[[FileImage:CoulterCoulter2006.jpg|thumb|right|300px250px|Ann Coulteron the ''Tonight Show with Jay Leno''.]]'''Ann Hart Coulter''' (b. 1961) is an [[attorney]], legal affairs correspondent, social commentator and indefatigable spokesman for the [[Conservative]] cause in Americaa well known political pundit. She has written five bestselling books on U.S. politics. U.S. Federal Judge [[Richard Posner]] called her one of America's top public intellectuals.<ref>{{cite web |url= [http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/publicintellect.htm|title=] "Data for tables in Chapter 5"|accessdate=January 11, 2010|last=Posner|first=Richard|date=2003|work=home.uchicago.edu/~rposner}} Data for tables in Chapter 5 of Richard A. Posner, ''Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline'' " where Posner talks about the data he used for his book''Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline''.</ref><ref>[http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/TABLE%20II.pdf] Table II, which is Posner's data for 607 public intellectuals. A PDF search of "Coulter" will show she is on Posner's list.</ref>
Coulter's primary focus is exposing the faults of [[liberalism]], and she has enjoyed a popular following for her strong defense of family values against [[abortion]] and [[same-sex marriage]].
She is well known for her forthright statements against those who wish to hurt the [[United States]].
Coulter is a high profile female [[movement conservative]], in line with [[Phyllis Schlafly]] and [[Condoleezza Rice]]. Her books and strong speaking style have endeared her to fans and infuriated opponents.
As a [[Christian]], Coulter adheres to the [[Judeo-Christian]] tradition the view that [[human being]]s are utterly and distinctly apart from other species.
Being an unabashedly conservative pundit, Coulter's social commentaries often draw the ire of [[liberal]]s. Her comments are frequently controversial and her critics often feign being offended.<ref>She called an unspecified number of Democratic women at the 2004 Democratic National Convention "no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, [[hirsute]], somewhat fragrant [[hippie]] chick pie wagons". {{cite web|url=[http://www.worldnetdailywashingtonpost.com/newswp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030501610_2.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39644|title="Put the speakers in a cage"|last=Coulter|first=Ann|date=July 26, 2004|publisher=[[WorldNetDailyhtml (Washington Post)]]|accessdate=January 5, 2010}}</ref><ref>At a CPAC conference, Coulter joked, "I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'f*****.' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards." {{cite web |url=[http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Coulter_Faggot_not_offensive_to_gay_0306.html|title="Coulter: 'Faggot' not offensive to gays, it's a 'schoolyard taunt'"|accessdate=January 6, 2010|last=Edwards|first=David|date=March 6, 2007}} Coulter appeared on national television shortly after making the statement to iterate that her joke (the last of a series about presidential candidates) was to show disdain towards an incident where actor Isaiah Washingington was pressured to go, and actually did go, to a rehabilitation clinic following his use of the word, with Coulter agreeing that the word in question was used by Washington incorrectly when he applied it against an individual apparently upon the sole basis of that of Washington's knowledge of that individual's sexual ''preference''; that she meant the word as a schoolyard taunt (defining the word with the meaning of the slang term "wuss") against Edwards specifically only due to his notoriety of being a presidential candidate, and that a married man and public figure with a child like Edwards couldn't reasonably thought of by Coulter's audience as having a homosexual preference; but that she would be willing to use the word in association with "pretty much every Democratic politician". It should be remarked that on at least three occasions in the previous two years prior to making the comment, where she gave speeches on college campuses, it was reported that a number of individuals had caused major disruptions to her speeches with a recurring theme of homosexuality, one individual being arrested for disorderly conduct. "Another counter-Coulter bust" (May 5, 2005). ''The Smoking Gun.'' {{cite web |url= http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=46034|title="Ann Coulter splits IU crowd"|accessdate=January 6, 2010 |last=Aasen |first=Adam|date=February 24, 2006| |work=Indiana Daily Student}} {{cite web |url=http://www.usforacle.com/2.5741/controversial-conservative-pundit-elicits-praise-and-protest-thursday-1.622425|title="Controversial conservative pundit elicites praise and protest Thursday|accessdate=January 6, 2010 |last=Guidi |first=David|date=October 20, 2006|work=The University of South Florida Oracle}} Also, Coulter, although having spoken and written extensively on many political issues, had prior to the statement rarely discussed the topic of homosexuality; for example having been asked in an interview in 2003, "So where do gay rights fit in America?" Coulter replied, "I've never really thought about it and I've never really cared.... Part of what democracy allows you to do is to not give a damn about some issues." {{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/07/25/bowman/index.html|title="Ann Coulter, woman"|accessdate=January 8, 2010|last=Bowman|first=David|date=July 25, 2003|work=Salon.com}} ]</ref>
Coulter made headlines during the 2008 Presidential primaries by endorsing [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] for President instead of [[John McCain]]. Coulter asserted that McCain is not conservative, but [[liberal]].
Coulter helped [[Paula Jones]] with her [[sexual harassment]] case against [[Bill Clinton]].
==Background==
Coulter grew up in New Caanan, Connecticut. She fondly recollects arguing with her family about politics and religion as a form of entertainment, sometimes around the dinner table. <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1688|title="''Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right'' by Ann Coulter"|accessdate=January 1, 2010 |last=Lamb |first=Brian |date=August 11, 2002| |work=Booknotes}}</ref>She also recalls her first encounter with liberal politics:
:"I was in kindergarten and the teacher was trying to read us the story of Bambi. She was wearing a black armband, and one kid asked why. So she gave this speech against the Vietnam War. I raised my little paw and started arguing what I'd heard at home; that you stand by your allies and that we'd be breaking a promise. We never got to Bambi that day."
Coulter received an undergraduate degree from [[Cornell University]], where she helped found the conservative ''Cornell Review'', and a law degree from the [[University of Michigan]] Law School. In 1989 she served as a clerk for a federal appeals circuit judge in Kansas City. <ref>Gurley, George (August 26, 2002). "Coultergeist". ''New York Observer''.</ref>
==Columns==
In the late 1990s, Coulter's weekly (biweekly from 1999-2000) syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate began appearing. Her column is featured on six conservative websites: [[Human Events|Human Events Online]], [[WorldNetDaily]], Townhall.com, FrontPageMag, Jewish World Review and her own website (which is permanently linked to on the 8 billion visits-a-year news webpage [[Drudge Report|The Drudge Report]]). In 1999, Coulter worked as a regular columnist for ''George'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=19990728|title=A Republican Tribute to John|last=Coulter|first=Ann|date=July 28, 1999|accessdate=January 3, 2010}}</ref> Coulter also wrote exclusive material between 1998 and 2003 and with occasional columns thereafter for the conservative magazine ''Human Events''.
==Books==
Coulter has written seven best-selling Some of her books: include *''[[High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton]]'' (19982002)*''[[Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right]]'' (20022003)*''[[Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism]]'' (20032004)*''[[How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)]]'' (20042005)*''[[Godless: The Church of Liberalism]]'' (20062007)
*''[[If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans]]'' (2007)
*''[[Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America]]'' (2009)
Coulter began her habit of giving her books one-word titles when ''Slander'' was written as a sort of follow-up to [[Bernard Goldberg]]'s 2001 best-seller ''Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News'', which was also about misrepresentations by liberal media outlets.
In ''Godless'', Coulter illustrates how liberals make a [[religion]] out of their beliefs, which they follow with the sort of intolerant zeal which they claim [[fundamentalist]]s do. "Liberalism is a comprehensive belief system denying the Christian belief in man's immortal soul [and] that we are moral beings in God's image." (pg. 3)
==Television==
Coulter made her first national media appearance in 1996 after she was hired by the then-fledgling network MSNBC as a legal correspondent. Then she began appearing as a regular guest on the program ''Politically Incorrect'' as well as [[Matt Drudge]]'s talk show. Later she regularly appeared on ''The O'Reilly Factor'' and ''Hannity and Colmes'' and recently on ''Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld''.
==Paula Jones – Bill Clinton case==
Coulter first became a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal advisor for the attorneys representing [[Paula Jones]] in her [[sexual harassment]] suit against President Bill Clinton. Coulter's friend George Conway had been asked to assist Jones' attorneys, and shortly afterward Coulter, who wrote a column about the Paula Jones case for ''[[Human Events]]'', was also asked to help and began writing legal briefs for the case.
Coulter later stated that she would come to mistrust the motives of Jones' head lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who by August or September 1997 was advising Jones that her case was weak and to settle, if a favorable settlement could be negotiated.<ref name=Daley1999>Daley, David. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HC&p_theme=hc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=ann%20AND%20coulter%20AND%20shining&s_dispstring=ann%20coulter%20shining%20AND%20date(1999)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1999&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no "Ann Coulter: light's all shining on her"]. ''Hartford Courant''. June 25, 1999. [$2.50 charge required to view article]</ref> <ref name=conason/> From the onset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement.<ref>Barak, Daphne. "[http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/09/23/fhead.htm Jones would have been happy with an apology]". ''Irish Examiner''. September 23, 1998. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.</ref> However, in a later interview Coulter recounted that she herself had believed that the case was strong, that Jones was telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly accountable for his misconduct, and that a settlement would give the impression that Jones was merely interested in [[extortion|extorting]] money from the President.<ref name=Daley1999 />
David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for the ''Hartford Courant'' recounted what followed:
:Coulter played one particularly key role in keeping the Jones case alive. In ''[[Newsweek]]'' reporter Michael Isikoff's new book ''Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story'', Coulter is unmasked as the one who leaked word of Clinton's "distinguishing characteristic" — his reportedly bent penis that Jones said she could recognize and describe — to the news media. Her hope was to foster mistrust between the Clinton and Jones camps and forestall a settlement...
::I thought if I leaked the distinguishing characteristic it would show bad faith in negotiations. [Clinton lawyer] Bob Bennett would think Jones had leaked it. Cammaratta would know he himself hadn't leaked it and would get mad at Bennett. It might stall negotiations enough for me to get through to [Jones adviser] Susan Carpenter-McMillan to tell her that I thought settling would hurt Paula, that this would ruin her reputation, and that there were other lawyers working for her. Then 36 hours later, she returned my phone call.
::I just wanted to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I don't think I could have taken the abuse she came under. She's this poor little country girl and she has the most powerful man she's ever met hitting on her sexually, then denying it and smearing her as president. And she never did anything tacky. It's not like she was going on TV or trying to make a buck out of it."<ref name=Daley1999 />
In his book, Isikoff also reported Coulter as saying: "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President."<ref name=conason>Conason, Joe; Lyons, Gene. "[http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/04/willey/print.html Impeachment's little elves]". ''[[Salon.com]]''. March 4, 2000. Retrieved July 10, 2006.</ref> After the book came out, Coulter clarified her stated motives, saying:
:The only motive for leaking the distinguishing characteristic item that [Isikoff] gives in his book is my self-parodying remark that "it would humiliate the president" and that a settlement would foil our efforts to bring down the president.... I suppose you could take the position, as [Isikoff] does, that we were working for Jones because we thought Clinton was a lecherous, lying scumbag, but this argument gets a bit circular. You could also say that Juanita Broaddrick's secret motive in accusing Clinton of rape is that she hates Clinton because he raped her. The whole reason we didn't much like Clinton was that we could see he was the sort of man who would haul a low-level government employee like Paula to his hotel room, drop his pants, and say, "Kiss it." You know: Everything his defense said about him at the impeachment trial. It's not like we secretly disliked Clinton because of his administration's position on California's citrus cartels or something, and then set to work on some crazy scheme to destroy him using a pathological intern as our [[Mata Hari]].<ref>Coulter, Ann (May 1999). "Spikey and me". ''George''</ref>
The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and it was dismissed via [[summary judgment]]. The ruling was [[appeal]]ed by Jones' lawyers. During the pendency of the appeal, Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 ($151,000 after legal fees) in November 1998, in exchange for Jones' dismissal of the appeal. By then, Clinton's false statements made in the Jones lawsuit had led to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. Coulter's first best-selling book, about Clinton's presidential misconduct, contained material acquired from her involvement in the case.
In October 2000, Jones revealed that she would pose for nude pictures in an adult magazine, saying she wanted to use the money to pay taxes and support her two grade-school-aged children, in particular saying, "I'm wanting to put them through college and maybe set up a college fund."<ref name=larryking>Jones, Paula. "[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/24/lkl.00.html Paula Jones describes why she's posing for ''Penthouse'']". ''Larry King Live''. ''CNN''. October 24, 2000. Retrieved on October 24, 2000</ref> Coulter publicly denounced Jones, calling her "the trailer-park trash they said she was," (Coulter had earlier chastened Clinton supporters for calling Jones this name <ref>Ann Coulter "[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199801/ai_n8803510 "'Trailer park trash' strikes back]". ''Human Events''. January 30, 1998. Retrieved on November 18, 2006</ref> after Clinton's former campaign strategist [[James Carville]] had made the widely reported remark back in January 1996, "Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, and you'll never know what you'll find" shortly after an appeals panel ruled that Jones' lawsuit could go to trial) and called Jones a "fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person."<ref name=larryking/> Coulter wrote:
:Paula surely was given more than a million dollars in free legal assistance from an array of legal talent she will never again encounter in her life, much less have busily working on her behalf. Some of those lawyers never asked for or received a dime for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal work performed at great professional, financial and personal cost to themselves. Others got partial payments out of the settlement. But at least they got her reputation back. And now she's thrown it away.<ref>Coulter, Ann. "[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter103000.asp Clinton sure can pick 'em]". ''Jewish World Review''. October 30, 2000. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref>
Jones claimed not to have been offered any help with a book deal of her own or any additional financial help beyond the settlement after the lawsuit concluded.<ref name = larryking/>
==Controversial statements==
Coulter on occasion has evoked condemnation for statements she has made that appear to be outside the realm of appropriate discourse. Very often, however, she projects a sense of having had a good reason for having made them. These sometimes unexplained and sometimes explained sentiments are often vindicated later by a rehearsal of the facts available to conscientious scrutinizers of the content of her speech.
===Comments about the ''New York Times''===
Coulter has had a long-running animus toward what she sees to be the liberal bias of the ''New York Times''. About half of her columns written between July 1999 and July 2002 (the time of the publication of her second book, ''Slander''), mention the newspaper <ref>"'New York Times' google search", uexpress.com. Retrieved October 7, 2006</ref>, usually evaluating its conduct in a negative way. ''Slander'' itself was dedicated to the ''New York Times'' as epitomizing the practice of stealthily calumniating conservatives.
In an interview with George Gurley of the ''New York Observer'' shortly after the publication of that book, it was mentioned that Coulter actually had friends and acquaintances who worked for the newspaper, namely Frank Bruni and David E. Sanger. Later in the interview, she exclaimed amusement at her recollection of the gratuitousness of the ''Times'' publishing two photos of President [[George H. W. Bush]] throwing up at a diplomatic meeting in Japan, then said,
:"Is your your tape recorder running? Turn it on! I got something to say."
:Then she said: "My only regret with [[Timothy McVeigh]] is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
:I told her to be careful.
:"You're right, after 9/11 I shouldn't say that," she said, spotting a cab and grabbing it. <ref>Gurley, George. "Coultergeist". New York Observer. August 26, 2002. Retrieved on October 7, 2006. [$2.95 charge required to view article]</ref>
By way of context, during an interview earlier in June 2002 with Katie Couric to promote the same book, Coulter expressed frustration about "constant mischaracterization" through being misquoted. "The idea that someone can go out and find one quote that will suddenly, you know, portray me--just dismiss her ideas, read no more, read no further, this person is crazy...is precisely what liberals do all the time," she said. <ref>Coulter, Ann. "Interview with Katie Couric on ''Slander''. NBC. Today. June 26, 2002. Reprinted at Drudge Report Archive. Retrieved on October 7, 2006.</ref> As a reason Coulter and others might find the "Timothy McVeigh" remark humorous, together with her account of her experiences being misquoted can be added that claims that the ''New York Times'' is liberally biased (a theme of ''Slander'') and deserved severe castigation (which would be the natural conclusion to draw from the anger suggested by the wish) is a line of argument upon which a liberal interviewer might not be inclined to start and would rather see kept hidden, even if he or she wanted to engage in mischaracterization (the kind Coulter complained about) through quoting the "Timothy McVeigh" remark (instead of substantive inquiries), thus placing the hypothetical interviewer in a kind of humorous double-bind.
When asked by John Hawkins, the web manager of a small self-described right-wing blog, through a pre-written set of interview questions if she regretted the statement, Coulter replied by saying: "Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'" <ref>Hawkins, John. "An interview with Ann Coulter". Retrieved on July 11, 2006. Transcript.</ref>
The subject came up again when she appeared on the Fox News program ''Hannity & Colmes''. Alan Colmes referred to a defense of Coulter by the syndicator of her column calling her statements mentioning aggressive measures against liberals satire, and said to her that remarks like saying "Timothy McVeigh should have bombed The New York Times building" were "laughable happy satires, right?" then said he now realized that Coulter was "actually a ''liberal'' who is doing this to mock and parody the way conservatives think." She replied, "Well, it's not working very well if that were my goal. No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after The ''New York Times'' has leapt beyond—beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week," (referring to a ''Times'' report that revealed classified information about an anti-terrorism program of the U.S. Government involving surveillance of international financial transactions of persons suspected of having Al-Qaeda links). Alan Colmes continued in this sarcastic vein when he responded, calling her remarks "great humor", and that it "belongs on ''Saturday Night Live''. It belongs on ''The Daily Show''." <ref>"Hannity and Colmes." Fox News Channel. June 29, 2006</ref>
==Quotes==
* "Whether they are defending the [[Soviet Union]] or bleating for [[Saddam Hussein]], liberals are always against [[United States of America|America]]. They are either traitors or idiots ... "<Ref>''Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.''</ref>
* "My only regret with [[Timothy McVeigh]] is he did not go to the [[New York Times]] Building." She later clarified "Of course I regret [saying] it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters."<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-06-09-coulter-roemer_x.htm 9/11 Commissioner Criticizes Coulter's 'Hate-Filled Attack'] Associated Press story in USA Today. "'My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building,' The New York Observer quoted her as saying on Aug. 20, 2002. She clarified those remarks with RightWingNews.com: 'Of course I regret it. I should have added, "after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters."'"</ref><ref>Hawkins, [http://rightwingnews.com/interviews/anncoulter.php An Interview With Ann Coulter], Right Wing News.</ref>
* "We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say." (The view that Christians are perfected Jews is a common belief among Jewish converts to Christianity, who view Christianity as a natural continuation of Judaism.
* "How about having Saddam's barbaric rape rooms, chemical attacks and torture — those, liberals could live with. But now they want us to send troops to [[Tim RussertDarfur]] ask Hillary if she believes , a country from which no one anticipates terrorism anytime in the [[New Testament]] next millennium. If you're looking for a good definition of "no imminent threat," Darfur is it... These people can't even wrap up genocide. We've been hearing about this slaughter in Darfur forever — and they still haven't finished. The aggressors are moving like termites across that country. It's like genocide by committee. Who's running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA?...Darfur is not the threat... though a hostage-taking, [[perfectionHolocaust]] -denying lunatic who doesn't own a necktie but is within two years of the having a nuclear bomb comes to mind. You can already hear [[Old TestamentHarry Reid]]? She claims to be a and [[ChristianNancy Pelosi]]. Let's get it on saying, "If the table: Is she or isnDemocrats were in charge, the use of military force wouldn't she? It doesnbe necessary because we't get any more bare-bones than thatd constructively engage them and appease their stated desire to kill us."<refREF>[This appeared on Coulter's web site on April 4th, 2007. http://www.humaneventsanncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.phpcgi?idarticle=23174 How Long Before the A.D.L. Kicks Out All its Jews?], By Ann Coulter, ''Human Events'', October 31, 2007.177</refREF>
* "Saddam's barbaric rape rooms, chemical attacks and torture — those, liberals could live with. But now they want us to send troops to [[Darfur]], a country from which no one anticipates terrorism anytime in the next millennium. If you're looking for want a good definition of "no imminent threatshorter rebuilding process," Darfur is it... These people canthen we't even wrap up genocidere going to have to wage less humane wars. We've been hearing about this slaughter in Darfur forever The enemy — and they still havenas well as innocent civilians — must be bombed into quivering terror. Otherwise, we displace aggression but don't finisheddestroy it. The aggressors Americans are moving like termites across weaker for having seen that countrykind of carnage in [[World War II]]. It's like genocide Recall that the Worst Generation was raised by committeethe Greatest Generation. Who's running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA?That tells you how awful war is...Darfur is not The Greatest Generation was so exhausted by the threat... though a hostage-takingwar, [[Holocaust]]-denying lunatic who doesnit didn't own a necktie but is within two years of having a nuclear bomb comes have the spine to stand up to mind. You can already hear [[Harry Reidpot-smoking]] and [[Nancy Pelosi]] saying, "If the Democrats were in charge, the use of military force wouldn't be necessary because we'd constructively engage them and appease their stated desire to kill usdraft-dodging hippies occupying administration buildings."<ref name=April2007REF>This appeared on Coulter's web site on April 4th, 2007. http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=177</refREF>
* "If you want a shorter rebuilding process, then we're going to have to wage less humane wars. The enemy — as well as innocent civilians — must be bombed into quivering terror. Otherwise, we displace aggression but don't destroy it. Americans are weaker for having seen that kind of carnage in [[World War II]]. Recall that the Worst Generation was raised by the Greatest Generation. That tells you how awful war is. The Greatest Generation was so exhausted by the war, it didn't have the spine to stand up to [[pot-smoking]], draft-dodging hippies occupying administration buildings."<REF name=April2007></REF> * "I think [women] should be armed but should not vote. No, they all have to give up their vote, not just, you know, the lady clapping and me. The problem with women voting — -- and your [[Communists]] will back me up on this — -- is that, you know, women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it. And when they take these polls, it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."<ref> ''Politically Incorrect'', Feb. 26, 2001</ref>
* "...a cruise missile is more important than Head Start."<ref>Nov. 2001 speech rebroadcast by C-Span in Jan. 2002</ref>
* On Sept. 13, 2001 she wrote this about those cheering and dancing on television after hearing about the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|Sept. 11 terrorist attack]]: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."<ref>''National Review Online'', September 2001 [http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter.shtml]</ref>
* "We need to execute people like [[John Walker Lindh|John Walker [Lindh]]] 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," Conservative Political Action Conference, January 2002. Coulter later clarified what she meant; "when I said we should "execute" John Walker Lindh, I mis-spoke. What I meant to say was 'We should burn John Walker Lindh alive and televise it on prime-time network TV'. My apologies for any misunderstanding that might have occurred."<ref>[http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/coulteriffic.php RWN's Ann Coulter Interview #2] John Hawkins.</ref>
* "Liberals are driven by [[Satan]] and lie constantly.<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21345 That Was No Lady — -- That Was My Husband], by Ann Coulter, ''Human Events'', 06/28/2007.</ref>
* "Every concrete example of the racism allegedly sweeping the nation's campuses keeps turning out to be a fraud. Far from "institutional racism," there is "institutional racial hoaxism" run amok in this country."<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22909&email Another Liberal Noose-ance], by Ann Coulter, ''Human Events'', 10/17/2007.</ref>
* "By exposing the Democrats' absolute blindness to Soviet [[totalitarianism]], [[McCarthy]] shattered forever the nation's confidence in the Democrats' capacity to govern. For that, the [[Stalin]]ist [[liberal hate speech|hate machine]] attacked him viciously and has never let up."<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23824 They'll Never Forgive You], by Ann Coulter, ''Human Events'', 12/05/2007.</ref>
* "How about having [[Tim Russert]] ask Hillary if she believes the [[New Testament]] is the [[perfection]] of the [[Old Testament]]? She claims to be a [[Christian]]. Let's get it on the table: Is she or isn't she? It doesn't get any more bare-bones than that.<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23174 How Long Before the A.D.L. Kicks Out All its Jews?], By Ann Coulter, ''Human Events'', October 31, 2007.</ref> * "[The New York Times'''] reaction to al-Zarqawi's death was to lower the U.S. flag at the Times building to half-staff. (Ha ha — just kidding! Everybody knows there aren't any American flags at ''The New York Times''.)"<ref>[http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter071306.php3 ''N.Y. Times: Better dead than read]]</ref>
* "I think our motto should be post-9-11, ‘raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'"<ref>http://michellemalkin.com/2006/02/12/ragheads-and-sambos-and-gooks/</ref>
* "I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot."
==See Also==
