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Coulter: "I think I'm a moderate, and the rest of the world is crazy"

On the October 14, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter said she "guess[ed]" that she is a "right-wing extremist," which is "synonymous with American patriot," but "truth be told" she believes herself to be "a moderate, and the rest of the world is crazy." Coulter appeared on the October 14 edition of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor to promote her new book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, October 2004)

From October 14 edition of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: Are you -- OK. OK. Let's stop there now. Are you a right-wing extremist?

COULTER: I guess so, but I think that's synonymous with American patriot.

O'REILLY: I'm not going to cast aspersions. I've been called a right-wing extremist as well. Now you know that's not true, correct?

COULTER: I'm the first one to point it out, I think.

O'REILLY: Right. You mock me incessantly for not being as extreme as I should be in defense of America, which I, of course, deny. I think that I'm fair and balanced. But, anyway, all right. So you're -- that's good. You know -- you recognize you're a right-wing extremist, and you're happy with it. You're content with being that. Can you persuade, then, other people to see things your way if you are so extreme?

COULTER: Well, truth be told, I think I'm a moderate, and the rest of the world is crazy. I will accept the right-wing moniker.

[...]

O'REILLY: What if John Kerry gets elected president? Do you leave the country? What do you do? What happens to you?

COULTER: I'll leave New York. You'll have to interview me by satellite. I think it would be an absolute disaster. I think the future of the Republic is at stake, as I think I was saying to you on radio the other day. It was one thing to be -- to wait out pusillanimous Democrats when we were up against the Soviet Union. They weren't insane. They weren't going to launch a preemptive nuclear attack. We are now against lunatic savages. They would put a dirty bomb in New York tomorrow if they could.

O'REILLY: Oh, I think everybody would -- when you say you're going to move out of New York, where are you going to go?

COULTER: New York, I think, has the biggest target.

—M.J.

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