.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://anncoulter.com/books/|title = Books}}</ref> | |||
She is a commentator with a reputation for strong criticism of social and political ]. Her comments and writing tend to be provocative and attract much ]. | |||
==Early life== | |||
Coulter is the author of four political commentary books, all of which have been on the ]: | |||
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Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961,<ref>Coulter, however disputes this birth date. {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/17/ann-coulter-believes-the-left-has-lost-its-mind-should-we-listen|title=Ann Coulter believes the left has 'lost its mind'. Should we listen?|author=Conroy, J Oliver|work=The Guardian|date=October 17, 2018|access-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017110348/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/17/ann-coulter-believes-the-left-has-lost-its-mind-should-we-listen|archive-date=October 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> in New York City, to John Vincent Coulter (1926–2008), an ] from a ] ] ] and ] family<ref name=hufpost1>Smolenyak, Megan. {{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/ann-coulters-immigrant-an_b_8332212.html |title=Ann Coulter's Immigrant Ancestors |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=October 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020190956/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/ann-coulters-immigrant-an_b_8332212.html |archive-date=October 20, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> in ], and Nell Husbands Coulter (née Martin; 1928–2009), a homemaker who was born in ]. | |||
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Coulter's mother's ancestry has been traced back on both sides of her family to a group of ] ]s in ], ] arriving on the '']'' with ] in 1633,<ref>{{cite web|last=Coulter|first=Ann|title=Nell Husbands Martin Coulter|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2009-04-22.html|website=AnnCoulter.com|access-date=January 27, 2018|date=April 22, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123212309/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2009-04-22.html|archive-date=January 23, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and her father's family were Catholic Irish and German immigrants who arrived in America in the 19th century. Her father's Irish ancestors emigrated during the ]<ref name=hufpost1 />—and became ship laborers, tilemakers, brickmakers, carpenters and ]. Coulter's father attended college on the ] and later became an FBI agent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-01-09.html|title=Ann Coulter – January 9, 2008 – John Vincent Coulter|date=January 9, 2008|publisher=anncoulter.com|access-date=April 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172319/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-01-09.html|archive-date=September 23, 2015|url-status=live}}<br /> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714203000/http://humanevents.com/2009/04/22/nell-husbands-martin-coulter/ |date=July 14, 2014}}. humanevents.com. April 2009.</ref> | |||
Coulter is also a legal correspondent for the magazine ]. She writes a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate which is carried by or linked to by many influential conservative websites, including ]. | |||
She has two older brothers: James, an accountant,<ref>{{cite web|title=James Coulter|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimcoulter1/|website=LinkedIn|access-date=January 27, 2018}}</ref> and John, an attorney.<ref>{{cite web|title=Coulter & Walsh: About (John V. Coulter)|url=http://coulterwalsh.com/about/|publisher=coulterwalsh.com|access-date=January 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127205504/http://coulterwalsh.com/about/|archive-date=January 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Her family later moved to ], where Coulter and her two brothers were raised.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Holson|first1=Laura M.|title=Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New Image|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 27, 2018|date=October 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108153418/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html|archive-date=November 8, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter graduated from ] in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/creativity/ann-coulter-how-far-too-far-18816/|title = With Ann Coulter, how far is 'too far'?| date=June 15, 2006 }}</ref> | |||
Coulter was the subject of a ] cover story in ] ], and has made frequent guest appearances on national ] and syndicated ] programs. She has appeared on a large number of topical talk shows, including ], ], ] with ], ], ], Real Time with ] and ] with ]. She is also a public speaker who draws as much as $25,000 per appearance. | |||
While attending ], Coulter helped found '']'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/cornellreview/docs/xxxi-6-webfinal|title=Cornell Review XXXI #6 Coulter '84 Denied Invitation by Fordham|website=Issuu|date=December 4, 2012 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415152617/https://issuu.com/cornellreview/docs/xxxi-6-webfinal|archive-date=April 15, 2016|access-date=April 4, 2016}}<br />''The Nation'': {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217043533/http://www.thenation.com/article/once-bright-star-dims?page=full|date=February 17, 2015}} January 30, 2003.</ref> and was a member of the ] national sorority.<ref name="deltagamma">{{cite news|url=http://www.deltagamma.org/anchora/summer_05_anchora.pdf|title=From the pens of Delta Gammas|date=Summer 2005|access-date=July 11, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528155158/http://www.deltagamma.org/anchora/summer_05_anchora.pdf|archive-date=May 28, 2006|publisher=Anchora of Delta Gamma|page=29 (16 in PDF)}}</ref> She graduated '']'' from Cornell in 1984 with a ] degree in ] and received her ] from the ] in 1988, where she was an editor of the '']''.<ref>" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114081030/http://premierespeakers.com/2718/index.cfm|date=November 14, 2006}} (Profile)". '' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705231717/http://premierespeakers.com/|date=July 5, 2006}}''. Retrieved July 10, 2006. See also ''Michigan Law Review'' vol. 86 No. 5 (April 1988), where Ann Coulter "of Connecticut" is listed on the masthead as an articles editor.</ref> At Michigan, Coulter was president of the local chapter of the ] and was trained at the ].<ref>Hallow, Ralph. "". '']''. February 21, 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2006.</ref> | |||
==Personal background== | |||
Coulter's age was disputed in 2002. While she argued that she was not yet 40, '']'' columnist ] cited a birthdate of December 8, 1961, which Coulter provided when registering to vote in ], prior to the ], for which she had to be 18 years old to register. A driver's license issued several years later purportedly listed her birthdate as December 8, 1963. Coulter has not confirmed either date, citing privacy concerns.<ref name="Grove_Lloyd">{{cite news|last=Grove|first=Lloyd|title=Mystery of the Ages|newspaper=]|date=September 6, 2002|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/09/06/the-reliable-source/dc20d57b-0508-45e7-a7f1-7a93d293f840/|access-date=September 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017071607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/09/06/the-reliable-source/dc20d57b-0508-45e7-a7f1-7a93d293f840/|archive-date=October 17, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Ann Coulter was born into a family that she has described as "upper middle class". She claims to have developed both her conservative opinions and her acerbic rhetorical style growing up in ]. She has two elder brothers. Her father, John V. Coulter, was a lawyer, known for his legal work in cases against ]; he later became a constable. Her mother, Nell M. Coulter, is a member of the New Canaan Republican Town Committee. (Cloud, 2005) | |||
==Career== | |||
As an undergraduate in ]'s College of Arts and Sciences, Ann Coulter helped to launch a conservative newspaper, The ], with funding provided by the Institute for Educational Affairs' ]. She graduated ] from Cornell in ], and went on to receive her ] from the ] Law School, where she was an editor of ''The Michigan Law Review''. At Michigan, she founded a local chapter of the ]. She also received training at the National Journalism Center. After practicing ] for four years, she became a congressional aide in ] in ], working as a staffer to Republican Senator ], who served on the ] before working for a public interest law firm. | |||
After law school, Coulter served as a ] in ] for Judge ] of the ].<ref>See {{cite news |title=Liberals, conservatives duke it out on paper |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20031005/ai_n11424888 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820063927/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20031005/ai_n11424888 |archive-date=August 20, 2013 |last=Lythgoe |first=Dennis |date=October 5, 2003 |newspaper=] |page=E1 }}; {{cite news |title=Op-Ed: Congress Goes Fishing |last=Hentoff |first=Nat |date=December 5, 1998|newspaper=The Washington Post |page=A23}}; Coulter herself says it was Bowman. See {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810220335/http://www.anncoulter.com/my_life.html |date=August 10, 2015 }}; see also {{cite news |title=ABA's ratings no more |last=Coulter |first=Ann |date=May 3, 2001|work=] |page=A15}}</ref> After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where she specialized in ], Coulter left to work for the United States ] after the ] ] in 1994. She handled crime and immigration issues for Senator ] of ] and helped craft legislation designed to expedite the ] of ] convicted of ].<ref name=Daley1999>Daley, David. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060723232958/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HC&p_theme=hc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=ann%20AND%20coulter%20AND%20shining&s_dispstring=ann%20coulter%20shining%20AND%20date(1999)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1999&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no |date=July 23, 2006 }}. ''Hartford Courant''. June 25, 1999.</ref> She later became a litigator with the ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Conservative Coulter sounds off in her latest book; ''Treason'' aims to change views on McCarthy |last=Moore |first=Frazier |date=October 5, 2003|work=] |page=e2}}</ref> | |||
Coulter has written 13 books, and also publishes a syndicated newspaper column. She is particularly known for her ]al style,<ref name="coulter_style">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1203281,00.html|title=What Would Ann Coulter Do?|last=Schmidt|first=Tracy Samantha|date=June 12, 2006|magazine=]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922090104/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1203281,00.html|archive-date=September 22, 2009}}</ref> and describes herself as someone who likes to "stir up the pot. I don't pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do".<ref>{{cite web | |||
In ], the fledgling television network ] hired Coulter as a legal correspondent and political pundit, which launched her media career. Though she was allowed to make many partisan and controversial comments as a panelist, she was fired in ] after an exchange with ], president of the ], in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost" (MSNBC's NewsChat, October 11, 1997). | |||
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She idolized ] for her satirical style.<ref>David T. Courtwright, ''No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America'', Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010, p. 230</ref> She also makes numerous public appearances, speaking on television and radio ]s, as well as on ] ]es, receiving both praise and protest. Coulter typically spends 6 to 12 weeks of the year on speaking engagement tours, and more when she has a book coming out.<ref>{{cite news | |||
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| title = Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New Image | |||
| author = Laura M. Holson | |||
| work = The New York Times | |||
| date = October 8, 2010 | |||
| access-date = March 8, 2014 | |||
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In 2010, she made an estimated $500,000 on the speaking circuit, giving speeches on topics of modern ], ], and what she describes as the hypocrisy of ].<ref name="Newsweek_2010">{{cite news|title=Newsweek's Power 50: Profiles.|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/01/power-list-profiles/ann-coulter.html|access-date=June 9, 2011|newspaper=]|date=November 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120124955/http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/01/power-list-profiles/ann-coulter.html|archive-date=January 20, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> During one appearance at the ], a ].<ref name="ua_pie">{{cite web|url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1022042coulter1.html|title=Al Pieda Targets Ann Coulter|date=October 22, 2004|website=]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730091315/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1022042coulter1.html|archive-date=July 30, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ua_pie_2">{{cite news|url=http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/98/236/01_4.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721030459/http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/98/236/01_4.html|archive-date=July 21, 2006|title=Former student enters plea in 2004 Coulter pie assault|last=Wells|first=Holly|date=January 12, 2006|newspaper=]|access-date=June 28, 2009}}</ref><ref name="foxnews_pie">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/the-pie-proof-ann-coulter-on-hecklers|title=The Pie-Proof Ann Coulter on Hecklers|date=May 4, 2005|publisher=]|access-date=June 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102065404/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155550,00.html|archive-date=November 2, 2008}}</ref> In defense of her ideas, Coulter has on occasion responded with inflammatory remarks toward hecklers and protestors who attend her speeches.<ref name="pickfights">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1401932/I-love-to-pick-fights-with-liberals.html|title=I love to pick fights with liberals|date=July 19, 2002|work=]|access-date=June 28, 2009|location=London|first=Toby|last=Harnden|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090702192816/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1401932/I-love-to-pick-fights-with-liberals.html|archive-date=July 2, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="the_oracle">{{cite news|url=http://www.usforacle.com/2.5741/controversial-conservative-pundit-elicits-praise-and-protest-thursday-1.622425 |title=Controversial Conservative Pundit Elicits Praise and Protest Thursday |last=Guidi |first=David |date=October 20, 2006 |publisher=The Oracle (University of South Florida) |access-date=June 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613204227/http://www.usforacle.com/2.5741/controversial-conservative-pundit-elicits-praise-and-protest-thursday-1.622425 |archive-date=June 13, 2011}}</ref> | |||
===Books=== | |||
When asked if she is a ] ], Coulter told interviewer David Bowman, "I don't think I've described myself that way, but only because I'm from Connecticut. We just won't call ourselves that." (2003) Though she seldom argues from a religious point of view, Coulter has commented on "leaders" the ] has labeled the "religious right", stating that ]'s support was overrated and that ] is ineffective and not conservative. (Slander, ch. 9) She commonly supports the positions of other Christian conservatives -- although she argues that such a term often constitutes a liberal slur. | |||
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Coulter has authored twelve books, including many that have appeared on ], with a combined 3 million copies sold {{as of|2009|May|lc=y}}.<ref name="depasquale">{{cite news|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/LisaDePasquale/2009/05/06/being_ann|title=Being Ann|last=De Pasquale|first=Lisa|date=May 6, 2009|publisher=]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509150436/http://townhall.com/columnists/LisaDePasquale/2009/05/06/being_ann|archive-date=May 9, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Coulter has also been protested against and even, on one occasion, assaulted . | |||
Coulter's first book, '']'', was published by ] in 1998 and made ''The New York Times'' Bestseller list.<ref name="Howard Kurtz" /> It details Coulter's case for the ] of President ]. | |||
==Books== | |||
In 1998, Coulter published '']'' as the first of several ] books targeting the left. As its title suggests, the book made a case for the impeachment of President ]. Written before the impeachment, Coulter criticizes the GOP-led Congress for not impeaching Clinton, which they then proceeded to do shortly thereafter. | |||
Her second book, '']'', published by ] in 2002, reached the number one spot on ''The New York Times'' non-fiction best seller list.<ref name="slander_bestseller">{{cite news|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/ann_coulter/index.html|title=Ann Coulter|date=March 10, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 21, 2009|first=Ian|last=Austen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313150623/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/ann_coulter/index.html|archive-date=March 13, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''Slander'', Coulter argues that President ] was given unfair negative media coverage. The factual accuracy of ''Slander'' was called into question by then-] and author, later Democratic ] from ], ]; he also accused her of citing passages out of context.<ref name="frankenbook">{{cite book|author=Franken, Al |title=Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right |publisher=Dutton Books |year=2003 |isbn = 0-525-94764-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/lieslyingliar00fran_0}}</ref> Others investigated these charges, and also raised questions about the book's accuracy and presentation of facts.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517065514/http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020713.html |date=May 17, 2011 }}, ''Spinsanity''. July 13, 2002. Retrieved September 30, 2007.<br /> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613115053/http://www.spinsanity.com/columns/20030630.html |date=June 13, 2011 }}, ''Spinsanity''. June 30, 2003. Retrieved September 30, 2007.</ref><ref name="slippery_slander">{{cite journal |id={{Gale|A94600403}} |last1=Scherer |first1=Michael |last2=Secules |first2=Sarah |title=Books: how slippery is Slander? |journal=Columbia Journalism Review |date=1 November 2002 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=14–15 }}</ref> Coulter responded to criticisms in a column called "Answering My Critics".<ref name="answering_critics">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter100903.asp|title=Answering my critics|last=Coulter|first=Ann|date=October 9, 2003|magazine=]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226045642/http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter100903.asp|archive-date=February 26, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In 2002, Ann Coulter published '']'', a forthright critique of the alleged misconduct of liberals in American institutions. Like Bernard Goldberg's '']'', which came out the year before, ''Slander'' addressed ] in the United States, and went on to become a best-seller. | |||
In her third book, ''Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism'', also published by Crown Forum, she reexamines the 60-year history of the ]—including the career of ], the ]-] affair, and ]'s challenge to ] to "]"—and argues that liberals were wrong in their Cold War political analyses and policy decisions, and that McCarthy was correct about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1200/article_detail.asp |title=Tailgunner Ann |author=William F. Buckley Jr. |publisher=The Claremont Institute |date=December 1, 2003 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309032438/http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1200/article_detail.asp |archive-date=March 9, 2014}}</ref> | |||
''Slander'' claimed that many American journalists have ties to the ], which influences their reporting. Coulter argues that ] has faced a difficult and unfair battle for positive coverage in the media ever since he decided to run for president, and that a similar battle for fair coverage has been waged by practically every ] presidential candidate since ]. | |||
She also argues that the correct identification of ], among others, as ]s was misreported by the liberal media.<ref>{{cite news | |||
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| title = McCarthy in a mini | |||
| author = Jacob Heilbrunn | |||
| work = Los Angeles Times | |||
| date = July 13, 2003 | |||
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''Treason'' was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Seller list.<ref name="sfgate">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/02/DDG4F3DPKR1.DTL|title=An outbreak of partisan warfare on the best-seller list is encouraging authors to stoke the fires of readers hungry for political squabbles—and the Bay Area is fertile ground for Bush-whackers|last=Guthmann|first=Edward|date=December 2, 2003|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210000638/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2003%2F12%2F02%2FDDG4F3DPKR1.DTL|archive-date=December 10, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter's columns in 2004 as her fourth book, '']''.<ref>{{cite news | |||
Her next book, '']'', claimed that Democratic politicians and the media have severely undermined much of America's ] goals since the end of ], and that this is tantamount to conspiracy and treason. Summarizing recent history, she accused Democratic presidents, including ] and ], of having sometimes worked against American interests in the ], and charges some Democratic members of Congress with similarly undermining the efforts of Republican presidents. In the final chapters, she argues that a similar process is undermining the present ]. | |||
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Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is '']''.<ref>{{cite news | |||
==Paula Jones controversy== | |||
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Ann Coulter had debuted as a figure on the public scene shortly before becoming an unpaid legal advisor working for the attorneys representing ] in her ] suit against ] ]. Coulter wrote a column about the Paula Jones case for the magazine ''Human Events''. Coulter's friend George Conway had been asked to assist Jones' attorneys, and shortly afterwards Coulter was also asked to help, and began writing legal briefs for the case. | |||
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In it, she argues, first, that ] rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, and second, that it bears all the attributes of a religion itself.<ref>{{cite web | |||
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''Godless'' debuted at number one on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list.<ref name="nyt_bestsellers_062506">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/bestseller/0625besthardnonfiction.html|title=Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction|date=June 25, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411005233/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/bestseller/0625besthardnonfiction.html|archive-date=April 11, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Coulter's ''If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans'' (Crown Forum), published in October 2007, and '']'' (Crown Forum), published on January 6, 2009, both also achieved best-seller status.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3738089|title=Ann Coulter: Marketing Genius?|author=Emily Friedman|work=ABC News|date=October 17, 2007|access-date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217044324/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3738089|archive-date=February 17, 2015|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/InsideList-t.html| title = Inside the List| author = Jennifer Schuessler| work = The New York Times| date = June 17, 2011| access-date = March 8, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150217084545/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/InsideList-t.html| archive-date = February 17, 2015| url-status = live}}<br />{{cite news| url = http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/ann-coulter-follows-up-guilty-with-demonic/| title = Ann Coulter Follows Up 'Guilty' with 'Demonic'| author = Julie Bosman| work = The New York Times| date = April 19, 2011| access-date = March 8, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131205064159/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/ann-coulter-follows-up-guilty-with-demonic/| archive-date = December 5, 2013| url-status = live}}</ref> | |||
Coulter later stated that she would come to mistrust the motives of Paula Jones' head lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who told Jones that she didn't have a case and should take a settlement. (Daley, 1999) From the onset of the lawsuit, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement (Barak, 1998), and Coulter believed that Jones' case was solid, that she was telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly accountable for his misconduct, and that a settlement would give the impression that Jones was merely interested in extorting money from the President. (Daley, 1999) | |||
On June 7, 2011, ] published her eighth book ''Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coulter |first1=Ann H. |title=Mugged: racial demagoguery from the seventies to Obama |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781595230997 |publisher=New York : Sentinel |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=2012|isbn=978-1-59523-099-7 }}</ref> | |||
According to Daley, a journalist on '']'': | |||
Her ninth book, published September 25, 2012, was '']''. It argues that liberals, and Democrats in particular, have taken undue credit for racial civil rights in America.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781595230997 |url-access=registration |publisher=Sentinel |date=2012 |isbn=978-1-59523-099-7}}</ref> | |||
:Ann Coulter played one particularly key role in keeping the Jones case alive. In ''Newsweek'' reporter ]'s new book ''Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story'', Coulter is unmasked as the one who leaked word of Clinton's "distinguishing characteristic" -- his reportedly bent penis that Jones said she could recognize and describe -- to the news media. Her hope was to foster mistrust between the Clinton and Jones camps and forestall a settlement... | |||
Coulter's tenth book, ''Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican'', was released on October 14, 2013. It is her second collection of columns and her first published by Regnery since her first book, ''High Crimes and Misdemeanors''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hartwell |first=Ray V. III |title=Book Review: 'Never Trust a Liberal Over Three' |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/book-review-never-trust-a-liberal-over-three/ |url-status=live |work=The Washington Times |date=November 4, 2013 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227051428/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/book-review-never-trust-a-liberal-over-three/ |archive-date=February 27, 2014}}</ref> Coulter published her eleventh book, '']'', on June 1, 2015. The book addresses illegal immigration, amnesty programs, and border security in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |last=Vernon |first=Wes |title=Book Review: 'Adios America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole' |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/21/wes-vernonadios-america-the-lefts-plan-to-turn-out/?page=all |url-status=live |work=The Washington Times |date=June 21, 2015 |access-date=November 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117053326/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/21/wes-vernonadios-america-the-lefts-plan-to-turn-out/?page=all |archive-date=November 17, 2015}}</ref> | |||
:I thought if I leaked the distinguishing characteristic it would show bad faith in negotiations. Bob Bennett would think Jones had leaked it. Cammaratta would know he himself hadn't leaked it and would get mad at Bennett. It might stall negotiations enough for me to get through to Susan Carpenter-McMillan to tell her that I thought settling would hurt Paula, that this would ruin her reputation, and that there were other lawyers working for her. Then 36 hours later, she returned my phone call. | |||
===Columns=== | |||
:"I just wanted to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I don't think I could have taken the abuse she came under. She's this poor little country girl and she has the most powerful man she's ever met hitting on her sexually, then denying it and smearing her as president. And she never did anything tacky. It's not like she was going on TV or trying to make a buck out of it." (1999) | |||
In the late 1990s, Coulter's weekly (biweekly from 1999 to 2000) ] column for ] began appearing. Her column is featured on six conservative websites: '']'', ], ], ], '']'', '']'' and her own website. Her syndicator says, "Ann's client newspapers stick with her because she has a loyal fan base of conservative readers who look forward to reading her columns in their local newspapers".<ref name="EP_mitchell-astor">{{cite news |last1=Astor |first1=Dave |last2=Mitchell |first2=Greg |title=Newspaper Clients, and Syndicate, Stick With Coulter |url=http://www.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2006061922.html |work=] |date=June 16, 2006 |access-date=June 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714162642/http://www.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2006061922.html |archive-date=July 14, 2011}}</ref> | |||
In 1999, Coulter worked as a ] for '']'' magazine.<ref name = "arm candy">Lehman, Susan. . '']''. March 4, 1999. Retrieved July 10, 2006.</ref><ref name="tribute-to-john">{{cite news|url=http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=19990728|title=A Republican Tribute to John|last=Coulter|first=Ann|date=July 28, 1999|publisher=uexpress.com|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105033756/http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=19990728|archive-date=January 5, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter also wrote weekly columns for the conservative magazine '']'' between 1998 and 2003, with occasional columns thereafter. In her columns, she discussed judicial rulings, ]al issues, and legal matters affecting Congress and the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humanevents.com/author/ann-coulter/|title=Ann Coulter's Articles|work=Human Events|access-date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318181137/http://www.humanevents.com/author/ann-coulter/|archive-date=March 18, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
According to the Coulter Watch website, Coulter also told Isikoff, "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president" ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 5, 2). | |||
In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist for '']'' (NRO), Coulter was asked by editors to make changes to a piece written after the ]. On the show '']'', Coulter accused ''NRO'' of ] and said she was paid $5 per article. ''NRO'' dropped her column and terminated her editorship. ], the editor-at-large of ''NRO'', said: "We did not 'fire' Ann for what she wrote... we ended the relationship because she behaved with a total lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty ."<ref name="goldbergjonah">{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/220676/laffaire-coulter/jonah-goldberg |title=L'Affaire Coulter |last=Goldberg |first=Jonah |date=October 2, 2001 |work=] |access-date=November 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901162828/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/220676/laffaire-coulter/jonah-goldberg |archive-date=September 1, 2014}}</ref> | |||
When the case did get to court, after Jones had broken with Coulter and the rest of her original legal team, it was summarily dismissed because the judge found that Jones could not show that she had actually suffered any damages, even if her allegations proved true. Jones did eventually gain a settlement from Clinton in exchange for not appealing the decision, although at $850,000 it was only one-third of the amount she had been asking for and all but $151,000 went to pay her now-considerable legal expenses. However, the Jones case eventually led to the ] and to the movement lobbying for Clinton's ], as Coulter had wished. Coulter made appearances on ] (a role which began before her legal involvement with Jones) in which she commented on the case, and went on to write a critical exposé of Clinton, boasting on '']'' that she "got a bestseller out of it" (''High Crimes and Misdemeanors'', which included a chapter on the lawsuit) and telling '']'' in August 1999, "The reason we were doing it for Paula – well, was for Paula. She had been defamed and I think we can say we got her reputation back." ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 8) | |||
In August 2005, the '']'' dropped Coulter's syndicated column, citing reader complaints: "Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives".<ref name="AZDailyStar">{{cite news |last=Stoeffler |first=David |title=Opinion pages get a makeover |url=http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/90500.php |newspaper=] |date=August 28, 2005 |access-date=July 10, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050925074100/http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/90500.php |archive-date=September 25, 2005}}</ref> | |||
Jones (who had divorced her husband during the case, purchased a house after the settlement, and incurred a large tax bill) then posed nude for ], stating that she wished to use the money to pay the tax and fund her two grade-school-aged children's college education. Coulter publicly denounced her as "trailer-park trash", saying, "I totally believed she was the good Christian girl she made herself out to be.... ow it turns out she's a fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person" ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 12). Jones defended herself in an interview with ] in October 2000, saying, "I haven't been offered a book deal like everybody else in this huge thing has done. Ann Coulter's done books. I haven't seen her call me up and say: 'Paula, would you like for me to help you write a book, a really nice, decent book?' I haven't had any help from anybody whatsoever." ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 14) | |||
In July 2006, some newspapers replaced Coulter's column with those of other conservative columnists following the publication of her fourth book, '']''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Another Newspaper Decides to Drop Ann Coulter's Column |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/another-newspaper-decides-to-drop-ann-coulter-s-column/ |url-status=live |website=editorandpublisher.com |access-date=April 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421154846/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/another-newspaper-decides-to-drop-ann-coulter-s-column/ |archive-date=April 21, 2016}}</ref> After '']'' dropped her column, newspaper editor Michael Ryan said: "it came to the point where she was the issue rather than what she was writing about."<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news |last1=Astor |first1=Dave |last2=Mitchell |first2=Greg |title=Augusta Editor Explains Why He Dropped Coulter Column |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002878146 |work=] |date=July 24, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822071742/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002878146 |archive-date=August 22, 2006}}</ref> Ryan added that he continued himself "to be an Ann Coulter fan" as "her logic is devastating and her viewpoint is right most of the time."<ref name=autogenerated1 /> | |||
==Ann Coulter's communication style== | |||
Coulter gained prominence in the field of ] commentators with her brand of outspoken criticism of many ] and ] figures and policies over the past half-century. She quickly established a reputation as a ] and colorful speaker, and indeed has relished this role (Coulter, August 2002). As she told '']'' in ], "I am a ]. I am perfectly frank about that. I like to stir up the pot. I don't pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do." | |||
===Television and radio=== | |||
Coulter has said she likes to read anything written by humorist ] (Coulter, January 2004), and she often employs comic techniques similar in style to his writings. On the other hand, columnist and blogger ] has created a parody ] Award for writing which he considers to be ]-ridden, insulting, and in concordance with the reader's beliefs. Sullivan has declared that "Ann Coulter cannot be considered" for the award on the grounds that "No one else would stand a chance." | |||
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Coulter made her first national media appearance in 1996 after she was hired by the then-fledgling network ] as a legal correspondent. She later appeared on ] and ],<ref name="msright">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050304-1,00.html |title=Ms. Right |last=Cloud |first=John |date=April 17, 2005 |magazine=] |access-date=June 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524145603/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C1050304-1%2C00.html |archive-date=May 24, 2009 }}</ref> and went on to make frequent guest appearances on many television and radio ]s. | |||
== Political views == | |||
Ann Coulter is an especially frequent guest on the ]. Her appearances on the ] program often make for interesting viewing, because she is one of the few regular guests (if not the only one) who seems to cow the notoriously aggressive O'Reilly. | |||
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Ann Coulter is a ] columnist and, as a member of the ], is staunch advocate ], ] ] and ]. In 2003, described herself as a "typical, immodest-dressing, swarthy male-loving, friend-to-homosexuals, ultra-conservative."<ref name=appmagic /> She is a registered ] and former member of the advisory council of ] since August 9, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Joins Advisory Council of GOP Homosexual Group|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/conservative-ann-coulter-joins-goproud-despite-her-cpac-affliation-53709/|access-date=May 3, 2013|newspaper=] Politics|date=August 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911235149/http://www.christianpost.com/news/conservative-ann-coulter-joins-goproud-despite-her-cpac-affliation-53709/|archive-date=September 11, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> When ] initially defended ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Ann-Coulter-on-Milo-Meltdown-Pederasty-10946624.php|title=Ann Coulter on Milo Meltdown: 'Pederasty Acceptable Only for Refugees and Illegals'|date=February 21, 2017|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135952/https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Ann-Coulter-on-Milo-Meltdown-Pederasty-10946624.php|archive-date=2018-06-12}}</ref> Coulter commented, "Well, Milo learned HIS lesson. Pederasty acceptable only for refugees and illegals. Then libs will support you."<ref>{{cite web |last=Verhoeven |first=Beatrice |title=Ann Coulter on Milo Meltdown: 'Pederasty Acceptable Only for Refugees and Illegals' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/ann-coulter-milo-yiannopoulos-pederasty-acceptable-refugees-illegals/ |website=TheWrap |access-date=September 5, 2021 |date=February 21, 2017 }}</ref> | |||
=== Abortion === | |||
==Relations with media outlets== | |||
Coulter supported the '']'' ruling, which overturned the '']'' and '']'' precedent, because she does not believe in a ]. She believes abortion is a ] issue and opposes federal government regulating both for and against abortion. She describes herself as an "]". She said banning most abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy as "shockingly reasonable".<ref></ref> She believes abortion, excluding abortion exceptions in cases of fetal impairment, rape and danger to a woman's life or health, should be illegal in most other cases.<ref>{{cite news|title=Don't Blame Romney|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-11-07.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|publisher=anncoulter.com|date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121210124/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-11-07.html|archive-date=2013-01-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Boboltz |first1=Sara |title=Ann Coulter Joins Critics Of Texas' Brutal Anti-Abortion Decision |url=https://news.yahoo.com/ann-coulter-joins-critics-texas-225942508.html |access-date=30 December 2023 |work=HuffPost | via=Yahoo News |date=12 December 2023}}</ref> | |||
When the editors of the '']'', the website of a well-known conservative magazine that carried Coulter's syndicated column and to which she was a contributing editor, said they would like to discuss making changes to a piece written in 2001 directly after the ] in which her friend ] had been killed (Coulter, July 2002, "Donahue"), Coulter went on the national television show '']'' and accused them of ], claiming her pay was only five dollars per article. '']'' then dropped her column and terminated her editorship (Goldberg, 2001). See ] for part of the piece in question. | |||
Ann Coulter was contracted by '']'' to cover the ], but was replaced by ] after a "disagreement over editing" (Memmot, 2004). The article began "Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston", and referred to an indefinite number of 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, ] ]) | |||
=== Christianity === | |||
==Criticism== | |||
Coulter is a ].<ref name=ytbref1>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlOwCv6Hj6o|title=YouTube|website=]|time=2:55|access-date=April 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407011907/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlOwCv6Hj6o|archive-date=April 7, 2015}}</ref> Coulter was raised by a ] father and ] mother.<ref>{{cite web |title=John V. Coulter Obituary (2008) - Albany Times Union |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/timesunion-albany/name/john-coulter-obituary?id=4938095 |website=Legacy.com |access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref> At one public lecture she said: "I don't care about anything else; Christ died for my sins, and nothing else matters."<ref name="Olasky_Marvin">{{cite news|last=Olasky|first=Marvin|title=South Park vs. Ann Coulter|url=http://www.worldmag.com/articles/10919|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=]|date=August 13, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927003206/http://www.worldmag.com/articles/10919|archive-date=2011-09-27|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Confronting some critics' views that her content and style of writing is unchristian,<ref>''Inside Higher Ed'': {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820172909/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/01/harding |date=2018-08-20 }} December 1, 2005.</ref> Coulter said that she is "a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it."<ref name="mean-spirited">{{cite news|title=Coulter: Press Either 'Incompetent' or Full of 'Left-Wing Bias|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/Article/Coulter-Press-Either-Incompetent-or-Full-of-Left-Wing-Bias-|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=]|date=July 21, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315042752/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/Article/Coulter-Press-Either-Incompetent-or-Full-of-Left-Wing-Bias-|archive-date=2012-03-15|url-status=live}}</ref> Six years later, in 2011, she also said "Christianity fuels everything I write."<ref name="DePasquale_Lisa">{{cite news|last=De Pasquale|first=Lisa|title=Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines 'Mental Disorder' of Liberalism|url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15363|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=]|date=June 6, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524115319/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15363|archive-date=May 24, 2011}}</ref> | |||
Critics of Coulter frequently accuse her of ] and ]s, and argue that she demonstrates a strong ] bias in her comments and writing, and that she generally misrepresents sources and facts to support her case. | |||
===Evolution=== | |||
One way in which supporters counter the charge of misrepresentation is by pointing out that ''Slander'' contains 780 endnotes. The ''New York Times'' review of ''Slander'' praised Coulter's extensive citations, stating "A great deal of research supports Ms. Coulter's wisecracks." As a result, some of these footnotes have been closely scrutinized by various websites . After liberal bloggers and journalists cited numerous examples of what they regard as intentional misrepresentatations in ''Slander'' , an article in the ''Columbia Journalism Review'' denounced the book for its numerous "falsehoods" . | |||
Coulter advocates teaching ], a pseudoscientific anti-evolution ideology, alongside evolution.<ref name=Chambers2008/><ref>{{cite web|last=Zimmer|first=Carl|author-link=Carl Zimmer|date=2011-08-25|title=Ann Coulter Nostalgia: Behold, For *I* Am The Giant Flatulent Raccoon|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ann-coulter-nostalgia-behold-for-i-am-the-giant-flatulent-raccoon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916224722/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ann-coulter-nostalgia-behold-for-i-am-the-giant-flatulent-raccoon|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 16, 2021|access-date=2021-09-16|website=National Geographic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://anncoulter.com/2022/05/11/dems-speak-out-on-roe-release-the-covid-variants/ |title=Dems Speak Out on Roe: Release the COVID Variants! |author=Ann Coulter |date=May 11, 2022 |publisher=Ann Coulter Official Website |access-date=August 29, 2024}}</ref><ref>Coulter, Ann (2006). ''Godless: The Church of Liberalism''. Crown Forum. p. 199. ISBN 978-1400054206.</ref> In '']'', Coulter characterized the theory of ] as bogus science, and contrasted her beliefs to what she called the left's "obsession with ] and the Darwinian view of the world, which replaces sanctification of life with sanctification of sex and death".<ref name="Godless">{{cite book|last=Coulter|first=Ann|title=Godless: The Church of Liberalism|year=2007|publisher=]|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4000-5421-3|pages=199–282|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_3EeVj2_IUC&q=godless:+the+church+of+liberalism}}</ref> | |||
===Federalism=== | |||
Critics also regularly attack Coulter for what they consider to be her unreliability in live interviews, alleging in particular that she frequently misstates facts rather than admitting error or unfamiliarity with the topic being discussed. Such charges are dismissed by Coulter and her supporters. | |||
Ann Coulter supports, regardless of her own personal position on the issue, a ] ] position on ],<ref>Time Magazine. "Ann Coulter on Overturning Roe v. Wade." Time, 2022. "I am thrilled that this is going to be turned back to the states."</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America.* Crown Forum, 2009. Discusses her opposition to federal affirmative action policies, supporting state decision-making.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Speech at CPAC 2013." Conservative Political Action Conference, 2013. Advocated for states' rights to legalize marijuana without federal interference.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.* Crown Forum, 2011. Supports states' rights in determining their own policies on the death penalty.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Who Was the Second Choice?" AnnCoulter.com, October 19, 2005. (https://anncoulter.com/2005/10/19/who-was-the-second-choice/).</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.* Crown Forum, 2003. Supports state autonomy in criminal justice matters, particularly in sentencing laws.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: Why Liberals Are Afraid of School Choice." Townhall, 2014. Criticizes federal control over education and supports state/local control.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: EPA's New Mandates Are Killing Jobs." Townhall, 2011. Criticizes federal environmental regulations and advocates for state control over environmental policies.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.* Regnery Publishing, 1998. Expresses opposition to federal gun control measures, supporting state decision-making.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Left's Crazy Hate Crime Laws." AnnCoulter.com, 2009. Criticizes hate crime laws and supports state jurisdiction over criminal justice.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.* Crown Forum, 2011. Discusses state control over healthcare and Medicaid expansion.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.* Penguin Books, 2012. Discusses her support for state-level decisions on labor laws.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: States Know Best on Minimum Wage." Townhall, 2014. Argues that decisions regarding the minimum wage should be left to the states rather than being set by federal mandates.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Ten Commandments Controversy." Townhall, 2005. Discusses her support for states' rights in religious matters.</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans*. Crown Forum, 2007.</ref> ]s,<ref>{{cite web | last=Coulter | first=Ann | title=MORE GUTSY CALLS FROM OBAMA! | url=https://www.anncoulter.com/2011/05/11/more-gutsy-calls-from-obama/ | date=2011-05-11 | access-date=2024-08-29 | quote=Two weeks ago, Obama's National Labor Relations Board made the gutsy call to file a complaint against Boeing for attempting to build a new airplane production plant in South Carolina -- a right-to-work state -- and demanding that the plant be opened in Washington state -- a dying Democratic pro-union state.}}</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Speech at Homocon 2011." GOProud, 2011. "I think it's a state's rights issue, and I think it's crazy for the Supreme Court to take that away from the states."</ref> ],<ref>Time Magazine. "10 Questions for Ann Coulter." July 16, 2003. Coulter commented on the Supreme Court's ruling on sodomy laws: "Gay sex may well be a mystery of life, but I'll be damned if I can find it in the Constitution."</ref> ],<ref>"O'Reilly and Ann Coulter on Westboro Baptist Church vs. Snyder Family." Fox News, 2011. (https://www.foxnews.com/story/oreilly-and-ann-coulter-on-westboro-baptist-church-vs-snyder-family).</ref> ],<ref>{{cite web | last=Coulter | first=Ann | title=The Problem With Santorum | url=https://anncoulter.com/2012/02/29/the-problem-with-santorum/ | date=2012-02-29 | access-date=2024-08-29 | quote=... Santorum supports a federal ban on partial-birth abortion -- a position I find to be an unholy abomination and a blatant violation of states' rights.}}</ref> ],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.* Crown Forum, 2007. Criticizes federal oversight of state voting laws, supports states' rights in voting.</ref> and ].<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Great Republican Welfare Crack-Up." Townhall, 2012. Supports the idea that states should have more control over welfare programs rather than a uniform federal approach.</ref> | |||
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=== Civil liberties === | ||
Coulter endorsed the NSA's ] directed at Al-Qaeda.<ref>{{cite web |title=What Part of the War on Terrorism Do They Support? |url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2006-08-23.html |url-status=live |website=www.anncoulter.com |date=August 23, 2006 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412001402/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2006-08-23.html |archive-date=April 12, 2018}}</ref> During a 2011 appearance on '']'', she said "], fantastic, ], fantastic, ], not bad, though ] would've been better."<ref>{{cite news |last=Suebsaeng |first=Asawin |title=Ann Coulter Said Anti-War Dems Were 'Traitors.' Now She Says 'War Is Like Crack for' Trump |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/19/ann-coulter-said-anti-war-dems-were-traitors-now-she-says-war-is-like-crack-for-trump |url-status=live |newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=April 19, 2017 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428082157/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/19/ann-coulter-said-anti-war-dems-were-traitors-now-she-says-war-is-like-crack-for-trump |archive-date=April 28, 2017}}</ref> She criticized ] for "this anti-] stuff".<ref>{{cite web |format=Video |last=Wing |first=Nick |title=Ann Coulter: Rand Paul Favors 'Legalizing Pot And Amnesty,' Can't Be GOP Presidential Candidate |website=] |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/ann-coulter-rand-paul_n_2957351.html |url-status=live |date=March 26, 2013 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702073626/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/ann-coulter-rand-paul_n_2957351.html |archive-date=July 2, 2015}}</ref> | |||
Coulter opposes ], calling them "unconstitutional". She also stated that "Hate-crime provisions seem vaguely directed at capturing a sense of cold-bloodedness, but the law can do that without elevating some victims over others."<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Coulter |url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter011000.asp |url-status=live |website=www.jewishworldreview.com |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826080728/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter011000.asp |archive-date=August 26, 2018}}</ref> | |||
In '']'', ] argues that Coulter deliberately fabricates material and misrepresents the sources she cites. Two chapters of Franken's book are devoted to attacking Coulter and her book ''Slander''. | |||
===Civil rights=== | |||
Amongst other assertions, Franken claims that Coulter treats any comments found in '']'' as reflecting the official opinion of the newspaper. He claims that if a book review in the ''Times'' asks people on both sides of an issue to give their opinions, Coulter will attribute any quotation she finds offensive as the editorial position of the newspaper. | |||
Although Coulter supported the '']'' ruling, she is critical of ], which she calls "forced busing" and desegregation court rulings since ''Brown v. Board of Education''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anncoulter.com/2005/01/27/wheres-that-religious-fanatic-we-elected/|title=Where's That Religious Fanatic We Elected?|date=January 27, 2005|website=Ann Coulter}}</ref><ref></ref> She supports ] for voting, which she claims are not unconstitutional or prohibited in the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2015/04/15/ann_coulter%e2%80%99s_xenophobic_defense_of_voter_suppression_im_pretty_sure_senate_debates_will_not_be_taking_place_in_urdu/|title=Ann Coulter's xenophobic defense of voter suppression: "I'm pretty sure Senate debates will not be taking place in Urdu"|first=Scott Eric|last=Kaufman|date=April 15, 2015|website=Salon}}</ref> She supports the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anncoulter.com/2013/02/13/white-liberals-tell-black-lies-about-civil-rights/|title=White Liberals Tell Black Lies About Civil Rights|date=February 13, 2013|website=Ann Coulter}}</ref> | |||
===Women's rights=== | |||
Coulter counters by arguing that Franken's chapters contain false accusations, and that liberal newspapers are prone to make errors of omission that can be much more serious. (Coulter, 2003) | |||
Coulter rejects "the academic convention of ] and ]",<ref>{{cite journal |id={{Gale|A438688854}} {{ProQuest|1774914874}} |last=Murphey |first=Dwight D. |title=!Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole |journal=The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies |date=22 December 2015 |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=472–487}}]</ref> and is claimed to play to ] in order to further her goals; she "dominates without threatening (at least not straight men)".<ref name=Chambers2008>{{cite journal |id={{Gale|A193247304}} |last1=Chambers |first1=Samuel A. |last2=Finlayson |first2=Alan |title=Ann Coulter and the problem of pluralism: from values to politics |journal=Borderlands |date=May 2008 |volume=7 |issue=1}}</ref> Feminist critics also reject Coulter's opinion that the gains made by women have gone so far as to create an anti-male society<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stambach |first1=Amy |last2=David |first2=Miriam |title=Feminist Theory and Educational Policy: How Gender Has Been 'Involved' in Family School Choice Debates |journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |date=January 2005 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=1633–1658 |doi=10.1086/382633 |s2cid=144182384|issn = 0097-9740 }}</ref> and her call for women to be rejected from the military because they are more vicious than men.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Steans |first1=Jill |title=Telling Stories about Women and Gender in the War on Terror |journal=Global Society |date=January 2008 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=159–176 |doi=10.1080/13600820701740795 |s2cid=145586431}}</ref> Like the late anti-feminist ], Coulter uses traditionally masculine rhetoric as reasoning for the need for traditional gender roles, and she carries this idea of feminized dependency into her governmental policies, according to feminist critics.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hoberek |first=Andrew |title=Liberal Antiliberalism: Mailer, O'Connor, and The Gender Politics of Middle-Class Ressentiment |journal=Women's Studies Quarterly |date=2005 |volume=33 |issue=3/4 |pages=24–47 |jstor=40004417}}</ref> | |||
Coulter said in 2021 that women should not be allowed to vote.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullender |first=Andrew |title=Conservative pundit Ann Coulter speaks at Missouri State, says women shouldn't have the right to vote |url=https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/22/ann-coulter-says-women-shouldnt-have-right-vote-19th-amendment-missouri-state-university/8528256002/ |date= October 22, 2021|access-date=2024-05-18 |website=] |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
In his book, Franken mentions a comment in ''Slander'' which states "Bush had won any count" of the ] ] recount, and cites a '']'' article with the contrary headline, "Study Finds Gore Might Have Won Statewide Tally of All Uncounted Ballots". Although it could be argued that this is a misrepresentation, it could also be argued that by "any count", Coulter meant any count that had been legally pursued by the Democrats rather than hypothetical cases (See ]). | |||
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=== Immigration === | ||
Coulter has criticized former president ]'s immigration proposals. In a 2007 column, she claimed that the current immigration system was set up to deliberately reduce the percentage of whites in the population.<ref name="roachmotel">{{cite news |last=Coulter |first=Ann |title=Bush's America: Roach Motel |url=http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=188 |publisher=anncoulter.com |date=June 6, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102051234/http://anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=188 |archive-date=January 2, 2010}}</ref> | |||
Coulter opposes the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2007-06-06.html|date=June 6, 2007 |title=Bush's America: Roach Hotel|website=www.anncoulter.com|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228153803/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2007-06-06.html|archive-date=December 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> She strongly opposed ] for ]s, and at the 2013 CPAC said she had become "a single-issue voter against amnesty".<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Becomes a Single Issue Voter|url=http://barelyablog.com/ann-coulter-becomes-a-single-issue-voter/|access-date=January 31, 2013|publisher=barelyablog.com|date=July 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320052727/http://barelyablog.com/ann-coulter-becomes-a-single-issue-voter/|archive-date=2013-03-20|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
'']'', which contains many bold accusations against all ], brought her under fire, even from many conservatives, such as ]. Many felt her claim that Democrats such as Presidents ] and ] had worked against America's war on ] was unfounded. ''Treason'''s defense of ] also came under criticism from both liberals and conservatives, who argued that Coulter had simply failed to accurately research the facts in her attempt to rehabilitate the controversial senator. In an interview with David Bowman, Coulter said that Joe McCarthy is the deceased person she admires the most. Coulter argues in ''Treason'' that McCarthy was simply misunderstood and unappreciated and that the ] have vindicated him, proving there indeed were Soviet spies in the ]. | |||
In June 2018, during the controversy caused by the ], Coulter dismissed immigrant children as "child actors weeping and crying" and urged Trump not to "fall for it".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thomsen |first1=Jacqueline |title=Ann Coulter calls immigrant children 'child actors' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/392774-ann-coulter-calls-immigrant-children-child-actors/ |newspaper=] |access-date=June 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620074339/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/392774-ann-coulter-calls-immigrant-children-child-actors |archive-date=2018-06-20 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
===Racism=== | |||
Coulter is an advocate of the ].<ref>{{cite news |date=August 23, 2018 |title=Trump Wants Pompeo to Study 'Killing of Farmers' in South Africa |newspaper=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/africa/trump-south-africa-white-farmers.html |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827021629/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/africa/trump-south-africa-white-farmers.html |archive-date=2018-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 9, 2017 |title=The creeping spectre of "white genocide" |publisher=] |url=https://theoutline.com/post/4486/the-creeping-spectre-of-white-genocide |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011125109/https://theoutline.com/post/4486/the-creeping-spectre-of-white-genocide |archive-date=2018-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 28, 2015 |title=Why Ann Coulter is dead wrong about immigration in America |work=] |url=https://www.dailydot.com/via/ann-coulter-immigration/ |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115030115/https://www.dailydot.com/via/ann-coulter-immigration/ |archive-date=2019-01-15}}</ref> She has compared non-white immigration into the United States with genocide,<ref>{{cite news |date=September 21, 2017 |title=The far right's "Free Speech Week" at UC Berkeley, explained |publisher=] |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/21/16333260/free-speech-week-uc-berkeley |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820173014/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/21/16333260/free-speech-week-uc-berkeley |archive-date=2018-08-20}}</ref> and claiming that "a genocide" is occurring against South African farmers,<ref>{{cite news |date=August 12, 2018 |title=The high price of 'white genocide' politics for Australia |newspaper=] |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/the-high-price-of-white-genocide-politics-for-australia-20180724-p4zt9k.html |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830031924/https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/the-high-price-of-white-genocide-politics-for-australia-20180724-p4zt9k.html |archive-date=2018-08-30}}</ref> she has said that the ] are the "only real refugees" in South Africa.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 16, 2018 |title=Peter Dutton's offer to white South African farmers started on the far right |newspaper=] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/peter-duttons-offer-to-white-south-african-farmers-started-on-the-far-right |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001004405/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/peter-duttons-offer-to-white-south-african-farmers-started-on-the-far-right |archive-date=2018-10-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=August 23, 2018 |title=Trump's tweet echoing white nationalist propaganda about South African farmers, explained |work=] |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/23/17772056/south-africa-trump-tweet-afriforum |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823134558/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/23/17772056/south-africa-trump-tweet-afriforum |archive-date=2018-08-23}}</ref> Regarding domestic politics, '']'' labelled Coulter as one of many providing a voice for "the 'white genocide' myth",<ref>{{cite news |date=June 18, 2018 |title=The scary ideology behind Trump's immigration instincts |publisher=] |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/1/18/16897358/racism-donald-trump-immigration |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231163459/https://www.vox.com/2018/1/18/16897358/racism-donald-trump-immigration |archive-date=2018-12-31}}</ref> and the ] covered Coulter's remarks that if the demographic changes occurring in the U.S. were being "legally imposed on any group other than ], it would be called genocide".<ref>{{cite news |date=May 27, 2015 |title=Ann Coulter – A White Nationalist in the Mainstream? |publisher=] |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/27/ann-coulter-%E2%80%93-white-nationalist-mainstream |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231181150/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/27/ann-coulter-%E2%80%93-white-nationalist-mainstream |archive-date=2018-12-31}}</ref><ref name="roachmotel" /> | |||
Coulter has also drawn criticism for frequently making what many perceive to be racist remarks, particularly against people of Middle Eastern descent. For instance, following the 9/11 attacks she argued that "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity". A minor controversy ensued after Coulter denounced ], calling her an "old Arab". In other instances, she has referred to the Middle East as a "swamp" and advocated racial profiling. | |||
=== LGBT rights === | |||
==="Democrats are more wealthy than Republicans"=== | |||
Coulter opposes same-sex marriage, opposes '']'', and supports, after previously saying she did not, a ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?178812-1/supreme-court-constitutional-authority|title=Supreme Court and Constitutional Authority | C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-02-06.html|author=Ann Coulter|date=February 6, 2008|title=From Goldwater Girl to Hillary Girl|publisher=anncoulter.com|access-date=2019-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104022235/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-02-06.html|archive-date=2016-11-04|url-status=live}}</ref> She claims her opposition to same-sex marriage "wasn't an anti-gay thing" and that "It's genuinely a pro-marriage position to oppose gay marriage".<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter: Chick-Fil-A Anti-Gay Stance 'Not An Anti-Gay Thing'|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/ann-coulter-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage_n_1744092.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=]|date=August 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302014017/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/ann-coulter-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage_n_1744092.html|archive-date=2013-03-02|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter claims that same-sex marriage would "ruin gay culture", because "gays value promiscuous sex over monogamy".<ref name="broadly.vice.com" /> | |||
In '']'', Ann Coulter expounds the view that liberals are out of touch with America, and "have absolutely no contact with the society they decry from their ] redoubts." | |||
In an October 2003 C-SPAN debate, Coulter said there was nothing in the US Constitution about same-sex marriage and that she did not think she had taken a position yet on the issue of same-sex marriage. When asked, hypothetically, as Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) judge, if she would overturn a state statutorily legalizing same-sex marriage, she said she would not. When asked if she would support a federal U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman, she said, as she when it first came up, she did not because she thought it was pointless as SCOTUS wasn't correctly interpreting the constitution as it is according to her.<ref>"Supreme Court and Constitutional Authority." *C-SPAN*, October 2003. Available at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?178812-1/supreme-court-constitutional-authority</ref> On November 18, 2003, the day '']'' was decided, she began helping to launch a national effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to prevent same-marriage.<ref>"Conservatives Visit to Oppose Gay Marriages." *East Valley Tribune*, November 18, 2003. Available at: https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/conservatives-visit-to-oppose-gay-marriages/article_73a67a75-38bd-5f8f-abbd-f814c5297353.html</ref> | |||
In an ] ] '']'' article, she argued that the media is biased to the left because Republicans don't have the wealth to start media outlets, while Democrats do. That Republicans are rich, she said, "is one of the stunning lies that Democrats have been able to palm off... Liberals really are the idle rich." | |||
Coulter also opposes civil unions<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter speech at DePaul divides students|url=http://neighborhoods.redeyechicago.com/lincoln-park/news-report/2011/06/02/ann-coulter-speech-at-depaul-divides-opinion/|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=]|date=June 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711004755/http://neighborhoods.redeyechicago.com/lincoln-park/news-report/2011/06/02/ann-coulter-speech-at-depaul-divides-opinion/|archive-date=July 11, 2013}}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-06-15.html|author=Ann Coulter|date=June 15, 2011|title=Get Rid of Government – But First Make Me President!|website=anncoulter.com|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172330/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-06-15.html|archive-date=2015-09-23|url-status=live}}</ref> When addressed with the issue of ], she said, "Gays already can visit loved ones in hospitals. They can also visit neighbors, random acquaintances, and total strangers in hospitals—just like everyone else. Gays can also pass on property to whomever they would like."<ref>{{cite news|title=Massachusetts Supreme Court abolishes capitalism!|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2003/12/04/massachusetts_supreme_court_abolishes_capitalism!/page/full/|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=]|date=December 4, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010194222/http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2003/12/04/massachusetts_supreme_court_abolishes_capitalism!/page/full/|archive-date=2012-10-10|url-status=live}}</ref> She also stated that same-sex sexual intercourse was already protected under the ], which prevents police from going into your home without a search warrant or court order.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2003/07/25/bowman_3/|title=Ann Coulter, woman|first=David|last=Bowman|date=July 25, 2003|access-date=2019-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924124311/https://www.salon.com/2003/07/25/bowman_3/|archive-date=2018-09-24|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Her critics, including ], the author of ''Big Lies'', accuse Coulter of double standards, arguing that she is a highly-educated, affluent woman with a high-profile media presence who does not similarly accuse herself, or other privileged Republicans, of being out of touch. | |||
Coulter disagreed with repealing ], stating that it is not an "anti-gay position; it is a pro-military position" because "sexual bonds are disruptive to the military bond".<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Defends Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Booing Gay Soldier|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/ann-coulter-defends-dont-ask-dont-tell_n_987303.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=]|date=September 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220195035/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/ann-coulter-defends-dont-ask-dont-tell_n_987303.html|archive-date=2013-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref> She also stated that there is "no proof that all the discharges for homosexuality involve actual homosexuals."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/ann-coulter-goproud-gay-icon-council-chair/|title=Ann Coulter Named GOProud's "Gay Icon," Will Serve as Council Chair|access-date=September 9, 2018|work=Mother Jones|first=Asawin|last=Suebsaeng |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924115714/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/ann-coulter-goproud-gay-icon-council-chair/|archive-date=2018-09-24|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Canada and the Vietnam War=== | |||
Coulter has expressed her opposition to treatment of LGBT people in the countries of Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-04-12.html|date=April 12, 2017 |title=Lassie, Come Home |website=www.anncoulter.com|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919003919/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-04-12.html|archive-date=2018-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_30_05_AC.html|title=Commentary –Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI |author=Ann Coulter|website=www.realclearpolitics.com|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412082725/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_30_05_AC.html|archive-date=2018-04-12|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In ] ], Coulter gave an interview to ]'s ''The Fifth Estate'' (). At one point, she argued that ]'s uninvolvement in the ] demonstrated that Canada's "loyal friendship" with the ] had weakened. She contrasted the Canadian government's decision to not participate in the Iraq War with Canada's role in the ]. | |||
Since the 1990s, Coulter has had many acquaintances in the LGBT community. She describes herself as "the ] of the Right", reflecting ]. In the last few years before 2015 she attracted LGBT fans, namely gay men and ]s.<ref name="broadly.vice.com">{{cite web|url=https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ann-coulter-is-a-human-being|title=Ann Coulter Is a Human Being|website=Broadly|date=August 13, 2015|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310014741/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ann-coulter-is-a-human-being|archive-date=March 10, 2016|access-date=April 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/queen-of-the-hill-the-worlds-best-hillary-impersonator-is-ready-for-2016|title=Queen of the Hill: The World's Best Hillary Impersonator Is Ready for 2016|website=Broadly|date=September 8, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310014738/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/queen-of-the-hill-the-worlds-best-hillary-impersonator-is-ready-for-2016|archive-date=2016-03-10|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite web|url=https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/video/shooting-guns-with-ann-coulter|title=Shooting Guns With Ann Coulter|website=Broadly|date=August 11, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310014745/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/video/shooting-guns-with-ann-coulter|archive-date=2016-03-10|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
:''"Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"'' | |||
At the 2007 ], Coulter said, "I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media—how they keep describing ]'s position as being pro-gays, and that's going to upset the right wingers", and "Well, you know, screw you! I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against." She added, "I don't know why all gays aren't Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they're victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us."<ref>{{cite news|title=Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/|access-date=May 3, 2013|work=CNN|date=March 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127022338/http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/|archive-date=2014-01-27|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
However, the comparison breaks down as, contrary to Coulter's statement, Canadian troops were not involved in the American campaign. Much like Iraq, though the Canadian government had expressed support for the United States, and sent peacekeeping forces and noncombat assisstance later in the war, Canada was officially a non-participant (See ]). Interviewer ] corrected Coulter, noting that "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam," but Coulter insisted Canada had. After a short "]" dispute, She finally concluded "Well, I'll get back to you on that." Coulter did not get back in touch with the show. | |||
In Coulter's 2007 book ''If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans'', in the chapter "Gays: No Gay Left Behind!", she argued that Republican policies were more pro-gay than Democratic policies. Coulter attended the 2010 HomoCon of ], where she gave a speech about why gays should oppose same-sex marriage.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Loves the Gays? Inside a Surprising Culture War|url=http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ann-coulter-goproud-speech-092710|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=Esquire|date=September 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111070016/http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ann-coulter-goproud-speech-092710|archive-date=2012-01-11|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In a subsequent interview on ], Coulter was asked about her statement: "...you said the Canadians had troops in Vietnam and he said no they didn't, what is, did you find out of the real answer?" | |||
At the 2011 ], during her question-and-answer segment, Coulter was asked about GOProud and the controversy over their inclusion at the 2011 CPAC. She boasted how she talked GOProud into dropping its support for same-sex marriage in the party's platform, saying, "The left is trying to co-opt gays, and I don't think we should let them. I think they should be on our side", and "Gays are natural conservatives".<ref>{{cite news|title=Coulter Says 'Gays Are Natural Conservatives' – To Cheers From CPAC Crowd |url=http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/02/coulter-says-gays-are-natural.html |access-date=January 31, 2013 |newspaper=] |date=February 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110922134505/http://metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/02/coulter-says-gays-are-natural.html |archive-date=September 22, 2011}}</ref> Later that year, she joined advisory board for GOProud. On ] ] she told gay Republican Taylor Garrett that "The gays have got to be pro-life", and "As soon as they find the ], guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?"<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter On 'A List: Dallas': Liberals Would Abort Gay Babies (video)|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/ann-coulter-liberals-gay-abortions_n_1137277.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=]|date=December 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419140305/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/ann-coulter-liberals-gay-abortions_n_1137277.html|archive-date=2012-04-19|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
:''"Yes. 10,000 Canadian troops--at least. There is a war memorial to them--at least for most..."'' this time referring to Canadian citizens who joined the American army. ''"The Canadian Government didn't send troops at the beginning, didn't send troops at the end--but most of that was not under the Canadian flag. They came and fought with the Americans. So I was wrong."'' In jest, she added ''"It turns out there were 10,000 Americans who happened to be born in Canada."'' | |||
Later in the interview, when asked about the taping of the CBC show, she added: | |||
=== War on Drugs === | |||
:''"I talked to him ] ] for three hours and the topic was not Canada's war history. It was an incidental point that he challenged me on and I didn't believe him because I had read about Canadian troops in Vietnam. I was right. People keep saying 'well, he didn't tell you that they - 10,000 troops - ran across to sign up with the Americans' because I don't think he knew."'' ] | |||
Coulter strongly supports continuing the ].<ref>{{cite news|title=War on Drugs; Or, Conservative Inconsistency|url=http://ricochet.com/main-feed/War-on-Drugs-Or-Conservative-Inconsistency|access-date=May 3, 2013|newspaper=]|date=March 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315125906/http://ricochet.com/main-feed/War-on-Drugs-Or-Conservative-Inconsistency|archive-date=2013-03-15|url-status=live}}</ref> However, she has said that, if there were not a ], she "wouldn't care" if drugs were legal.<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330052351/http://nation.foxnews.com/ann-coulter/2013/02/22/ann-coulter-battles-libertarians |date=March 30, 2014}}. Fox News Channel. February 21, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2014.</ref> She spoke about drugs as a guest on '']'', where she said that marijuana users "can't perform daily functions".<ref>{{cite web|last=Fung|first=Katherine|title=Ann Coulter Is Against Weed Because A Pool Guy Didn't Clean Her Pool, Or Something|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/ann-coulter-pot-economy-piers-morgan_n_4650921.html|website=Huffington Post|date=January 23, 2014|access-date=April 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803121731/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/ann-coulter-pot-economy-piers-morgan_n_4650921.html|archive-date=2016-08-03|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
=== Bernie Sanders === | |||
Further detail about Canada's involvement in the Vietnam war can be found in the CBC's "Canada's Secret War: Vietnam". | |||
In April 2019, Coulter said of Senator ] she would vote and perhaps even work for him in the ] if he stuck to his "original position" on U.S. border policy. "If he went back to his original position, which is the pro blue-collar position—I mean, it totally makes sense with him", and "If he went back to that position, I'd vote for him, I might work for him. I don't care about the rest of the socialist stuff. Just, can we do something for ordinary Americans?"<ref>{{cite web |last=Croucher |first=Shane |title=Ann Coulter Would Vote for Bernie Sanders' Original Border Policy Despite 'The Rest of the Socialist Stuff' |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-bernie-sanders-borders-policy-2020-1399991 |website=] |date=April 18, 2019 |access-date=May 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504094957/https://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-bernie-sanders-borders-policy-2020-1399991 |archive-date=May 4, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/18/coulter_i_could_vote_for_bernie_sanders_if_he_returned_to_original_immigration_position.html |title=Real Clear Politics |access-date=May 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430030413/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/18/coulter_i_could_vote_for_bernie_sanders_if_he_returned_to_original_immigration_position.html |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
==Political activities and commentary== | |||
==Quotations== | |||
{{update|date=March 2018}} | |||
The following quotes are examples of Ann Coulter's flamboyant and often inflammatory ] style, for which she is well-known. They cover a wide variety of topics, but each demonstrates Coulter's unwillingness to compromise her strong views for political correctness or media palatability. Many view these quotes as examples of a tongue-in-cheek use of ] or ], while others take them more seriously. Coulter herself once stated, "Liberals love to pretend they don't understand hyperbole." However, she has also stated, "I believe everything I say." | |||
Ann Coulter has described herself as a "]ist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do".<ref name="polemicist">{{cite news|url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/coulter.pre.dea.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430010955/http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/coulter.pre.dea.html |archive-date=April 30, 2006 |title=Conservative pundit Ann Coulter '84 to speak May 7 |last=Aloi |first=Daniel |date=April 17, 2006 |publisher=] |access-date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref> While her political activities in the past have included advising a plaintiff suing President ] as well as considering a run for Congress, she mostly serves as a political ], sometimes creating ] ranging from rowdy uprisings at some of the colleges where she speaks to protracted discussions in the media. | |||
'']'' magazine's John Cloud once observed that Coulter "likes to shock reporters by wondering aloud whether America might be better off if women lost the right to vote".<ref name="msright" /> This was in reference to her statement that "it would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950—except ] in '64—the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."<ref name="appmagic" /> Similarly, in an October 2007 interview with '']'', Coulter said:<ref name="Gurley_George">{{cite news|last=Gurley|first=George|title=Coulter Culture|url=http://www.observer.com/2007/coulter-culture|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=]|date=October 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112214238/http://www.observer.com/2007/coulter-culture|archive-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref> | |||
===On the 9/11 attacks=== | |||
*Two days after the ], her syndicated column included discussion of her close friend ], who was killed on ] when terrorists crashed it into the ]. She closed by saying: ''"We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.'' | |||
{{blockquote|If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. | |||
:''"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only ] and his top officers. We ] German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."'' - From her syndicated column ], ] | |||
It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care—and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'}} | |||
*A week later, she detailed a five-point plan guided by an ''"all-new standard for airline safety procedures:...procedures that make the airplane safer"'' of which point 3 proposed requiring ''"passports to fly domestically"''. ''"Passports can be forged"'', she continued, ''"but they can also be checked with the home country in case of any suspicious-looking swarthy males"''. Point 4 observed, ''"All 19 hijackers in last week's attack appear to have been aliens.... Congress could pass a law tomorrow requiring that all aliens from Arabic countries leave."'' From her syndicated column, September 20, 2001 | |||
Coulter has also appeared on Fox News and advocated for a poll tax and a literacy test for voters (this was in 1999, and she reiterated her support of a literacy test in 2015).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections|last=Hasen|first=Richard L.|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-300-21245-7|location=New Haven, CT|page=66}}</ref> | |||
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===Paula Jones – Bill Clinton case=== | ||
Coulter first became a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal adviser for the attorneys representing ] in her ] suit against President Bill Clinton. Coulter's friend ] had been asked to assist Jones' attorneys, and shortly afterward Coulter, who wrote a column about the Paula Jones case for '']'', was also asked to help, and she began writing legal briefs for the case. | |||
*''"The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet -- it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars -- that's the Biblical view."'' - from her column ] ] | |||
Coulter later stated that she would come to mistrust the motives of Jones' head lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who by August or September 1997 was advising Jones that her case was weak and to ], if a favorable settlement could be negotiated.<ref name=Daley1999 /><ref name=conason /> From the outset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement.<ref>Barak, Daphne. "". '']''. September 23, 1998. Retrieved July 10, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812211212/http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/09/23/fhead.htm |date=August 12, 2012}}</ref> However, in a later interview Coulter recounted that she herself had believed that the case was strong, that Jones was telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly accountable for his misconduct, and that a settlement would give the impression that Jones was merely interested in ] money from the President.<ref name=Daley1999 /> | |||
===On law and order=== | |||
*''"I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a ] might work particularly well with are the ]s, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly."'' - MSNBC ], ]. | |||
David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for '']'' recounted what followed: | |||
*''"I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century. We don't need any more." ''Asked how far back in time would she go to repeal laws, she replied,'' "Well, before the ]....] was issued] That would be a good start."'' - ] ], ]. | |||
{{blockquote|Coulter played one particularly key role in keeping the Jones case alive. In ''Newsweek'' reporter Michael Isikoff's new book ''Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story'', Coulter is unmasked as the one who leaked word of Clinton's "distinguishing characteristic"—his reportedly bent penis that Jones said she could recognize and describe—to the news media. Her hope was to foster mistrust between the Clinton and Jones camps and forestall a settlement ... I thought if I leaked the distinguishing characteristic it would show bad faith in negotiations. Bob Bennett would think Jones had leaked it. Cammaratta would know he himself hadn't leaked it and would get mad at Bennett. It might stall negotiations enough for me to get through to ] to tell her that I thought settling would hurt Paula, that this would ruin her reputation, and that there were other lawyers working for her. Then 36 hours later, she returned my phone call. I just wanted to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I don't think I could have taken the abuse she came under. She's this poor little country girl and she has the most powerful man she's ever met hitting on her sexually, then denying it and smearing her as president. And she never did anything tacky. It's not like she was going on TV or trying to make a buck out of it."<ref name=Daley1999 />}} | |||
*''"If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman."'' The gunman was a teenager who had opened fire on a prayer meeting, killing three other teens. She later added, ''"Don't pray. Learn to use guns."'' - Politically Incorrect, ], ]. | |||
In his book, Isikoff also reported Coulter as saying: "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President."<ref name=conason>Conason, Joe; Lyons, Gene. "". '']''. March 4, 2000. Retrieved July 10, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060212222059/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/04/willey/print.html |date=February 12, 2006}}</ref> After the book came out, Coulter clarified her stated motives, saying: | |||
*''"The ] only means you don't go right to jail."'' - Fox News, Hannity & Colmes ], ]. | |||
{{blockquote|The only motive for leaking the distinguishing characteristic item that gives in his book is my self-parodying remark that "it would humiliate the president" and that a settlement would foil our efforts to bring down the president ... I suppose you could take the position, as does, that we were working for Jones because we thought Clinton was a lecherous, lying scumbag, but this argument gets a bit circular. You could also say that Juanita Broaddrick's secret motive in accusing Clinton of rape is that she hates Clinton because he raped her. The whole reason we didn't much like Clinton was that we could see he was the sort of man who would haul a low-level government employee like Paula to his hotel room, drop his pants, and say, "Kiss it." You know: Everything his defense said about him at the impeachment trial. It's not like we secretly disliked Clinton because of his administration's position on California's citrus cartels or something, and then set to work on some crazy scheme to destroy him using a pathological intern as our Mata Hari.<ref>Coulter, Ann (May 1999). "Spikey and me". ]</ref>}} | |||
===On government=== | |||
*''"My ] friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local ]."'' - MSNBC ], ]. | |||
The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and it was dismissed via ]. The judge ruled that even if her allegations proved true, Jones did not show that she had suffered any damages, stating, "... plaintiff has not demonstrated any tangible job detriment or adverse employment action for her refusal to submit to the governor's alleged advances. The president is therefore entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of ] sexual harassment." The ruling was ]ed by Jones' lawyers. During the pendency of the appeal, Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 ($151,000 after legal fees) in November 1998, in exchange for Jones' dismissal of the appeal. By then, the Jones lawsuit had given way to the ]. | |||
* ''"I think there should be a ] and a ] for people to vote."'' Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, ], ]. | |||
In October 2000, Jones revealed that she would pose for nude pictures in an adult magazine, saying she wanted to use the money to pay taxes and support her grade-school-aged children, in particular saying, "I'm wanting to put them through college and maybe set up a college fund."<ref name=larryking>Jones, Paula. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225154140/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/24/lkl.00.html |date=February 25, 2007 }}". ''Larry King Live''. CNN. October 24, 2000. Retrieved October 24, 2000</ref> Coulter publicly denounced Jones, calling her "the trailer-park trash they said she was" (Coulter had earlier chastened Clinton supporters for calling Jones this name),<ref>Ann Coulter "". ''Human Events''. January 30, 1998. Retrieved November 18, 2006</ref> after Clinton's former campaign strategist ] had made the widely reported remark, "Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, and you'll never know what you'll find", and called Jones a "fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person".<ref name=larryking /> | |||
===On public "safety nets"=== | |||
* ''"Then there are the 22 million Americans on ]. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting ]. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal."'' - WorldNetDaily, ], ]. | |||
Coulter wrote: | |||
===On women=== | |||
{{blockquote|Paula surely was given more than a million dollars in free legal assistance from an array of legal talent she will never again encounter in her life, much less have busily working on her behalf. Some of those lawyers never asked for or received a dime for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal work performed at great professional, financial and personal cost to themselves. Others got partial payments out of the settlement. But at least they got her reputation back. And now she's thrown it away.<ref>Coulter, Ann. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308122818/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter103000.asp |date=March 8, 2005 }}". ''Jewish World Review''. October 30, 2000. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref>}} Jones claimed not to have been offered any help with a book deal of her own or any other additional financial help after the lawsuit.<ref name = larryking /> | |||
*''"Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do."'' – ], 1984, reported in '']'', April 2005. | |||
===Comments on Islam, Arabs, and terrorism=== | |||
*''"Women like ] and Patricia Duff are basically ] from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is. They're whores."'' - ] ], ] | |||
Coulter's September 14, 2001, column eulogized her friend ], killed three days earlier in the ], and ended with a call for war: | |||
{{blockquote|Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade ''their'' countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010914225811/http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml |archive-date=September 14, 2001 |title=This Is War |website=] |date=September 14, 2001 |access-date=December 10, 2011}}</ref>}} | |||
These comments resulted in Coulter being fired as a columnist by ''National Review'', which she subsequently referred to as "squeamish girly-boys".<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal |title=Rough Sailing for the New Darling on the Racial Right |journal=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education |date=2001 |issue=34 |page=44 |id={{ProQuest|195525219}} |jstor=3134110}}</ref> Responding to this comment, Ibrahim Hooper of the ] remarked in the '']'' that before September 11, Coulter "would have faced swift repudiation from her colleagues", but "now it's accepted as legitimate commentary".<ref>Jim Ritter, "Muslims see a growing media bias", ''Chicago Sun-Times'', September 4, 2006</ref> | |||
*''"I think should be armed but should not vote ... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it ... it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."'' - Politically Incorrect, ], ]. | |||
One day after the attacks (when death toll estimates were higher than later), Coulter asserted that only Muslims could have been behind them: "Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims—at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours."<ref name="Future widows">{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter092801.asp |author=Coulter, Ann |title= Future widows of America: Write your congressman |work=Jewish World Review |access-date=April 16, 2007 |date=September 28, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416152942/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter092801.asp |archive-date=April 16, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
*''"It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since ] - except ] in ] - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."'' - ], ]. | |||
Coulter was highly critical in 2002 of the ] and especially its then-secretary ]. Her many criticisms include their refusal to use ] as a component of ].<ref>Coulter, Ann. " {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050826205941/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter022802.asp |date=August 26, 2005}}", ''Jewish World Review''. February 28, 2002. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref> After a group of Muslims was expelled from a ] flight when other passengers expressed concern, sparking a call for Muslims to boycott the airline because of the ], Coulter wrote, "If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether."<ref>{{cite web |last=Coulter |first=Ann |url=http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=158 |title=What can I do to make your flight more uncomfortable? |date=November 22, 2006 |access-date=April 17, 2007 |publisher=AnnCoulter.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070326071242/http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=158 |archive-date=March 26, 2007 }}</ref> | |||
*''"Like the Democrats, '']'' just wants to liberate women to behave like pigs, have sex without consequences, prance about naked, and abort children."'' - ''How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)'', 2004 | |||
Coulter also cited the 2002 Senate testimony of FBI whistleblower ], who was acclaimed for condemning her superiors for refusing to authorize a ] for 9-11 conspirator ] when he refused to consent to a search of his computer. They knew that he was a Muslim in flight school who had overstayed his visa, and the ] had confirmed his affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups. Coulter said she agreed that ] existed in the case, but that refusing consent, being in flight school and overstaying a visa should not constitute grounds for a search. Citing a poll which found that 98 percent of Muslims between the ages of 20 and 45 said they would not fight for Britain in the war in Afghanistan, and that 48 percent said they would fight for ] she asserted "any Muslim who has attended a mosque in Europe—certainly in England, where Moussaoui lived—has had 'affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups,'" so that she parsed Rowley's position as meaning that {{"'}}probable cause' existed to search Moussaoui's computer because he was a Muslim who had lived in England". Coulter says the poll was "by '']''", actually it was by Sunrise, an "]" (therefore an Indian subcontinent-oriented) radio station, canvassing the opinions of 500 Muslims in Greater London (not Britain as a whole), mainly of Pakistani origin and aged between 20 and 45. Because "FBI headquarters ... refused to engage in racial profiling", they failed to uncover the 9-11 plot, Coulter asserted. "The FBI allowed thousands of Americans to be slaughtered on the altar of ]. What more do liberals want?"<ref>Coulter, Ann. " {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024072903/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter061302.asp |date=October 24, 2006}}", ''Jewish World Review'' June 13, 2002. Retrieved October 1, 2006.<br />{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Michael |last2=Roy |first2=Amit |title=Britons who join Taliban to face trial |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=October 30, 2001 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/30/nmus30.xml |access-date=November 30, 2007 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210143725/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F10%2F30%2Fnmus30.xml |archive-date=December 10, 2007 }}</ref> | |||
*''"How many people have to die before the country stops humoring feminists? Last week, a defendant in a rape case, Brian Nichols, wrested a gun from a female deputy in an Atlanta courthouse and went on a murderous rampage. Liberals have proffered every possible explanation for this breakdown in security except the giant elephant in the room -- who undoubtedly has an eating disorder and would appreciate a little support vis-a-vis her negative body image."'' - "Freeze! I Just Had my Nails Done!" ''WorldNetDaily'' ], ]. | |||
Coulter wrote in another column that she had reviewed the ] lawsuits against certain airlines to determine which of them had subjected Arabs to the most "egregious discrimination" so that she could fly only that airline. She also said that the airline should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them.<ref>Coulter, Ann. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811031922/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter043004.asp |date=August 11, 2006 }}" ''Jewish World Review'' April 29, 2004. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref> In an interview with '']'' she said, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most ] lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer, ], replied by asking what Muslims would do for travel, she responded, "They could use ]s."<ref name=appmagic>{{cite news|last=Freedland|first=Jonathan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/may/17/pressandpublishing.usnews|title=An appalling magic|work=The Guardian|date=May 17, 2003|access-date=April 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030602200513/http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,957670,00.html|archive-date=June 2, 2003|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===On the media=== | |||
* ''"My only regret with ] is he did not go to the '']'' building."'' - in a '']'' ], ]. | |||
In the wake of the ], Coulter told '']'' host ] that the wife of bombing suspect ] should be jailed for wearing a ]. Coulter continued by saying "Assimilating immigrants into our culture isn't really working. They're assimilating us into their culture."<ref>{{cite web |last=Webster |first=Stephen C |url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/23/coulter-boston-suspects-widow-ought-to-be-in-prison-for-wearing-a-hijab/ |title=Coulter: Boston suspect's widow 'ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab' |website=Raw Story |date=April 23, 2013 |access-date=April 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502011054/http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/23/coulter-boston-suspects-widow-ought-to-be-in-prison-for-wearing-a-hijab/ |archive-date=May 2, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
* ''"Of course I regret . I should have added 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and the reporters.'"'' - in a rightwingnews.com ], ]. | |||
===2013 CPAC Conference=== | |||
* ''"The only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?"'' ''How to Talk to a Liberal'', 2004. | |||
In March 2013, Coulter was one of the keynote speakers at the ], where she made references to New Jersey Governor ]'s weight ("CPAC had to cut back on its speakers this year about 300 pounds") and progressive activist ]'s hairdo. (Coulter quipped that Fluke didn't need birth control pills because "that haircut is birth control enough".) Coulter advocated against a path to citizenship for ] because such new citizens would never vote for Republican candidates: "If amnesty goes through, America becomes California and no Republican will ever win another election."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-blasts-chris-christie-says-hes-off-my-list-for-2016-in-fiery-cpac-speech/|title=Ann Coulter Blasts Chris Christie, Says He's 'Off My List' For 2016 In Fiery CPAC Speech|author=Garrett Quinn|date=March 16, 2013|website=Mediaite|access-date=May 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425080744/http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-blasts-chris-christie-says-hes-off-my-list-for-2016-in-fiery-cpac-speech/|archive-date=April 25, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="huffpost.130316">{{cite web|url=http://huff.to/16AsRy4|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130418152825/http://huff.to/16AsRy4|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2013|title=Ann Coulter CPAC: Pundit Tells Chris Christie Weight Joke, Calls Bill Clinton 'Forcible Rapist'|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=March 16, 2013|website=The Huffington Post|access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref> | |||
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===VDARE=== | ||
Since 2013, Coulter has been a contributor to ], a ] website and blog founded by anti-immigration activist and ] ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edison Hayden |first1=Michael |last2=Gais |first2=Hannah |title=White Nationalists Sought Resumes for Trump White House, Emails Show |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/12/14/white-nationalists-sought-resumes-trump-white-house-emails-show |access-date=August 15, 2021 |work=HateWatch |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=December 20, 2020}}</ref> ] has said that "Coulter and VDARE can be considered the furthest edge of the ]" as any political position further to the right would be too heretical to find mainstream success.<ref>{{cite book |last=Malice |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Malice |title=The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics |date=May 14, 2019 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group |location=New York, N.Y. |isbn=978-1-250-15467-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6FuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref> VDARE is controversial because of its alleged white supremacist rhetoric and support of ] and ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Klein |first=Adam |title=Fanaticism, racism, and rage online: corrupting the digital sphere |date=2017 |publisher=Springer |location=Cham, Switzerland |isbn=978-3-319-51424-6 |page=76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EcwWDgAAQBAJ&q=%22vdare%22%20coulter&pg=PA76 |quote=VDARE's web contributors have included noted conservative pundits lke Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin, as well as noted white supremacists such as Jared Taylor and John Philippe Rushton ... While the friends it has acquired in politics and journalism have long protected VDARE from greater scrutiny, its digital record has gradually exposed its character as a racially consumed, xenophobic community}}<br />{{cite web|date=May 12, 2006|title=Michelle Malkin's White Supremacist Ties|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-koppelman/michelle-malkins-white-su_b_20873.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324162153/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-koppelman/michelle-malkins-white-su_b_20873.html|archive-date=March 24, 2015|access-date=March 24, 2015|work=The Huffington Post}}<br />{{cite web |title=VDARE |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=August 15, 2021}}<br />{{cite news|last=Dewey|first=Caitlin|date=March 17, 2015|title=Amazon, PayPal and Spotify inadvertently fund white supremacists. Here's how|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/17/amazon-paypal-and-spotify-inadvertently-fund-white-supremacists-heres-how/|url-status=live|access-date=August 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811105806/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/17/amazon-paypal-and-spotify-inadvertently-fund-white-supremacists-heres-how/|archive-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref> | |||
* ''"When contemplating college ], you really regret once again that ] is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."'' - ], ]. | |||
== Candidate endorsements == | |||
* ''"Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."'' - (from Slander, pp. 5-6; published June 2002). | |||
Coulter initially supported ], but later criticized its approach to immigration. She endorsed ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/ann-coulter-endorses-the-magnificent-duncan-hunter-for-president/|title=Ann Coulter endorses the "magnificent" Duncan Hunter for President - John Hawkins' Right Wing News|date=July 3, 2007|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614121928/http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/ann-coulter-endorses-the-magnificent-duncan-hunter-for-president/|archive-date=2018-06-14|url-status=live}}</ref> and later ] in the ]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/16/coulter-endorses-romney/|title=Coulter endorses Romney|date=January 16, 2008|newspaper=]|access-date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116082008/http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/16/coulter-endorses-romney/|archive-date=2014-01-16|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ] and ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Coulter Gives Up, Endorses Mitt Romney: 'You've Got To Go With What You Have'|url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-gives-up-endorses-mitt-romney-youve-got-to-go-with-what-you-have/|access-date=May 3, 2013|newspaper=]|date=October 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407095029/http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-gives-up-endorses-mitt-romney-youve-got-to-go-with-what-you-have/|archive-date=2013-04-07|url-status=live}}</ref> In the ], she endorsed ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thebullelephant.com/ann-coulter-endorses-donald-trump/|title=Ann Coulter Endorses Donald Trump – The Bull Elephant|website=The Bull Elephant|date=August 3, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319173757/http://thebullelephant.com/ann-coulter-endorses-donald-trump/|archive-date=March 19, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter later distanced herself from Trump following arguments over immigration policies; she called for his impeachment in September 2017, saying "Put a fork in Trump, he's dead".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/15/right-wing-commentator-ann-coulter-lashes-trump-dreamers/|title=Right wing commentator Ann Coulter lashes out at Trump over 'dreamers'|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=September 15, 2017|access-date=February 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221062920/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/15/right-wing-commentator-ann-coulter-lashes-trump-dreamers/|archive-date=February 21, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She described herself in 2018 as a "former Trumper";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2018/04/ann_coulter_coming_to_metairie.html|title=Ann Coulter says she's now a 'Former Trumper' - Opinion|date=April 2, 2018 |access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714050837/https://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2018/04/ann_coulter_coming_to_metairie.html|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> in a 2020 speech to a ] event, she said, "The Trump agenda without Trump would be a lot easier. Our new motto should be 'Going on with ] without Trump.' That's a winning strategy."<ref>Jonathan Kyncl, , ''OU Daily'' (November 6, 2020).</ref> Coulter blamed Trump's son-in-law and advisor ] for Trump's 2020 election loss, and said that Trump had failed to deliver for the white working class.<ref>Devika Desai, , Postmedia News (November 23, 2020).</ref> In August 2024, Coulter spoke out against Donald Trump saying he was an "awful, awful person" however said she would vote for him in the 2024 election because she liked his running mate ] and how we needed "a wall on the border". "Can’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him, but I do trust JD Vance to care about the left behind people” Coulter said.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones|first=Kipp|date=2024-08-11 |title=Ann Coulter Bashes Trump as an 'Awful, Awful Person' — But Says She's Voting for Him Anyway Because of JD Vance |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ann-coulter-bashes-trump-as-an-awful-awful-person-but-says-she-s-voting-for-him-anyway-because-of-jd-vance/ar-AA1oCAsR?ocid=BingNewsVerp |access-date=2024-08-11 |website=] |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
Other candidates Coulter has endorsed include ] (]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/12/3365506/coulter-endorses-brannon-bashes.html|title=Coulter endorses Brannon, bashes Tillis|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310183141/http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/12/3365506/coulter-endorses-brannon-bashes.html|archive-date=March 10, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> ] (]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2016/08/06/ann-coulter-rallies-paul-nehlen-supporters/88342144/ |title=Ann Coulter rallies Paul Nehlen supporters |website=Jsonline.com |date=August 6, 2016 |access-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823230808/http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2016/08/06/ann-coulter-rallies-paul-nehlen-supporters/88342144/ |archive-date=August 23, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> ] (]), and ] (]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-12-13.html|title=December 13, 2017 - WHY I SECRETLY WANTED MOORE TO LOSE: BROOKS 2020!|website=www.anncoulter.com|date=December 13, 2017|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223084640/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-12-13.html|archive-date=2017-12-23|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===On Bill Clinton=== | |||
*''"If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country."'' - George, ], ]. | |||
== Controversies == | |||
*''"We're now at the point that it's beyond whether or not this guy is a horny hick. I really think it's a question of his mental stability. He really could be a lunatic. I think it is a rational question for Americans to ask whether their president is insane."''---Equal Time. | |||
=== Anti-semitism accusations === | |||
*''"Clinton is in love with the erect penis."''---This Evening with Judith Regan, Fox News Channel, ], ]. | |||
Coulter was accused of ] in an October 8, 2007, interview with ] on '']''. During the interview, Coulter stated that the United States is a Christian nation, and said that she wants "Jews to be perfected, as they say" (referring to them being converted to Christianity).<ref name="perfected_jews">{{cite news|title=Coulter: We Want Jews To Be "Perfected"|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coulter-we-want-jews-to-be-perfected/|access-date=September 27, 2011|work=]|date=February 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629075450/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/11/national/main3358373.shtml|archive-date=2011-06-29|url-status=live}}</ref> Deutsch, a practicing Jew, implied that this was an anti-semitic remark, but Coulter said she did not consider it to be a hateful comment.<ref name="Perfected_Jews_FOX">{{cite news|title=Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to be Perfected by Becoming Christians'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/columnist-ann-coulter-shocks-cable-tv-show-declaring-jews-need-to-be-perfected-by-becoming-christians|access-date=September 27, 2011|publisher=]|date=October 11, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007220454/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301216,00.html|archive-date=October 7, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Deutsch_response">{{cite news|title=Coulter draws fire over remarks about Jews|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21257498|access-date=September 27, 2011|work=]|date=October 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102153428/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21257498/|archive-date=November 2, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter's comments on the show were condemned by the ], ] and ],<ref>Burston, B. (October 14, 2007). Ann Coulter's dream of a Jew-free America. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809221434/http://www.haaretz.com/news/ann-coulter-s-dream-of-a-jew-free-america-1.231042 |date=2017-08-09 }}. Retrieved May 19, 2015.</ref> and the ] asked media outlets to cease inviting Coulter as a guest commentator.<ref name="Meyer_Dick">{{cite news|last=Meyer|first=Dick|title=Jewish Groups Condemn, Boycott Ann Coulter|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jewish-groups-condemn-boycott-ann-coulter/|access-date=September 27, 2011|work=]|date=February 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524181200/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/12/national/main3361954.shtml|archive-date=2011-05-24|url-status=live}}</ref> Talk show host ], while disagreeing with her comments, said that they were not "anti-semitic", noting, "There is nothing in what Ann Coulter said to a Jewish interviewer on ] that indicates she hates Jews or wishes them ill, or does damage to the Jewish people or the ]. And if none of those criteria is present, how can someone be labeled anti-Semitic?"<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Coulter's Expletive Might Be her Way of 'Perfecting' Jews and the GOP |url=http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ann-coulters-expletive-might-be-her-way-of-perfecting-jews-and-the-gop/2015/09/20/3/ |website=JewishPress.com |date=September 20, 2015 |publisher=JNi.Media |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126162405/https://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ann-coulters-expletive-might-be-her-way-of-perfecting-jews-and-the-gop/2015/09/20/3/ |archive-date=2019-01-26 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Prager_Dennis">{{cite news|last=Prager|first=Dennis|title=Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian-So What?|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2007/10/16/ann_coulter_wants_jews_to_become_christian_--_so_what|access-date=September 27, 2011|publisher=Townhall.com|date=October 16, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112093351/http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2007/10/16/ann_coulter_wants_jews_to_become_christian_--_so_what|archive-date=2011-11-12|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Prager |first1=Dennis |title=No, Ann Coulter Is Not an Anti-Semite |url=https://forward.com/opinion/321613/no-ann-coulter-is-not-an-anti-semite/ |access-date=November 7, 2018 |agency=The Forward Association |date=September 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108065756/https://forward.com/opinion/321613/no-ann-coulter-is-not-an-anti-semite/ |archive-date=2018-11-08 |url-status=live }}</ref> Conservative activist ] also defended Coulter against the allegation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Chris |title=Horowitz Defends Coulter's Jewish Remark: It's All Donnie Deutsch's Fault |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-nelson/horowitz-defends-coulters_b_70734.html |website=Huffington Post |date=November 2007 |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822052112/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-nelson/horowitz-defends-coulters_b_70734.html |archive-date=2015-08-22 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Coulter in September 2015 tweeted in response to multiple candidates' references to Israel during a Republican presidential primary debate, "How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?"<ref name=debate>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ann-coulter-sparks-outrage-anti-semitic-tweet-article-1.2363973|title=Ann Coulter sparks outrage over 'anti-Semitic' tweet, rant about 'Jews' during GOP debate|last=Chan|first=Melissa|work=Daily News|location=New York|date=September 17, 2015|access-date=September 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919191555/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ann-coulter-sparks-outrage-anti-semitic-tweet-article-1.2363973|archive-date=2015-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref> The Anti-Defamation League referred to the tweets as "ugly, spiteful and anti-Semitic".<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/ann-coulter-tweets.html|title=ADL Calls Ann Coulter's Tweets "Ugly, Spiteful and Anti-Semitic"|date=September 17, 2015|access-date=September 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920015346/http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/ann-coulter-tweets.html|archive-date=2015-09-20|url-status=live}}</ref> In response to accusations of anti-Semitism, she tweeted "I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan. Didn't need to hear applause lines about them all night."<ref name=debate /> | |||
===On religion=== | |||
* ''"The ] don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages -- it's much like The ] editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments -- or "Moses' talking points" -- but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone."'' - ], ]. | |||
=== Plagiarism accusations === | |||
* ''"Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed')."'' - ], ]. | |||
In October 2001, Coulter was accused of plagiarism for her 1998 book ''High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton'' by Michael Chapman, a columnist for the journal ''Human Events'' who claims that passages were taken from a supplement he wrote for the journal in 1997 titled "A Case for Impeachment".<ref name="ReferenceA" /> | |||
On the July 5, 2006, episode of '']'' on ], guest John Barrie, the CEO of ], offered his professional opinion that Coulter plagiarized in her book ''Godless'' as well as in her columns over the previous year.<ref name="Dietz">{{cite news|last=Dietz|first=Rob|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2006/07/06/olbermann-hosted-plagiarism-expert-to-spell-out/136106|title=Olbermann hosted plagiarism expert to spell out allegations against Coulter|work=Media Matters for America|date=July 6, 2006|access-date=August 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831035315/https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2006/07/06/olbermann-hosted-plagiarism-expert-to-spell-out/136106|archive-date=2018-08-31}}</ref> Barrie ran "Godless" through iThenticate, his company's machine, which is able to scan works and compare them to existing texts. He found a 25-word section of the text that was "virtually word-for-word" matched with a Planned Parenthood pamphlet and a 33-word section almost duplicating a 1999 article from the ''Portland Press'' as some examples of evidence.<ref name="Dietz"/> Barrie also said that it was "very, very difficult to try to determine whether Ann Coulter was citing that material or whether she was just trying to pass it off".<ref name="Dietz" /> | |||
*''"The ''Times'' was rushing to assure its readers that 'prominent Islamic scholars and theologians in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions.' (That's if you set aside Muhammad's many specific instructions to kill nonbelievers whenever possible)"'' - ''How to Talk to a Liberal'', 2004. | |||
Left-wing activist group<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-advertisers-lie-drop-media-matters-1424399 |title = Liberal activist group targets Fox News advertisers with "Drop Fox" ad, encourages them to stop funding lies|website = ]|first=Benjamin|last=Fearnow|date = May 13, 2019}}</ref> ] has appealed to Random House publishing to further investigate Coulter's work.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/07/07/media-matters-asks-random-house-to-investigate/136111|title=Media Matters asks Random House to investigate Coulter plagiarism allegations|date=October 10, 2007|newspaper=Media Matters for America|access-date=October 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130111549/http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/07/07/media-matters-asks-random-house-to-investigate/136111|archive-date=2016-11-30|url-status=live}}</ref> The syndicator of her columns cleared her of the plagiarism charges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-07-11-0607110267-story.html|title=Sorry, harpies--syndicator sees no Coulter plagiarism|last=Bowles|first=Cheryl|date=July 11, 2006|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116090017/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-07-11-0607110267-story.html|archive-date=2018-11-16|url-status=live}}</ref> Universal Press Syndicate and Crown Books also defended Coulter against the charges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/07/11/Syndicate-supports-Ann-Coulter/90741152652128/?sl=3|title=Syndicate supports Ann Coulter|date=July 11, 2006|work=United Press International|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108105102/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/07/11/Syndicate-supports-Ann-Coulter/90741152652128/?sl=3|archive-date=2018-11-08|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
==References== | |||
Columnist Bill Nemitz from the '']'' accused Coulter of plagiarizing a very specific sentence from his newspaper in her book ''Godless'', but he also acknowledged that one sentence is insufficient grounds for filing suit.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wonder how Ann Coulter fills her books? |last=Nemitz |first=Bill |date=July 23, 2006 |work=Portland Press Herald }}</ref> | |||
*Barak, Daphne (September 23, 1998). . ''Irish Examiner''. | |||
*Bowman, David (July 25, 2003). . ''salon.com'' . | |||
*Cloud, John (April 25, 2005). "Ms. Right." ''Time''. | |||
*Coulter, Ann (October 30, 2000). . ''Jewish World Review''. | |||
*Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). . ''Jewish World Review''. | |||
*Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). . Interview with Phil Donahue. Free Republic. posted by Pistolshot, July 19, 2002. | |||
*Coulter, Ann (August 26, 2002). . Interview with George Gurley. ''New York Observer'' reprinted at AntiAuthority. | |||
*Coulter, Ann (October 9, 2003). . ''Jewish World Review''. | |||
*Coulter, Ann (January 12, 2004). . Interview with Jamie Glazov. ''FrontPageMag.com''. | |||
*Coulter, Ann (July 26, 2004). . ''anncoulter.com''. | |||
*Daley, David (June 25, 1999). . ''Hartford Courant''. | |||
*] (October 3, 2001). . ''National Review Online''. | |||
*Memmot, Mark (July 26, 2004). . ''USAToday.com''. Updated July 27, 2004. | |||
* (.pdf file) (2002). Coulterwatch.com. Retrieved March 17, 2005. | |||
*West, Nigel (2000). ''Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War''. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0006530710 | |||
===Cyberbullying=== | |||
==Books by Ann Coulter== | |||
In August 2024, Coulter received widespread criticism for a tweet with the comment "Talk about weird ...", referring to Democratic vice presidential nominee ]'s 17-year-old son, who has ],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Kaitlin |date=2024-08-22 |title=What is a nonverbal learning disorder? Tim Walz's son Gus' condition, explained |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nonverbal-learning-disorder-tim-walzs-son-gus-condition-explained-rcna167804 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> crying during his father's acceptance speech at the ].<ref>{{cite news|author=TOI World Desk|date=August 22, 2024|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/ann-coulter-called-bully-soulless-after-her-weird-attack-on-gus-walz/articleshow/112718636.cms|title=Ann Coulter called 'bully', 'soulless' after her 'weird' attack on Gus Walz|work=]|access-date=August 22, 2024}}</ref> The tweet was deleted shortly after it was posted.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lavine|first=Owen|date=August 22, 2024|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/social-media-slams-ann-coulter-for-heartless-gus-walz-tweet|title=Ann Coulter Deletes Heartless Gus Walz Tweet After Backlash|work=]|access-date=August 22, 2024}}</ref> | |||
*'']: The World According to Ann Coulter'' (Crown Forum, 2004) ISBN 1400054184. The book is a collection of columns on varied topics, such as ], the U.S. ] and the ]. | |||
*]'' (Crown Forum, 2003) ISBN 1400050308 | |||
*''Feminist Fantasies'' by ], foreword by Ann Coulter (Spence Publishing, 2003) ISBN 1890626465 | |||
*'']'' (Crown Forum, 2002) ISBN 1400046610 | |||
*'']'' (Regnery Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0895261138 | |||
*Is It True What They Say About Ann?", ]documentary on Ann Coulter containing a clip of her interviews and speeches, released in ]. | |||
== In popular culture == | |||
==External links== | |||
Coulter was played by ] in '']''; ] was originally cast in the role but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. The series portrays Coulter's actions while assisting the prosecution in '']'', the precursor to ].<ref>{{cite web |last=Hailu |first=Selome |title=Cobie Smulders to Play Ann Coulter in 'Impeachment: American Crime Story' After Betty Gilpin Exits (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cobie-smulders-ann-coulter-impeachment-american-crime-story-1235035552/ |website=Variety |date=August 5, 2021 |access-date=January 28, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
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Coulter was satirically depicted in ], episode 11 of '']''—"The S Word"—where she voiced support for a white teacher in the show who said ]. | |||
* - some of her 'wise' quotes. | |||
* ''anncoulter.com''. | |||
* - collection of syndicated columns on ''Jewish World Review''. | |||
== Personal life == | |||
===Biography and quotes=== | |||
Coulter has been engaged several times, but she has never married and has no children.<ref name="pickfights" /> After the ], she dated a Muslim boyfriend.<ref>{{cite video |people=Ann Coulter |date=August 18, 2024 |title=Ann Coulter Speaks on Liberals, Islam, and More |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IASCrYuUg1k |access-date=August 29, 2024 |publisher=Conservative News |location=YouTube}}</ref> She has dated '']'' founder and publisher ]<ref name="arm candy" /> and conservative writer ].<ref name="coultergeist">{{cite news|url=https://observer.com/2002/08/coultergeist|title=Coultergeist|last=Gurley|first=George|date=August 25, 2002|work=]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809164155/http://www.observer.com/2002/08/coultergeist/|archive-date=August 9, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Peretz|first=Evgenia|date=2015-04-09|title=Get a Rare Glimpse of Dinesh D'Souza's Life After Conviction|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/dinesh-dsouza-video-life-after-conviction|access-date=2021-08-12|website=]|language=en-US}}</ref> In October 2007, she began dating ], the former president of the ], a liberal Democrat. On January 7, 2008, however, Stein told the ''New York Post'' that the relationship was over, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/01/split_ann_coulter_and_andrew_s.html|title=SPLIT!!!!! Ann Coulter and Andrew Stein|date=January 7, 2008|work=]|access-date=May 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011052935/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/01/split_ann_coulter_and_andrew_s.html|archive-date=October 11, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2013 it was reported that Coulter was dating actor ]. Coulter responded to the rumors by saying "He’s the one spreading that rumor! No, we’re great friends. We do a lot of stuff together. … He is so hilarious, so I see him a lot when I’m in L.A., but we are not technically dating.” In 2017, ], who created the television ] '']'' in which Walker starred, said of Walker "I love him; he’s a wonderful guy. But I’ll tell you something about him that’ll astound you: He dates Ann Coulter.” Coulter responded to Lear's comments by saying "This rumor spreads every now and then, but it’s never been true. We’re great friends. He’s hilarious and a Republican. Now, that’s news!”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clarendon|first=Dan|date=2020-12-08 |title=Ann Coulter Has Good Times, Not Romance, With 'Good Times' Star Jimmie Walker |url=https://www.distractify.com/p/ann-coulter-husband|access-date=2024-08-11 |website=distractify.com|language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
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* by mostly critical editors. | |||
* documentary on Coulter. | |||
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], who refers to Coulter as a friend, told '']'' magazine in 2017 that Coulter "started dating her security guard probably ten years ago because she couldn't see anybody else".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html|title=Kellyanne Conway Is the Real First Lady of Trump's America|first=Olivia|last=Nuzzi|date=March 18, 2017|access-date=March 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320193646/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html|archive-date=March 20, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Book Reviews=== | |||
*"Limerick, Dr. Rush" (September 9, 2002). . Rev. of ''Slander''. ''slannder.homestead.com''. Looks at chapter 2. | |||
*] (Winter 2003). . Rev. of ''Treason''. ''Claremont Review of Books'' . by biographer of Joseph McCarthy. | |||
*] (July 8, 2003). . Rev. of ''Treason''. ''Frontpagemag.com''. Article by a conservative both critical and praising. | |||
*Nyhan, Brendan (June 30, 2003). . Rev. of ''Treason''. ''spinsanity''. Media analyst protests "complicated set of rhetorical tricks." | |||
Coulter owns a house, bought in 2005, in ], Florida, a ] in ], and an apartment in Los Angeles. She votes in Palm Beach and is not ] to do so in New York or California.<ref>{{cite news |title=Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New Image |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html |date=October 8, 2010 |access-date=May 3, 2013 |first=Laura M. |last=Holson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230164940/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html |archive-date=December 30, 2012 |url-status=live }}<br />Lisberg, Adam. "". '']|location=New York''. June 8, 2006. Retrieved August 21, 2007.</ref> | |||
===Criticism=== | |||
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*] (September 5, 2002). . ''The Nation''. criticism of Coulter | |||
* | |||
* by Jack Clark | |||
* former "watch site" for Ann Coulter, now seldom updated. | |||
* another defunct watch site. | |||
*{{book reference| | |||
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===Current events (fan sites and watch sites)=== | |||
* not currently maintained, contains archive. | |||
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* Organization in opposition to Ann Coulter's exploits | |||
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Ann Hart Coulter (/ˈkoʊltər/ ; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative media pundit, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She became known as a media pundit in the late 1990s, appearing in print and on cable news as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration. Her first book concerned the impeachment of Bill Clinton and sprang from her experience writing legal briefs for Paula Jones's attorneys, as well as columns she wrote about the cases. Coulter's syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate appears in newspapers and is featured on conservative websites. Coulter has also written 13 books.
Early life
Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961, in New York City, to John Vincent Coulter (1926–2008), an FBI agent from a working class Catholic Irish American and German American family in Albany, New York, and Nell Husbands Coulter (née Martin; 1928–2009), a homemaker who was born in Paducah, Kentucky.
Coulter's mother's ancestry has been traced back on both sides of her family to a group of Puritan settlers in Plymouth Colony, British America arriving on the Griffin with Thomas Hooker in 1633, and her father's family were Catholic Irish and German immigrants who arrived in America in the 19th century. Her father's Irish ancestors emigrated during the famine—and became ship laborers, tilemakers, brickmakers, carpenters and flagmen. Coulter's father attended college on the GI Bill and later became an FBI agent.
She has two older brothers: James, an accountant, and John, an attorney. Her family later moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and her two brothers were raised. Coulter graduated from New Canaan High School in 1980.
While attending Cornell University, Coulter helped found The Cornell Review, and was a member of the Delta Gamma national sorority. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988, where she was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. At Michigan, Coulter was president of the local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center.
Coulter's age was disputed in 2002. While she argued that she was not yet 40, The Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove cited a birthdate of December 8, 1961, which Coulter provided when registering to vote in New Canaan, Connecticut, prior to the 1980 Presidential election, for which she had to be 18 years old to register. A driver's license issued several years later purportedly listed her birthdate as December 8, 1963. Coulter has not confirmed either date, citing privacy concerns.
Career
After law school, Coulter served as a law clerk in Kansas City for Judge Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where she specialized in corporate law, Coulter left to work for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took control of Congress in 1994. She handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan and helped craft legislation designed to expedite the deportation of aliens convicted of felonies. She later became a litigator with the Center for Individual Rights.
Coulter has written 13 books, and also publishes a syndicated newspaper column. She is particularly known for her polemical style, and describes herself as someone who likes to "stir up the pot. I don't pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do". She idolized Clare Boothe Luce for her satirical style. She also makes numerous public appearances, speaking on television and radio talk shows, as well as on college campuses, receiving both praise and protest. Coulter typically spends 6 to 12 weeks of the year on speaking engagement tours, and more when she has a book coming out. In 2010, she made an estimated $500,000 on the speaking circuit, giving speeches on topics of modern conservatism, gay marriage, and what she describes as the hypocrisy of modern American liberalism. During one appearance at the University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her. In defense of her ideas, Coulter has on occasion responded with inflammatory remarks toward hecklers and protestors who attend her speeches.
Books
Coulter has authored twelve books, including many that have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with a combined 3 million copies sold as of May 2009.
Coulter's first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, was published by Regnery Publishing in 1998 and made The New York Times Bestseller list. It details Coulter's case for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, published by Crown Forum in 2002, reached the number one spot on The New York Times non-fiction best seller list. In Slander, Coulter argues that President George W. Bush was given unfair negative media coverage. The factual accuracy of Slander was called into question by then-comedian and author, later Democratic U.S. Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken; he also accused her of citing passages out of context. Others investigated these charges, and also raised questions about the book's accuracy and presentation of facts. Coulter responded to criticisms in a column called "Answering My Critics".
In her third book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, also published by Crown Forum, she reexamines the 60-year history of the Cold War—including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss affair, and Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"—and argues that liberals were wrong in their Cold War political analyses and policy decisions, and that McCarthy was correct about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government. She also argues that the correct identification of Annie Lee Moss, among others, as communists was misreported by the liberal media. Treason was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Seller list.
Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter's columns in 2004 as her fourth book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter.
Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is Godless: The Church of Liberalism. In it, she argues, first, that American liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, and second, that it bears all the attributes of a religion itself. Godless debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Coulter's If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans (Crown Forum), published in October 2007, and Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America (Crown Forum), published on January 6, 2009, both also achieved best-seller status.
On June 7, 2011, Crown Forum published her eighth book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.
Her ninth book, published September 25, 2012, was Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. It argues that liberals, and Democrats in particular, have taken undue credit for racial civil rights in America.
Coulter's tenth book, Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican, was released on October 14, 2013. It is her second collection of columns and her first published by Regnery since her first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Coulter published her eleventh book, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole, on June 1, 2015. The book addresses illegal immigration, amnesty programs, and border security in the United States.
Columns
In the late 1990s, Coulter's weekly (biweekly from 1999 to 2000) syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate began appearing. Her column is featured on six conservative websites: Human Events Online, WorldNetDaily, Townhall.com, VDARE, FrontPage Magazine, Jewish World Review and her own website. Her syndicator says, "Ann's client newspapers stick with her because she has a loyal fan base of conservative readers who look forward to reading her columns in their local newspapers".
In 1999, Coulter worked as a columnist for George magazine. Coulter also wrote weekly columns for the conservative magazine Human Events between 1998 and 2003, with occasional columns thereafter. In her columns, she discussed judicial rulings, constitutional issues, and legal matters affecting Congress and the executive branch.
In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist for National Review Online (NRO), Coulter was asked by editors to make changes to a piece written after the September 11 attacks. On the show Politically Incorrect, Coulter accused NRO of censorship and said she was paid $5 per article. NRO dropped her column and terminated her editorship. Jonah Goldberg, the editor-at-large of NRO, said: "We did not 'fire' Ann for what she wrote... we ended the relationship because she behaved with a total lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty ."
In August 2005, the Arizona Daily Star dropped Coulter's syndicated column, citing reader complaints: "Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives".
In July 2006, some newspapers replaced Coulter's column with those of other conservative columnists following the publication of her fourth book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. After The Augusta Chronicle dropped her column, newspaper editor Michael Ryan said: "it came to the point where she was the issue rather than what she was writing about." Ryan added that he continued himself "to be an Ann Coulter fan" as "her logic is devastating and her viewpoint is right most of the time."
Television and radio
Coulter made her first national media appearance in 1996 after she was hired by the then-fledgling network MSNBC as a legal correspondent. She later appeared on CNN and Fox News, and went on to make frequent guest appearances on many television and radio talk shows.
Political views
Ann Coulter is a conservative columnist and, as a member of the Federalist Society, is staunch advocate federalism, originalism states' rights and textualism. In 2003, described herself as a "typical, immodest-dressing, swarthy male-loving, friend-to-homosexuals, ultra-conservative." She is a registered Republican and former member of the advisory council of GOProud since August 9, 2011. When Milo Yiannopoulos initially defended pederasty, Coulter commented, "Well, Milo learned HIS lesson. Pederasty acceptable only for refugees and illegals. Then libs will support you."
Abortion
Coulter supported the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, which overturned the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey precedent, because she does not believe in a right to privacy. She believes abortion is a states' rights issue and opposes federal government regulating both for and against abortion. She describes herself as an "anti-abortion zealot". She said banning most abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy as "shockingly reasonable". She believes abortion, excluding abortion exceptions in cases of fetal impairment, rape and danger to a woman's life or health, should be illegal in most other cases.
Christianity
Coulter is a Presbyterian. Coulter was raised by a Catholic father and Protestant mother. At one public lecture she said: "I don't care about anything else; Christ died for my sins, and nothing else matters."
Confronting some critics' views that her content and style of writing is unchristian, Coulter said that she is "a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it." Six years later, in 2011, she also said "Christianity fuels everything I write."
Evolution
Coulter advocates teaching intelligent design, a pseudoscientific anti-evolution ideology, alongside evolution. In Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Coulter characterized the theory of evolution as bogus science, and contrasted her beliefs to what she called the left's "obsession with Darwinism and the Darwinian view of the world, which replaces sanctification of life with sanctification of sex and death".
Federalism
Ann Coulter supports, regardless of her own personal position on the issue, a federalist states' rights position on abortion, affirmative action, cannabis legalization, capital punishment, contraception, criminal justice reform, education, environmental regulations, gun control, hate crime laws, healthcare, labor laws, minimum wage, religious displays on public buildings, prostitution, right-to-work laws, same-sex marriage, sodomy laws, state preemption laws, state religion, voting rights, and welfare.
Civil liberties
Coulter endorsed the NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program directed at Al-Qaeda. During a 2011 appearance on Stossel, she said "PATRIOT Act, fantastic, Gitmo, fantastic, waterboarding, not bad, though torture would've been better." She criticized Rand Paul for "this anti-drone stuff".
Coulter opposes hate crime laws, calling them "unconstitutional". She also stated that "Hate-crime provisions seem vaguely directed at capturing a sense of cold-bloodedness, but the law can do that without elevating some victims over others."
Civil rights
Although Coulter supported the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, she is critical of desegregation busing, which she calls "forced busing" and desegregation court rulings since Brown v. Board of Education. She supports literacy tests for voting, which she claims are not unconstitutional or prohibited in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She supports the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Women's rights
Coulter rejects "the academic convention of euphemism and circumlocution", and is claimed to play to misogyny in order to further her goals; she "dominates without threatening (at least not straight men)". Feminist critics also reject Coulter's opinion that the gains made by women have gone so far as to create an anti-male society and her call for women to be rejected from the military because they are more vicious than men. Like the late anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, Coulter uses traditionally masculine rhetoric as reasoning for the need for traditional gender roles, and she carries this idea of feminized dependency into her governmental policies, according to feminist critics.
Coulter said in 2021 that women should not be allowed to vote.
Immigration
Coulter has criticized former president George W. Bush's immigration proposals. In a 2007 column, she claimed that the current immigration system was set up to deliberately reduce the percentage of whites in the population.
Coulter opposes the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. She strongly opposed amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and at the 2013 CPAC said she had become "a single-issue voter against amnesty".
In June 2018, during the controversy caused by the Trump administration family separation policy, Coulter dismissed immigrant children as "child actors weeping and crying" and urged Trump not to "fall for it".
Coulter is an advocate of the white genocide conspiracy theory. She has compared non-white immigration into the United States with genocide, and claiming that "a genocide" is occurring against South African farmers, she has said that the Boers are the "only real refugees" in South Africa. Regarding domestic politics, Vox labelled Coulter as one of many providing a voice for "the 'white genocide' myth", and the SPLC covered Coulter's remarks that if the demographic changes occurring in the U.S. were being "legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide".
LGBT rights
Coulter opposes same-sex marriage, opposes Obergefell v. Hodges, and supports, after previously saying she did not, a federal U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman. She claims her opposition to same-sex marriage "wasn't an anti-gay thing" and that "It's genuinely a pro-marriage position to oppose gay marriage". Coulter claims that same-sex marriage would "ruin gay culture", because "gays value promiscuous sex over monogamy".
In an October 2003 C-SPAN debate, Coulter said there was nothing in the US Constitution about same-sex marriage and that she did not think she had taken a position yet on the issue of same-sex marriage. When asked, hypothetically, as Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) judge, if she would overturn a state statutorily legalizing same-sex marriage, she said she would not. When asked if she would support a federal U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman, she said, as she when it first came up, she did not because she thought it was pointless as SCOTUS wasn't correctly interpreting the constitution as it is according to her. On November 18, 2003, the day Goodridge v. Department of Public Health was decided, she began helping to launch a national effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to prevent same-marriage.
Coulter also opposes civil unions and privatizing marriage. When addressed with the issue of rights granted by marriage, she said, "Gays already can visit loved ones in hospitals. They can also visit neighbors, random acquaintances, and total strangers in hospitals—just like everyone else. Gays can also pass on property to whomever they would like." She also stated that same-sex sexual intercourse was already protected under the Fourth Amendment, which prevents police from going into your home without a search warrant or court order.
Coulter disagreed with repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, stating that it is not an "anti-gay position; it is a pro-military position" because "sexual bonds are disruptive to the military bond". She also stated that there is "no proof that all the discharges for homosexuality involve actual homosexuals."
Coulter has expressed her opposition to treatment of LGBT people in the countries of Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia.
Since the 1990s, Coulter has had many acquaintances in the LGBT community. She describes herself as "the Judy Garland of the Right", reflecting Garland's large fan base from the gay community. In the last few years before 2015 she attracted LGBT fans, namely gay men and drag queens.
At the 2007 CPAC, Coulter said, "I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media—how they keep describing Mitt Romney's position as being pro-gays, and that's going to upset the right wingers", and "Well, you know, screw you! I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against." She added, "I don't know why all gays aren't Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they're victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us."
In Coulter's 2007 book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, in the chapter "Gays: No Gay Left Behind!", she argued that Republican policies were more pro-gay than Democratic policies. Coulter attended the 2010 HomoCon of GOProud, where she gave a speech about why gays should oppose same-sex marriage.
At the 2011 CPAC, during her question-and-answer segment, Coulter was asked about GOProud and the controversy over their inclusion at the 2011 CPAC. She boasted how she talked GOProud into dropping its support for same-sex marriage in the party's platform, saying, "The left is trying to co-opt gays, and I don't think we should let them. I think they should be on our side", and "Gays are natural conservatives". Later that year, she joined advisory board for GOProud. On Logo's The A-List: Dallas she told gay Republican Taylor Garrett that "The gays have got to be pro-life", and "As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?"
War on Drugs
Coulter strongly supports continuing the War on Drugs. However, she has said that, if there were not a welfare state, she "wouldn't care" if drugs were legal. She spoke about drugs as a guest on Piers Morgan Live, where she said that marijuana users "can't perform daily functions".
Bernie Sanders
In April 2019, Coulter said of Senator Bernie Sanders she would vote and perhaps even work for him in the 2020 U.S. presidential election if he stuck to his "original position" on U.S. border policy. "If he went back to his original position, which is the pro blue-collar position—I mean, it totally makes sense with him", and "If he went back to that position, I'd vote for him, I might work for him. I don't care about the rest of the socialist stuff. Just, can we do something for ordinary Americans?"
Political activities and commentary
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Ann Coulter has described herself as a "polemicist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do". While her political activities in the past have included advising a plaintiff suing President Bill Clinton as well as considering a run for Congress, she mostly serves as a political pundit, sometimes creating controversy ranging from rowdy uprisings at some of the colleges where she speaks to protracted discussions in the media.
Time magazine's John Cloud once observed that Coulter "likes to shock reporters by wondering aloud whether America might be better off if women lost the right to vote". This was in reference to her statement that "it would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950—except Goldwater in '64—the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted." Similarly, in an October 2007 interview with The New York Observer, Coulter said:
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care—and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'
Coulter has also appeared on Fox News and advocated for a poll tax and a literacy test for voters (this was in 1999, and she reiterated her support of a literacy test in 2015).
Paula Jones – Bill Clinton case
Coulter first became a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal adviser for the attorneys representing Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton. Coulter's friend George Conway had been asked to assist Jones' attorneys, and shortly afterward Coulter, who wrote a column about the Paula Jones case for Human Events, was also asked to help, and she began writing legal briefs for the case.
Coulter later stated that she would come to mistrust the motives of Jones' head lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who by August or September 1997 was advising Jones that her case was weak and to settle, if a favorable settlement could be negotiated. From the outset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement. However, in a later interview Coulter recounted that she herself had believed that the case was strong, that Jones was telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly accountable for his misconduct, and that a settlement would give the impression that Jones was merely interested in extorting money from the President.
David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for The Hartford Courant recounted what followed:
Coulter played one particularly key role in keeping the Jones case alive. In Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff's new book Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story, Coulter is unmasked as the one who leaked word of Clinton's "distinguishing characteristic"—his reportedly bent penis that Jones said she could recognize and describe—to the news media. Her hope was to foster mistrust between the Clinton and Jones camps and forestall a settlement ... I thought if I leaked the distinguishing characteristic it would show bad faith in negotiations. Bob Bennett would think Jones had leaked it. Cammaratta would know he himself hadn't leaked it and would get mad at Bennett. It might stall negotiations enough for me to get through to Susan Carpenter-McMillan to tell her that I thought settling would hurt Paula, that this would ruin her reputation, and that there were other lawyers working for her. Then 36 hours later, she returned my phone call. I just wanted to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I don't think I could have taken the abuse she came under. She's this poor little country girl and she has the most powerful man she's ever met hitting on her sexually, then denying it and smearing her as president. And she never did anything tacky. It's not like she was going on TV or trying to make a buck out of it."
In his book, Isikoff also reported Coulter as saying: "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President." After the book came out, Coulter clarified her stated motives, saying:
The only motive for leaking the distinguishing characteristic item that gives in his book is my self-parodying remark that "it would humiliate the president" and that a settlement would foil our efforts to bring down the president ... I suppose you could take the position, as does, that we were working for Jones because we thought Clinton was a lecherous, lying scumbag, but this argument gets a bit circular. You could also say that Juanita Broaddrick's secret motive in accusing Clinton of rape is that she hates Clinton because he raped her. The whole reason we didn't much like Clinton was that we could see he was the sort of man who would haul a low-level government employee like Paula to his hotel room, drop his pants, and say, "Kiss it." You know: Everything his defense said about him at the impeachment trial. It's not like we secretly disliked Clinton because of his administration's position on California's citrus cartels or something, and then set to work on some crazy scheme to destroy him using a pathological intern as our Mata Hari.
The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and it was dismissed via summary judgment. The judge ruled that even if her allegations proved true, Jones did not show that she had suffered any damages, stating, "... plaintiff has not demonstrated any tangible job detriment or adverse employment action for her refusal to submit to the governor's alleged advances. The president is therefore entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of quid pro quo sexual harassment." The ruling was appealed by Jones' lawyers. During the pendency of the appeal, Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 ($151,000 after legal fees) in November 1998, in exchange for Jones' dismissal of the appeal. By then, the Jones lawsuit had given way to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
In October 2000, Jones revealed that she would pose for nude pictures in an adult magazine, saying she wanted to use the money to pay taxes and support her grade-school-aged children, in particular saying, "I'm wanting to put them through college and maybe set up a college fund." Coulter publicly denounced Jones, calling her "the trailer-park trash they said she was" (Coulter had earlier chastened Clinton supporters for calling Jones this name), after Clinton's former campaign strategist James Carville had made the widely reported remark, "Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, and you'll never know what you'll find", and called Jones a "fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person".
Coulter wrote:
Paula surely was given more than a million dollars in free legal assistance from an array of legal talent she will never again encounter in her life, much less have busily working on her behalf. Some of those lawyers never asked for or received a dime for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal work performed at great professional, financial and personal cost to themselves. Others got partial payments out of the settlement. But at least they got her reputation back. And now she's thrown it away.
Jones claimed not to have been offered any help with a book deal of her own or any other additional financial help after the lawsuit.
Comments on Islam, Arabs, and terrorism
Coulter's September 14, 2001, column eulogized her friend Barbara Olson, killed three days earlier in the September 11 attacks, and ended with a call for war:
Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
These comments resulted in Coulter being fired as a columnist by National Review, which she subsequently referred to as "squeamish girly-boys". Responding to this comment, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American–Islamic Relations remarked in the Chicago Sun-Times that before September 11, Coulter "would have faced swift repudiation from her colleagues", but "now it's accepted as legitimate commentary".
One day after the attacks (when death toll estimates were higher than later), Coulter asserted that only Muslims could have been behind them: "Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims—at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours."
Coulter was highly critical in 2002 of the U.S. Department of Transportation and especially its then-secretary Norman Mineta. Her many criticisms include their refusal to use racial profiling as a component of passenger security screening. After a group of Muslims was expelled from a US Airways flight when other passengers expressed concern, sparking a call for Muslims to boycott the airline because of the ejection from a flight of six imams, Coulter wrote, "If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether."
Coulter also cited the 2002 Senate testimony of FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, who was acclaimed for condemning her superiors for refusing to authorize a search warrant for 9-11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui when he refused to consent to a search of his computer. They knew that he was a Muslim in flight school who had overstayed his visa, and the French Intelligence Service had confirmed his affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups. Coulter said she agreed that probable cause existed in the case, but that refusing consent, being in flight school and overstaying a visa should not constitute grounds for a search. Citing a poll which found that 98 percent of Muslims between the ages of 20 and 45 said they would not fight for Britain in the war in Afghanistan, and that 48 percent said they would fight for Osama bin Laden she asserted "any Muslim who has attended a mosque in Europe—certainly in England, where Moussaoui lived—has had 'affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups,'" so that she parsed Rowley's position as meaning that "'probable cause' existed to search Moussaoui's computer because he was a Muslim who had lived in England". Coulter says the poll was "by The Daily Telegraph", actually it was by Sunrise, an "Asian" (therefore an Indian subcontinent-oriented) radio station, canvassing the opinions of 500 Muslims in Greater London (not Britain as a whole), mainly of Pakistani origin and aged between 20 and 45. Because "FBI headquarters ... refused to engage in racial profiling", they failed to uncover the 9-11 plot, Coulter asserted. "The FBI allowed thousands of Americans to be slaughtered on the altar of political correctness. What more do liberals want?"
Coulter wrote in another column that she had reviewed the civil rights lawsuits against certain airlines to determine which of them had subjected Arabs to the most "egregious discrimination" so that she could fly only that airline. She also said that the airline should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them. In an interview with The Guardian she said, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer, Jonathan Freedland, replied by asking what Muslims would do for travel, she responded, "They could use flying carpets."
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, Coulter told Hannity host Sean Hannity that the wife of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev should be jailed for wearing a hijab. Coulter continued by saying "Assimilating immigrants into our culture isn't really working. They're assimilating us into their culture."
2013 CPAC Conference
In March 2013, Coulter was one of the keynote speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where she made references to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's weight ("CPAC had to cut back on its speakers this year about 300 pounds") and progressive activist Sandra Fluke's hairdo. (Coulter quipped that Fluke didn't need birth control pills because "that haircut is birth control enough".) Coulter advocated against a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants because such new citizens would never vote for Republican candidates: "If amnesty goes through, America becomes California and no Republican will ever win another election."
VDARE
Since 2013, Coulter has been a contributor to VDARE, a far-right website and blog founded by anti-immigration activist and paleo-conservative Peter Brimelow. Michael Malice has said that "Coulter and VDARE can be considered the furthest edge of the Overton Window" as any political position further to the right would be too heretical to find mainstream success. VDARE is controversial because of its alleged white supremacist rhetoric and support of scientific racism and white nationalism.
Candidate endorsements
Coulter initially supported George W. Bush's presidency, but later criticized its approach to immigration. She endorsed Duncan Hunter and later Mitt Romney in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries and the 2012 Republican presidential primary and presidential run. In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, she endorsed Donald Trump. Coulter later distanced herself from Trump following arguments over immigration policies; she called for his impeachment in September 2017, saying "Put a fork in Trump, he's dead". She described herself in 2018 as a "former Trumper"; in a 2020 speech to a Turning Point USA event, she said, "The Trump agenda without Trump would be a lot easier. Our new motto should be 'Going on with Trumpism without Trump.' That's a winning strategy." Coulter blamed Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner for Trump's 2020 election loss, and said that Trump had failed to deliver for the white working class. In August 2024, Coulter spoke out against Donald Trump saying he was an "awful, awful person" however said she would vote for him in the 2024 election because she liked his running mate JD Vance and how we needed "a wall on the border". "Can’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him, but I do trust JD Vance to care about the left behind people” Coulter said.
Other candidates Coulter has endorsed include Greg Brannon (2014 Republican primary candidate for North Carolina Senator), Paul Nehlen (2016 Republican primary candidate for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives), Mo Brooks (2017 Republican primary candidate for Alabama Senator), and Roy Moore (2017 Republican candidate for Alabama Senator).
Controversies
Anti-semitism accusations
Coulter was accused of antisemitism in an October 8, 2007, interview with Donny Deutsch on The Big Idea. During the interview, Coulter stated that the United States is a Christian nation, and said that she wants "Jews to be perfected, as they say" (referring to them being converted to Christianity). Deutsch, a practicing Jew, implied that this was an anti-semitic remark, but Coulter said she did not consider it to be a hateful comment. Coulter's comments on the show were condemned by the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and Bradley Burston, and the National Jewish Democratic Council asked media outlets to cease inviting Coulter as a guest commentator. Talk show host Dennis Prager, while disagreeing with her comments, said that they were not "anti-semitic", noting, "There is nothing in what Ann Coulter said to a Jewish interviewer on CNBC that indicates she hates Jews or wishes them ill, or does damage to the Jewish people or the Jewish state. And if none of those criteria is present, how can someone be labeled anti-Semitic?" Conservative activist David Horowitz also defended Coulter against the allegation.
Coulter in September 2015 tweeted in response to multiple candidates' references to Israel during a Republican presidential primary debate, "How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?" The Anti-Defamation League referred to the tweets as "ugly, spiteful and anti-Semitic". In response to accusations of anti-Semitism, she tweeted "I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan. Didn't need to hear applause lines about them all night."
Plagiarism accusations
In October 2001, Coulter was accused of plagiarism for her 1998 book High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton by Michael Chapman, a columnist for the journal Human Events who claims that passages were taken from a supplement he wrote for the journal in 1997 titled "A Case for Impeachment".
On the July 5, 2006, episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, guest John Barrie, the CEO of iParadigms, offered his professional opinion that Coulter plagiarized in her book Godless as well as in her columns over the previous year. Barrie ran "Godless" through iThenticate, his company's machine, which is able to scan works and compare them to existing texts. He found a 25-word section of the text that was "virtually word-for-word" matched with a Planned Parenthood pamphlet and a 33-word section almost duplicating a 1999 article from the Portland Press as some examples of evidence. Barrie also said that it was "very, very difficult to try to determine whether Ann Coulter was citing that material or whether she was just trying to pass it off".
Left-wing activist group Media Matters for America has appealed to Random House publishing to further investigate Coulter's work. The syndicator of her columns cleared her of the plagiarism charges. Universal Press Syndicate and Crown Books also defended Coulter against the charges. Columnist Bill Nemitz from the Portland Press Herald accused Coulter of plagiarizing a very specific sentence from his newspaper in her book Godless, but he also acknowledged that one sentence is insufficient grounds for filing suit.
Cyberbullying
In August 2024, Coulter received widespread criticism for a tweet with the comment "Talk about weird ...", referring to Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's 17-year-old son, who has nonverbal learning disorder, crying during his father's acceptance speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. The tweet was deleted shortly after it was posted.
In popular culture
Coulter was played by Cobie Smulders in Impeachment: American Crime Story; Betty Gilpin was originally cast in the role but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. The series portrays Coulter's actions while assisting the prosecution in Clinton v. Jones, the precursor to Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
Coulter was satirically depicted in season 2, episode 11 of The Boondocks—"The S Word"—where she voiced support for a white teacher in the show who said a racial slur.
Personal life
Coulter has been engaged several times, but she has never married and has no children. After the September 11 attacks, she dated a Muslim boyfriend. She has dated Spin founder and publisher Bob Guccione Jr. and conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza. In October 2007, she began dating Andrew Stein, the former president of the New York City Council, a liberal Democrat. On January 7, 2008, however, Stein told the New York Post that the relationship was over, citing irreconcilable differences. In 2013 it was reported that Coulter was dating actor Jimmie Walker. Coulter responded to the rumors by saying "He’s the one spreading that rumor! No, we’re great friends. We do a lot of stuff together. … He is so hilarious, so I see him a lot when I’m in L.A., but we are not technically dating.” In 2017, Norman Lear, who created the television sitcom Good Times in which Walker starred, said of Walker "I love him; he’s a wonderful guy. But I’ll tell you something about him that’ll astound you: He dates Ann Coulter.” Coulter responded to Lear's comments by saying "This rumor spreads every now and then, but it’s never been true. We’re great friends. He’s hilarious and a Republican. Now, that’s news!”
Kellyanne Conway, who refers to Coulter as a friend, told New York magazine in 2017 that Coulter "started dating her security guard probably ten years ago because she couldn't see anybody else".
Coulter owns a house, bought in 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida, a condominium in Manhattan, and an apartment in Los Angeles. She votes in Palm Beach and is not registered to do so in New York or California.
Bibliography
- Coulter, Ann H. (1998). High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. Washington, D.C.; Lanham, MD: Regnery Pub. ISBN 978-0-89526-360-5.
- —— (2002). Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-1-4000-4661-4.
- —— (2003). Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. New York: Crown Forum. ISBN 978-1-4000-5030-7.
- —— (2004). How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter. New York: Crown Forum. ISBN 978-1-4000-5418-3.
- —— (2006). Godless: The Church of Liberalism. New York: Crown Forum. ISBN 978-1-4000-5420-6.
- —— (2007). If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans. New York: Crown Forum. ISBN 978-0-307-35345-0.
- —— (2009). Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America. New York: Crown Forum. ISBN 978-0-307-35346-7.
- —— (2011). Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America. New York: Crown Forum. ISBN 978-0-307-35348-1.
- —— (2012). Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. New York: Sentinel. ISBN 978-1-59523-099-7.
- —— (2013). Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62157-191-9.
- —— (2015). Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62157-267-1.
- —— (2016). In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!. New York: Sentinel. ISBN 978-0-7352-1446-0.
- —— (2018). Resistance Is Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind. New York: Sentinel. ISBN 978-0-525-54007-6.
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Two weeks ago, Obama's National Labor Relations Board made the gutsy call to file a complaint against Boeing for attempting to build a new airplane production plant in South Carolina -- a right-to-work state -- and demanding that the plant be opened in Washington state -- a dying Democratic pro-union state.
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... Santorum supports a federal ban on partial-birth abortion -- a position I find to be an unholy abomination and a blatant violation of states' rights.
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VDARE's web contributors have included noted conservative pundits lke Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin, as well as noted white supremacists such as Jared Taylor and John Philippe Rushton ... While the friends it has acquired in politics and journalism have long protected VDARE from greater scrutiny, its digital record has gradually exposed its character as a racially consumed, xenophobic community
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