NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, October 16, 2015, 4:27 PM
For a change, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter had trouble getting a word in edgewise.
Coulter rampaged through "The View" Friday, intentionally mispronouncing the word "adios" while defending her controversial immigration views to a Nicaraguan-born panelist, calling co-host Raven-Symon a hypocrite for her recent racist comments, and expressing enthusiastic support for GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
But the hosts of the ABC talk show fought back.
The discussion quickly grew tense when they began grilling Coulter who appeared on the show to promote her new book, "Adios America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third-World Hellhole" on her unyielding views on undocumented immigrants.
"We're bringing in millions and millions of people from very poor cultures, from very backwards cultures," the sharp-tongued author said of the United States' post-1965 immigration policies. "We don't need to be importing other countries' poor people."
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Co-host Ana Navarro, whose family emigrated from Nicaragua in 1980, challenged Coulter to defend her own family's immigration story.
"I'm descended from settlers, not from immigrants," the 53-year-old pundit replied. "I'm living in America, which was created by settlers, not by immigrants."
Indian-born panelist Padma Lakshmi argued that Coulter was generalizing, mentioning that her own mother immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s to work as a nurse.
"Whenever people talk about the immigrants we like, like your mother, they cite the immigrants that aren't the majority of immigrants coming in," Coulter fired back. "So fine, OK, if they're going to be doctors. But we have a majority of immigrants on welfare."
Co-host Raven-Symon, who apologized Sunday for saying she would never hire someone with a "ghetto" name like "Watermelondrea," stewed quietly for much of the gabfest and when she finally piped up to accuse Coulter of mudslinging, the blond-haired commentator swiftly slung back.
"Well, I'm at least talking about policy," Coulter said. "You have a position on what people's names should be. Watermelondrea I mean, you'll insult people for their names."
The pundit's least controversial comments came when she praised the self-funded billionaire candidate Trump for taking on "the political class and the donor class."
"He's fantastic," she gushed. "He's saying things that people have been dying for someone to say, but they won't."
"I love his hair," she added.
mjagannathan@nydailynews.com
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