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'''Ann Hart Coulter''' (born ], ]) is a controversial ] ] ], bestselling ], ], former litigator with the ], and ] ] who frequently appears on national television, radio programs, and is frequently invited to speak on college campuses and at other events. <ref>, ] ], retrieved ] ].</ref><ref>, Young America's Foundation, retrieved ] ].</ref> | |||
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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> | |||
Coulter is the author of five best-selling books, a legal correspondent for the magazine '']'', and a syndicated columnist for ]. <ref>, ''Editor & Publisher'', ] ], retrieved ] ].</ref> | |||
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==Early life== | ||
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Ann Coulter was born in ]<ref>Cloud, John. "Ms. Right". ''Time''. ], ]: "Ann Hart Coulter was born in New York City on Dec. 8, 1961"</ref>, and later raised in ], in a family she describes as "]"; she has described her attorney father as a "union buster". <ref>, ''The Guardian'', ] ], retrieved ] ].</ref> She owns homes in New York and Florida. <ref>, ''New York Daily News'', ] ], retrieved ] ].</ref> | |||
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 ]. | |||
Coulter has described herself as a "]" who likes to "stir up the pot" and makes no pretense at being "impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do." <ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/coulter.pre.dea.html | title= Conservative pundit Ann Coulter '84 to speak May 7 | publisher=Cornell University Chronicle Online | author=Daniel Aloi | date=April 17, 2006}}</ref> She is known for her expressed opposition to the ] and ]. | |||
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> | |||
===Education and early legal career=== | |||
As an undergraduate at ], Coulter helped launch a conservative newspaper, '']'', and was a member of the ] national ].<ref>, ] ], retrieved ] ].</ref><!--PLEASE SEE THE SITE'S DESCRIPTION BEFORE CHANGING THIS TO "SORORITY"-->She graduated ] from Cornell in ], and received her ] from the ], where she achieved membership in the ] (an honor society for academic excellence) and was an editor of '']''.<ref> — Coulter's Profile</ref> | |||
At law school, Coulter shared an apartment with ] and ] advocate ], who is now the Legal Director for the ]. At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the ] and was trained at the ].<ref>]. "" </ref> | |||
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> | |||
After law school, Coulter ] for ] of the ], and was an attorney in the ] for outstanding law school graduates. After a short time in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the United States ], where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator ] of Michigan. She later became a litigator with the ] in Washington, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, ], and the free exercise of religion. | |||
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> | |||
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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> | |||
Her first national media appearance came after she was hired by ], in 1996, as a legal correspondent. She was fired the next year after an exchange with Bobby Muller, president of the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, during which she said, "No wonder you guys lost." (MSNBC's NewsChat, October 11, 1997) | |||
==Career== | |||
She has made frequent guest appearances on television, including '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and the ]'s '']''. | |||
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 | |||
Coulter also appeared in the movie '']'', a rebuttal to ]'s '']''. | |||
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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 | |||
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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> | |||
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Coulter is the author of five books. All have appeared on '']'' ]. | |||
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> | |||
Her first book, '']'' (ISBN 0895261138), was published by ] in 1998. The book details Coulter's case for the ] of President ]. | |||
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 ]. | |||
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> | |||
Her third book, '']'' (ISBN 1400050308), also published by Crown Forum, defends the presidency of ] and claims Democratic politicians and the media have treasonously undermined ] ]. She also claims that ] was correctly identified by ] as a ]. ''Treason'' was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Seller list . | |||
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> | |||
Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter's columns in 2004 as her fourth book, '']: The World According to Ann Coulter'' (ISBN 1400054184). | |||
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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''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 | |||
Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is '']'' (ISBN 1400054206). Coulter argues, first, that 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 #1 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. | |||
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Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is '']''.<ref>{{cite news | |||
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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's weekly ] ] for ] is printed in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, and linked to by many ] websites, including ] and ]. 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." | |||
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> | |||
Several websites contain archives of Ann Coulter columns from its earliest days to the present. | |||
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> | |||
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> | |||
===Columns=== | |||
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> | |||
Coulter also writes a weekly legal column in the conservative magazine ] in which she discusses judicial rulings, constitutional issues and legal matters affecting Congress and the executive branch. Coulter was the subject of a ] cover story in ] ]. | |||
In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist |
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> | ||
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> | |||
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 /> | |||
Coulter contracted with '']'' to cover the ], but was replaced by Jonah Goldberg after an editing disagreement. She wrote one article that began, "Here at the Spawn of ] convention in ]...", and referred to some unspecified female attendees as "], no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant ] chick pie wagons." The newspaper declined to print the article, and .<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/26/politics/main631949.shtml | title=USA Today Drops Ann Coulter | date=July 26, 2004 | publisher=]}}</ref> | |||
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==Political activities== | |||
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In addition to her frequent media appearances and popular writings about politics and political beliefs, Coulter's political activities have ranged from considering a run for Congress to advising a plaintiff suing the president. | |||
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 == | |||
=== The Paula Jones - Bill Clinton case === | |||
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Coulter debuted as a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal advisor for the attorneys representing ] in her ] suit against President ]. | |||
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 === | |||
Coulter disagreed with the lead lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who advised Jones that her case was weak and to settle it. (Daley, 1999) From the onset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement.<ref>Barak, Daphne. . '']''. ], ].</ref> However, Coulter said she believed 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. (Daley, 1999) | |||
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> | |||
=== Christianity === | |||
David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for the '']'' recounted what followed: | |||
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> | |||
{{cquote|Coulter played one particularly key role in keeping the Jones case alive. In '']'' 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 ] that Jones said she could recognize and describe — to the ]. Her hope was to foster mistrust between the Clinton and Jones camps and forestall a settlement...<P> | |||
===Evolution=== | |||
I thought if I leaked the distinguishing characteristic it would show ] 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.<P> | |||
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=== | |||
I just wanted to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I don't think I could have taken the ] 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)}} | |||
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> | |||
=== Civil liberties === | |||
Coulter also told Isikoff, "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President." | |||
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> | |||
The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and was summarily dismissed. 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", and dismissed the case. Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 in exchange for not ] the decision. The Jones lawsuit led to the ]. Coulter wrote a book critical of Clinton called '']''. | |||
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===Civil rights=== | ||
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> | |||
In 2000, Coulter considered running for ] from ] on the ] ticket to serve as a ] in order to throw the seat to the Democratic ] and see that Republican Congressman ] failed to gain re-election, as a punishment for Shays' voting against the ] of President ]. The leadership of the ], after meeting with Coulter, declined to endorse her. As a result, her self-described "total sham, media-intensive, third-party ] campaign" did not take place.<ref></ref> <ref></ref> | |||
===Women's rights=== | |||
== Controversies == | |||
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 has made a successful career out of creating ]. Although she is in constant demand on the US lecture circuit<ref></ref> and has had a string of best-selling books, her style grates on some in her audience, including fellow Conservatives. Arnold Beichman reviewed her book '']'' | |||
in the '']'', writing that he "tried to read Miss Coulter's book and failed. Life is too short to read pages and pages of rant."<ref>Arnold Beichman, "", '']'', ], ].</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> | |||
Liberal ] ] questions the factual accuracy of her books, and is critical of her use of numerous ].<ref>{{cite book|author = Franken, Al | title=]|publisher = Dutton Books|year = 2003|id = ISBN 0525947647}}</ref> Others have investigated these charges, with equivocal results. <ref>Michael Scherer and Sarah Secules. . 2002.</ref> Coulter responded to these and similar criticisms in a column called "Answering my Critics."<ref>Ann Coulter, "", ''Jewish World Review'', ], ].</ref> | |||
=== Immigration === | |||
===Speeches at college campuses=== | |||
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 has been the subject of several protests when speaking on ] ]es. | |||
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> | |||
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;Pie thrown at the University of Arizona | |||
On one occasion, during an appearance at ], a ], missing her. The two perpetrators were charged with criminal damage, and one of them later said "we were throwing pies at her ideas, not at her." <ref>]. . ], ].</ref> | |||
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> | |||
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;Putting down students at the University of Connecticut | |||
In another instance, Coulter was heckled while speaking at a crowd of 2,600 at the ] to the point that she ended her speech early and began to take questions from the audience, remarking that "I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am." A student said of the rowdy crowd, "It really appalled me that we're not able to come together as a group and listen to a different view in a respectful environment." <ref>Shelly K. Wong, "", '']'', ], ].</ref> | |||
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" /> | |||
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;Remarks about Justice Stevens at Philander Smith College | |||
Speaking at ] in ], ], on January 26, 2006, Coulter said of United States Supreme Court Justice ]: "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in ] ]. That's just a joke, for you in the media."<ref>, '']'', ], ]</ref><ref>]. "", ''Midwest Values PAC'', ], ].</ref> | |||
=== LGBT rights === | |||
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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" /> | |||
;Insulting a student at Indiana University | |||
At an 2006 appearance at ], in a speech entitled "Liberals Are Wrong About Everything", she claimed "Liberals hate God and hate America," and that there is no hope for the Democratic party. Her speech was frequently interrupted while protestors were removed. The school's newspaper, the ], reported that during the ] session, a young man asked her if she didn't like Democrats, wouldn't it just be better to have a dictatorship; Coulter replied: "You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?" A student leader defended her comments, saying "I think the guy could have been more respectful to her."<ref name=idsnews>Adam Aasen, "", ''Indiana Daily Student'', ], ].</ref> | |||
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> | |||
=== The 9/11 "Jersey Girls" === | |||
In her book, '']'', Coulter criticizes the four 9/11 widows known as the "]", writing that they abused their status as widows by acting as partisans to push for the ], to harshly criticize the G.W. Bush administration and its security policies, and to campaign for presidential candidate ]. The partisan activities of the "Jersey Girls" have been documented by other observers. . | |||
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> | |||
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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> | |||
In a long chapter titled "Liberal Doctrine of Infallibility: Sobbing Hysterical Women," Coulter argues that one of liberalism's proselytizing techniques is to choose "people with 'absolute moral authority' - Democrats with a dead husband, a dead child, a wife who works at the CIA, a war record, a terminal illness..." as spokespersons to advance political goals. Doing so stifles a rational debate of the policy being advanced, according to Coulter, since "you can't respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering." | |||
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> | |||
She lists a catalogue of such persons, including grieving mom and anti-war acitivst ], gun-control activist ], paralyzed actor and embyonic stem-cell activist ], disabled Vietnam veteran and anti-Iraq-war activist ], and the four Jersey Girls, about whom she wrote: "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president ... cutting campaign commercials... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these ]? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in ]." (from , pages 100-112) | |||
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> | |||
Coulter's description of these women has garnered criticism, some of it invoking the memory of the women's tragically deceased husbands. The book was released on ], ], and that morning, Matt Lauer of NBC's ] interviewed Coulter. She defended her statements in ''Godless'' and remarked that Lauer was "getting testy" with her.<ref>]. . ], ].</ref> | |||
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> | |||
The next day, Senator ] (D-NY) called Coulter's charge a "vicious, mean-spirited attack", suggesting that Coulter's book should have been titled ''Heartless''. <ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/07/coulter.911.widows.ap/index.html | title=Clinton slams Coulter's 'vicious' put-down of some 9/11 widows | publisher=CNN | date=June 7, 2006}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/67195.htm | title=Give-'em-hill Fury vs. Coulter | publisher=The New York Post | author=Selim Algar}}</ref> | |||
Coulter later responded to Senator Clinton: "Before criticizing others for being 'mean' to women, perhaps Hillary should talk to her husband who was accused of rape by ] and was groping ] at the very moment Willey's husband was committing suicide."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/67195.htm | title=Give-'em-hill Fury vs. Coulter | publisher=The New York Post | author=Selim Algar}}</ref> | |||
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> | |||
On the same day, Congressman ] (D-IL) called Coulter a "hatemonger" on the floor of the ] and urged his Republican colleagues to denounce her as well. Later, ], a member of the ] and a former Democratic Congressman, urged Americans not to buy Coulter's book.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060609/ap_on_re_us/quotable_coulter_5;_ylt=Ate3yCT2_0BuMVMCHfSD0.hZJ_wA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl | title=9/11 commissioner criticizes Coulter | author=Philip Elliott | publisher=Associated Press | date=June 9, 2006}}</ref> | |||
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> | |||
She has consistently defended her words and makes no apologies, even goading her critics by repeating her criticism of the Jersey Girls in subsequent columns: "If you're upset about what I said about the Witches of East Brunswick, try turning the page. Surely, I must have offended more than those four harpies." <ref>]. . ], ].</ref> | |||
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=== War on Drugs === | ||
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> | |||
In a June 2006 letter to '']'' Lee Salem, the president of Universal Syndicate, which distributes Coulter's column, suggested Coulter was a brilliant satirist who does not mean it when she periodically wishes violence or even death on liberals and other "traitors." | |||
=== Bernie Sanders === | |||
The next day, in a New York weekly, Coulter refuted the notion that she is only joking.<ref>"Coulter Affirms Prevous Statement About Bombing 'NYT' Office." 30 June 2006. ''Editor & Publisher''</ref> Later the subject again came up when she appeared on Fox News' ''].'' Allan Colmes mentioned Salem's claim, and asked her if she wanted to take back the earlier statement that ] should have bombed ''The New York Times'' office, especially if reporters were inside. | |||
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== | |||
"No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after ''The New York Times'' has leapt beyond -- beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week," Coulter replied.<ref>"Ann Coulter: Still Bomb N.Y. Times." 1 July 2006. ''Newsmax.''</ref> Coulter was referring to a ''Times'' investigative report about U.S. government surveillance of private financial transactions. | |||
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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> | |||
=== Coulter on domestic separatists === | |||
Coulter has frequently criticized the government's handling of radical ]. She described members of the ] as "harmless American citizens"<ref>Ann Coulter, "", ''uExpress'', ], ].</ref> after the bulk of the group was immolated in an ] raid. Likewise, she berates what she calls the "unprovoked government assault" and "murder" at ].<ref>Ann Coulter, ", ''uExpress'', ], ].</ref> | |||
{{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. | |||
When later asked by John Hawkins if she regretted a statement she made implying that she wished ] had bombed the New York Times instead of the Federal building in Oklahoma City, Coulter replied: "Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'"<ref>Hawkins, John. . Accessed ], ].</ref> While acknowledging that "Coulter jokes about McVeigh blowing up the ''Times''," ] of '']'' still found the comment offensive, calling Coulter a "] ]" and an "ideological comrade" of McVeigh due to what he considers to be similar statements the two have made about the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents.<ref>]. . ''].'' ], ].</ref> | |||
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 on Arabs and Muslims === | |||
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> | |||
Coulter has made controversial comments about ]s and Muslims. | |||
===Paula Jones – Bill Clinton case=== | |||
* In an article written a day after the ] (in which her friend ] was killed), she wrote, "Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to ] 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 ] and his top officers. We ] German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."<ref>Ann Coulter, "", anncoulter.com, ], ].</ref> | |||
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. | |||
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 /> | |||
* Coulter wrote in her column that she had reviewed the civil rights lawsuits against certain airlines to determine which airlines 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>Ann Coulter, "", townhall.com, ], ].</ref> | |||
David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for '']'' recounted what followed: | |||
* In describing the ability of reporters to get passes to White House press conferences, Coulter speculated that they must be easy to acquire since the "White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president." ] is a White House reporter of ] ancestry.<ref>Ann Coulter, "", anncoulter.com, ], ].</ref> | |||
{{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 />}} | |||
* Coulter has referred to the Middle East as a "swamp"<ref>]. . ], ]. Accessed ], ].</ref> in reference to the metaphor "Drain the Swamp" and advocated ] on airliners.<ref>Ann Coulter, "", ''Jewish World Review'', ], ]</ref><ref>Adam Wild Aba, "", ''islamonline.net'', ], ].</ref> Later, in an interview with the British '']'' newspaper, Coulter quipped: "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most ] lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When asked what Muslims should do for travel, she responded that they "could use flying carpets."<ref name=appmagic>"", ''] Online'', ], ]</ref> | |||
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: | |||
* On ], ], at the Conservative Political Action Conference she said, "I think our motto should be, post-9-11: raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences." | |||
{{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>}} | |||
* Coulter has described Muslims as "camel jockey", "jihad monkey", and "tent merchant", and joked about the offensiveness of these remarks.<ref name="Muslim Bites Dog">Ann Coulter. . ], ].</ref> | |||
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 ]. | |||
* She wrote in her column, in response to the riots stemming from the ]: "The amazing part of the great Danish cartoon caper isn't that Muslims immediately engage in acts of mob violence when things don't go their way. That is de rigueur for the Religion of Peace. Their immediate response to all bad news is mass violence. That's a "dog bites man" story and belongs on page B-34, next to the grade school hot lunch menu and the birth notices. After an Egyptian ferry capsized recently, killing hundreds of passengers, a whole braying mob of passengers' relatives staged an organized attack on the company, throwing furniture out the window and burning the building to the ground. Witnesses say it was the most violent ocean liner-related incident since Carnival Cruise Lines fired Kathie Lee Gifford. The 'offense to Islam' ruse is merely an excuse for Muslims to revert to their default mode: rioting and setting things on fire."<ref name="Muslim Bites Dog"/> | |||
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 /> | |||
=== Coulter on women === | |||
* "I think the other point that no one is making about the abuse photos is just the disproportionate number of women involved, including a girl general running the entire operation. I mean, this is lesson, you know, number 1,000,047 on why women shouldn't be in the military. In addition to not being able to carry even a medium-sized backpack, women are too vicious." - appearing on ''Hannity & Colmes'', 5 May, 2004 | |||
Coulter wrote: | |||
* "Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do." – ''Cornell Review'', 1984, as reported in ''Time'', April 2005 | |||
{{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 /> | |||
===Comments on Islam, Arabs, and terrorism=== | |||
* "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." - appearing on the comedy show ''Politically Incorrect'', February 26, 2001 | |||
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> | |||
* "Like the Democrats, ''Playboy'' 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 | |||
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> | |||
===Alleged improper voting=== | |||
Coulter is under investigation by election officials in ] for filing an inaccurate ] form in June 2005 and knowingly voting in the wrong precinct, a felony in Florida. Government documents indicate she provided her local ]'s address (which was a few miles away in the same town) instead of her own home address. On ], ], the '']'' reported that elections officials had given Coulter 30 days to explain the inaccuracy. | |||
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> | |||
According to one news account, poll worker Jim Whited recalled that Coulter tried to vote in the February 7, 2006, town council election at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, where she should have been voting based on her actual address. Although Coulter initially tried to vote in that proper location, Coulter left that precinct as soon as Whited began to explain to her that someone with her registration address could not use that voting precinct. She then cast her ballot at the precinct where she was registered, which was actually the incorrect location for someone having her actual street address. <ref> , ''Editor & Publisher'', ] ], retrieved ] ]</ref> | |||
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> | |||
===Confederate flag=== | |||
Coulter sparked more controversy{{fact}} with comments supporting the ] using an analogy with a ] and slavery. She that it is wrong to condemn the Confederate flag on the grounds that it was a symbol of slavery by writing: | |||
:<blockquote>And why does native African kente cloth get a free pass ? It is a historical fact that American slaves were purchased from their slave masters in Africa, where slavery exists in some parts to this day. Indeed, slavery is the only African institution America has ever adopted. But while some Americans express pride in their slave-trading ancestors by calling themselves "African-Americans" and donning African garb, pride in ] ancestors is deemed a hate crime.<ref>Coulter, Ann - How to Talk to a Liberal (if you must)</ref></blockquote> | |||
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> | |||
==Coulter's Christianity== | |||
Coulter openly professes her ] religious beliefs. At one public lecture she proclaimed her faith in Jesus Christ, saying: "I don't care about anything else: Christ died for my sins and nothing else matters." ] magazine's John Cloud reported that he attended a service at ] in New York City with Coulter, where she worships and often brings guests. <ref>Max Blumenthal. "". ], ].</ref> | |||
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> | |||
When asked during an interview about the morality of non-marital sex, she replied: "Christians are the most tolerant people in the world—because we know there's original sin. We know people do bad things. But it seems to me it's a much worse thing to go around saying that it isn't a sin to commit a sin. I mean—at least feel guilty about it." | |||
===2013 CPAC Conference=== | |||
She has stated that her Christian faith "fuels everything" she writes, and that it particularly fuels her book ''Godless.'' In that book, Coulter says in a footnote, "Throughout this book, I often refer to Christians and Christianity because I am a Christian and I have a fairly good idea of what they believe, but the term is intended to include anyone who subscribes to the ] of the God of ], including ]s and others." Coulter has stated: "Although my Christianity is somewhat more explicit in this book (''Godless''), Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy—you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism." | |||
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> | |||
===VDARE=== | |||
In a commentary on Mel Gibson's film "]" she wrote: ''"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")."''<ref>, ''townhall.com'', ] ]</ref> | |||
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> | |||
== Candidate endorsements == | |||
She even quotes Christian ] in her work. ''Godless'' begins with: ''"They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the creator.... Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor, for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature. — Romans 1:25-26"'' | |||
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> | |||
== Quotations == | |||
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The following quotations are examples of Coulter's ] style. Some view them as ] or ], while others take them more literally: | |||
== Controversies == | |||
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=== Anti-semitism accusations === | |||
*''"Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words ''abortion'' or ''tax hikes'' pass their lips."'' - Her syndicated column, 2/21/2002 | |||
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 /> | |||
* "''The ethic of ] 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 ] the planet — it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-] view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that's the Biblical view.''"<ref>Ann Coulter. . ''Jewish World Review''. ], ]</ref>. | |||
=== Plagiarism accusations === | |||
* ''"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 ], ] | |||
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" /> | |||
* ''"Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except ], post 9/11. Even ] 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) | |||
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> | |||
* ''"The ''Times'' was rushing to assure its readers that 'prominent Islamic scholars and ] in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions.' (That's if you set aside ]'s many specific instructions to kill nonbelievers whenever possible.)"'' — ''How to Talk to a Liberal'', 2004. | |||
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> | |||
===Cyberbullying=== | |||
* ''"The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged."''— June 06, 2006 <ref>] Online. | |||
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> | |||
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== In popular culture == | |||
* ''"Ozzy Osbourne has his bats, and I have that darn "convert them to Christianity" quote. Some may not like what I said, but I'm still waiting to hear a better suggestion."'' - (from ''Treason'', published 2003) | |||
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> | |||
Coulter was satirically depicted in ], episode 11 of '']''—"The S Word"—where she voiced support for a white teacher in the show who said ]. | |||
==Filmography== | |||
* '']'', Four-part interactive television event for Discovery Channel hosted by ]. Starting with 100 nominees, each week interactive viewer voting eliminates the candidates. The three judges were Coulter, ] and ]; ]. | |||
== Personal life == | |||
* '']'', a ] documentary designed to rebut ]'s '']'', released in ]. | |||
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> | |||
], 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> | |||
* '''', ] documentary on Coulter containing clips of interviews and speeches, released in ]. | |||
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> | |||
* '''', Made for TV documentary on the "24-Hour News Revolution", released in ]. | |||
==Notes and references== | |||
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==Bibliography== | |||
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* {{cite book | |||
* Bowman, David (July 25, 2003). "". ''Salon.com'' . | |||
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* Cloud, John (April 25, 2005). "". ''Time'' . | |||
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* Coulter, Ann (October 30, 2000). "". ''Jewish World Review''. | |||
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* Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). "" ''Jewish World Review''. | |||
|title=High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton | |||
* Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). . Interview with Phil Donahue. Free Republic. posted by Pistolshot, July 19, 2002. | |||
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* Coulter, Ann (August 11, 2002). Interview with Brian Lamb. C-Span. ''Booknotes''. Reprinted at ''Booknotes.org.'' | |||
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* Coulter, Ann (August 26, 2002). . Interview with George Gurley. ''New York Observer''. | |||
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* Coulter, Ann (January 12, 2004). . Interview with Jamie Glazov. ''FrontPageMag.com''. | |||
|title-link=High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton | |||
* Coulter, Ann (July 26, 2004). "". ''AnnCoulter.com''. | |||
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* Memmot, Mark (July 26, 2004). "". ''USAToday.com''. Updated July 27, 2004. | |||
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* West, Nigel (2000). ''Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War''. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0006530710. | |||
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* Lambiet, Jose (March 29, 2006). "". ''PalmBeachPost.com'' Retrieved April 11, 2006. (No longer accessible.) | |||
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* De Pasquale, Lisa (June 6, 2006) "". ''] Online''. | |||
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|title=Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right | |||
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|title-link=Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism | |||
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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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