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Ann Coulter on the cover of her book Slander

Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American syndicated columnist, bestselling author, attorney, former litigator with the "non-profit public interest firm" 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

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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". Coulter has publicly expressed her faith in Jesus Christ (e.g. "I don't care about anything else: Christ died for my sins and nothing else matters." ) and has described her writings as an explicit defense of traditional Christian values and morals. She has homes in New York and Florida.

As an undergraduate in Cornell University's 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 J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she achieved membership in the Order of the Coif (an honor 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.

Coulter clerked for the Honorable 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.

Media career

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 disdain of the Democratic Party and of liberalism. Coulter often criticizes individuals and once lost a job for doing so, when in 1997 MSNBC fired Coulter after an exchange with Bobby Muller, president of the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost." (MSNBC's NewsChat, October 11, 1997)

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One of Coulter's many TV appearances

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 and 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 of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

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".

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.

None of the more than 100 newspapers that carry her syndicated weekly column have dropped it due to the swirl of media coverage that has accompanied the June 2006 release of her latest and most controversial book, Godless, and she enjoys the continued support of Universal Press Syndicate. Even as one Arizona paper in 2005 dropped Coulter's syndicated column citing reader complaints, that same year the Stars & Stripes - the newspaper serving US troops in Iraq - decided to add Coulter's column to its weekly editorial pages.

Coulter is an outspoken supporter of the oft-criticized late U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. In Treason she wrote that McCarthy was simply misunderstood and unappreciated, and expressed her view that the Venona cables have vindicated him. Coulter has also written some columns criticizing self-described liberal actor George Clooney's movie, Good Night, and Good Luck, about television journalist Edward R. Murrow, pointing out what she considers to be factual errors in the movie that unfairly portray McCarthy as having been careless in labelling people as communist spies or supporters.

In 2000 she considered running for the U. S. 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.

Writing and speaking style

She is known for her distinctive speaking and writing style. It is often outrageous and heavily critical of certain issues. Her main subject of criticism is American liberals, who are the most frequent topic in Coulter's writings and speeches. Coulter is an ardent critic of social and political liberalism and the Democratic Party. She has written five books of political commentary, all of which have been on the New York Times bestseller list.

Coulter has stated: "Although my Christianity is somewhat more explicit in this book , 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."

Bibliography

Coulter on the cover of her book Godless.

Controversies

Ann Coulter's success is not without controversy. Although she is in constant demand on the US lecture circuit, and has had a string of best-selling books, her style can trouble even those who share her political philosophy. Arnold Beichman reviewed her book Treason in the Washington Times, which is known for its conservative editorial stance , and wrote that he had "tried to read Miss Coulter's book and failed. Life is too short to read pages and pages of rant."

Some critics claim her presentations, both published and spoken, are biased, offensive, inflammatory and contain misinterpreted facts that, they assert, put her credibility in question. Coulter prides herself on the copious footnotes in her books which she claims back up her statements.

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Portrait of Ann Coulter on the cover of Time Magazine. Coulter claims this image has been manipulated.

Coulter has been the subject of protests, especially when speaking on college campuses. On one occasion, during an appearance at University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her — which missed. 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 accompanied by the remark, "I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am." At an 2006 appearance at Indiana University, Bloomington, in a speech entitled "Liberals Are Wrong About Everything", she told the ideologically diverse audience, "Liberals hate both God and America." Audience members supporting and opposing Coulter reportedly broke out into altercations during the speech and had to be removed by ushers, whom she reportedly mocked. During the Q&A session at the end of this speech, a male protestor with an effeminate voice took the microphone and inquired as to whether Coulter's hatred of democrats means that she would prefer a dictatorship; Coulter replied: "You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?"

Investigation of alleged voting irregularity

Coulter is under investigation by election officials in Florida for filing an inaccurate voter registration form in June 2005. 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. Knowingly voting in the wrong precinct in the state of Florida is a felony.

Coulter on African Americans

In Godless Coulter argues that kente cloth might properly be considered by liberals as a troubling symbol of the native Africans who began slavery in Africa and who facilitated the slave trade in the U.S.:

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. Perhaps, in a bid for the Catholic vote, Democrats could demand that those Masonic symbols be removed from the Great Seal of the United States. And how about the American eagle? The eagle is a bird of prey and hence offensive to rodents, a key Democrat constituency.

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 ATF 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 that implies 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 several comments regarding 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, the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference applauded her when she referred to Muslim terrorists as "ragheads" and 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 Muslim Muhammed cartoon Riots: "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 summarily dismissed the case. Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 in exchange for not appealing the decision. All but $151,000 went to pay her legal expenses. 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 and Christianity

Coulter is not shy about professing her religious beliefs. At one public lecture she proclaimed her faith in Jesus Christ: "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. According to one liberal Coulter critic, a church spokesman stated there is no record of her membership in that church, but he could neither confirm nor deny that Coulter attends worship services there when she is in town.

When asked during an interview about the morality of non-marital sex (homosexual and pre-marital) 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 particularly 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 criticizes the Episcopal Church in her book, saying, "Howard Dean left the Episcopal Church -- which is barely even a church -- because his church, in Montpelier, Vermont, would not cede land for a bike path."

Filmography

Quotations

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

  • "If Americans support abortion, let's vote. . . Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby." - Her syndicated column, 12/28/2000
  • "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
  • "Liberals' only remaining big issue is abortion because of their beloved sexual revolution. That's their cause: Spreading anarchy and polymorphous perversity. Abortion permits that." - Her book Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, 2002.
  • "I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo." - Her column December 21, 2005
  • "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
  • "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."
  • "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.
  • "In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc." — Jan 12, 2006
  • "One showed Muhammad turning away suicide bombers from the gates of heaven, saying "Stop, stop — we ran out of virgins!" — which I believe was a commentary on Muslims' predilection for violence. Another was a cartoon of Muhammad with horns, which I believe was a commentary on Muslims' predilection for violence. The third showed Muhammad with a turban in the shape of a bomb, which I believe was an expression of post-industrial ennui in a secular — oops, no, wait: It was more of a commentary on Muslims' predilection for violence ... Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back." — February 8, 2006
  • "Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran." — February 15, 2006
  • "I'd build a wall. In fact, I'd hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. It's cheap labor." — April 14, 2006
  • "I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific. Practitioners of Cargo Cult believed that manufactured products were created by ancestral spirits, and if they imitated what they had seen the white man do, they could cause airplanes to appear out of the sky, bringing valuable cargo like radios and TVs. So they constructed “airport towers” out of bamboo and “headphones” out of coconuts and waited for the airplanes to come with the cargo. It may sound silly, but in defense of the Cargo Cult, they did not wait as long for evidence supporting their theory as the Darwinists have waited for evidence supporting theirs..
  • "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)

Trivia

  • Coulter says she is a fan of the rock band Grateful Dead, and appeared on the pop culture channel VH1's now-defunct series My Coolest Years, about high school experiences, to discuss her years as a Deadhead. Coulter recently did an interview on jambands.com regarding her love for the Grateful Dead, in which she mentions, among other things, smearing herself with purple Crisco at Fiji Island before a Dead show, going sailing before seeing the Grateful Dead at Shoreline Amphitheatre, and seeing them in "a very patriotic experience" on the Fourth of July in Bonner Springs, Kansas.
  • The punk rock band NOFX refers mockingly to Coulter in their song "You're Wrong" on the Never Trust a Hippy EP and their 7" of the Month Club. .
  • According to one source, Coulter supports Indiana Representative Mike Pence for President of the United States in the 2008 election.
  • Coulter is fond of wearing short skirts.

Notes

  1. Cloud, John. "Ms. Right". Time. April 25, 2005: "Ann Hart Coulter was born in New York City on Dec. 8, 1961"
  2. SourceWatch. "National Journalism Center"
  3. Daniel Aloi (April 17, 2006). "Conservative pundit Ann Coulter '84 to speak May 7". Cornell University Chronicle Online.
  4. The Washington Monthly. The Wisdom of Ann Coulter. October 2001.
  5. Jonah Goldberg, "L’Affaire Coulter", National Review Online, October 3, 2001
  6. "USA Today Drops Ann Coulter". CBS News. July 26, 2004.
  7. Stoeffler, David (2005-08-28). "Opinion pages get a makeover". Arizona Daily Star. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. Townhall.com book review of Coulter's Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
  9. Arnold Beichman, "McCarthyism up close", Washington Times, August 2, 2003.
  10. Michael Scherer and Sarah Secules. Books: How Slippery Is Slander?. 2002.
  11. Franken, Al (2003). Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Dutton Books. ISBN 0525947647.
  12. Ann Coulter, "Answering my critics", Jewish World Review, October 9, 2003.
  13. "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."
  14. The Smoking Gun. The University of Arizona Police Department: U0410210046. October 22, 2004.
  15. Melinda Fusco, "Confusion Abounds Surrounding USG Vote", The Daily Campus, December 5, 2005.
  16. ^ Adam Aasen, "Ann Coulter splits IU's crowd", Indiana Daily Student, February 24, 2006.
  18. Ann Coulter, "An Honest Reporter on Bush", uExpress, March 13, 2002.
  19. Ann Coulter, Would Mohamed Atta Object to Armed Pilots?", uExpress, May 29, 2002.
  20. Hawkins, John. An Interview With Ann Coulter. Accessed June 3, 2006.
  21. Eric Alterman. Devil in a Blue Dress. The Nation. September 5, 2002.
  22. Ann Coulter, "This Is War", anncoulter.com, September 12, 2001.
  23. Ann Coulter, "Republicans, Bloggers and Gays, Oh My!", anncoulter.com, February 23, 2005.
  24. Hardball with Chris Matthews. Transcript via oreilly-sucks.com. June 30, 2003. Accessed June 3, 2006.
  25. Ann Coulter, "Mineta's Bataan Death March", Jewish World Review, February 28, 2002
  26. Adam Wild Aba, "Arab Americans Criticize "Racist" Writer's Remarks", islamonline.net, May 19, 2006.
  27. ^ "An appalling magic", The Guardian Online, May 17, 2003
  28. ^ Ann Coulter. Muslim Bites Dog. 15 February, 2006.
  29. Coulter Jokes About Poisoning Supreme Court Justice, Associated Press, January 27, 2006
  30. Al Franken. "An Evening with Ann Coulter", Midwest Values PAC, April 4, 2006.
  31. Barak, Daphne. Jones would have been happy with an apology. Irish Examiner. September 23, 1998.
  32. "Clinton slams Coulter's 'vicious' put-down of some 9/11 widows". CNN. June 7, 2006.
  33. Selim Algar. "Give-'em-hill Fury vs. Coulter". The New York Post.
  34. Selim Algar. "Give-'em-hill Fury vs. Coulter". The New York Post.
  35. Philip Elliott (June 9, 2006). "9/11 commissioner criticizes Coulter". Associated Press.
  36. Editor & Publisher. Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows. June 06, 2006.
  37. Max Blumenthal. "'Godless' author Coulter unknown at church she claims to attend". June 8, 2006.
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