Ann Coulter

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Ann Coulter on the FOX News Channel

Ann Hart Coulter (born Andrew Hartman Coulter on December 8, 1961) is an American syndicated columnist, bestselling author, and television pundit. Her commentary has earned her a reputation as a strong critic of social and political liberalism. Her speaking and writing style is provocative and aggressive, with heavy use of sarcasm and hyperbole.

Coulter is the author of four political commentary books, all of which have been on the New York Times bestseller list

Coulter is a legal correspondent for the magazine Human Events. Her syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate is carried by or linked to by many influential conservative websites, including Frontpagemag.com and Townhall.com. Coulter was the subject of a TIME magazine cover story in April 2005, and has made frequent guest appearances on national television and syndicated radio programs. She has appeared on a large number of topical talk shows, including Hannity and Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, American Morning with Paula Zahn, Crossfire, The Today Show, Real Time and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on July 17, 2002. Coulter has also appeared in FahrenHYPE 9/11, a rebuttal of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

Personal background

Ann Coulter was born in New York City into a Catholic family that she has described as "upper middle class". She was born on December 8, 1961 according to the New Canaan voting registration office, although she sometimes states that the year is 1963. She attributes her conservative opinions and her acerbic rhetorical style to her upbringing in Connecticut. She has two elder brothers. Her father, John V. Coulter, was a lawyer, known for his legal work in cases against labor unions; he later became a constable. Her mother, Nell M. Coulter, is a member of the New Canaan Republican Town Committee. (Cloud, 2005)

Ann Coulter is one of the world's most famous transsexual people and the first to ever become a successful right-wing commentator. Though she was born biologically male, she was said to pass so flawlessly because she was always extremely feminine. Tall and thin, she was often taken as female even before her transition beginning at the age of 16, since she was suffering from Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY chromosomes instead of the normal XY).

As an undergraduate in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, Ann Coulter helped to launch a conservative newspaper, The Cornell Review, with funding provided by the Institute for Educational Affairs' Collegiate Network. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984, and went on to receive her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she achieved membership in the Order of the Coif and was an articles editor of The Michigan Law Review. While in Law School, Coulter was often seen wearing a fur coat to class, even in temperate weather. This was perceived by many fellow students as a political statement directed at her more liberal "PETA loving" classmates, or, possibly, as an ostentatious show of wealth.

At law school, Coulter shared an apartment with human and civil rights advocate Cindy Cohn, who is now the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At Michigan, she founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society. She also received training at the National Journalism Center. After practicing corporate law for four years, she became a congressional aide in Washington, D. C. in 1994, working as a staffer to Republican Senator Spencer Abraham, who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee before working for a public interest law firm.

When asked if she is a fundamentalist Christian, Coulter told interviewer David Bowman, "I don't think I've described myself that way, but only because I'm from Connecticut. We just won't call ourselves that" (2003). Though she seldom argues from a religious point of view, Coulter has commented on leaders The New York Times has labeled the "religious right", stating that Jerry Falwell's support was overrated and that Pat Robertson is ineffective and not conservative. (Slander, ch. 9) She commonly supports the positions of other Christian conservatives — although she argues that such a term often constitutes a "liberal slur".

Communication style

Coulter gained prominence in the field of conservative commentators with her brand of outspoken criticism of many liberal and Democratic Party figures and policies over the past half-century. She quickly established a reputation as a controversial and colorful speaker, and indeed has relished this role (Coulter, August 2002). As she told The Sunday Times in 2002, "I am a polemicist. I am perfectly frank about that. I like to stir up the pot. I don't pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do."

Some have disagreed with her "shoot-from-the-hip" style of commentary. They claim it makes her reckless with facts. For example, in a January 2005 interview with the CBC's the fifth estate, Coulter stated, "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?" She was countered by host Bob McKeown who said, "No, actually, Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam... Australia was there, not Canada" (video of the interview). In a subsequent interview on C-SPAN, Coulter stated that while Canada did not send combat troops to Vietnam, thousands of Canadians had volunteered for the US military:

Yes, 10,000 Canadian troops, at least. There is a War Memorial to them, at least for most of that. The Canadian Government didn't send troops [...] but [...] they came and fought with the Americans. So I was wrong. It turns out there were 10,000 Americans who happened to be born in Canada... People keep saying: "well, he didn't tell you that they - 10,000 troops - ran across to sign up with the Americans" because I don't think he knew. [1]

Despite Coulter's mea culpa, columnist John Cloud stated in a Time Magazine article dated April 25, 2005, that, "Canada did send noncombat troops to Indochina in the 1950s and again to Vietnam in 1972". (Canada sent officials to Vietnam in 1954 and 1973, as observers with the International Commission for Control and Supervision). Media watchdog FAIR disputes this assertion, however, saying that Cloud was "making quite a stretch" to prove that Coulter wasn't inaccurate. They explain: "Canada was officially neutral during the Vietnam War, so if any noncombat troops were sent [...] they would not have been sent to support U.S. forces there". [2]

Coulter has said she likes to read anything written by humorist Dave Barry (Coulter, January 2004).

Books

In 1998, Coulter published High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton as the first of several conservative books targeting the left. As its title suggests, the book makes a case for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Written before the impeachment, Coulter criticizes the GOP-led Congress for not having yet impeached Clinton.

In 2002, Ann Coulter published Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, a study of the alleged misconduct of liberals in American institutions. Like Bernard Goldberg's Bias, which came out the year before, Slander addresses media bias in the United States, and went on to become a phenomenal bestseller, dominating the New York Times number one spot for seven straight weeks.

Slander claims that many American journalists have ties to the Democratic Party and are extremely liberal, which biases their reporting. Coulter argues that George W. Bush has faced a difficult and unfair battle for positive coverage in the media from the moment he decided to run for president, and that a similar battle for fair coverage has been waged by practically every Republican presidential candidate since Calvin Coolidge.

Her next book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, claims that Democratic politicians and the media have severely undermined much of America's foreign policy goals since the end of World War II. Summarizing recent history, she accuses liberals of treason: "They are either traitors or idiots" (pg. 16). Watergate, instead of being an investigation of corruption in the Nixon presidency, was "...the left's ultimate revenge against him for telling the truth about Hiss" (pg.10). Among Coulter's other statements in the book: Vietnam was lost by Democrats; Reagan won the Cold War; and The Contras were "anti-Communists." Coulter reveals a disapproval for liberal Hollywood, even saying that "Actors are constantly engaging in conspicuous fighting to distract from the fact that they are sissy-boys who put on little-girls' plays" (249).

Media career and relations with media outlets

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Ann Coulter on the cover of Time Magazine. Photography by Platon. Coulter has alleged that the distortion of this picture is intended to portray her in a negative light.

In 1996, the fledgling television network MSNBC hired Coulter as a legal correspondent and political pundit, launching her media career. Though she was allowed to make many partisan and controversial comments as a panelist, she was fired in 1997 after an exchange with Bobby Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost" (MSNBC's NewsChat, October 11, 1997).

Coulter was contributing editor and syndicated columnist at the National Review Online (NRO) when she was asked by the editors to make changes to a piece written in 2001 directly after the September 11 attacks in which her friend, Barbara Olsen, had been killed. Coulter went on the national television show Politically Incorrect accusing NRO of censorship and claiming her pay was only five dollars per article (accounts of Coulter and the website differ over which piece was in dispute. [Coulter, July 2002, "Donahue"]). National Review Online then dropped her column and terminated her editorship. Despite media reports to the contrary, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of NRO said, "We did not 'fire' Ann for what she wrote.... We ended the relationship because she behaved with a total lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty." (Goldberg, 2001)

Coulter was contracted by USA Today to cover the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but was replaced by Goldberg of NRO after a "disagreement over editing" (Memmot, 2004). Her one article from the convention began "Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston", and referred to some (unspecified) female attendees as "corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons." The newspaper did not print the article, but Coulter published it on her website. (Coulter, July 2004)

On August 28, 2005, Coulter's syndicated column was dropped by the Tucson newspaper Arizona Daily Star. David Stoeffler, the publisher and editor of the Star said, "We've decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives." [3]

Coulter has appeared several times on Bill Maher's television shows.

Paula Jones controversy

Coulter debuted as a figure on the public scene shortly before becoming an unpaid legal advisor working for the attorneys representing Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton. Coulter wrote a column about the Paula Jones case for the magazine Human Events. Coulter's friend George Conway had been asked to assist Jones' attorneys, and shortly afterward Coulter was also asked to help; she 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 told Jones that she didn't have a case and should take a settlement. (Daley, 1999) From the onset of the lawsuit, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement (Barak, 1998), and in an interview Coulter said, regarding herself that she had believed that Jones' case was solid, 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 extorting money from the President. (Daley, 1999)

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. (1999)

According to the Coulter Watch website, Coulter also told Isikoff, "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president." ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 5, 2)

The case eventually was brought to court after Jones had broken with Coulter and the rest of her original legal team, and it was summarily dismissed because the judge found that Jones could not show that she had suffered any damages, even if her allegations proved true. Jones did gain a settlement, however, from Clinton in exchange for not appealing the decision, although at $850,000 it was only one-third of the amount she had been asking for and all but $151,000 went to pay her legal expenses. However, the Jones case eventually led to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and to the movement lobbying for Clinton's impeachment, as Coulter had wished. Coulter made appearances on MSNBC (a role which began before her legal involvement with Jones) in which she commented on the case, and went on to write a critical exposé of Clinton, boasting on Rivera Live that she "got a bestseller out of it" (High Crimes and Misdemeanors, which included a chapter on the lawsuit) and telling Hannity & Colmes in August 1999, "The reason we were doing it for Paula–well, was for Paula. She had been defamed and I think we can say we got her reputation back." ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 8)

Jones (who had divorced her husband during the case, purchased a house after the settlement, and incurred a large tax bill) then posed nude for Penthouse, stating that she wished to use the money to pay the tax and fund her two grade-school-aged children's college education. Coulter publicly denounced her as "trailer park trash", saying, "I totally believed she was the good Christian girl she made herself out to be.... [N]ow it turns out she's a fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person" ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 12). Jones defended herself in an interview with Larry King in October 2000, saying, "I haven't been offered a book deal like everybody else in this huge thing has done. Ann Coulter's done books. I haven't seen her call me up and say: 'Paula, would you like for me to help you write a book, a really nice, decent book?' I haven't had any help from anybody whatsoever." ("Oh, Paula", 2002, par. 14)

Criticism

Ann Coulter has made a career of controversial arguments, many of which infuriate those on the opposite side of the political spectrum, inviting much criticism. Many liberals and those in the left wing claim that Coulter's polemical comments are extremely "nasty" and that they are intended to incite hysterical hatred toward liberals, people who object to the encroachment of religion into politics, and certain minorities (particularly Muslims.) Her style is not universally admired among those who share her political philosophy. Arnold Beichman reviewed Treason in the conservative Washington Times, and wrote that he'd "tried to read Miss Coulter's book and failed. Life is too short to read pages and pages of rant." [4]

Coulter's supporters often suggest that many of her comments are taken out of context, that Coulter is only joking, or that she is engaging in hyperbole, although she refuses to apologize or back down when responding to the controversies about them, apparently enjoying the consternation they cause her opponents. Supporters also argue that she uses satire to illustrate her points and for intentional, if controversial, comic effect. Critics also accuse her of hypocrisy and double standards, and argue that, since she has such strong conservative bias in her comments and writing, she is willing to misrepresent sources and facts to support her case. This criticism mirrors the argument that she herself uses in her criticism of liberal politicians, interest groups and the news media, particularly The New York Times.

Coulter has been the subject of frequent protests, especially when speaking on college campuses. On one occasion, during an appearance at University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her which missed. [5] While speaking at the University of Connecticut, she was booed off stage. In retaliation, she told the crowd of 2,600, "I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am" [6]. The controversy at the University of Connecticut also concerned $16,000 in speaking fees paid out of student funds to Coulter by a bitterly divided Undergraduate Student Government.[7]

A minor controversy started when the Washington Post reported Coulter had a Washington D.C. driver's license with her birthdate listed as December 8, 1963, two years after her actual birthdate.

Controversial statements regarding religious cults, white separatists, and domestic terrorists

Coulter has frequently criticized the government's handling of radical separatists. She described members of the Branch Davidians at the Waco compound as "harmless American citizens" [8] after the bulk of the group was immolated in the fire started during the FBI raid (the cause of the fire is in dispute.) Likewise, she berates what she calls the "unprovoked government assault" and "murder" at Ruby Ridge [9]. The government's handling of both incidents has been widely criticized. [10] [11]

In an interview with George Gurley, Coulter stated that: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." (Coulter, August 26, 2002) Melik Kayan of The Wall Street Journal described the statement and others she has made as "tongue-in-cheek agitprop". [12] When later asked by John Hawkins if she regretted that statement, Coulter replied: "Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters'." [13] However, Eric Alterman of The Nation and MSNBC.com, and many other critics were not amused. While writing that "Coulter jokes about McVeigh blowing up the Times", Alterman still found the joke offensive, calling Coulter a "terrorist apologist" and "ideological comrade" of McVeigh due to their similar statements about the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents. [14]

Controversial statements about minorities

Coulter has also drawn criticism for several remarks regarding Arabs, Muslims, people of Middle Eastern descent, and other minorities. For instance, in an article published one day after the 9/11 attacks, she wrote "We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." [15] A minor controversy ensued after Coulter denounced Helen Thomas, calling her an "old Arab" [16]. In other instances, she has referred to the Middle East as a "swamp" and advocated racial profiling on airliners. [17] [18] In an interview with a reporter from The Guardian, Coulter stated: "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When asked by the reporter about what Muslims would then do for travel, she replied: "They could use flying carpets." [19] Finally, during a discussion about rolling back laws on a May 7, 1997 episode of Politically Incorrect, she responded to the question, "You're talking about the Emancipation Proclamation?", with "That would be a good start."

Controversial statements about women

Coulter has stated that women are "not as bright" as men (Hannity and Colmes - 09/23/04), "have no capacity to understand how money is earned" (Politically Incorrect - 02/26/01), and "shouldn't be in the military" (Hannity and Colmes - 05/05/04).

On a few occasions Coulter has suggested that the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote should be repealed. In a 14 February, 2000 National Review Online article she wrote, "If this ticket doesn't close the gender gap, it's time to repeal the 19th Amendment." On 26 February, 2001, she said, "[women should] all have to give up their vote" (Politically Incorrect). She also argues that banning women from voting would ensure Republican presidents would be elected - as historical voting patterns had shown men had voted in majorities for Republican candidates.

Criticism of Treason and Slander

Treason, which contains many strident accusations against all liberals, brought her under fire, even from many conservatives (Rush Limbaugh, for example). Many felt her claim that Democrats such as Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy had worked against America's war on communism was unfounded.

Treason's defense of Joe McCarthy also came under criticism from both liberals and conservatives, who argued that Coulter had simply failed to accurately research the facts in her attempt to rehabilitate the controversial senator. In an interview with David Bowman, Coulter said that Joe McCarthy is the deceased person she admires the most. Coulter claims in Treason that McCarthy was simply misunderstood and unappreciated, and that the Venona cables have vindicated him, proving there indeed were Soviet spies in the State Department. (Coulter did not mention that, as access to these files was heavily restricted outside of the CIA, MI5 and GCHQ, McCarthy almost certainly did not have access to them.) In continuing efforts to rehabilitate McCarthy, she wrote some columns attacking George Clooney's movie Good Night, and Good Luck., about television journalist Edward R. Murrow and McCarthy. She claims McCarthyism was not the destructive force it was made out to be, and says that the only suicide caused by the Red Scare was Murrow's friend, Lawrence Duggan, now a proven Soviet spy. However, other cases have been cited, including lawyer Bartley Crum, who was harassed by the FBI for years following his legal defense of the Hollywood Ten. Still, McCarthy had absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood Ten, inasmuch as he was a Senator, and the Hollywood Ten were blacklisted by the House (HUAC).

A major flaw in her book "Treason" is simply that primary sources from the period contradict her. President Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff Sherman Adams wrote a memoir in 1961, "First Hand Report" that makes clear the hostlity the Republican administration held against Sen. McCarthy. Further, two Republican Senators wrote memoirs excoriating McCarthy. Sen. Arthur Watkins of Utah chaired his censure committee and wrote "Enough Rope" in 1969, sparing no detail in his fury over McCarthy's conduct. Sen. Charles Potter of Michigan sat on the Army-McCarthy hearings and the censure committe. His 1965 memoir "Days of Shame" is equally harsh toward the Wisconsin Senator. Further, Coulter's attempts to rehabilitate Whittaker Chambers are contradicted by the memoirs of President's Truman and Eisenhower.

An article in the Columbia Journalism Review criticized Slander, claiming it contained numerous misstatements. [20] In Slander, Coulter expounds the view that liberals are out of touch with America, and "have absolutely no contact with the society they decry from their Park Avenue redoubts". This echoed the sentiments of an August 2002 Newsday article, in which she argued that the media are biased to the left because Republicans don't have the wealth to start media outlets, while Democrats do. That Republicans are rich, she said, "is one of the stunning lies that Democrats have been able to palm off... Liberals really are the idle rich." [21] Joe Conason, the author of Big Lies, accuses Coulter of double standards, arguing that she is a highly-educated, affluent woman with a high-profile media presence who does not similarly accuse herself, or other privileged Republicans, of being out of touch. Conason goes on to say that Coulter's criticism is blunted by what he calls her pre-assumed opinions, making many of the conclusions she draws irrelevant to the actual nature of her arguments.

Quotations

The following quotes are examples of Coulter's flamboyant and often inflammatory polemical style. Some view these quotes as humorous examples of tongue-in-cheek hyperbole or satire, while others take them more seriously. Coulter herself once stated, "Liberals love to pretend they don't understand hyperbole." However, she has also stated, "I believe everything I say." [22]

• "We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war." - on the 9/11/01 attacks, in which her friend Barbara Olson was killed, from her syndicated column [23] September 13, 2001

• "The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet—it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars—that's the Biblical view."[24]

• "I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly."—MSNBC March 22, 1997

• "It would be a much better country 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."—[25] May 17, 2003

• "Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."—(from Slander, pp. 5-6; published June 2002)

• "The Times was rushing to assure its readers that 'prominent Islamic scholars and theologians in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions.' (That's if you set aside Muhammad's many specific instructions to kill nonbelievers whenever possible)"—How to Talk to a Liberal, 2004.

• "In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc." - Jan 12, 2006 [26]

Trivia

• Coulter is a major fan of the rock band Grateful Dead, and even appeared on pop culture channel VH1's now-defunct series My Coolest Years, about high school experiences, to discuss her years as a "Deadhead" (an avid follower of the Grateful Dead).

• A documentary about Coulter, Is It True What They Say About Ann?, was made in 2004 by filmmakers Patrick Wright and Elinor Burkett, which was shown at various conservative film festivals and is available online and at select media distributors. The DVD includes the forty-minute documentary as well as about two hours of additional interviews and speeches, and a photo album.

References

• Barak, Daphne (September 23, 1998). Jones would have been happy with an apology. Irish Examiner.
• Bowman, David (July 25, 2003). Ann Coulter, woman. salon.com [registration or advertising video required].
• Cloud, John (April 25, 2005). "Ms. Right." Time.
• Coulter, Ann (October 30, 2000). Clinton sure can pick 'em. Jewish World Review.
• Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). Call her Mrs.. Jewish World Review.
• Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). Donahue transcript July 18. Interview with Phil Donahue. Free Republic. posted by Pistolshot, July 19, 2002.
• Coulter, Ann (August 11, 2002). Slander Interview with Brian Lamb. C-Span. Booknotes. Reprinted at Booknotes.org.
• Coulter, Ann (August 26, 2002). Coultergeist. Interview with George Gurley. New York Observer reprinted at AntiAuthority.
• Coulter, Ann (October 9, 2003). Answering my critics. Jewish World Review.
• Coulter, Ann (January 12, 2004). Frontpage interview. Interview with Jamie Glazov. FrontPageMag.com.
• Coulter, Ann (July 26, 2004). Put the speakers in a cage. anncoulter.com.
• Daley, David (June 25, 1999). Ann Coulter: light's all shining on her. Hartford Courant. [$2.50 charge required to view article]
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• Goldberg, Jonah (October 3, 2001). L'affaire Coulter. National Review Online.
• Memmot, Mark (July 26, 2004). Coulter column canceled after editing dispute. USAToday.com. Updated July 27, 2004.
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• "Oh, Paula!" (.pdf file) (2002). Coulterwatch.com. Retrieved March 17, 2005.
• West, Nigel (2000). Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0006530710

Books by Ann Coulter

• How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, 2004) ISBN 1400054184. The book is a collection of columns on varied topics, such as liberalism, the U.S. war on terror and the media.
• Treason (Crown Forum, 2003) ISBN 1400050308
• Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (Crown Forum, 2002) ISBN 1400046610
• High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (Regnery Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0895261138

Ann Coulter's Filmography

• Greatest American, Four-part interactive television event for Discovery Channel hosted by Matt Lauer. Starting with 100 nominees, each week interactive viewer voting eliminates the candidates. The three judges were Ann Coulter, Randy Jackson and Dennis Miller. 2005.
• FahrenHYPE 9/11, Straight to video documentary designed as a rebuttal of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, released in 2004.
• Is It True What They Say About Ann?, DVD documentary on Ann Coulter containing a clip of her interviews and speeches, released in 2004.
• Feeding the Beast, Made for TV documentary on the "24-Hour News Revolution", released in 2004.

External links

Articles

• Ann Coulter's official website anncoulter.com.
• "Ann Coulter Archives" - collection of syndicated columns on Jewish World Review.
• Ann Coulter on NRO - collection of columns (2000-2001) for National Review Online.

Biography and quotes

• Ann Coulter profile, NNDB.
• Ann Coulter on the Internet Movie Database
• The Best Quotes From Ann Coulter's Treason.
• Biography from Center for Media and Democracy by mostly critical editors.
• Is it true what they say about Ann? documentary on Coulter.
• Wisdom of Ann Coulter.
• Washington Post article on Coulter's age.

Book Reviews

• "Limerick, Dr. Rush" (September 9, 2002). Liberally lying about liberals. Rev. of Slander. slannder.homestead.com. Looks at chapter 2.
• Buckley, William F. (Winter 2003). Tailgunner Ann. Rev. of Treason. Claremont Review of Books [on-line edition]. by biographer of Joseph McCarthy.
• Horowitz, David (July 8, 2003). The trouble with Treason. Rev. of Treason. Frontpagemag.com. Article by a conservative both critical and praising.
• Nyhan, Brendan (June 30, 2003). Screed. Rev. of Treason. spinsanity. Media analyst protests "complicated set of rhetorical tricks."

Criticism

• Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Ann Coulter
• Alterman, Eric (September 5, 2002). Devil in a blue dress. The Nation. criticism of Coulter
• Fact-checking Ann Coulter
• Analysis of Ann Coulter Statements by Jack Clark
• Coulter Watch former "watch site" for Ann Coulter, now seldom updated.
• Anti-Coulter (analysis of Ann Coulter) another defunct watch site.
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Current events (fan sites and watch sites)

• Ann Coulter Fan Club on MySpace Discussion of Coulter's books and columns, as well as political debate and dialogue on current events.
• Ann Coulter Fan Club on Yahoo not currently maintained, contains archive.
• Ann Coulter articles from Free Republic
• Ann Coulter articles from Media Matters for America
• StopAnnCoulter.com Organization in opposition to Ann Coulter's exploits

Interviews

• Slander (June 26, 2002) Interview with Katie Couric. NBC. Today. Reprinted at Drudge Report Archive.
• Slander (August 11, 2002) Interview with Brian Lamb. C-Span. Booknotes. Reprinted at Booknotes.org.
• Treason (June 30, 2003) Interview with Chris Matthews. MSNBC. Hardball with Chris Matthews. Reprinted at the Rational Radical.

News features

• Leiby, Richard (March 2, 2005). Ann Coulter and the title fight. washingtonpost.com.