Ann Hart Coulter born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. He often appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events.
Born in New York City, Coulter grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. He deepened his conservative interest while studying history at Cornell University, where he helped find The Cornell Review. He then began his career as a law officer before rising to prominence in the 1990s as a blatant critic of the Clinton administration. His first book concerns Bill Clinton's impeachment, and emerged from his experience writing legal reports for lawyer Paula Jones, as well as the column he wrote about the cases.
Coulter describes himself as a polemic who likes to "spark pots", and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as the broadcaster does," draws criticism from the left, and sometimes from the right. The Coulter syndication column for Universal Press Syndicate appears in the newspaper, and is featured on the main conservative website. By 2016, Coulter has 12 best-selling books, including the latest Ã,¡Adios, America! and In Trump We Trust .
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Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961, in New York City, to John Vincent Coulter (1926-2008), an Irish-German Heritage FBI agent, originally from Albany, New York; and Nell Husbands Coulter (nÃÆ' Â © e Martin; 1928-2009), who came from Paducah, Kentucky. His family then moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and his two older brothers, James and John, grew up. She grew up in a conservative household in Connecticut by Republican parents, with a father who loves Joseph McCarthy. Coulter said that he has been identified as a conservative since kindergarten. To prepare the argument, he read books like Barry Goldwater Conscience of a Conservative .
At the age of 14, Coulter visited his elder brother in New York City, where he studied at law school. When he was in class, he had his sister reading books by Milton Friedman and William E. Simon. When he came home from class, he questioned Coulter. As a gift, he and his friends took him to the bars on the Upper East Side. Reading Republic books made Coulter dream of working as a writer. He graduated from New Canaan High School in 1980. Coulter's age was disputed in 2002, when he said he was not yet 40 years old, but Lloyd Grove columnist from the Washington Post said he gave birth date December 8. , 1961, when registering to vote in New Canaan, Connecticut, prior to the 1980 presidential election. Meanwhile, a driver's license issued a few years later mentions his birth date as December 8, 1963. Coulter will not confirm the date, for privacy reasons.
While attending Cornell University, Coulter helps find The Cornell Review, and is a member of the Gamma Delta Gamma national group. He graduated from Cornell in 1984 with a bachelor of arts degree in history and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988, where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review In Michigan, Coulter is the president of the local branch of the Federalist Society and trained at the National Journalism Center.
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Careers
After law school, Coulter served as a legal officer, in Kansas City, to Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where he specializes in corporate law, Coulter went to work for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took over the Congress in 1994. He handled the crime and immigration issue for Senator Spencer Abraham from Michigan and helped create legislation designed to expedite deportation of aliens convicted of crimes. He later became a litigator at the Center for Individual Rights.
In 2000, Coulter was considered running for Congress in Connecticut on a Libertarian Party ticket to serve as a spoiler to throw a seat to a Democratic candidate and see that Republican Congressman Christopher Shays failed to win re-election, as punishment for Shays' vote against Clinton impeachment. The leader of the Libertarian Connecticut Party, after meeting with Coulter, refused to support him. As a result, the "Jesse Ventura" campaign of too many media and intensive third parties did not happen. Shays then won the election, and held the seat until 2009.
Coulter's career was highlighted by the publication of twelve books, as well as the weekly newspaper syndication column he published. He is primarily known for his polemical style, and describes himself as someone who likes to "stir the pot, I do not pretend to be impartial or balanced, as the announcer does." He has been compared to Clare Boothe Luce, one of his idols, for his satirical style. He also made many public appearances, talked on television and radio talk shows, as well as on campuses, receiving praise and protests. Coulter usually spends 6-12 weeks a year talking about engagement tours, and more when he has a book out. In 2010, he made about $ 500,000 on the speaking circuit, giving a speech on the topic of modern conservatism, gay marriage, and what he described as the hypocrisy of modern American liberalism. During one appearance at the University of Arizona, a cake was thrown at him. Coulter, at times, defended his ideas, responding with heated remarks to the hecklers and protesters who attended his speech.
Books
Coulter is the author of twelve books, many of which have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list, with a combined 3 million copies sold in May 2009.
Coulter's first book, High Crime and Breach: The Case Against Bill Clinton, was published by Regnery Publishing in 1998 and became the New York Times Bestseller list. This details the Coulter case for impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right , published by Crown Forum in 2002, reached number one spot in the non-fiction best selling list of The New York Times. In Fitnah , Coulter argues that President George W. Bush was given unjust negative media coverage. The factual accuracy of Slander was questioned by comedians and later writers, then US Democratic Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken; he also accused him of quoting sections out of context. Others investigate these allegations, and also ask questions about the accuracy of the book and the presentation of facts. Coulter responded to criticism in a column called "Responding to My Criticism".
In his third book, Betrayal: Liberal Betrayal from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, also published by the Crown Forum, he repeats the 60-year history of the Cold War - including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss, and Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to "demolish this wall" - and argue that the liberals were wrong in their political analysis and political decisions of the Cold War, and that McCarthy was right about Soviet agents working for the US government. He also argues that the correct identification of Annie Lee Moss, among others, as a communist has been misreported by the liberal media. Betrayal was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Sellers list.
Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter columns in 2004 as its fourth book, How to Speak with the Liberals (If You Must): World According to Ann Coulter .
Coulter's fifth book, published by the Crown Forum in 2006, is Godless: The Church of Liberalism . In it, he argues, firstly, that American liberalism rejects the idea of ​​God and denounces the believers, and secondly, that it bears all the attributes of religion itself. Godless debuted at number one on the New York Times's Best Seller list. Sections in the book match parts of other people's writings published in the past (including newspaper articles and Planned Parenthood documents), who led John Barrie of the iTentiicate to assert that Coulter has been involved in "textbook plagiarism".
Coulter If Democrats Have Brain, They Will Become Republican (Crown Forum), published in October 2007, and Guilty: "Liberal Victims" and Their Attacks in America (Crown Forum) , which was published on January 6, 2009, both also earned the best seller status.
On June 7, 2011, Crown Forum published its eighth book Demonic: How Mob Liberals Threaten America . Coulter said that he based the book on the work of a French social psychologist, Gustave Le Bon, who wrote about the psychology of the masses, and in it he argues that liberals have characteristics such as mass.
His ninth book, published September 25, 2012, is Destructed: Racial Harassment from the Seventy to Obama . It is argued that liberals, and Democrats in particular, have taken undue credit for racial civil rights in America.
Coulter's tenth book, Do not Believe Liberal Over 3 - Particularly a Republican , released October 14, 2013. This is a collection of his second column and first published by Regnery since his first book, High Crime and Bad Breach . Coulter publishes his eleventh book, Adios, America: The Left Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hell on June 1, 2015. This book covers illegal immigration, amnesty programs and border security in the United States.
Column
In the late 1990s, the weekly Coulter syndication column (biweekly from 1999-2000) for Universal Press Syndicate began to appear. The columns appear on six conservative websites: Online Human Events , WorldNetDaily, Townhall.com, VDARE, FrontPageMag, Jewish World Review and their own websites. The syndicator says, "Ann's client newspaper sticks to him because he has a loyal fan of conservative readers who are looking forward to reading his column in their local newspaper."
In 1999, Coulter worked as a regular columnist for George's magazine. Coulter also writes exclusive weekly columns between 1998 and 2003 and with occasional columns thereafter for Conservative magazine Human Events . In his column for magazines, he discusses court decisions, constitutional matters, and legal issues affecting Congress and the executive branch.
In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist for the National Review Online (NRO), Coulter was asked by the editor to make changes to articles written after the September 11 attacks. On the national television show Politically Incorrect, Coulter accused NRO of censorship and said that he was paid $ 5 per article. NRO dropped his column and stopped his editor. Jonah Goldberg, editor-of-the-NRO , said, "We're not 'firing' Ann for what he wrote... we ended the relationship because he behaved with a lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty editing dispute]. "
Coulter was contracted with USA Today to cover the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He wrote an article that began, "Here at Spawn of Demon convention in Boston..." and referred to several female participants not specified as "eat corn, no make-up, natural fiber, no bra, wear sandals, hirsut, hippie chick pie wagon rather fragrant". The newspaper refused to print an article citing an editing dispute about "a basic weakness in clarity and readability that we find unacceptable". An explanatory article by the newspaper went on to say "Coulter told the online edition magazine Editor & Publisher that ' USA Today does not like my" tone ", humor, sarcasm, etc. , which raises the interesting question why they hired me to write for them. "" USA Today replaced Coulter with Jonah Goldberg, and Coulter published it on his website.
In August 2005, the Arizona Daily Star dropped the Coulter syndication column, citing a reader's complaint that "Many readers find him shrill, bombastic, and cruel, and those are the words used by readers who identify themselves as conservative ".
In July 2006, several newspapers replaced Coulter's column with another conservative columnist column after the publication of his fourth book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. After the The Augusta Chronicle dropped his column, newspaper editor Michael Ryan explained that "it got to the point where he was a problem rather than what he wrote about". Ryan also stated that "pulling Ann Coulter's column is painful, he's one of the clearest thinkers around".
He has criticized immigration proposals of former president George W. Bush, saying they are causing "amnesty". In the 2007 column, he claimed that the current immigration system was formed to deliberately reduce the percentage of whites in the population. In it, he said:
In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites have already accounted for less than two-thirds of the population and will become a minority by 2050. Another faster estimate occurs on that day.
One can assume that the new majority will not be a loving master like the white majority. If such drastic changes are legally levied on a group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. But white people are called racists simply because of the fact that current immigration laws are deliberately designed to reduce their percentage in the population.
Overall, Coulter's column is very critical of liberals and Democrats. In 2006, he wrote:
This year's Democratic plan for the future is another silly sound flare designed to trick American voters into trusting them with national security
To that end, they claim there is no connection between the war on terror and the war in Iraq, and while they are all for the war on terror - really support the war - they are vigorously opposed to the Iraq war.. You know, a war in which the US military killed thousands of terrorists (described in the media as "Iraqi civilians", even if they were from Jordan, like al-Qaeda leader now dead in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi). The war.
Television and radio
Coulter made his first national media appearance in 1996 after he was hired by the MSNBC network that was still a legal correspondence. He then appeared on CNN and Fox News. Coulter went on to make frequent guest appearances on many television and radio talk shows, including the American Morning, The Fifth Estate, and the Glenn Beck Program. , The Fifth Estate i> The Mike Gallagher Show, The O'Reilly Factor , Real Time with Bill Maher , Reds with Greg Gutfeld , The Rush Limbaugh Show , The Sean Hannity Show , The Today Show, Lou Dobbs Tonight < Fox and Friends , The Laura Ingraham Show , The View , The Michael Medved Show , and HARDtalk >>.
In an interview with Bob McKeown on the January 26, 2005, edition of The Fifth Estate , Coulter was criticized for his statement, "Canada was once... one of... the most loyal friends, and on the contrary, I mean Canadians send troops to Vietnam Are Vietnam less detained and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein? "McKeown denied it with," No, actually Canada did not send troops to Vietnam. " In the February 18, 2005 edition of the Washington Journal, Coulter justified his remarks by referring to the thousands of Canadians who served in the American armed forces during the Vietnam era either because they volunteered or because they lived in the United States during the years, years of war and military conscription. He said, "The Canadian government did not send troops... but... they came and fought with the Americans, so I was wrong: there were 10,000 Americans who happened to be born in Canada." (Actually there are between 5,000 and 20,000 Canadians fighting in Vietnam alone, including about 80 killed.) John Cloud of Time, writing about the incident a few months later, said, "Canada [sends] troops nonkombat to Indochina in the 1950s and returned to Vietnam in 1972 ".
Movies
Coulter appeared in three films released in 2004. The first is Feeding the Beast , a documentary made for television about the "24-Hour News Revolution". The other two movies are FahrenHYPE 9/11 , a live-to-video documentary rebuttal from Michael Moore Fahrenheit 911 , and Is That Really What They Say About Ann? , a documentary about Coulter that contains interview clips and speeches. By 2015, Coulter has a cameo as Vice President in a movie made for TV Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! .
Personal life
The Coulter maternity line in the United States extends back to the American Revolutionary War and earlier, while his father's ancestors were Irish and German immigrants who arrived in the United States in the mid-19th century. He has two older brothers: James, an accountant, and John, a lawyer. Coulter has been engaged several times, but he has never been married and has no children. She has dated the founders and publishers Bob Guccione, Jr., and conservative author Dinesh D'Souza. In October 2007, he began dating Andrew Stein, former president of the New York City Council, a liberal Democrat. When asked about the relationship, Stein told the newspaper, "He attacked many of my friends, but what can I say, an interesting contrast!" On January 7, 2008, however, Stein told New York Post that the relationship was over, citing irreconcilable differences. Kellyanne Conway, referring to Coulter as a friend, told New York Magazine in 2017 that Coulter "started dating his security officer maybe ten years ago because he could not see anyone else".
Coulter owns a house, purchased in 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida, a condominium in Manhattan, and an apartment in Los Angeles. He chose in Palm Beach and was not registered to do so in New York or California. He is a fan of several clock bands, such as Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, and Phish. Some of his favorite books include the Bible, Mere Christianity, Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, the true criminal stories of serial killers, and anything by Dave Barry.
Religious view
Coulter is a Christian and belongs to the Presbyterian denomination. His father was Catholic and his mother was a Protestant. At a public lecture he said, "I do not care about anything else, Christ died for my sins, and nothing matters." He summarized his view of Christianity in a 2004 column, saying, "The typical message of Jesus is: Sinners and redemption, and this is your lucky day, for I am here to redeem you even if you do not deserve it, nonsense that was kicked out of me to do it. "He then mocked" the message of Jesus... according to the liberals ", summarizing it as" something along the lines of "being nice to people '", which, in turn, he says "is, in fact, one of the Christian incidental teachings. "
Facing the views of some critics that his content and style of writing is not Christian, Coulter stated that "I am the first Christian and have a second spirit, conservative, and never forget it." He also said, "Christianity burns everything I write, being a Christian means I am called to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy - you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism". In Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Coulter characterizes the theory of evolution as a pseudo-science, and compares his belief with what he calls â € Å"obsesion to Darwinism and Darwinian view of the left world, which replaces sanctification. living with sex sanctification and death. "Coulter subscribes to intelligent design, a theory that rejects evolution.
Coulter was accused of anti-semitism on October 8, 2007, an interview with Donny Deutsch on Great Ideas . During the interview, Coulter stated that the United States is a Christian country, and says that he wants "the Jews are perfected, as they say" (referring to those who are Christians). Deutsch, a Jewish practitioner, implies that this is an anti-Semitic commentary, but Coulter says he does not consider it a hateful comment. In response to Coulter's comments on the show, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and Bradley Burston condemned the comments, and the National Jewish Democratic Council asked the media channel to stop inviting Coulter as guest commentator. Talk show host Dennis Prager, while disagreeing with his comments, said they were not "anti-semitic", noting, "Nothing in what Ann Coulter told a Jewish interviewer on CNBC who showed he hated Jews or wanted them ill, or whether the damage to Jews or Jewish state and if no criteria exist, how can one be labeled anti-Semitic? "Conservative activist David Horowitz also defended Coulter against the allegations.
Coulter again sparked outrage in September 2015, when he tweeted in response to several references to Republican candidates for Israel during the Presidential debate, "How many Jews do these think people think exist in the United States?" The Anti-Pollution League calls the tweets "ugly, spiteful and anti-Semitic". Responding to anti-Semitism charges, he tweeted "I like Jews, I love fetuses, I love Reagan, no need to hear applause about them all night."
Political view
Coulter is a conservative columnist. She describes herself as a "typical man, disrespectfully dressed, dark-skinned, loving, homosexual, ultra-conservative." She is a registered Republican member and former member of the GOProud Advisory Board since August 9, 2011.
Domestic policy
- Abortion
Coulter believes Roe v. Wade must be canceled and submitted to the state. He is anti-abortionist, but believes there must be an exception if a woman is raped.
- Civil Liberties
Coulter supported the NSA's unsecured surveillance period from 2001 to 2007. During the 2011 performance at Stossel, he said "the PATRIOT Act, fantastic, Gitmo, fantastic, waterboarding, not bad, though torture would be better." He multiplied Rand Paul for "this anti-drone stuff,".
- Hates crime
Coulter opposed the law of hate crime, calling them "unconstitutional." He also stated that "Criminal provisions seem to be vaguely directed toward capturing cold-blooded, but the law can do so without lifting some victims over others."
- LGBT Rights
Coulter opposed same-sex marriage, against Obergefell v. Hodges , and supports the US federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman. He insists that his opposition to same-sex marriage "is not anti-gay" and that "This is really a pro-marriage position to oppose gay marriage". On April 1, 2015, the column, Coulter stated that liberals have "won the war against gay marriage (by court fiat)".
Coulter also opposes civil unity and privatization of marriage. When talking about the rights issue given by the marriage, she says, "Women have been able to visit loved ones at the hospital, they can also visit neighbors, random acquaintances, and strangers in the hospital - just like everyone else. whoever they want ". He disagreed with the 2003 US Supreme Court ruling Lawrence v. Texas, states that there is no right to sodomy written in the Constitution and that under federalism every state and territory must revoke their sodomy laws. He stated that he opposed the prohibition of same-sex sexual intercourse. He also stated that same-sex sexuality is protected under the Fourth Amendment, which prevents police from entering your home without a search warrant or court order.
In connection with Romer v. Evans , in which the US Supreme Court overturns Section II, Section 30b of the Colorado Constitution, which prohibits "the State of Colorado, through its branch or department, or from its agencies, political subdivisions, municipalities or school districts, adopt or enforce any law, regulation, regulation or policy in which homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientations, conduct, practices or relationships shall constitute or be the basis or grant the rights of any person or class of persons to own or claim a status minorities, quota preferences, protected status or discrimination claims. ", Coulter described the ruling as" they can not refuse to give affirmative action to people who have sodomy. " He also disagrees with the repetition of Do not Ask Do not Say, stating that it is not "anti-gay position; this is a pro-military position" because "sexual ties interfere with military ties". He also stated that "there is no evidence that all releases for homosexuality involve actual homosexuality." On April 1, 2015, in a column, he expressed support for the Indiana Freedom of Recovery Act and said it was an "apocryphal" statement to claim the Freedom of Religion Act to be used to discriminate against LGBT people.
Coulter has expressed his opposition to the treatment of LGBT people in Cuba, the People's Republic of China, and Saudi Arabia.
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- LGBT Conservatism
Since the 1990s, Coulter has had many acquaintances in the LGBT community. He considers himself "Judy Garland of the Right". In recent years, he has attracted many LGBT fans, gay and transgender men.
In CPAC 2007, Coulter said, "I want to show you one thing that has made me crazy with the media - how they continue to portray Mitt Romney's position as pro-gay, and that will disappoint the right wing," and "Well, you know, I'm not anti-gay We're against gay marriage I do not want gays to be discriminated against. " He added: "I do not know why all gays are not Republicans, I think we have a pro-gay position, which is anti-crime and tax cuts, Gay makes a lot of money and they are victims of crime" No, they are! They should be with us. "
In Coulter's 2007 book, If Democrats Have Brain, They Will Be Republican, in chapter "Gays: No Gay Left Behind!", He argues that Republican policy is more pro-gay than Democratic policy. Coulter attended HomoCon 2010 from GOProud, where he commented that same-sex marriage is "not civil rights". On February 9, 2011, in a column, he described the National Log Cabin as "silly" and "not conservative at all". But he described the Texas branch of Log Cabin Republican, who had for years signed his books, for "consisting of a real conservative".
At CPAC 2011, during the question-and-answer segment, Coulter was asked about GOProud and the controversy regarding their inclusion in CPAC 2011. He boasted how he talked GOProud into dropping his support for same-sex marriage on the party platform, saying, "Left trying to co-opt gay, and I do not think we should let them in. I think they should be on our side ", and" Gay is a natural conservative ". Later that year, he joined the advisory board for GOProud. At Logos A-List: Dallas he told Gay Republican Taylor Garrett that "gays should be pro-life", and "Once they find a gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies will start aborting?"
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- Transgender rights
Coulter opposes a publicly funded gender change operation. He supports Public Facilities & amp; Safety Act and oppose transgender individuals using bathrooms that fit their gender identity. He said his rejection of the use of bathrooms related to gender identity had nothing to do with transnender people, but the cisgendered "persecutor of children" who "now has the right to enter the bathroom. "He supports the prohibition of transgender military personnel from the United States military.
- Undocumented immigration
He strongly opposes amnesty to illegal immigrants, and in 2013 CPAC says he is now a "one-issue voter against amnesty".
- War on Drugs
Coulter strongly supports the continuing War on Drugs. However, he says that, if there is no welfare state, he "will not care" if the drugs are legal. She talks about drugs as a guest at Piers Morgan Live, when she says that cannabis users "can not perform daily functions".
Support
Coulter initially supported George W. Bush's presidency, but later criticized his approach to immigration. He supported Duncan Hunter and then Mitt Romney at the 2008 primary president of the Republic and run president of primary president and president of 2012. In the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, he supported Donald Trump. He has since alienated himself from Trump since his election following an argument over immigration policy, calling for his impeachment on September 14, 2017 and saying "Put the form on Trump, he's dead". He now describes himself as a "former Trumper".
Other Coulter candidates approved are Greg Brannon, Republican 2014 Republican prime candidate for North Carolinia Senator Paul Nehlen, 2016 Republican prime candidate for Wisconsin's first congressional district in the US House of Representatives, Mo Brooks, 2017 Republican primary candidate for Senator Alabama, and Roy Moore, and 2017 Republican candidate for Senator Alabama.
Alt-right
Since the 1990s, Coulter columns have appeared on VDARE , an American website focused on opposition to immigration to the United States. The South Poverty Law Center describes VDARE as an "anti-immigration hatred site" that "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race and anti-Semitic scientists", including Steve Sailer, Jared Taylor, J. Philippe Rushton and Samuel T. Francis. Since 2010, her column has appeared on the Breitbart News Network , a syndicated American news, opinion, and comment website. In 2016, former chief executive Steve Bannon, declared the Breitbart News Network "platform for alt-right". He supports the view of a long version of the Tennessee Army flag. Since January 12, 2017, his column has appeared in American Renaissance , a US internet magazine "white identity". He came to defend Milo Yiannopoulos, whom he was friends with, for his comments defending pedophilia. He describes Richard Spencer as "our match with Black Lives Matter" and "apparently you know the gay showboater who just wants a lot of media attention." He was an advocate of the white-genocide conspiracy theorists in South Africa and later stated that "if we were going to take refugees, I think it should be mainly white farmers who are elected and killed in truly horrible conditions.
Foreign policy
- Afghanistan
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- Afghan War
Although Coulter initially supported the war in Afghanistan during the Bush administration, beginning in 2009 he expressed concern that the war might have turned into another Vietnam. However, he stated that the US should "keep some troops there." He opposes President Obama's 2009 announcement of troop surge in Afghanistan and President Donald Trump's announcement in 2017 about troop surge in Afghanistan.
- Iran
Coulter oppose the Comprehensive Comprehensive Action Plan. He described the regime's change in Iran as "fantastic".
- Iraq
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- Iraq War
Coulter strongly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the waves of the 2007 Iraq War. He argued that the invasion of Iraq and the creation of the Iraqi Republic were what led to the protests of Iran's presidential election in 2009. He opposed President Obama's withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, stating "With pulling troops out of Iraq, he let Al Qaeda back ". He has stated that the Iraq War should never have been waged in the first place.
- Israel
Coulter describes himself as a pro-Israel.
Political activity and comments
Ann Coulter describes herself as a "polemic" who likes to "stir up pots" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as the announcer does." While his past political activities included advising plaintiffs demanding President Bill Clinton and considering running for Congress, he largely served as a political intellectual, sometimes creating controversy ranging from rowdy rebellions in several colleges where he spoke protractedly. discussion in the media. When John Cloud's magazine once observed that Coulter "likes to surprise journalists by wondering aloud whether America would be better if women lose the right to vote". This is a reference to his assertion that "it will be a much better country if women do not vote.That is just a fact.In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - Republicans will have a win, if only the people have choose. "Similarly, in an October 2007 interview with New York Observer , Coulter said:
If we take women's right to vote, we do not have to worry about other Democratic presidents. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's my personal fantasy, but I do not think it will happen. And this is a good way to make points that women choose with very stupid, at least single women.
It also makes a point, it's a bit embarrassing, the Democrats should have hung their heads in shame, that it has so much trouble getting people to vote for. I mean, you do see this is a women's party and 'We will pay for health care and tuition and childcare - and here, what else can we give you, soccer mothers?'
In addition to questioning whether the right of women to vote is a good thing, Coulter also appeared on Fox News and advocated poll tax and literacy tests for voters (this was in 1999, and he reiterated his support for the literacy test in 2015). ). This is not a point of view shared by members of the Republican Party.
Paula Jones - Bill Clinton Case
Coulter first became a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal adviser to lawyers representing Paula Jones in his sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Coulter's friend George Conway was asked to help Jones's lawyer, and soon Coulter, who wrote a column about Paula Jones's case for Human Events, was also asked to help, and he began writing legal reports. for his case.
Coulter then declared that he would disbelieve the motive of Jones's lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who in August or September 1997 told Jones that his case was weak and had to be resolved, if favorable settlements were negotiable. From the beginning, Jones had apologized from Clinton at least as excited as he sought a solution. However, in Coulter's interviews later tells that he himself believes that his case is strong, that Jones is telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly responsible for his mistake, and that the settlement will give the impression that Jones is only interested in extorting money from the President.
David Daley, who wrote the interview section for The Hartford Courant, tells what happened next:
Coulter plays a very important role in keeping the case of Jones alive. In Newsweek's new book reporter Michael Isikoff Reveals Clinton: The Story of a Rapporteur Coulter is revealed as the person who leaked the words "distinguishing characteristic" Clinton - his crooked dick reported Jones said he could recognize and portray - to the news media. The hope is to grow suspicions between the Clinton and Jones camps and prevent settlements... I think if I divulge the distinguishing characteristics it will show bad faith in the negotiations. [Clinton's lawyer] Bob Bennett would think Jones had leaked him. Cammaratta will know he has not leaked him and will be angry at Bennett. Perhaps that would stop me from negotiating enough to contact [Jones adviser] Susan Carpenter-McMillan to tell her that I thought the settlement would hurt Paula, that this would damage her reputation, and that there were other lawyers working for her. Then 36 hours later, he returned my phone call. I just want to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I do not think I can accept the harassment he experienced. She's this poor little village girl and she has the most powerful man she ever met who hit her sexually, then denied it and smeared her as president. And he never did anything tacky. It's not like he went to TV or tried to make money from him. "
In his book, Isikoff also reported Coulter saying: "We are afraid that Jones will stay, that is against our goal of overthrowing the President." After the book came out, Coulter clarified his motives, saying:
The only motive to divulge the distinguishing characteristic item that [Isikoff] gives in his book is my self-parodying statement that "it will embarrass the president" and that the settlement will derail our efforts to bring down the president... I think you can take a position , as did [Isikoff], that we worked for Jones because we thought Clinton was a bastard, lying, but the argument was a bit circular. You can also say that Juanita Broaddrick's secret motive in accusing Clinton of rape is that she hates Clinton because she raped her. Our main reason unlike Clinton is that we can see he is the kind of person who will transport low-level government officials like Paula to his hotel room, drop his pants, and say, "Kiss it." You know: All his defense says about him in the impeachment trial. It's not like we secretly dislike Clinton because of his government's position on the California orange cartel or something, and then start working on a crazy scheme to destroy it using a pathological apprentice as our Mata Hari.
The case was heard after Jones broke with Coulter and his original legal team, and he was dismissed through a summary verdict. The judge ruled that even if his allegations proved to be true, Jones did not indicate that he had suffered any harm, stating, "... the plaintiff does not indicate any real employment loss or adverse employment actions because his refusal to submit to the alleged progress of the governor, The President reserves the right to make conclusions about the plaintiff's claim for quid pro quo sexual harassment. "The decision was filed by Jones's attorney. During the filing appeal, Clinton settled with Jones for $ 850,000 ($ 151,000 after legal fees) in November 1998, in exchange for Jones's dismissal. At that time, Jones's lawsuit had given way to the sex scandal Monica Lewinsky.
In October 2000, Jones revealed that he would pose for nude photographs in an adult magazine, saying he wanted to use the money to pay taxes and support his school-age children, specifically saying, "I want to put them through college and maybe organize college funding "Coulter publicly denounced Jones, calling him" the trailer trailer garbage they told him "(Coulter had previously punished Clinton's supporters for mentioning Jones's name), after former Clinton campaign strategist James Carville made the widely reported statement" Drag $ 100 bills through trailer parks, and you'll never know what you'll find ", and calls Jones" a fraud, at least as far as pretending to be respectable and moral. "
Coulter menulis:
Paula must have been given over a million dollars in free legal aid from legal talents she would never see again in her life, let alone been busy working for her. Some of the lawyers never asked for or received a penny for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal work done at great professional, financial, and personal cost to themselves. Others get partial payments from the settlement. But at least they get their reputation back. And now he's throwing it away.
Jones said he was not offered assistance with his own book deal or other additional financial assistance after the lawsuit.
presidential election 2008
When the 2008 presidential campaign was in session, Coulter drew criticism for a statement he made at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference on presidential candidate John Edwards:
I will have some comments about another Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go to rehab if you use the word 'fagot,' so I... so, like in the deadlock, can not really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your question.
The comment refers to Gray Anatomy starring in the nickname by Isaiah Washington and the mandatory "psychological judgment" imposed by ABC executives. It is widely interpreted as meaning that Coulter had summoned Edwards "fagot", but Coulter argued that he did not actually do it, while simultaneously suggesting he would not be wrong to say so. Edwards responded on his website by characterizing Coulter's words as "non-American and untenable", and asked readers to help him "collect $ 100,000 in 'Coulter Cash' this week to keep the campaign ahead and against political bigotry ". He also called him "demons," adding, "I should not have mentioned his name, but the reality is - forget the names - people like Ann Coulter, they engage in hate language." Coulter's words also drew criticism from many prominent Republicans and Democrats, as well as groups such as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Three advertisers (Verizon, Sallie Mae and Netbank) also pulled their ads from the Coulter website, and some newspapers lowered their columns. Coulter replied in an e-mail to the New York Times, "C'mon, it's a joke, I'll never insult gays by suggesting that they're like John Edwards. On March 5, 2007, he appeared in Hannity and Colmes and said, "Fagot does not offend the gay people: it has nothing to do with gays.That is a school taunt meaning 'coward.'" Gay supporters right not sure. "The use of Ann Coulter for anti-gay slur is cruel and unacceptable," said Neil G. Giuliano, president of Gay & amp; The Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, "and the applause of its listeners is an important reminder that the bad Coulter brand fanfare is at the root of the discriminatory policies promoted at this meeting." A spokesman for Senator John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, called Coulter's comments "highly inappropriate".
As the campaign progresses, he continues to include his comments on candidates, both Democrats and Republicans. In a June 2007 interview, Coulter named Duncan Hunter as his choice for a Republican presidential nomination in 2008, highlighting his view of immigration and especially the credibility of anti-abortion, saying "[t] he is a matter of victory for us, protecting small babies". On January 16, 2008, Coulter began supporting Governor Mitt Romney as his choice for Republican nomination 2008, saying he was "clearly the best candidate" (comparing Romney to Republican candidates John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani). In contrast, Coulter was critical of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. On January 31, 2008, Hannite and Colmes broadcast Coulter claimed that if McCain won a Republican nomination for the presidency, he would support and campaign Hillary Clinton, stating, "[Clinton] is more conservative than McCain."
Regarding President Barack Obama's candidate in column April 2, 2008, he marked his book "Dreams from My Father" as "Mein Kampf dimesore " . Coulter wrote, "He says the reason the blacks stick to themselves is that" it's easier than spending all your time crazy or trying to guess whatever white people think about you. "Here's a little information about white people: We do not think of you, especially WASPs We think everyone is inferior, and we are very charming about it."
2010 Canadian university tour
In March 2010, Coulter announced that he would start a tour talking about three Canadian universities, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Ottawa and the University of Calgary. The tour is organized by the International Free Press Society.
On the eve of Coulter's first speech at the University of Western Ontario, an e-mail to Coulter from FranÃÆ'§ois Houle, provost from the University of Ottawa, leaked to the media. The e-mails warn that "promoting hatred against an identifiable group is not only considered inappropriate, but can actually lead to criminal prosecution." Coulter released a public statement alleging that by sending him an e-mail, Houle promoted hatred against conservatives. During a speech at the University of Western Ontario, he told a Muslim student to "take a camel", in response to a student's question about Coulter's earlier comments that Muslims should not be allowed on the plane.
On March 22, the University of Ottawa made international news when the liberal protesters conspired to prevent Coulter from speaking. The event was canceled despite the presence of massive security; Alain Boucher of the Ottawa Police Department said there were ten officers seen at the scene, "plus other resources" nearby. Boucher accused Coulter's security team of deciding to cancel the event, saying, "We gave his choice," including, he said, to "find a bigger place." But "they chose to cancel... It does not depend on the Ottawa police to make that decision." Boucher claimed no arrests. CTV News reported, "This is a disaster in terms of organization only, which may be one of the reasons why it was canceled", citing a small number of students assigned to confirm who has signed up to attend Coulter talks.
Event organizers and conservative activist Ezra Levant blamed protests over a letter sent to Coulter by Houle. After the cancellation, Coulter called the University of Ottawa "bush league", stating:
I went to the best school, Harvard, Ivy League, and the kids were too intellectually brave to threaten the speaker... I wonder when this kind of violence, such a protest, has happened to a Muslim - apparently, from what I read about human rights complaints, the only protected group in Canada. I thought I would give my speech tomorrow night in the burka. It will protect me.
Comments on Islam, Arab, and terrorism
On September 14, 2001, three days after the September 11 attacks (where his friend Barbara Olson was murdered), Coulter wrote in his column:
The airport has carefully applied the same ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick against Muslim hijackers. It is unreasonable to assume every passenger is a maniacal-like maniac maniac. We know who the murderer is. They are people who cheer and dance now. We must invade his country, kill their leader and convert them to Christianity. We were not careful in finding and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We are German cities flooded with carpets; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
This comment caused Coulter to be fired as a columnist by the National Review, later referred to as "girly girls". In response to this comment, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations commented in The Chicago Sun Times that before September 9 Coulter "will face a quick denial of his colleagues", but "now accepted as a legitimate comment ".
David Horowitz, however, saw Coulter's words as irony:
I started running Coulter's column on Frontpagemag.com shortly after he emerged with the most famous line, which urged the Americans to put jihadists into swords and turn them into Christianity. Liberals cringe; I do not. I think that this is a perfect copy of what our foe-Islamist foes believe-that as infidels we must be punished by swords and converted to Islam. I regard Cillter's phillipic (sic) as Swiftian's commentary on the liberal illusion of multi-cultural outreach to people who want to ruin our hearts.
One day after the attack (when the estimated death toll is higher than later), Coulter insists that only Muslims can be behind the attacks:
Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims - at least all terrorists are capable of drafting an assassination plan against America that causes 7,000 people to die in less than two hours.
Coulter is very critical of the US Department of Transport and especially his secretary Norman Mineta. Many of his critics include their refusal to use racial profiles as a component of airport screening. After a group of Muslims were expelled from a US Airways flight when another passenger expressed concern, sparked calls for Muslims to boycott the airline for the expulsion of a six-man flight, Coulter wrote:
If only we could make Muslims boycott all airlines, we could throw out airport security altogether.
Coulter also cited the 2002 Senate's testimony of FBI's Coleen Rowley, who was recognized for condemning his superiors for refusing to pass a search warrant for 9-11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui when he refused to approve his computer search. They know that he is a Muslim in an aviation school that has crossed his visa limit, and the French Intelligence Service has affirmed its affiliation with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups. Coulter said he agrees that the possible cause exists in this case, but refuses the permit, is in flight school and extending the visa should not be the basis for the search. Citing a poll that found that 98 percent of Muslims between the ages of 20 and 45 said they would not fight for Britain in the war in Afghanistan, and that 48 percent said they would fight for Osama bin Laden he insisted "every Muslim who has attended a mosque in Europe - of course in Britain, Moussaoui's residence - has had 'affiliation with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups,' "so he describes Rowley's position as meaning that the 'probable cause' is to search for Moussaoui's computer because he is a Muslim who once lived in England ". Coulter said the poll was "by the Daily Telegraph," in fact it was by Sunrise, the "Asian" radio station (ie, Indian-oriented subcontinent), filtering opinions from 500 Muslims in Greater London (not Britain as a whole), mainly from Pakistan and aged between 20 and 45. Because the "FBI headquarters... refused to engage in racial profiling," they failed to uncover the 9-11 plot, Coulter asserted. "The FBI allowed thousands of Americans to be massacred. on the altar of political truth. What else do liberals want? "
Coulter wrote in another column that he had been reviewing the civil rights lawsuit against a particular airline to determine which of those who had subjected the Arabs to "the most horrible discrimination" so that he could only fly with the airline. He also said airlines should boast of denying allegations of discrimination against them. In an interview with The Guardian he said, "I think airlines should start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits filed against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer replied by asking what the Muslim would do for the trip, he replied, "They can use the flying carpet."
One commentary that drew criticism from the blogosphere, as well as conservative colleagues, was made during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2006, where he said, referring to Iran's nuclear-equipped prospects, "What if they start having one episode of bipolar with I think our motto should be, post-9-11: Raghead talks are hard, boys face consequences. "Coulter has previously written an almost identical section in his syndic column:"... I believe our motto should be , after 9/11: Jihad monkey speaks loudly, jihad monkey takes the consequence Sorry, I realize it is offensive What about the 'camel jockey'? What? Now what do I say? Nak, you tent trader is sensitive. "
In October 2007, Coulter made further controversial statements about Arabs - in this case Iraqis - when he declared in an interview with The New York Observer :
We have killed about 20,000 of them, terrorists, militants, Al Qaeda members, and they have earned more than 3,000 of us. That's where the war fought, in Iraq. That's where we fight Al Qaeda. Sorry we have to use your country, Iraq, but you let Saddam rule, and we will instill democracy in your country.
In a May 2007 article looking back on the life of the newly deceased evangelical priest Jerry Falwell, Coulter commented on his (then withdrawn) remarks after the September 9 attacks that "pagans and abortionists, feminists and gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America... help this happen. "In his article, Coulter stated that he disagrees with Falwell's statement," because Falwell specifically excluding Teddy Kennedy and 'Priestess' Barry Lynn. "
In October 2007, Coulter participated in "Awareness of Islamo-Fascism" David Horowitz, commenting in a speech at the University of Southern California, "The Islamo-Fascism Facts can not be denied. I feel bored to detail the enemy's barbarity.... I want to kill them. Why not Democrats? "
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, Coulter told Hannity host Sean Hannity that the wife of the suspect's bombing Tamerlan Tsarnaev had to go to jail for wearing the hijab. Coulter goes on to say "The assimilation of immigrants into our culture does not really work, they assimilate us into their culture."
Behind the shooting of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Coulter said France "needs to move on to the next step" in dealing with terror. Coulter said some immigrants:
They do not want to live in Muslim countries, but they want to change the non-Muslim countries they transfer to Muslim countries. This may be a small minority of Muslims "and it's still enough for them that maybe you took a short break in Muslim immigration for a while."
Coulter attributes American gun violence to Americans to blacks and American Muslims, stating that the gun-related death epidemic is "not a matter of weapon, it's a demographic problem."
When asked about the financial crisis of the 2000s, Coulter claims one reason for that is that "they give your mortgage to an inadequate minority".
Ionizing radiation as a "cancer vaccine"
On March 16, 2011, discussing the Fukushima I nuclear accident, Coulter, cites research on radiation hormones, writes that there is "growing evidence that excess radiation operates as a kind of cancer vaccine." His comments were criticized by figures across the political spectrum, from Fox News' Bill O'Reilly (who told Coulter, "You must be responsible... in this case, you have to get people out of there, and you have to report the worst scenario ") to MSNBC's Ed Schulz (stating that" you will laugh at him if he does not make the light a terrible tragedy. ").
2012 presidential election
During the primaries of Republican presidential elections, he supported Mitt Romney over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In an interview for The O'Reilly Factor in Fox News, he compared Newt Gingrich's attack on the media with Jesse Jackson "accusing people of racism". On his website, he posted a column titled, "Choose Obama again: Vote Newt!" arguing that if Newt Gingrich wins the Republican nomination, Barack Obama will win re-election. When asked to respond to his criticism, Newt Gingrich fired them as "old order" and cited a recent poll showing him in front of Mitt Romney.
On October 22, 2012, after a presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, Coulter published the following tweets from his official Twitter account: "I strongly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle towards retarded people", and draw a strong criticism for him. the use of words that some people consider offensive to describe the president of the United States. Special Olympics condemned Coulter in tweets shortly after Coulter. At the The Alan Colmes Show , Coulter declares that he does not regret the use of the word, saying, " 'Retard' has been used everyday language only means 'loser' for 30 years But no, these aggressive victims have to come out and tell you what words to use. "
After the election, in which Barack Obama won, Ann Coulter wrote a column titled "Romney Was N
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