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Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is a controversial American syndicated columnist, bestselling author, attorney, former litigator with the Center For Individual Rights, and conservative pundit who frequently appears on national television, radio programs, and is frequently invited to speak on college campuses and at other events.

All five of Coulter's books have been on the New York Times bestseller list, including her most recent, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, which debuted as number one on the June 25, 2006 list . Coulter is also a legal correspondent for the magazine Human Events and writes a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate that is carried by more than 100 newspapers.

Biography

Ann Coulter was born in New York City, and later raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, in a family she describes as "upper middle class"; she has described her attorney father as a "union buster". She owns homes in New York and Florida.

As an undergraduate at Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, Coulter helped launch a conservative newspaper, The Cornell Review, and was a member of the Delta Gamma national women's fraternity.She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984, and received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she achieved membership in the Order of the Coif (an honor society for academic excellence) and was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.

At law school, Coulter shared an apartment with human and civil rights advocate Cindy Cohn, who is now the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center.

After law school, Coulter clerked for Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates. After a short time in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. She later became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.

Coulter has described herself as a "polemicist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and makes no pretense at being "impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do." She is known for her expressed opposition to the Democratic Party and liberalism.

Coulter is a fan of the rock band Grateful Dead, and appeared on VH1's series My Coolest Years to discuss her years as a Deadhead. In a 2006 interview about her fondness for the band she discusses, among other things, smearing herself with purple Crisco before a show.

Media career

Television / Movies

Her first national media appearance came after she was hired by MSNBC, 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)

She has made frequent guest appearances on television, including The Today Show, The Tonight Show, Hannity and Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, American Morning, Crossfire, Real Time, Politically Incorrect, The Daily Show, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's the fifth estate. Coulter also appeared in FahrenHYPE 9/11, a rebuttal to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

Books

Coulter is the author of five books. All have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Her first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (ISBN 0895261138), was published by Regnery Publishing in 1998. The book details Coulter's case for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (ISBN 1400046610), published by Crown Forum in 2002, remained number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for seven weeks. In Slander, Coulter argues that President George W. Bush faced an unfair battle for positive media coverage.

Her third book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (ISBN 1400050308), also published by Crown Forum, defends the presidency of Richard M. Nixon and claims Democratic politicians and the media have treasonously undermined United States foreign policy. She also claims that Annie Lee Moss was correctly identified by Joseph McCarthy as a Communist. 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 (ISBN 1400054184).

Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is Godless: The Church of Liberalism (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.

Columns

Coulter writes a weekly legal column in the conservative magazine Human Events in which she discusses judicial rulings, constitutional issues and legal matters affecting Congress and the executive branch. Additionally, her syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate is carried by many newspapers, and linked to by many conservative websites, including Frontpagemag.com and Townhall.com. Coulter was the subject of a TIME magazine cover story in April 2005.

In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist at the National Review Online (NRO) Coulter was asked by editors to make changes to a piece written in 2001 soon after the September 11 attacks in which her friend Barbara Olson had been killed. On the national television show Politically Incorrect, Coulter accused NRO of censorship and claimed she was paid $5 per article. NRO dropped her column and terminated her. Jonah Goldberg, 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".

On August 28, 2005, Coulter's syndicated column was dropped by the Tucson newspaper Arizona Daily Star. David Stoeffler, the editor and publisher said, "We've decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives." Despite this sentiiment, Editor & Publisher magazine wrote that she "hasn't lost any of her 100-plus newspaper clients, or the support of her syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate," despite the swirl of negative press that has accompanied the release of her latest and most controversial book, Godless.

Coulter contracted with USA Today to cover the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but was replaced by Jonah Goldberg after an editing disagreement. She wrote one article that began, "Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston...", and referred to some unspecified female attendees as "corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons." The newspaper declined to print the article, and Coulter published it instead on her website.

Coulter's weekly syndicated columns, full of her characteristically caustic wit, are printed in about 100 newspapers nationwide. Her website contains an archive of all the columns from June 30, 2004 to the present.

Flirting with elective office

In 2000 Coulter considered running for Congress from Connecticut on the Libertarian Party ticket to serve as a spoiler in order to throw the seat to the Democratic candidate and see that Republican Congressman Christopher Shays failed to gain re-election, as a punishment for Shays' voting against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. The leadership of the Libertarian Party of Connecticut, after meeting with Coulter, declined to endorse her. As a result, her self-described "total sham, media-intensive, third-party Jesse Ventura campaign" did not take place.

Controversies

Coulter has made a successful career out of creating controversy. Although she is in constant demand on the US lecture circuit 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 Treason in the Washington Times, writing that he "tried to read Miss Coulter's book and failed. Life is too short to read pages and pages of rant."

Liberal comedian Al Franken questions the factual accuracy of her books, and is critical of her use of numerous endnotes . Others have investigated these charges, with equivocal results. Coulter responded to these and similar criticisms in a column called "Answering my Critics."

Coulter sparked more controversy with comments about kente cloth and slavery. She illustrated her argument that it is wrong to condemn the Confederate flag on the grounds that it was a symbol of slavery by writing:

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 Confederate ancestors is deemed a hate crime.

Speeches at college campuses

Coulter has been the subject of several protests when speaking on college campuses. On one occasion, during an appearance at University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her, 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."

In another instance, Coulter was heckled while speaking at a crowd of 2,600 at the University of Connecticut 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."

At an 2006 appearance at Indiana University, Bloomington, 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 Indiana Daily Student, reported that during the Q&A 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."

Investigation of alleged voting irregularity

Coulter is under investigation by election officials in Florida for filing an inaccurate voter registration form in June 2005 and knowingly voting in the wrong precinct, a felony in Florida. Government documents indicate she provided her local real estate agent's address (which was a few miles away in the same town) instead of her own home address. On March 29, 2006, the Palm Beach Post reported that elections officials had given Coulter 30 days to explain the inaccuracy.

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.

Coulter on domestic separatists

Coulter has frequently criticized the government's handling of radical separatists. She described members of the Branch Davidians as "harmless American citizens" after the bulk of the group was immolated in an FBI raid. Likewise, she berates what she calls the "unprovoked government assault" and "murder" at Ruby Ridge.

When later asked by John Hawkins if she regretted a statement she made implying that she wished Timothy McVeigh 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.'" While acknowledging that "Coulter jokes about McVeigh blowing up the Times," Eric Alterman of The Nation still found the comment offensive, calling Coulter a "terrorist apologist" 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.

Coulter on Arabs and Muslims

Coulter has made controversial comments about Arabs and Muslims.

• In an article written a day after the September 11, 2001 attacks (in which her friend Barbara Olson was killed), she wrote, "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."

• 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." Helen Thomas is a White House reporter of Syrian ancestry.

• Coulter has referred to the Middle East as a "swamp" in reference to the metaphor "Drain the Swamp" and advocated racial profiling on airliners. Later, in an interview with the British Guardian newspaper, Coulter quipped: "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When asked what Muslims should do for travel, she responded that they "could use flying carpets."

• On February 10, 2006, at the Conservative Political Action Conference she said, "I think our motto should be, post-9-11: raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences."

• Coulter has described Muslims as "camel jockey", "jihad monkey", and "tent merchant", and joked about the offensiveness of these remarks.

• She wrote in her column, in response to the riots stemming from the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: "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."

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

• "Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do." – Cornell Review, 1984, as reported in Time, April 2005

• "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

• "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

Coulter on Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

Speaking at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 2006, Coulter said of United States Supreme Court Justice Stevens: "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' crème brûlée. That's just a joke, for you in the media."

Coulter's role in Paula Jones - Bill Clinton controversy

Coulter debuted as a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal advisor for the attorneys representing Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton.

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. 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 extorting money from the President. (Daley, 1999)

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.(1999)

Coulter also told Isikoff, "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President."

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 appealing the decision. The Jones lawsuit led to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. Coulter wrote a book critical of Clinton called High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.

Coulter on the four 9/11 widows known as "the Jersey Girls"

In her book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Coulter criticizes the four 9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls", writing that they abused their status as widows by acting as partisans to push for the 9/11 Commission, to harshly criticize the G.W. Bush administration and its security policies, and to campaign for presidential candidate John Kerry. The partisan activities of the "Jersey Girls" have been documented by other observers. .

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."

She lists a catalogue of such persons, including grieving mom and anti-war acitivst Cindy Sheehan, gun-control activist Carolyn McCarthy, paralyzed actor and embyonic stem-cell activist Christopher Reeve, disabled Vietnam veteran and anti-Iraq-war activist Max Cleland, 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 harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy." (from Godless, pages 100-112)

Coulter's description of these women has garnered criticism, some of it invoking the memory of the women's tragically deceased husbands. The day after the book was released, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) called Coulter's charge a "vicious, mean-spirited attack", suggesting that Coulter's book should have been titled Heartless. 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 Juanita Broaddrick and was groping Kathleen Willey at the very moment Willey's husband was committing suicide."

Former Clinton Administration staffer and now Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) criticized Coulter on the floor of the House, and Tim Roemer, a member of the 9/11 Commission and a former Democratic congressman, also condemned Coulter's statements.

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."

Coulter's Christianity

Coulter openly professes her Christian 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." Time magazine's John Cloud reported that he attended a service at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City with Coulter, where she worships and often brings guests.

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."

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 Bible of the God of Abraham, including Jews 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 a commentary on Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" 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")."

She even quotes Christian scripture 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"

Quotations

The following quotations are examples of Coulter's polemical style. Some view them as hyperbole or satire, while others take them more literally:

• "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

• "The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that's the Biblical view.".

• "I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, 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 March 22, 1997

• "Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now." — (from Slander, pp. 5–6; published June 2002)

• "The Times was rushing to assure its readers that 'prominent Islamic scholars and theologians in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions.' (That's if you set aside Muhammad's many specific instructions to kill nonbelievers whenever possible.)" — How to Talk to a Liberal, 2004.

• "The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged."— June 06, 2006

• "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)

Filmography

• The Greatest American, Four-part interactive television event for Discovery Channel hosted by Matt Lauer. Starting with 100 nominees, each week interactive viewer voting eliminates the candidates. The three judges were Coulter, Randy Jackson and Dennis Miller; 2005.

• FahrenHYPE 9/11, a straight to video documentary designed to rebut Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, released in 2004.

• Is It True What They Say About Ann?, DVD documentary on Coulter containing clips of interviews and speeches, released in 2004.

• Feeding the Beast, Made for TV documentary on the "24-Hour News Revolution", released in 2004.

Notes and references

Notes

1. Ann Coulter - Premiere Speakers Bureau, June 28 2006, retrieved June 29 2006.
2. Calendar of Events, Young America's Foundation, retrieved June 29 2006.
3. Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, The New York Times, June 25 2006, retrieved June 29 2006.
4. Newspaper Clients, and Syndicate, Stick With Coulter, Editor & Publisher, June 16 2006, retrieved June 29 2006.
5. Cloud, John. "Ms. Right". Time. April 25, 2005: "Ann Hart Coulter was born in New York City on Dec. 8, 1961"
6. An appalling magic, The Guardian, May 17 2003, retrieved June 29 2006.
7. Florida officials investigate why Coulter voted in the wrong precinct, New York Daily News, June 8 2006, retrieved June 29 2006.
8. Noteworthy Delta Gammas, March 10 2006, retrieved June 29 2006.
9. SourceWatch. "National Journalism Center"
10. Daniel Aloi (April 17, 2006). "Conservative pundit Ann Coulter '84 to speak May 7". Cornell University Chronicle Online.
11. "Exclusive! Ann Coulter on her Time Cover", Fox News Channel, April 20, 2005. "My feet are the size of the Atlantic Ocean, and my head is the size of a tiny little ant."
12. The Washington Monthly. The Wisdom of Ann Coulter. October 2001.
13. Jonah Goldberg, "L’Affaire Coulter", National Review Online, October 3, 2001
14. Stoeffler, David (2005-08-28). "Opinion pages get a makeover". Arizona Daily Star. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
15. "USA Today Drops Ann Coulter". CBS News. July 26, 2004.
16. Arnold Beichman, "McCarthyism up close", Washington Times, August 2, 2003.
17. Franken, Al (2003). Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Dutton Books. ISBN 0525947647.
18. Michael Scherer and Sarah Secules. Books: How Slippery Is Slander?. 2002.
19. Ann Coulter, "Answering my critics", Jewish World Review, October 9, 2003.
20. Coulter, Ann - How to Talk to a Liberal (if you must)
21. The Smoking Gun. The University of Arizona Police Department: U0410210046. October 22, 2004.
22. Shelly K. Wong, "", AP, December 7, 2005.
23. Adam Aasen, "Ann Coulter splits IU's crowd", Indiana Daily Student, February 24, 2006.
25. Ann Coulter, "An Honest Reporter on Bush", uExpress, March 13, 2002.
26. Ann Coulter, Would Mohamed Atta Object to Armed Pilots?", uExpress, May 29, 2002.
27. Hawkins, John. An Interview With Ann Coulter. Accessed June 3, 2006.
28. Eric Alterman. Devil in a Blue Dress. The Nation. September 5, 2002.
29. Ann Coulter, "This Is War", anncoulter.com, September 12, 2001.
30. Ann Coulter, "Republicans, Bloggers and Gays, Oh My!", anncoulter.com, February 23, 2005.
31. Hardball with Chris Matthews. Transcript via oreilly-sucks.com. June 30, 2003. Accessed June 3, 2006.
32. Ann Coulter, "Mineta's Bataan Death March", Jewish World Review, February 28, 2002
33. Adam Wild Aba, "Arab Americans Criticize "Racist" Writer's Remarks", islamonline.net, May 19, 2006.
34. "An appalling magic", The Guardian Online, May 17, 2003
35. ^ Ann Coulter. Muslim Bites Dog. 15 February, 2006.
36. Coulter Jokes About Poisoning Supreme Court Justice, Associated Press, January 27, 2006
37. Al Franken. "An Evening with Ann Coulter", Midwest Values PAC, April 4, 2006.
38. Barak, Daphne. Jones would have been happy with an apology. Irish Examiner. September 23, 1998.
39. "Clinton slams Coulter's 'vicious' put-down of some 9/11 widows". CNN. June 7, 2006.
40. Selim Algar. "Give-'em-hill Fury vs. Coulter". The New York Post.
41. Selim Algar. "Give-'em-hill Fury vs. Coulter". The New York Post.
42. Philip Elliott (June 9, 2006). "9/11 commissioner criticizes Coulter". Associated Press.
43. Editor & Publisher. Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows. June 06, 2006.
44. Max Blumenthal. "'Godless' author Coulter unknown at church she claims to attend". June 8, 2006.
45. The passion of the liberal, townhall.com, March 4 2004
46. Ann Coulter. Oil good; Dems bad. Jewish World Review. October 13, 2000
47. Human Events Online. Online promotional material. Accessed June 17, 2006.

References

• Bowman, David (July 25, 2003). Ann Coulter, woman. http://www.salon.com .
• Cloud, John (April 25, 2005). "Ms. Right". Time.
• Coulter, Ann (October 30, 2000). Clinton sure can pick 'em. Jewish World Review.
• Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). Call her Mrs.. Jewish World Review.
• Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). Donahue transcript July 18. Interview with Phil Donahue. Free Republic. posted by Pistolshot, July 19, 2002.
• Coulter, Ann (August 11, 2002). Slander Interview with Brian Lamb. C-Span. Booknotes. Reprinted at Booknotes.org.
• Coulter, Ann (August 26, 2002). Coultergeist. Interview with George Gurley. New York Observer reprinted at AntiAuthority.
• Coulter, Ann (January 12, 2004). Frontpage interview. Interview with Jamie Glazov. FrontPageMag.com.
• Coulter, Ann (July 26, 2004). Put the speakers in a cage. http://www.anncoulter.com.
• Memmot, Mark (July 26, 2004). Coulter column canceled after editing dispute. USAToday.com. Updated July 27, 2004.
• West, Nigel (2000). Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0006530710.
• Lambiet, Jose (March 29, 2006). Elections officials to query GOP pundit. PalmBeachPost.com Retrieved April 11, 2006. (No longer accessible.)
• De Pasquale, Lisa (June 6, 2006) Exclusive interview: Coulter says book examines 'mental disorder' of liberalism. Human Events Online.

External links

• Ann Coulter's official website

Biography and quotes

• Coulter profiled, NNDB
• Ann Coulter at IMDb
• Rightwing News quotes Coulter's Treason.
• Center for Media and Democracy — Critical Biography
• Is it true what they say about Ann? — 40-minute documentary shown at conservative film festivals. DVD includes interviews, speeches and photo album.
• Wisdom of Ann Coulter using controversial quotes
• Report of dispute over Coulter's age.

Book reviews and criticism

• "Liberally Lying about Liberals" (September 9, 2002)
• "Tailgunner Ann" by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• "The Trouble with Treason" by David Horowitz in FrontPageMagazine.com
• "Screed: With Treason, Ann Coulter once again defines a new low in America's political debate" (June 30, 2003).
• Critical articles by Media Matters for America
• Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Ann Coulter
• "Devil in a Blue Dress" by Eric Alterman (September 5, 2002) in The Nation
• Fact-checking Ann Coulter
• Coulter Watch — website containing allegations that Coulter plagiarised others' work
• Archived articles critical of Coulter
• Coulter's syndicated columns
• Columns (2000-2001) for National Review Online

Interviews

• Interview with Katie Couric. NBC. The Today Show (June 26, 2002)
• Slander Interview with Brian Lamb. C-Span. (August 11, 2002)
• An Appalling Magic (May 17, 2003 interview in The Guardian)
• Treason Reprint of interview from MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews (June 30, 2003)
• "The Fifth Estate: Sticks and Stones", interview with CBC's Bob McKeown.
• Coulter on The Today Show: Attacks 9/11 Widows - Transcript and video of The Today Show interview with Matt Lauer.
• Lethally Blond, interview by Gaby Wood. The (London) Observer (June 11, 2006)

News features

• "I love to pick fights with liberals" by Toby Harnden The Telegraph (July 19, 2002)
• "Ann Coulter and the Title Fight" by Richard Leiby Washington Post (March 2, 2005)
• "Viewpoint: Why Ann Coulter matters" by John Cloud Time (June 9, 2006)

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