Ann Coulter

Ann Hart Coulter (Template:IPAc-en; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative media pundit, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She became known as a media pundit in the late 1990s, appearing in print and on cable news as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration. Her first book concerned the impeachment of Bill Clinton and sprang from her experience writing legal briefs for Paula Jones's attorneys, as well as columns she wrote about the cases.<ref name="Howard Kurtz">Template:Cite news
Template:Cite news</ref> Coulter's syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate appears in newspapers and is featured on conservative websites. Coulter has also written 13 books.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life

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Coulter as a senior in high school, 1980

Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961,<ref>Coulter, however disputes this birth date. Template:Cite news</ref> in New York City, to John Vincent Coulter (1926–2008), an FBI agent from a working class Catholic Irish American and German American family<ref name=hufpost1>Smolenyak, Megan. Template:Cite news</ref> in Albany, New York, and Nell Husbands Coulter (née Martin; 1928–2009), a homemaker who was born in Paducah, Kentucky.

Coulter's mother's ancestry has been traced back on both sides of her family to a group of Puritan settlers in Plymouth Colony, British America arriving on the Griffin with Thomas Hooker in 1633,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and her father's family were Catholic Irish and German immigrants who arrived in America in the 19th century. Her father's Irish ancestors emigrated during the famine<ref name=hufpost1 />—and became ship laborers, tilemakers, brickmakers, carpenters and flagmen. Coulter's father attended college on the GI Bill and later became an FBI agent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}
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She has two older brothers: James, an accountant,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and John, an attorney.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her family later moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and her two brothers were raised.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Coulter graduated from New Canaan High School in 1980.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

While attending Cornell University, Coulter helped found The Cornell Review,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}
The Nation: A Once-Bright Star Dims. Template:Webarchive January 30, 2003.</ref> and was a member of the Delta Gamma national sorority.<ref name="deltagamma">Template:Cite news</ref> She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988, where she was an editor of the Michigan Law Review.<ref>"Ann Coulter: bestselling author and political commentator Template:Webarchive (Profile)". premierespeakers.com Template:Webarchive. Retrieved July 10, 2006. See also Michigan Law Review vol. 86 No. 5 (April 1988), where Ann Coulter "of Connecticut" is listed on the masthead as an articles editor.</ref> At Michigan, Coulter was president of the local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center.<ref>Hallow, Ralph. "A lifelong voice for conservatives". The Washington Times. February 21, 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2006.</ref>

Coulter's age was disputed in 2002. While she argued that she was not yet 40, The Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove cited a birthdate of December 8, 1961, which Coulter provided when registering to vote in New Canaan, Connecticut, prior to the 1980 Presidential election, for which she had to be 18 years old to register. A driver's license issued several years later purportedly listed her birthdate as December 8, 1963. Coulter has not confirmed either date, citing privacy concerns.<ref name="Grove_Lloyd">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

After law school, Coulter served as a law clerk in Kansas City for Judge Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.<ref>See Template:Cite news; Template:Cite news; Coulter herself says it was Bowman. See her online bio Template:Webarchive; see also Template:Cite news</ref> After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where she specialized in corporate law, Coulter left to work for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took control of Congress in 1994. She handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan and helped craft legislation designed to expedite the deportation of aliens convicted of felonies.<ref name=Daley1999>Daley, David. "Ann Coulter: light's all shining on her" Template:Webarchive. Hartford Courant. June 25, 1999.</ref> She later became a litigator with the Center for Individual Rights.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Coulter has written 13 books, and also publishes a syndicated newspaper column. She is particularly known for her polemical style,<ref name="coulter_style">Template:Cite news</ref> and describes herself as someone who likes to "stir up the pot. I don't pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She idolized Clare Boothe Luce for her satirical style.<ref>David T. Courtwright, No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010, p. 230</ref> She also makes numerous public appearances, speaking on television and radio talk shows, as well as on college campuses, receiving both praise and protest. Coulter typically spends 6 to 12 weeks of the year on speaking engagement tours, and more when she has a book coming out.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2010, she made an estimated $500,000 on the speaking circuit, giving speeches on topics of modern conservatism, gay marriage, and what she describes as the hypocrisy of modern American liberalism.<ref name="Newsweek_2010">Template:Cite news</ref> During one appearance at the University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her.<ref name="ua_pie">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ua_pie_2">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="foxnews_pie">Template:Cite news</ref> In defense of her ideas, Coulter has on occasion responded with inflammatory remarks toward hecklers and protestors who attend her speeches.<ref name="pickfights">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="the_oracle">Template:Cite news</ref>

Books

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Ann Coulter at the 2004 Republican National Convention

Coulter has authored twelve books, including many that have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with a combined 3 million copies sold Template:As of.<ref name="depasquale">Template:Cite news</ref>

Coulter's first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, was published by Regnery Publishing in 1998 and made The New York Times Bestseller list.<ref name="Howard Kurtz" /> It details Coulter's case for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, published by Crown Forum in 2002, reached the number one spot on The New York Times non-fiction best seller list.<ref name="slander_bestseller">Template:Cite news</ref> In Slander, Coulter argues that President George W. Bush was given unfair negative media coverage. The factual accuracy of Slander was called into question by then-comedian and author, later Democratic U.S. Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken; he also accused her of citing passages out of context.<ref name="frankenbook">Template:Cite book</ref> Others investigated these charges, and also raised questions about the book's accuracy and presentation of facts.<ref>"Throwing the book at her" Template:Webarchive, Spinsanity. July 13, 2002. Retrieved September 30, 2007.
"Screed: With Treason, Ann Coulter once again defines a new low in America's political debate" Template:Webarchive, Spinsanity. June 30, 2003. Retrieved September 30, 2007.</ref><ref name="slippery_slander">Template:Cite journal</ref> Coulter responded to criticisms in a column called "Answering My Critics".<ref name="answering_critics">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In her third book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, also published by Crown Forum, she reexamines the 60-year history of the Cold War—including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss affair, and Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"—and argues that liberals were wrong in their Cold War political analyses and policy decisions, and that McCarthy was correct about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She also argues that the correct identification of Annie Lee Moss, among others, as communists was misreported by the liberal media.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Treason was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Seller list.<ref name="sfgate">Template:Cite news</ref>

Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter's columns in 2004 as her fourth book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is Godless: The Church of Liberalism.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In it, she argues, first, that American liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, and second, that it bears all the attributes of a religion itself.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Godless debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.<ref name="nyt_bestsellers_062506">Template:Cite news</ref>

Coulter's If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans (Crown Forum), published in October 2007, and Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America (Crown Forum), published on January 6, 2009, both also achieved best-seller status.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}
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On June 7, 2011, Crown Forum published her eighth book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Her ninth book, published September 25, 2012, was Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. It argues that liberals, and Democrats in particular, have taken undue credit for racial civil rights in America.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Coulter's tenth book, Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican, was released on October 14, 2013. It is her second collection of columns and her first published by Regnery since her first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Coulter published her eleventh book, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole, on June 1, 2015. The book addresses illegal immigration, amnesty programs, and border security in the United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Columns

In the late 1990s, Coulter's weekly (biweekly from 1999 to 2000) syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate began appearing. Her column is featured on six conservative websites: Human Events Online, WorldNetDaily, Townhall.com, VDARE, FrontPage Magazine, Jewish World Review and her own website. Her syndicator says, "Ann's client newspapers stick with her because she has a loyal fan base of conservative readers who look forward to reading her columns in their local newspapers".<ref name="EP_mitchell-astor">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1999, Coulter worked as a columnist for George magazine.<ref name = "arm candy">Lehman, Susan. Conservative pinup battles "arm candy" canard. Salon. March 4, 1999. Retrieved July 10, 2006.</ref><ref name="tribute-to-john">Template:Cite news</ref> Coulter also wrote weekly columns for the conservative magazine Human Events between 1998 and 2003, with occasional columns thereafter. In her columns, she discussed judicial rulings, constitutional issues, and legal matters affecting Congress and the executive branch.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist for National Review Online (NRO), Coulter was asked by editors to make changes to a piece written after the September 11 attacks. On the show Politically Incorrect, Coulter accused NRO of censorship and said she was paid $5 per article. NRO dropped her column and terminated her editorship. Jonah Goldberg, the 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 [concerning the editing disagreement]."<ref name="goldbergjonah">Template:Cite news</ref>

In August 2005, the Arizona Daily Star dropped Coulter's syndicated column, citing reader complaints: "Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives".<ref name="AZDailyStar">Template:Cite news</ref>

In July 2006, some newspapers replaced Coulter's column with those of other conservative columnists following the publication of her fourth book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After The Augusta Chronicle dropped her column, newspaper editor Michael Ryan said: "it came to the point where she was the issue rather than what she was writing about."<ref name=autogenerated1>Template:Cite news</ref> Ryan added that he continued himself "to be an Ann Coulter fan" as "her logic is devastating and her viewpoint is right most of the time."<ref name=autogenerated1 />

Television and radio

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Ann Coulter at the 2012 Time 100

Coulter made her first national media appearance in 1996 after she was hired by the then-fledgling network MSNBC as a legal correspondent. She later appeared on CNN and Fox News,<ref name="msright">Template:Cite news</ref> and went on to make frequent guest appearances on many television and radio talk shows.

Political views

Template:Conservatism US Ann Coulter is a conservative columnist and, as a member of the Federalist Society, is a staunch advocate federalism, originalism states' rights and textualism. In 2003, described herself as a "typical, immodest-dressing, swarthy male-loving, friend-to-homosexuals, ultra-conservative."<ref name=appmagic /> She is a registered Republican and former member of the advisory council of GOProud since August 9, 2011.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> When Milo Yiannopoulos initially defended pederasty,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Coulter commented, "Well, Milo learned HIS lesson. Pederasty acceptable only for refugees and illegals. Then libs will support you."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to NBC News, Coulter has been known for her "racist and anti-immigrant stances" and has made several xenophobic comments about Nikki Haley in a racist tirade.<ref name=":0" />

Abortion

Coulter supported the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, which overturned the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey precedent, because she does not believe in a right to privacy. She believes abortion is a states' rights issue and opposes federal government regulating both for and against abortion. She describes herself as an "anti-abortion zealot". She described banning most abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy as "shockingly reasonable".<ref>ALITO WILL SAVE LIVES, NOT BIDEN</ref> She believes abortion, excluding abortion exceptions in cases of fetal impairment, rape and danger to a woman's life or health, should be illegal in most other cases.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Christianity

Coulter is a Presbyterian.<ref name=ytbref1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Coulter was raised by a Catholic father and Protestant mother.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At one public lecture she said: "I don't care about anything else; Christ died for my sins, and nothing else matters."<ref name="Olasky_Marvin">Template:Cite news</ref>

Confronting some critics' views that her content and style of writing is unchristian,<ref>Inside Higher Ed: Calling Off Ann Coulter Template:Webarchive December 1, 2005.</ref> Coulter said that she is "a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it."<ref name="mean-spirited">Template:Cite news</ref> Six years later, in 2011, she also said "Christianity fuels everything I write."<ref name="DePasquale_Lisa">Template:Cite news</ref>

Confederate Flag and India

She supports the display of the Confederate flag<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and asked former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to go back to India for removing the Confederate flag during her term as Governor. Coulter also called Haley a "bimbo" and a "preposterous creature" and accused and attacked India for worshipping cows and a "rat temple". She also remarked "This is my country, lady, I'm not an American Indian, and I don't like them taking down all the monuments."<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Evolution

Coulter advocates teaching intelligent design, a pseudoscientific anti-evolution ideology, alongside evolution.<ref name=Chambers2008/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Coulter, Ann (2006). Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Crown Forum. p. 199. ISBN 978-1400054206.</ref> In Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Coulter characterized the theory of evolution as bogus science, and contrasted her beliefs to what she called the left's "obsession with Darwinism and the Darwinian view of the world, which replaces sanctification of life with sanctification of sex and death".<ref name="Godless">Template:Cite book</ref>

Federalism

Ann Coulter supports, regardless of her own personal position on the issue, a federalist states' rights position on abortion,<ref>Time Magazine. "Ann Coulter on Overturning Roe v. Wade." Time, 2022. "I am thrilled that this is going to be turned back to the states."</ref> affirmative action,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America.* Crown Forum, 2009. Discusses her opposition to federal affirmative action policies, supporting state decision-making.</ref> cannabis legalization,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Speech at CPAC 2013." Conservative Political Action Conference, 2013. Advocated for states' rights to legalize marijuana without federal interference.</ref> capital punishment,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.* Crown Forum, 2011. Supports states' rights in determining their own policies on the death penalty.</ref> contraception,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Who Was the Second Choice?" AnnCoulter.com, October 19, 2005. [1](https://anncoulter.com/2005/10/19/who-was-the-second-choice/).</ref> criminal justice reform,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.* Crown Forum, 2003. Supports state autonomy in criminal justice matters, particularly in sentencing laws.</ref> education,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: Why Liberals Are Afraid of School Choice." Townhall, 2014. Criticizes federal control over education and supports state/local control.</ref> environmental regulations,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: EPA's New Mandates Are Killing Jobs." Townhall, 2011. Criticizes federal environmental regulations and advocates for state control over environmental policies.</ref> gun control,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.* Regnery Publishing, 1998. Expresses opposition to federal gun control measures, supporting state decision-making.</ref> hate crime laws,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Left's Crazy Hate Crime Laws." AnnCoulter.com, 2009. Criticizes hate crime laws and supports state jurisdiction over criminal justice.</ref> healthcare,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.* Crown Forum, 2011. Discusses state control over healthcare and Medicaid expansion.</ref> labor laws,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.* Penguin Books, 2012. Discusses her support for state-level decisions on labor laws.</ref> minimum wage,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: States Know Best on Minimum Wage." Townhall, 2014. Argues that decisions regarding the minimum wage should be left to the states rather than being set by federal mandates.</ref> religious displays on public buildings,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Ten Commandments Controversy." Townhall, 2005. Discusses her support for states' rights in religious matters.</ref> prostitution,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans*. Crown Forum, 2007.</ref> right-to-work laws,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> same-sex marriage,<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Speech at Homocon 2011." GOProud, 2011. "I think it's a state's rights issue, and I think it's crazy for the Supreme Court to take that away from the states."</ref> sodomy laws,<ref>Time Magazine. "10 Questions for Ann Coulter." July 16, 2003. Coulter commented on the Supreme Court's ruling on sodomy laws: "Gay sex may well be a mystery of life, but I'll be damned if I can find it in the Constitution."</ref> state preemption laws,<ref>"O'Reilly and Ann Coulter on Westboro Baptist Church vs. Snyder Family." Fox News, 2011. [2](https://www.foxnews.com/story/oreilly-and-ann-coulter-on-westboro-baptist-church-vs-snyder-family).</ref> state religion,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> voting rights,<ref>Coulter, Ann. *If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.* Crown Forum, 2007. Criticizes federal oversight of state voting laws, supports states' rights in voting.</ref> and welfare.<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Great Republican Welfare Crack-Up." Townhall, 2012. Supports the idea that states should have more control over welfare programs rather than a uniform federal approach.</ref>

Civil liberties

Coulter endorsed the NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program directed at Al-Qaeda.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During a 2011 appearance on Stossel, she said "PATRIOT Act, fantastic, Gitmo, fantastic, waterboarding, not bad, though torture would've been better."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She criticized Rand Paul for "this anti-drone stuff".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coulter opposes hate crime laws, calling them "unconstitutional". She also stated that "Hate-crime provisions seem vaguely directed at capturing a sense of cold-bloodedness, but the law can do that without elevating some victims over others."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Civil rights

Although Coulter supported the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, she is critical of desegregation busing, which she calls "forced busing" and desegregation court rulings since Brown v. Board of Education.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Ashcroft and the blowhard discuss</ref> She supports literacy tests for voting, which she claims are not unconstitutional or prohibited in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She supports the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Women's rights

Coulter rejects "the academic convention of euphemism and circumlocution",<ref>Template:Cite journal]</ref> and is claimed to play to misogyny in order to further her goals; she "dominates without threatening (at least not straight men)".<ref name=Chambers2008>Template:Cite journal</ref> Feminist critics also reject Coulter's opinion that the gains made by women have gone so far as to create an anti-male society<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and her call for women to be rejected from the military because they are more vicious than men.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Like the late anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, Coulter uses traditionally masculine rhetoric as reasoning for the need for traditional gender roles, and she carries this idea of feminized dependency into her governmental policies, according to feminist critics.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Coulter said in 2021 that women should not be allowed to vote.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Immigration

Coulter has criticized former president George W. Bush's immigration proposals. In a 2007 column, she claimed that the current immigration system was set up to deliberately reduce the percentage of whites in the population.<ref name="roachmotel">Template:Cite news</ref>

Coulter opposes the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She strongly opposed amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and at the 2013 CPAC said she had become "a single-issue voter against amnesty".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In June 2018, during the controversy caused by the Trump administration family separation policy, Coulter dismissed immigrant children as "child actors weeping and crying" and urged Trump not to "fall for it".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Coulter is an advocate of the white genocide conspiracy theory.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has compared non-white immigration into the United States with genocide,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and claiming that "a genocide" is occurring against South African farmers,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> she has said that the Boers are the "only real refugees" in South Africa.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Regarding domestic politics, Vox labelled Coulter as one of many providing a voice for "the 'white genocide' myth",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the SPLC covered Coulter's remarks that if the demographic changes occurring in the U.S. were being "legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="roachmotel" />

LGBT rights

Since the 1990s, Coulter has had many acquaintances in the LGBT community. She describes herself as "the Judy Garland of the Right", reflecting Garland's large fan base from the gay community. In the last few years before 2015 she attracted LGBT fans, namely gay men and drag queens.<ref name="Vice.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}
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Coulter opposes same-sex marriage, opposes Obergefell v. Hodges, and supports, after previously saying she did not, a federal U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She claims her opposition to same-sex marriage "wasn't an anti-gay thing" and that "It's genuinely a pro-marriage position to oppose gay marriage".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Coulter claims that same-sex marriage would "ruin gay culture", because "gays value promiscuous sex over monogamy".<ref name="Vice.com" />

In an October 2003 C-SPAN debate, Coulter said there was nothing in the US Constitution about same-sex marriage and that she did not think she had taken a position yet on the issue of same-sex marriage. When asked, hypothetically, as Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) judge, if she would overturn a state statutorily legalizing same-sex marriage, she said she would not. When asked if she would support a federal U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman, she said, as she when it first came up, she did not because she thought it was pointless as SCOTUS wasn't correctly interpreting the constitution as it is according to her.<ref>"Supreme Court and Constitutional Authority." *C-SPAN*, October 2003. Available at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?178812-1/supreme-court-constitutional-authority</ref> On November 18, 2003, the day Goodridge v. Department of Public Health was decided, she began helping to launch a national effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to prevent same-marriage.<ref>"Conservatives Visit to Oppose Gay Marriages." *East Valley Tribune*, November 18, 2003. Available at: https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/conservatives-visit-to-oppose-gay-marriages/article_73a67a75-38bd-5f8f-abbd-f814c5297353.html</ref>

Coulter also opposes civil unions<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and privatizing marriage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> When addressed with the issue of rights granted by marriage, she said, "Gays already can visit loved ones in hospitals. They can also visit neighbors, random acquaintances, and total strangers in hospitals—just like everyone else. Gays can also pass on property to whomever they would like."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She also stated that same-sex sexual intercourse was already protected under the Fourth Amendment, which prevents police from going into your home without a search warrant or court order.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coulter disagreed with repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, stating that it is not an "anti-gay position; it is a pro-military position" because "sexual bonds are disruptive to the military bond".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She also stated that there is "no proof that all the discharges for homosexuality involve actual homosexuals."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Coulter has expressed her opposition to treatment of LGBT people in the countries of Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

At the 2007 CPAC, Coulter said, "I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media—how they keep describing Mitt Romney's position as being pro-gays, and that's going to upset the right wingers", and "Well, you know, screw you! I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against." She added, "I don't know why all gays aren't Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they're victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In Coulter's 2007 book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, in the chapter "Gays: No Gay Left Behind!", she argued that Republican policies were more pro-gay than Democratic policies. Coulter attended the 2010 HomoCon of GOProud, where she gave a speech about why gays should oppose same-sex marriage.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

At the 2011 CPAC, during her question-and-answer segment, Coulter was asked about GOProud and the controversy over their inclusion at the 2011 CPAC. She boasted how she talked GOProud into dropping its support for same-sex marriage in the party's platform, saying, "The left is trying to co-opt gays, and I don't think we should let them. I think they should be on our side", and "Gays are natural conservatives".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Later that year, she joined advisory board for GOProud. On Logo's The A-List: Dallas she told gay Republican Taylor Garrett that "The gays have got to be pro-life", and "As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

War on Drugs

Coulter strongly supports continuing the War on Drugs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, she has said that, if there were not a welfare state, she "wouldn't care" if drugs were legal.<ref>"Ann Coulter Battles Libertarians" Template:Webarchive. Fox News Channel. February 21, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2014.</ref> She spoke about drugs as a guest on Piers Morgan Live, where she said that marijuana users "can't perform daily functions".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Bernie Sanders

In April 2019, Coulter said of Senator Bernie Sanders she would vote and perhaps even work for him in the 2020 U.S. presidential election if he stuck to his "original position" on U.S. border policy. "If he went back to his original position, which is the pro blue-collar position—I mean, it totally makes sense with him", and "If he went back to that position, I'd vote for him, I might work for him. I don't care about the rest of the socialist stuff. Just, can we do something for ordinary Americans?"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Political activities and commentary

Template:Update Ann Coulter has described herself as a "polemicist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do".<ref name="polemicist">Template:Cite news</ref> While her political activities in the past have included advising a plaintiff suing President Bill Clinton as well as considering a run for Congress, she mostly serves as a political pundit, sometimes creating controversy ranging from rowdy uprisings at some of the colleges where she speaks to protracted discussions in the media.

Time magazine's John Cloud once observed that Coulter "likes to shock reporters by wondering aloud whether America might be better off if women lost the right to vote".<ref name="msright" /> This was in reference to her statement that "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."<ref name="appmagic" /> Similarly, in an October 2007 interview with The New York Observer, Coulter said:<ref name="Gurley_George">Template:Cite news</ref>

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat 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.

It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care—and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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Paula Jones – Bill Clinton case

Coulter first became a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal adviser 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 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 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 /><ref name=conason /> From the outset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement.<ref>Barak, Daphne. "Jones would have been happy with an apology". Irish Examiner. September 23, 1998. Retrieved July 10, 2006. Template:Webarchive</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 extorting money from the President.<ref name=Daley1999 />

David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for The Hartford Courant recounted what followed:

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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. "Impeachment's little elves". Salon. March 4, 2000. Retrieved July 10, 2006. Template:Webarchive</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>{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and it was dismissed via summary judgment. The judge ruled that even if her allegations proved true, Jones did not show that she had suffered any damages, stating, "... plaintiff has not demonstrated any tangible job detriment or adverse employment action for her refusal to submit to the governor's alleged advances. The president is therefore entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of quid pro quo sexual harassment." The ruling was appealed 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, the Jones lawsuit had given way to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

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 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. "Paula Jones describes why she's posing for Penthouse Template:Webarchive". Larry King Live. CNN. October 24, 2000. Retrieved 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 ""'Trailer park trash' strikes back". Human Events. January 30, 1998. Retrieved November 18, 2006</ref> after Clinton's former campaign strategist James Carville had made the widely reported remark, "Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, and you'll never know what you'll find", 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. "Clinton sure can pick 'em Template:Webarchive". Jewish World Review. October 30, 2000. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref>{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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Comments on Islam, Arabs, and terrorism

Coulter's September 14, 2001, column eulogized her friend Barbara Olson, killed three days earlier in the September 11 attacks, and ended with a call for war:

Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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These comments resulted in Coulter being fired as a columnist by National Review, which she subsequently referred to as "squeamish girly-boys".<ref name="ReferenceA">Template:Cite journal</ref> Responding to this comment, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American–Islamic Relations remarked in the Chicago Sun-Times that before September 11, Coulter "would have faced swift repudiation from her colleagues", but "now it's accepted as legitimate commentary".<ref>Jim Ritter, "Muslims see a growing media bias", Chicago Sun-Times, September 4, 2006</ref>

One day after the attacks (when death toll estimates were higher than later), Coulter asserted that only Muslims could have been behind them: "Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims—at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours."<ref name="Future widows">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coulter was highly critical in 2002 of the U.S. Department of Transportation and especially its then-secretary Norman Mineta. Her many criticisms include their refusal to use racial profiling as a component of passenger security screening.<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Mineta's Bataan death march Template:Webarchive", Jewish World Review. February 28, 2002. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref> After a group of Muslims was expelled from a US Airways flight when other passengers expressed concern, sparking a call for Muslims to boycott the airline because of the ejection from a flight of six imams, Coulter wrote, "If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coulter also cited the 2002 Senate testimony of FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, who was acclaimed for condemning her superiors for refusing to authorize a search warrant for 9-11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui when he refused to consent to a search of his computer. They knew that he was a Muslim in flight school who had overstayed his visa, and the French Intelligence Service had confirmed his affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups. Coulter said she agreed that probable cause existed in the case, but that refusing consent, being in flight school and overstaying a visa should not constitute grounds for a search. Citing a poll which 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 she asserted "any Muslim who has attended a mosque in Europe—certainly in England, where Moussaoui lived—has had 'affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups,'" so that she parsed Rowley's position as meaning that Template:"'probable cause' existed to search Moussaoui's computer because he was a Muslim who had lived in England". Coulter says the poll was "by The Daily Telegraph", actually it was by Sunrise, an "Asian" (therefore an Indian subcontinent-oriented) radio station, canvassing the opinions of 500 Muslims in Greater London (not Britain as a whole), mainly of Pakistani origin and aged between 20 and 45. Because "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 slaughtered on the altar of political correctness. What more do liberals want?"<ref>Coulter, Ann. "This whistle-blower they like Template:Webarchive", Jewish World Review June 13, 2002. Retrieved October 1, 2006.
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Coulter wrote in another column that she had reviewed the civil rights lawsuits against certain airlines to determine which of them had subjected Arabs to the most "egregious discrimination" so that she could fly only that airline. She also said that the airline should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them.<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Arab hijackers now eligible for pre-boarding Template:Webarchive" Jewish World Review April 29, 2004. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref> In an interview with The Guardian she said, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer, Jonathan Freedland, replied by asking what Muslims would do for travel, she responded, "They could use flying carpets."<ref name=appmagic>Template:Cite news</ref>

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, Coulter told Hannity host Sean Hannity that the wife of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev should be jailed for wearing a hijab. Coulter continued by saying "Assimilating immigrants into our culture isn't really working. They're assimilating us into their culture."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2013 CPAC Conference

In March 2013, Coulter was one of the keynote speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where she made references to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's weight ("CPAC had to cut back on its speakers this year about 300 pounds") and progressive activist Sandra Fluke's hairdo. (Coulter quipped that Fluke didn't need birth control pills because "that haircut is birth control enough".) Coulter advocated against a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants because such new citizens would never vote for Republican candidates: "If amnesty goes through, America becomes California and no Republican will ever win another election."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="huffpost.130316">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

VDARE

Since 2013, Coulter has been a contributor to VDARE, a far-right website and blog founded by anti-immigration activist and paleo-conservative Peter Brimelow.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Michael Malice has said that "Coulter and VDARE can be considered the furthest edge of the Overton Window" as any political position further to the right would be too heretical to find mainstream success.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> VDARE is controversial because of its alleged white supremacist rhetoric and support of scientific racism and white nationalism.<ref>Template:Cite book
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Candidate endorsements

Coulter initially supported George W. Bush's presidency, but later criticized its approach to immigration. She endorsed Duncan Hunter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and later Mitt Romney in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the 2012 Republican presidential primary and presidential run.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, she endorsed Donald Trump.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Coulter later distanced herself from Trump following arguments over immigration policies; she called for his impeachment in September 2017, saying "Put a fork in Trump, he's dead".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She described herself in 2018 as a "former Trumper";<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in a 2020 speech to a Turning Point USA event, she said, "The Trump agenda without Trump would be a lot easier. Our new motto should be 'Going on with Trumpism without Trump.' That's a winning strategy."<ref>Jonathan Kyncl, 'Going on with Trumpism without Trump,' Ann Coulter speaks at OU Turning Point USA student event, OU Daily (November 6, 2020).</ref> Coulter blamed Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner for Trump's 2020 election loss, and said that Trump had failed to deliver for the white working class.<ref>Devika Desai, Ann Coulter blames 'wonderboy' Jared Kushner for Trump's 2020 election defeat, Postmedia News (November 23, 2020).</ref> In August 2024, Coulter spoke out against Donald Trump saying he was an "awful, awful person.” However, she said she would vote for him in the 2024 election because she liked his running mate JD Vance and how we needed "a wall on the border". "Can’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him, but I do trust JD Vance to care about the left behind people”, Coulter said.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other candidates Coulter has endorsed include Greg Brannon (2014 Republican primary candidate for North Carolina Senator),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Paul Nehlen (2016 Republican primary candidate for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Mo Brooks (2017 Republican primary candidate for Alabama Senator), and Roy Moore (2017 Republican candidate for Alabama Senator).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Controversies

Antisemitism accusations

Coulter was accused of antisemitism in an October 8, 2007, interview with Donny Deutsch on The Big Idea. During the interview, Coulter stated that the United States is a Christian nation, and said that she wants "Jews to be perfected, as they say" (referring to them being converted to Christianity).<ref name="perfected_jews">Template:Cite news</ref> Deutsch, a practicing Jew, implied that this was an anti-semitic remark, but Coulter said she did not consider it to be a hateful comment.<ref name="Perfected_Jews_FOX">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Deutsch_response">Template:Cite news</ref> Coulter's comments on the show were condemned by the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and Bradley Burston,<ref>Burston, B. (October 14, 2007). Ann Coulter's dream of a Jew-free America. Haaretz.com archive Template:Webarchive. Retrieved May 19, 2015.</ref> and the National Jewish Democratic Council asked media outlets to cease inviting Coulter as a guest commentator.<ref name="Meyer_Dick">Template:Cite news</ref> Talk show host Dennis Prager, while disagreeing with her comments, said that they were not "anti-semitic", noting, "There is nothing in what Ann Coulter said to a Jewish interviewer on CNBC that indicates she hates Jews or wishes them ill, or does damage to the Jewish people or the Jewish state. And if none of those criteria is present, how can someone be labeled anti-Semitic?"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Prager_Dennis">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Conservative activist David Horowitz also defended Coulter against the allegation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coulter in September 2015 tweeted in response to multiple candidates' references to Israel during a Republican presidential primary debate, "How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?"<ref name=debate>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Anti-Defamation League referred to the tweets as "ugly, spiteful and anti-Semitic".<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> In response to accusations of anti-Semitism, she tweeted "I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan. Didn't need to hear applause lines about them all night."<ref name=debate />

Plagiarism accusations

In October 2001, Coulter was accused of plagiarism for her 1998 book High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton by Michael Chapman, a columnist for the journal Human Events who claims that passages were taken from a supplement he wrote for the journal in 1997 titled "A Case for Impeachment".<ref name="ReferenceA" />

On the July 5, 2006, episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, guest John Barrie, the CEO of iParadigms, offered his professional opinion that Coulter plagiarized in her book Godless as well as in her columns over the previous year.<ref name="Dietz">Template:Cite news</ref> Barrie ran "Godless" through iThenticate, his company's machine, which is able to scan works and compare them to existing texts. He found a 25-word section of the text that was "virtually word-for-word" matched with a Planned Parenthood pamphlet and a 33-word section almost duplicating a 1999 article from the Portland Press as some examples of evidence.<ref name="Dietz"/> Barrie also said that it was "very, very difficult to try to determine whether Ann Coulter was citing that material or whether she was just trying to pass it off".<ref name="Dietz" />

Left-wing activist group<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Media Matters for America has appealed to Random House publishing to further investigate Coulter's work.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The syndicator of her columns cleared her of the plagiarism charges.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Universal Press Syndicate and Crown Books also defended Coulter against the charges.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Columnist Bill Nemitz from the Portland Press Herald accused Coulter of plagiarizing a very specific sentence from his newspaper in her book Godless, but he also acknowledged that one sentence is insufficient grounds for filing suit.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Cyberbullying

In August 2024, Coulter received widespread criticism for a tweet with the comment "Talk about weird ...", referring to Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's 17-year-old son, who has nonverbal learning disorder,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> crying during his father's acceptance speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The tweet was deleted shortly after it was posted.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In popular culture

Coulter was played by Cobie Smulders in Impeachment: American Crime Story; Betty Gilpin was originally cast in the role but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. The series portrays Coulter's actions while assisting the prosecution in Clinton v. Jones, the precursor to Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coulter was satirically depicted in season 2, episode 11 of The Boondocks—"The S Word"—where she voiced support for a white teacher in the show who said a racial slur.

Personal life

Coulter has been engaged several times, but she has never married and has no children.<ref name="pickfights" /> After the September 11 attacks, she dated a Muslim boyfriend.<ref>Template:Cite video</ref> She has dated Spin founder and publisher Bob Guccione Jr.<ref name="arm candy" /> and conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza.<ref name="coultergeist">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In October 2007, she began dating Andrew Stein, the former president of the New York City Council, a liberal Democrat. On January 7, 2008, however, Stein told the New York Post that the relationship was over, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013 it was reported that Coulter was dating actor Jimmie Walker. Coulter responded to the rumors by saying "He’s the one spreading that [dating] rumor! No, we’re great friends. We do a lot of stuff together. … He is so hilarious, so I see him a lot when I’m in L.A., but we are not technically dating.” In 2017, Norman Lear, who created the television sitcom Good Times in which Walker starred, said of Walker "I love him; he’s a wonderful guy. But I’ll tell you something about him that’ll astound you: He dates Ann Coulter.” Coulter responded to Lear's comments by saying "This rumor spreads every now and then, but it’s never been true. We’re great friends. He’s hilarious and a Republican. Now, that’s news!”<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Kellyanne Conway, who refers to Coulter as a friend, told New York magazine in 2017 that Coulter "started dating her security guard probably ten years ago because she couldn't see anybody else".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coulter owns a house, bought in 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida, a condominium in Manhattan, and an apartment in Los Angeles. She votes in Palm Beach and is not registered to do so in New York or California.<ref>Template:Cite news
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