Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate, a legal affairs correspondent for the conservative newspaper Human Events, and a frequent pundit and guest on Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN. She is often billed as a "constitutional attorney," apparently based on her University of Michigan law degree and membership in the conservative Federalist Society (a chapter of which she founded while attending the University of Michigan Law School).

Coulter first came to national prominence as a legal correspondent and pundit for MSNBC, which fired her for insulting a Vietnam veteran. The conservative National Review dropped her column after she responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by stating that America should "invade their [terrorists'] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." In an interview with The New York Observer, Coulter stated that "[m]y only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." USA Today also removed Coulter as a columnist covering the 2004 Democratic National Convention after she referred to the gathering as the "Spawn of Satan convention."

She has become a highly visible pundit on the cable news circuit, noted for her particularly coarse and inflammatory invective directed at Democrats and progressives.

On Democrats and progressives

"I think a baseball bat is the most effective way [to talk to liberals] these days." [10/6/04]

"I'm not blaming the Democrats for 9-11 alone. I'm blaming them also for the [USS] Cole bombing, for the embassy bombings, for 20 years of attacks that have not been stopped. " [8/16/04]

"What the Democrats want to do is sell blacks out." [10/25/04]

"[T]he [Democratic Party] platform is violating the Ten Commandments one by one." [2/28/05]

"Al Gore is nuts" [6/14/04] and represents the "insane wing of the Democratic Party." [6/4/04]

"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that [American Taliban supporter] John Walker [Lindh] is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors." [2/2/02]

On President Clinton

"[Clinton] raped a woman and molested interns in the White House." [5/20/04]

"[H]e was a pathological liar, a sociopath, and felon." [5/23/04]

"In this recurring nightmare of a presidency, we have a national debate about whether he 'did it,' even though all sentient people know he did. Otherwise there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate." [High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (Regnery, October 2002)]

On other topics

"The only way a Supreme Court nominee could win the approval of NARAL and Planned Parenthood would be to actually perform an abortion during his confirmation hearing, live, on camera, and preferably a partial-birth one." [7/21/05]

"We're [women] not that bright." [9/23/04]

"I think the rest of the countries in the Middle East, after Afghanistan and Iraq, they're pretty much George Bush's bitch." [1/10/05]

"Isn't it great to see Muslims celebrating something other than the slaughter of Americans?" [2/3/05]

Canadians "better hope the United States doesn't roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent." [11/30/04]