Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter has been called “a bizarre sideshow,” a “talking kite,” and “just plain evil.” But CampusProgress.org won’t stoop to name calling. We promise not to sink to the sub-basement level of this venomous pundit, seemingly delusional storyteller, and popular conservative campus speaker as we offer you a brief profile.
 Coulter began her career as an undergraduate at Cornell University where, with the help of the Collegiate Network, she founded the notoriously conservative Cornell Review. Under Coulter’s determined leadership, The Review was known for attacking affirmative action, homosexual rights, supposed communist sympathizers, and anti-apartheid activists.
Coulter went on to get her J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School, where she helped start a chapter of the extremely conservative Federalist Society.
Coulter’s unorthodox approach to law and politics brought her to national attention when she advised the legal team helping Paula Jones to sue Bill Clinton. Coulter has admitted to leaking salacious details of Jones’ testimony to the press in hopes of scuttling a settlement. The reason, as she eventually explained: "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President."
Publicly, Coulter stood by Jones, whom she called “the good Christian girl,” at least until the case was resolved. After that, Coulter turned around and decried Jones as “trailer park trash.” Meanwhile, Coulter had published her vindictive first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, portions of which she has been accused of plagiarizing from the work of Michael Chapman, a man with whom she had formerly worked but later claimed never to have met. Classy.
Coulter quickly gained a reputation for being, as Al Franken elegantly put it, “the reigning diva of the hysterical right. Or, rather, the hysterical diva of the reigning right.” Coulter seemed to wear her shrill nastiness as a badge of honor, and with it she built a career that has included four books, a mind-numbing assortment of syndicated columns, and hours upon hours of television talk shows with her cruel, fallacious rants. Her book Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right was one of the best-selling books of 2002, yet shortly after its release, her book was picked apart for its flaws, particularly by websites devoted to pointing out the myriad inaccuracies of the book, in many cases page-by-page. On television, she is a stick-thin blond whirlwind of uber-conservative hyperbole. Her psychotic-sounding outbursts are perhaps best appreciated when read by that little girl on the Daily Show’s “Great Moments in Punditry”.
Thought the jury is still out on our favorite Ann Coulter moment of 2005 (there are just so many to choose from), she earned our 2004 “Next Stop: Crazy Town” Award during the 2004 election cycle when she questioned former Georgia Senator Max Cleland’s service in Vietnam. Cleland is a Purple Heart recipient who lost an arm and both legs in Vietnam from an exploding grenade. Coulter wrote that because the incident was an accident, Cleland “didn’t ‘give his limbs for his country.’”
Coulter’s had a busy spring 2005 raising eyebrows and ire with her extraordinary antics and outbursts. When she appeared on the cover of the April 25 issue of Time, Coulter claimed that the “elongated funhouse picture” of her proves her and other conservatives’ repeated cries of a biased liberal media. The cover shot, which creates the disturbing illusion that Coulter is all legs and no torso and as she says, “my head is the size of a tiny little ant,” may be unflattering, but the article is a distortion of a different kind. Instead of subjecting Coulter to scrutiny and criticism that her rancorous punditry deserves, the Time piece, we think, paints a rather glowing picture of Coulter’s career and public persona, sidestepping her habitual lies and distortions. Coulter saw it, or at least spun it, differently, though: Before she had even opened the cover (she claimed she had not read the piece yet), Coulter took to the airwaves, fist raised, to decry it yet another example of the liberal media’s attempt to ruin a good conservative girl’s shot at the big time.
Lately, Coulter’s love life has received an unusual amount of attention from almighty gossipers at the New York Daily News’ Daily Dish. Apparently, the rabid right-winger has been spotted all over New York City with the twenty-something, left-leaning Rob Ryan. Coulter and Ryan, who is a country singer and a self-proclaimed Dem, apparently spend time not talking about politics at Coulter’s Upper East Side apartment. I know, I know, you thought Coulter was a good Christian girl who was saving herself for her husband.
On May 3, 2005, during the question and answer session following a speech Coulter was delivering to students at UT-Austin, a sophomore by the name of Ajai Raj took the mic and challenged Coulter’s extreme views on the sanctity of marriage, asking her, "How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but [vulgar phrase describing engagement in a certain kind of sexual activity with] his wife?" Sensing commotion not only from the audience, but also from security guards manning the event, Raj headed for the door, apparently while making gestures simulating masturbation. For this he was promptly grabbed by two police officers, slammed into a wall, arrested, detained, and charged with disorderly conduct. Since then, Coulter has gone on her regular circuit of right wing talk shows to denounce Raj and to shriek about her latest victimization. Of course, many are talking about Raj’s victimization as well. Disorderly conduct is a Class C Misdemeanor in Texas and is not punishable by confinement. So it turns out Raj’s detention was illegal, and he also was deprived of freedom of speech, a right guaranteed to him by the Constitution, which means that the offending officers actually may have committed a federal criminal civil rights violation.
In March 2005, Campus Progress announced the winner of our “Name Ann Coulter’s Next Book” contest. Challenged to come up with the most Coulteresque title for Coulter’s next book, our readers stepped up with a host of tongue-in-cheek submissions. Though we could only choose one winner, we had a number of brilliant runners-up, including: “Help: I’m Out of Liberal People, Places and Organizations to Hate”; "Pander: How Character Assassination and Name-Calling Will Make You Popular and Rich" and "Democracy: The Liberal Plot to Feed Your Children to the Poor." The winning submission, “Wheelchair-Riding, America-Hating Terrorist,” came from Ryan Sniatecki, 26, of Baltimore, MD, who received his very own talking Ann Coulter action figure. The Coulter contest, a first for Campus Progress, was written about in the media, including a Howard Kurtz article in the Washington Post, but it also received a response from Coulter. First she applauded us for “at least…trying to be funny,” and then she offered her own attempt at humor, firing off several titles of her own, including: “Tuesdays with Morons”; “The Five People You Meet in Line at the Welfare Office” and as if to remind us how nasty and bizarre she is, “He’s Just Not into Jews: The George Soros Story.” Keep an eye out for our next contest; you might just find yourself in a battle of wit and weirdness with Coulter.
Recently, Coulter has again shifted her attention from her liberal nemeses to a target she apparently now finds more entertaining to harass with epithets and slurs — Muslims, Arabs and Muslim-Americans. This has garnered some criticism, though not as much as one would hope. In December 2005, in response to reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) had been secretly authorized by the Bush administration to spy on Americans and others within the United States, she wrote in her syndicated column, "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." Much to our surprise, and Coulter’s dismay, there has been no air time dedicated to torture events at the winter Olympics in Torino. For those without advanced knowledge of America ‘s weapons arsenal, the daisy cutter Coulter refers to is the United States ‘ largest conventional weapon, a 15,000-pound bomb with a blast radius of 300 to 900 feet. Though it was originally designed to clear large areas of jungle, it has been used in Afghanistan as an intimidation weapon.
It’s no surprise that Coulter’s reaction to the cartoons published by a Danish paper this fall and the violence that has followed throughout the Middle East was far from one of sympathy. Instead of acknowledging that the cartoons were offensive in their depiction of Muhammad, Coulter said they simply provided examples of “Muslims’ predilection for violence” and that “the belief that Islam forbids portrayals of Muhammad is recently acquired. Back when Muslims created things, rather than blowing them up, they made paintings, frescoes, miniatures and prints of Muhammad.”
On February 10th, 2006, Coulter delivered a speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference in Washington, DC. Her talk was filled with insensitive remarks about Muslims, such as “I think our motto should be, post-9/11, ‘Raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.‘” (CPAC, February 10, 2006). Just in case her message wasn’t clear, she repeated it in her February 16th column, illustrating her catalogue of epithets, “I believe our motto should be after 9/11: Jihad [sic] monkey talks tough; jihad monkey takes the consequences. Sorry, I realize that’s offensive. How about ‘camel jockey’? What? Now what’d I say? Boy, you tent merchants sure are touchy. Grow up, would you?” She went on to add that “conventions of civilized behavior, personal hygiene and grooming" are "inapplicable when Muslims are involved."
Amazingly, given that the audience at CPAC is staunchly conservative, a student member of Muslims for America, a group participating in CPAC, actually stood up and challenged Coulter’s offensive commentary. He pleaded with Coulter to refrain from her constant use of ethnic slurs when referring to Muslims, saying, “I apologize on behalf of the Muslim terrorists, but you have to understand, there’s 1.5 billion with a ‘B’ and there are .0000005 that did the terrorism, when you call people ragheads… I mean it kind of turns a lot of Muslim Americans off, and it’s hard to recruit them to support our cause…please, please, please, please, don’t say raghead.” Coulter barely acknowledged the heartfelt sentiment, basically waving the student away, “You know, ok. I make a few jokes at Muslims, and they killed 3000 Americans—I think we’re even.” She didn’t mention whether she would support vilifying all shrill, reactionary blond women if, say, nineteen of them attacked the U.S.
In October 2007, Coulter somehow managed somehow to one-up herself. In an interview on the October 8 episode of CNBC’s The Big Idea, she explained to host Donny Deutsch that a Christian America would be ideal because “We just want Jews to be perfected.” Even when Deutsch gave her the chance to cool off and explain her remarks after a commercial break, Coulter nonetheless pressed on: “It is not intended to be [offensive],” she said. “I don’t think you should take it that way, but that is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews.”
During the same interview, Coulter, having already dug herself into a deep hole, asked for a larger shovel. “You walk past a mixed-race couple in New York,” she explained, after noting that liberals are much more conscious of race than conservatives, “and it’s like they have a chip on their shoulder. They’re just waiting for somebody to say something, as if anybody would.” After Deutsch immediately disagreed with Coulter’s claim, she issued an expert retort: No, she explained, it’s true—“In fact, there was an entire Seinfeld episode” about it.
To her list of classic rightwing traits one can now apparently add voter fraud, which she has been accused of twice. First, several years ago, there was a dispute over Coulter’s real age, because her Connecticut and Washington, DC driver’s licenses listed two different birthdates, two years apart. Coulter told the Washington Post that her DC license, which lists her date of birth in December 1963, is the accurate one. Fair enough. But the New Canaan, CT registrar of voters reports that Ann Coulter registered to vote in 1980. If her latter birth date is correct, then she voted illegally (at the age of 16) in 1980. If not, well then she forged a government document when she got her DC license, and lied to the public about it.
Now, some might say voting at 16 is no great crime, after all, we at Campus Progress are sympathetic to extending the franchise to teenagers. But, recent information suggests that this may be part of a more disturbing pattern of voter fraud on Coulter’s part. As reported in the Palm Beach Post, Coulter may have committed a third-degree felony by knowingly giving an incorrect address on her voter registration form in Palm Beach, Florida, and then knowingly voting at the incorrect polling place in March. A poll worker told her that her address did not match the one in the computer and she would need to file a change of address form. But rather than do so, according to the poll worker, she dashed out. Records show she voted at another polling precinct two miles away. We would give her a pass on this, but apparently conservative election chicanery in Florida can cause some bad things to happen.
A Few of our Favorite Ann Coulter Quotes:
On academics: “In addition to racist and Nazi, how about adding traitor to the list of things that professors can’t be? And yes, I realize I just proposed firing the entire Harvard faculty.”
(Speech at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), 2/18/2005)
On McCarthyism: “Liberals like to scream and howl about McCarthyism, I say let’s give them some….it’s time for a new McCarthyism.”
(Speech at CPAC, 2/18/2005)
On President Clinton: "Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten."
(New York Observer, 1/10/05)
On Voting: “It would be a much better country if women did not vote.”
(The Guardian, 5/17/2003)
On the Press: “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.”
(New York Observer, 8/26/2002)
On the Environment: “God says, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.“
(Fox News, 12/22/2001)
On Campus Progressives: “When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”
(remarks from Conservative Political Action Conference, 2/26/2002)
On Swing Voters: "The swing voters—-I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don’t have set philosophical principles. You’re either a liberal or you’re a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster."
(Beyond the News, Fox News Channel, 6/4/00)
On Herself: "You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard."
(Washington Post, 10/16/98)
Illustration: August J. Pollak
Updated from an earlier version.
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Ann Coulter is one of those people who are just fucked. She’s so fucked. I just want to send her a fruit basket out of confusion and pity, and then confusedly laugh at her nonsensically rant about it in some way or another.
— Kim Nordstrom - Jul 1, 04:23 AM - #I wonder how many Ann Coulter Dolls are being used as sex toys by horny young right-wing white boys who couldn’t get laid if they paid for it?
— Lee Mouche - Jul 2, 12:51 PM - #I wonder if she’s really serious about much of what she says. She lives in Manhatten, which she sees as a cesspool of liberalism. This would be like a Nazi living in Tel-Aviv. She talks about tradtional morality, yet she’s never been married. Unless she’s a 46-year-old virgin (which would explain a great deal), she’s being total hypocritical. Her latest book, Godless, contains a long screed against Darwin, that shows no understanding of biology. Did she never study science in all her years of education. However, she does have a great pair of legs;)
— Stefan Patejak - Jul 17, 10:06 AM - #I doubt Ann Coulter has any ideology at all, except capitalism. She found an easy way to make money and be infamous without much effort, skill, or knowledge, and she’s laughing all the way to the bank. She probably chose bashing liberals instead of conservatives because it was easiest and successful in two ways: The conservatives love it because it validates their views, and the liberals love it (at least some do) because it reflects so negatively on conservatives. I say, “Go Ann! You’re a laugh a minute.”
— Lucy Cole - Jul 26, 10:11 PM - #Ann is right, when it comes to her, you leftie lemmings forget what the word satire means. Hypocrites all of you are. I disagree with Al Franken but I certainly dont make as big an issue out of his nonsnese as you people do with Ann. Ann is where she is at because first and foremost she is highly intelligent, pulls no punches and rejects the PC nonsnese that you campus lefties so happily embrace. You are the real nazis and fascists with your PC mind control doctrine. I checked out your website now I think I will head back to the mainsream!!!
— Thomas Nawrocki - Aug 13, 12:06 AM - #Satire? Give me a break. Wingnuts don’t understand satire. Coulter is as flat humor wise as her chest. Just look at Delay quoting Colbert on his website. Hello, that’s satire.
— Greenman - Aug 15, 05:56 PM - #Satire? For whom? If she makes anyone laugh, well, that’s just real sad. I have met some conservatives when they’re drunk and/or stoned and it ain’t pretty.
— Tony - Oct 3, 08:05 AM - #sorry but that “The Five People You Meet at the Welfare Office” comment was hilarious. Offensive, maybe. But only if you feel guilty for being at the welfare office. and you have to admit, a large percentage of us liberals come from low/middle class families, or are in the entertainment industry. But whatever, she can be funny. She’s a lunatic, but an amusing one, like a caricature.
— dj - Oct 6, 10:34 AM - #I don’t hate Coulter, I ignore her, and so should you.
— Shawn - Oct 23, 03:46 PM - #Bravo, Shawn. There’s a story about a stray cat that hung around for awhile, and when no one fed it, it went somewhere else, presumably to a place where it could get fed. Coulter is like that annoying cat and if we ignore it, maybe it will go away. And I say “it” because “she” has an Adam’s apple (http://politicalhumor.about.com/ library/images/ blpic-coulteradamsapple.htm). Not that ambiguous genter ruins her credibility. Her words do.
— Diva - Oct 29, 04:19 PM - #Coulter, when found to be the number one most loathsome person in the world by the “Buffalo Beast,” recieved the moniker of “Josef Goebels with tits.” It fits, even if as crude as any one of her excremental columns or speeches.
— Daniel - Nov 15, 06:39 PM - #What a distorted, angry, hate-filled biography of Ann Coulter—although not surprising when you realize that it is coming from the ultra-extreme leftwing Campus Progress.
I’m glad Chairman Ann continues to emasculate and demolish fascist neocoms. She has even been physically assaulted by the hate-filled left—which they bizarrely tried to defend as “freedom of expression”. And let’s not forget the New Jersey communists (Democrats) who called for Ann Coulter’s new book to be banned. They even had the gall to put it on the internet, making no attempt to hide their commie calls for censorship.
Ah well. What do you expect from commies who believe that mankind evolved from a monkey and thought that their was nothing wrong with the Rapist-in-Chief perjuring himself and obstructing justice.
— Mr Kennedy (Kennedy) - Dec 9, 06:42 PM - #This bio is far to polite for the asinine antics of Ann Coulter. By the way, to commenter’s 11 & 12 – You sound like silly scolded children. The reason Ann Coulter is so vile is not because liberals are that bad, it is because Ann Coulter is just that vile. Her conduct is questionable and her words are downright offensive to any person who has any sense of decency, Republican or Democrat. Furthermore Ann Coulter is to politics what Jerry Springer is to serious talk shows. She is just an an attention loving sensationalist who loves to hear the sound of her own voice. An intellectual? I hardly think so, a degree doesn’t mean shit when you don’t have any common sense or decency.
— Julie - Jan 18, 02:30 PM - #ANN Coulter
“Thats a crazy b——!
— dnelson - Jan 26, 04:01 PM - #All she needs is a little jones however and she would be purring like a c—-!
Wow, spell check is certainly in order here and pay attention to homonyms as well. If being vulgar is all you can offer it appears Ms. Coulter may be correct.
— dasmith - Mar 2, 10:53 PM - #She is a waste of time, are her 15 minutes up?
— rocco - Mar 3, 12:10 PM - #Ann Coulter has entered the vacuum created by the collapse of the 1950s anticommunist liberal – Hubert Humphrey possibly the most remembered, and ‘Scoop’ Jackson probably the last. She is indeed a reactionary – but in the best sense of the word, reacting against the desttruction of a consensus that was shared by all Americans, one that both supported the real Civil Rights movement, and helped hold the wall against the Soviet Union’s assault on the West. It is not useful to think in terms of left and right, or entrap outselves in the Marxian error that politics is ‘the struggle of class against class’. Pareto was a better guide to us, when he explained that politics is only a struggle within the elites – evey one else chooses up sides.
The Demcrats represent that portion of the elites that favor a highly centralized state apparatus, for they have a philosphy that directs them to acquire skills best suited to own vision and operate a political Behemoth. Similarly would be an error to think of our ruling class composed of two opposite forces – it would be more useful to think of it as composed of factions, which ally and intrigue against each other continually.
In this context, we can easily place the ideologists for each faction. As far as I can tell, Ann is no Convservative at all, but a revival of the Cold War Liberal. To many today, this ideology souds strange because it has been erased in the McGovernite faction putsch that seized control of the Democratic Party and ruled it ever since.
For myself, I don’t care how many women Clinton raped, I don’t doubt he raped many women, but his biological recreations are not relevant to why he was important in US politics. He was a political entreprenuer the like of which we have not seen since Martin Van Buren, who invented a large part of the patronage and party system that we take for granted. So too, with Miss Coulter’s recreationos. I’m not a beliver myself, but as Wilde observed, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. Miss Coulter knows that she is doing wrong by the standards of the culture and faith she often ably defends. As comprehensively self critical inviduals, we owe it to ourselves that we seperate the personal and the political. to the extent any one contiues to make the psuedo-marist epistemological error of conflating the personal with the political, we will need Ann Coulter.
— Richard Douglas Henkus - Mar 3, 01:48 PM - #Ann has a right to say what she pleases and use words that are thought by some to be politically incorrect. I assure you many Americans agree with her use of words to describe certian groups of people.
— R. R. Mongeau - Mar 7, 11:37 AM - #R. R. Mongeau,
No American would ever agree with Ms. Coulter. Only minds addled by religion would agree with her outlandish views.
— John - Mar 7, 12:06 PM - #I love you Ann and agree with every thing you say.
— Ralph Braswell - Mar 11, 10:39 AM - #I had a high school modern rhet. teacher that told me that once you call someone a name, you have lost the argument… sorry Mrs. M, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. I am a “faggot” and very rarely ever use the word “cunt”... But Ann… you are a fucking slimy CUNT!
— BDub - Mar 11, 08:46 PM - #alot of people posting comments here have some interesting points. Ann Coulter is definately an interesting individual, who surprisingly represends the same opinions that alot of other people hold. Although I disagree with alot of what she says, and I consider some of her ramblings just plain insane, it is her right to express her opinion. I personally think she is nothing more than racist slime with a soap box from which she banters her psychotic babblings from, and I definately do not take her seriously, nor do I think she is any real threat. Politics these days is all dramatized into scripted “hollywood” style scenarios. In the whole scheme of things, Ann Coulter is just another attention starved actress, who indeed is entitled to her opinion and expression of that opinion, and if you don’t like her, simply don’t pay her any mind.
— Anthony - Apr 4, 07:19 PM - #Shocking news: CampusProgress misrepresents Coulter.
From my objective viewpoint, just below the rim of the crapper, Coulter shits out chunks of CampusProgress in her morning stool.
— Simon - Apr 25, 11:40 PM - #As a Cornellian in the early 80s I recall occassionally seeing a skinny, leggy, long-haired, shifty-eyed blond avidly accumulating “face time at the Straight” (Willard Straight Hall). I actually wondered when she got time to study although her cum laude degree suggests that she did. Even when in conversation her eyes darted left-right…right-left… so as not to miss seeing who else was looking at her. Didn’t know who she was then. Later, when she showed up on TV I thought …“could that be…” and then the shifting, darting eyes squelched all doubt. She still revels in – and apparently still requires – “face time” to sustain her self image. Sad to see to whom she now looks for approval !
— Dave - Jun 27, 05:35 PM - #Even as a moderate, I find Ann Coulter a discredit to all conservative thinkers everywhere. She is merely another talking head making a mockery of true political debate and political science. With her racist “humor” she continues to perpetuate the orientalist perception that the Middle Easter world as inferiorand must be treated as such, in essence perpetuating the hate. Thanks a lot Anne Coulter.
— Joss - Oct 12, 12:55 AM - #I learned something by reading this article. You keep referring to Coulter as “her” and “she”. Yeow, I really never knew Ann Coulter was a woman. Come on, are you guys putting us on?
— Robert Orlando - Oct 12, 05:35 PM - #I wouldn’t piss on her if she were on fire…She’d probably enjoy it though.
— lappy - Oct 12, 06:49 PM - #Throwing pies at such beasts is a waste of good food. If I knew she were coming I’d look for a a dead skunk.
— Frank Lorniitzo - Oct 12, 08:21 PM - #Coulter: better read than heard or seen. Her sad presentation, sadly, precludes her great wisdom.
— Simon - Oct 12, 08:21 PM - #It is about time we organize a boycott of the garbage mouth industry: not just Coulter but Limbaugh, Reilly et. al. It wouldn’t exist if there weren’t a perverted desire to listen to it.
— Frank Lorniitzo - Oct 12, 08:26 PM - #We know it is wrong and immoral.
God Bless Ann Coulter!
— raymondJ - Oct 12, 08:44 PM - #I love how Ann shakes the quacko liberal lefties! Actually, I believe EVERYONE would be in better shape if they embraced Christ. If didn’t believe that, I would not be a Christian! Go Ann!!
— paul - Oct 13, 12:01 AM - #i love how people insist that the only fans of ann coulter are neocon christian zealots. i happen to me as moderate as they come and am happily free of all religion, and i still agree with a lot of what ann says. perhaps if you morons actually read her books and didn’t just you tube ann’s horrid tv appearances, you’d realize why she’s so popular. ann makes some very compelling arguments in high crimes and godless, and yet those who have no familiarity with the content of her books apart from what they dug up on media matters are the first to provide commentary on her. it really does sadden me that it is the left that wants to silence conservatives, or at least this conservative. the more it happens, the more her readers see how what she says is true. its frighteningly prophetic. i speculate that the good majority of coulter haters have never actually cracked open one of her books, much less read them. please stop regurgitating pathetically frail denunciations when you know so little about a person.
the only thing coulter haters have going for them is her idiotic ramblings on television. i’ve never been impressed by a single thing she’s said on tv. i believe it was tucker carlson who once said that ann coulter is better enjoyed in print. he couldn’t be more correct.
— Ben R. - Oct 13, 05:10 AM - #I HAVE read her books, and still find her offensive, and not to mention stupid. Her total disregard and ignorance of the realities of discrimination is disgusting and counter-productive to the world we should live in. But thats convenient for her with her private school education and NY penthouse. I am particularly fond of how she harasses her own sex and subscribes the the antiquated notion that women are intellectually inferior and weak. She denies that women should contribute to politics? Minorities choose lesser jobs? Progressive…really? How backward can you get? OH, and not to mention that all liberal women are running around having premarital sex and tons of abortions. She makes inflamatory, misinformed, and hurtful remarks about war, women’s rights, gay rights, and the shameful political strategies used by BOTH political parties, not just one! She is a hypocrite in every way.
— JF - Oct 15, 04:29 PM - #She is plain crazy.
— Maria Liebermann - Oct 16, 11:09 PM - #Ann Coulter is one of those grotesque creatures who is all knees and elbows, with the only curve found in the adams apple. I always thought Ann Coulter was a really tacky drag queen.
— Rand Carter - Oct 17, 12:36 PM - #my favorite part about this article is the beginning.
“But CampusProgress.org won’t stoop to name calling.”
one sentence later…
We promise not to sink to the sub-basement level of this venomous pundit, seemingly delusional storyteller, and popular conservative campus speaker as we offer you a brief profile.
last time i checked, “venomous pundit” and “delusional storyteller”
can be safely described as name calling. at this point the article has viciously tanked, even if it was designed to be sarcastic.
but i forgot, ann coulter is the nastiest creature on the planet, which of course explains why her books sell so well. oops!
— BR - Oct 17, 05:01 PM - #Coulter is not funny. Why not? Picking on people is not funny.
— Hattie - Oct 19, 12:57 PM - #The best news of all about Ann Coulter is that she is getting too old to breed. Her defective and perverted genes will die with her. Since we already have enough stupid people on the planet, I consider this a great blessing. She, of course, can say whatever she wants, but then again, so can I.
— Cammy61 - Oct 22, 10:03 AM - #I admit that Ann Coulter can make some caustic remarks, especially in her appearances on tv, but if you look past them you’ll see that many of her points are very insightful and thought-provoking. Go to her website, read her articles, you may not agree with her, but you will find them to be very intelligent.
I noticed a common theme in the article and comments here, one that seems to define liberalism these days: hate. It is the main reason I can’t support Democrats these days, I will not support hate. There are no longer debates on issues from the left, just hate and demagoguery. CA fires, the left blames Bush. Not based on facts, just hate. I do not understand how people can seem to sit around all day hating others, and going to websites where people compete to see who can be the most hateful – it must make for a very sad life.
— Louis Burwell - Oct 26, 08:02 PM - #why does #23 assume ann coulter poops in the morning? maybe poops at night.
— davy - Nov 6, 12:16 AM - #The craziest thing about all the comments above seems to be the blinders everyone is wearing. For a conservative to say liberals want to silence them is as silly as liberals saying conservatives want to silence them. Everyone would love it if their competition would shut up and let them say what they want – its the way people work! Everytime Ann says some crazy blanket comment she’s doing the same thing as those who make crazy blanket comments about the right.
To All of You Who Love Coulter: she profits from people’s misguided and sad belief that you need to be better than someone else (or feel you are) to maintain any sense of identity. You do not need to think someone else sucks to know your worth! As a matter of fact, the day you wake up and no longer care what anyone ele thinks, or what their opnion is of how you live your life, is going to be the happiest day of your life! I know it was for me. After all, if you tie yourself to someone like Coulter who needs attention at any cost, you are tying your sense of self to a woman so lost she may never find herself.
Think about it carefully: how does it sound that in order to feel good about who you are, you have to smear everyone else? How productive does it sound that you live in a world of hate? Hate of jewish people, of mixed race couples, of “liberals” of Arabs… I mean, damn! Who has time for that? And who wants to live that way? Especially when, as I am sure she would agree, there is so much that is wonderful and full of possibility in living in America!
Lastly, whatever the conservatives on here say, Ann peddles hate. She just does, and she’s proud of it. I’ve read her book (to see what all the fuss is about and because as a Cornell alum I want to know what’s up), and if when I was an English teacher long ago a student had given me a paper like her book, I would have given them a D- and told them to rewrite it or fail. Its just lazy writing. Lazy writing, incoherent, rambling, repetitive…. Almost any argument can be won if argued well. Any student of debate or rhetoric knows that. Why doesn’t Ann? Think about that…
— BookishBetty - Dec 19, 04:40 PM - #Coulter is so ignorant that she doesn’t know that perhaps 70% of Arab-Americans are CHRISTIANS—members of her own Herrenvolk.
— Montag - Jan 27, 02:00 PM - #If Coulter was actually serious about terrorism, she would hate Bush. He is the one who said he isn’t concerned about Bin Laden.
— Chaz - Jan 27, 11:54 PM - #Articles refer to Coulter’s “best selling books”, but when I’ve seen them advertised, they are dirt cheap or free – which is still overpriced. So do they top a list in the number of copies donated? We’re supposed to believe people are buying the message. But the term is more like dissemination. Who pays for the free copies?
— Sheldon R - Feb 10, 06:15 PM - #Ann Coulter looks like the front of a horse and acts like the back
— John - Jun 10, 12:20 AM - #I am amazed at tha number of people that have never been published, never written a syndicated column and never been on TV have so much to say. Whatever Coulter is or isn’t one thing is clear, she is in charge of her life regardless of what other’s say.
— Ed Sorensen - Jun 15, 04:59 PM - #Ok, I have to comment. # 40- are you serious ?
— Jeb B. - Jun 18, 12:06 AM - #You say you do not support hate ? All Ann does is spew hate. She is a hate monger. Do you not understand that ?
You are as big of a hypocrit as she is.
you know, that whole “all christians believe themselves to be perfected jews” thing really nags at me. who is she talking about? other non-denominational types who didn’t inherit a tradition? as a catholic, i don’t even identify with mainline protestants, much less “christians.” it’s not that this divide is good (and i know i’m kind of a jerk for adhering to it), but again, she has no effing idea what she’s talking about.
and to other commenters—i thought, by now, we all agreed that ethnic slurs were bad…? the problem with the names she calls Arabs is not that they’re “politically incorrect,” but that they’re hateful. please stop defending her use of slurs. it’s wrong. you know better, i know better, and i bet—somewhere—she knows better, too.
— a - Jun 26, 08:35 PM - #Ann Coulter is so intelligent and beuutiful, which liberals can’t handle and makes them crazy jealous haters. Liberals are stupid, lazy socialists who really don’t want to do anything but let the government take care of them. Higher taxes, healthcare, welfare, affirmative action —- go to school and get a job! Dem-ratsw are responsible for doing nothing about our security against terrorism (3 terrorist attacks not answered) then 9/11. All Dem-rat leaders for years mades speaches that Iraq had WMDs and now play the selective amnesia card…doesn’t work we have video tapes! WW1 & WW2 resulted in 100k casualties. Ours is 3k… how soon
— Jamie - Jul 17, 09:44 PM - #Dem-Americans forget we are at war with foks that have no interest in tea parties and peace & love. Wake up losers! Or do us all a favor. Please get together and go over to Iraq and negotiate peace… get your head blown off and then we will talk about make love not war slogans —-IDIOTS!