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Ann Coulter is "a lawyer and author, famous for despising anyone politically left of Ronald Reagan" [1], and one of the most vitriolic right-wing ideologues currently appearing on national television. [2]

"Political positions Coulter disagrees with are briefly, brusquely, and often inaccurately described, then dismissed, often with an insult. The same steps are repeated several times per column. The technique is enthralling for readers already in agreement with Coulter. For anyone else, it is uninteresting.

"Coulter was fired from MSNBC when she told a disabled Vietnam veteran, 'people like you caused us to lose that war.' She was fired from the conservative National Review when she turned in a column offering a final solution to the Muslim problem: 'We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity'." [3]

In July 2004, USA TODAY "dropped plans" to have Coulter "write a daily column" from the Democratic National Convention "in a dispute over the first column she had written about the Democrats." [4]

In college, she was an editor of the Cornell Review - a part of the conservative campus news network supported by Collegiate Network - and a founder of a local chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan. She did an internship at the National Journalism Center. After then-Senator Spencer Abraham - who was active in the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies - was elected in 1994, she served a stint as his aide.

Coulter also worked for the Scaife-funded Center for Individual Rights and played a role in helping Paula Jones find lawyers and, according to Chip Berlet, "suggesting that Jim Moody help Linda Tripp with her legal problems".[5]

Michael Schere and Sarah Secules from Columbia Journalism Review examined a sample of forty of Coulter's claims that were disputed by her critics from her book Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right. Nineteen they classed as either accurate or that could "generously" be classed as fair comment or criticism (including one that "Liberals have been wrong about everything in the last half-century"). The remaining twenty-one, they wrote, "would not pass without major debate". Included in this list was:

According to Schere and Secules, "she cites an October 27, 2001 column in which Rich makes no such demands. He does chastise Ashcroft for not meeting with Planned Parenthood, which sought to offer tips on combating anthrax scares, based on its own experience with them." [6]

Coulter's book Treason fulfilled the formerly satirical prophecy that Coulter would eventually get around to defending McCarthyism.

Coulter is also listed with the Premiere Speakers Bureau as being available for conference programs with an indicative speaking fee of $25,000. [7]

According to a brief biographical profile supplied to the National Journalism Center, Coulter attended a course in spring 1985 and has subsequently been "legal affairs correspondent, Human Events; columnist, George; contributing editor, National Review Online; columnist, FrontPage; syndicated columnist, Universal Press Syndicate; columnist, Jewish World Review; columnist, Capital Hill Blue; columnist, Townhall.com; columnist, InsideVC.com; columnist, UExpress.com; author, Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right; author, High Crimes and Misdemeanors; published in The Defender; has appeared on This Week, Good Morning America, and Politically Incorrect (ABC), Today (NBC), Larry King Live (CNN), Riviera Live (CNBC), and Hannity & Colmes (Fox News Channel)". [8]

In 2005, she had an argument with a Canadian journalist when she falsely claimed that Canada sent troops to Vietnam during the Vietnam War. [9]

In an article for the New York Times, David Carr examines Coulter's simple PR formula for marketing her best-selling books: vile hate speech echoed in the mainstream media. In her five books Ann Coulter has "suggested wistfully that Timothy McVeigh should have parked his truck in front of the New York Times, joked that a Supreme Court justice should be poisoned, and said that America should invade Muslim countries and kill their leaders." [10]

Bob Wietrak of Barnes & Noble observes Ann Coulter's "fan base is phenomenal and she is in the media constantly. When she is in the media, it creates more media coverage. And every single day, the book sells more." TV loves Ann Coulter, Carr concludes, because "seeing hate-speech pop out of a blonde who knows her way around a black cocktail dress makes for compelling viewing. ... You can accuse her of cynicism all you want, but the fact that she is one of the leading political writers of our age says something about the rest of us." [11]

According to Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter (Vol. 38, No. 18, May 4, 2005) Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, a Republican PR firm, promoted Coulter's three books published since 2003.

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She is a correspondent for "Human Events" magazine.

Honors graduate from Cornell University School of Arts and Sciences (Class of 1984) and received her J.D. from The University of Michigan Law School.

She was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.

Coulter practiced law in New York City.

Was a litigator with The Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a law firm that says it is "dedicated to the defense of individual rights with a particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights and the freedom of religion.".

She clerked for the Hon. Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors program for outstanding law school graduates.

Writes a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate.

First came to prominence with the publication of the book "High Crimes and Misdemeanors", which was a best-seller in 1998. That led to her now-familiar appearances as a guest on many conservative television talk shows and her many appearances as a guest or guest host of most of the country's right-wing radio talk shows. Two subsequent books, "Slander" and "Treason", have also been best-sellers.

During the Q&A session of her lecture at the University of Arizona in October 2004, two pie-wielding pranksters ran up to her and threw their pies, but she very quickly ran off the stage and the pies missed her. In a column written several months after the incident, she fumed, "Fortunately, liberals not only argue like liberals, they also throw like girls.".

Younger sister of John Jr. and James (Jim) Coulter. Sister-in-law of Pam and Diane. Aunt of Kimberly and Christina.

Daughter of John Vincent Coulter, born ca 1928, attorney for Phelps Dodge, and wife Nell Husbands Martin, born in Paducah, Kentucky, 23 February 1928 and married in Stuyvesant, New York, 30 September 1953.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

Liberals can't just come out and say they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

[In response to people's criticism of her use of false and misleading information in her books] "Liberals take sheer joy in telling lies, they take insolent pleasure in saying absurd things."

I love it! You know, when I tour college campuses, I always find that the prettiest girls in the room are the ones in the College Republicans.

It would be a much better country (the United States) if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

What if they start having one of these bipolar episodes with nuclear weapons? I think our motto should be, post-9/11, 'Raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'

"Finally, a word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have written or said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can." June 21, 2006.

"Democrats won't acknowledge the existence of "an imminent threat" any place in the world until a nuclear missile is 12 minutes from New York. And then we'll never have the satisfaction of saying "I told you so" because we'll all be dead. " July 19, 2006.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat [sic] president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. [October 2, 2007, New York Observer interview with George Gurley]

[on the 2012 Presidential debates] I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is "Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God." Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

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Ann Coulter joins Trump in epic smackdown

Ann Coulter (left) and Donald Trump (right)

Conservative firebrand and bestselling author Ann Coulter joined Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa Tuesday and she delivered an epic smackdown of speech Nazis who ridiculed the GOP frontrunner for using the term anchor baby.

Apparently liberals think anchor baby isnt pleasant sounding, she said in a speech introducing Trump at the event. They prefer words like aborted baby.

She continued, But I have an idea. How about anvil babies because thats what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.

Ann Coulter is back, and more fearless than ever! In her new bestseller Adios, America! Coulter applies her trademark biting humor to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy and proves immigration is the most important issue facing America today.

Coulter also blasted the Republican establishments tendency to pre-emptively surrender every time liberals start yelling, Ooh, thats mean! You cant use that word!

Well they found something new with Donald Trump, she declared of the candidate who refused to stop using the term anchor baby.

And now Americans are finding out about not only the policy of anchor babies but the policies of these speech Nazis. And theyre going to learn, when it comes to Donald Trump, maybe itd be better to just keep their mouths shut next time.

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Since Trump announced his candidacy for president, Coulter said, "I've felt like I'm dreaming. I can't believe I turn on TV, on prime-time TV every night, they're talking about anchor babies. They're talking about sanctuary cities. They're talking about Mexican rapists. "

A man interrupted with a shout from the crowd: "Build the wall!"

Coulter replied, "I love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump."

The crowd cheered enthusiastically.

She added, "I want to have a two-drink minimum. Make it a big, worldwide tourist attraction and every day live drone shows whenever anyone tries to cross the border."

Coulter reflected on former GOP nominee Mitt Romney's 2012 loss to President Obama in the running for the White House. She compared the loss to the story of Joseph in the Bible.

"He had to be sold into slavery, imprisoned, betrayed, so that eventually he could save the Jews. Maybe Mitt Romney had to lose. And maybe we had to give Republicans one more chance in 2014.

"And maybe [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and [House Speaker] John Boehner had to betray us once again to pave the way for President Donald Trump.

"God hasn't given up on America yet."

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Donald Trump Iowa Dubuque FULL SPEECH: https://youtu.be/Ks4ffMs9a1E Ann Coulter Rails Against Speech Nazis at Trump Rally. Ann Coulter introduced Donald Trump at his rally in Iowa today, and she had a lot to say about their mutual favorite subject: immigration. Coulter backed up Trump on the issue of deporting immigrants, even the ones with anchor babies. She mocked the liberal media for considering that a controversial statement and calling them speech Nazis.

She expressed her gratefulness to Trump that the media is actually talking about this issue and sanctuary cities and the border wall (I love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump), and declared, I have not had this much hope for America since November 7th, 2012.

She surmised that maybe it was destiny that Mitt Romney lost and the GOP betrayed the right on immigration to pave the way for President Donald Trump. Ann Coulter Introduces Donald Trump at Iowa Speech, 2016 Presidential Campaign Rally 8/25 Ann Coulter Introduces Donald Trump at Iowa Speech, 2016 Presidential Campaign Rally 8/25 Ann Coulter Introduces Donald Trump at Iowa Speech, 2016 Presidential Campaign Rally 8/25 Ann Coulter Introduces Donald Trump at Iowa Speech, 2016 Presidential Campaign Rally 8/25

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Ann Coulter Rails Against Speech Nazis at Trump Rally …

Ann Coulter introduced Donald Trump at his rally in Iowa today, and she had a lot to say about their mutual favorite subject: immigration.

Coulter backed up Trump on the issue of deporting immigrants, even the ones with anchor babies. She mocked the liberal media for considering that a controversial statement and calling them speech Nazis.

She expressed her gratefulness to Trump that the media is actually talking about this issue and sanctuary cities and the border wall (I love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump), and declared, I have not had this much hope for America since November 7th, 2012.

She surmised that maybe it was destiny that Mitt Romney lost and the GOP betrayed the right on immigration to pave the way for President Donald Trump.

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