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'Anti-soccer evidence pours in!' she tweeted.

By Sarah Smith

07/01/14 06:12 AM EDT

Updated 07/02/14 11:31 AM EDT

Theres one person and maybe the only person who was not happy about the United States run in the World Cup: Ann Coulter.

Before the U.S. team fell to Belgium on Tuesday, the conservative columnist was getting kicked around even by her fellow travelers on the right for her anti-soccer tweets and a column she wrote headlined: Any growing interest in soccer a sign of moral decay.

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If more Americans are watching soccer today, its only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedys 1965 immigration law, Coulter wrote. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

Coulter doubled down on Wednesday after the U.S. loss to Belgium that knocked the Americans out of contention as she continued dissing her countrys team without even acknowledging the defeat.

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Doing the job Americans just wont do: Immigrants fill up roster of U.S. soccer team, she tweeted, linking to an article that detailed the U.S. teams connections to other countries. Another tweet cited a Washington Post story with the statistic that only 17 percent of Americans closely watched the World Cup. Coulter contended that of those 17 percent, 100% R unatheletic [sic] journalists.

On Monday, Coulter was on Sean Hannitys show to defend her earlier attacks on soccer.

My critics have apparently tried to persuade me that soccer really is a macho game by throwing one week of hissy fits over my column, Coulter said, speaking on Fox News from Paris.

While Coulters column unfavorably compared soccer to American football (After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box), she thought a players biting of another backed up her views.

More evidence soccer is for girls. Player from Uruguay caught BITING an opponent yesterday, she tweeted last week. Not punching. Not a cross-body block. BITING!

Americans swept up by World Cup fever didnt take kindly to her sentiments including many of Coulters fellow conservatives and Fox News regulars.

Fox News host Steve Doocy brought up the column on Fox & Friends, joking that fellow host Brian Kilmeade might become agitated.

Right, Kilmeade said. I will outline what she said and try to find anything factual in it. That will be an interesting little exercise.

Im told its a sign of moral decay, Fox News host Shep Smith said of soccer after celebrating the U.S. advancing in the World Cup on Thursday after its match against Germany. Its not.

Coulter also took the opportunity to mix in a tongue-in-cheek jab at the Internal Revenue Service, referencing the ongoing scandal over the disappearance of ex-IRS official Lois Lerners emails.

Anti-soccer evidence pours in! she tweeted. Smug creep at IRS, John Koskinen, served as President of the U.S. Soccer Foundation from 2004-2008.

Coulter also faced penalty kicks from the left, with Talking Points Memo writing about how she trolled soccer fans.

Its worth noting that aside from the Olympics, the World Cup is really the only occasion when an American audience gets a chance to cheer on a national rather than a regional sports team, TPM author Catherine Thompson wrote. But apparently that doesnt jibe with Coulters vision of patriotism.

Forbes, under the headline, How Ann Coulter Lost Her Mind Over World Cup Soccer, didnt agree with her view but gave her points for getting attention and being creative.

Maybe Ann Coulter hasnt lost her mind, author Maury Brown mused at the end of his post. Maybe Ann Coulter knows how to play us all up and take advantage of a storyline.

Less surprising is the reaction of sports networks. Colin Cowherd on The Herd chalked up soccer as one more thing conservatives are slower to embrace. New stuff gay marriage, gun law change, immigration, technology theyre a little more reticent to initially embrace it, he said.

On CBS Sports Boomer & Carton, a host said, Everybodys got an opinion. Thats a weird one.

And Twitter certainly paid attention. The most commonly tweeted line asked if Coulters column was meant to appear on satirical news site The Onion.

The Ann Coulter trolling on soccer is so weak, tweeted Business Insider Executive Editor Joe Weisenthal. A big lump of jokes weve all made. Shes lost her fastball.

I care what Ann Coulter thinks about soccer. -No one, ever, Pat Garofalo, assistant managing editor for opinion at U.S.News & World Report, tweeted.

Coulter did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

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In a recent appearance on The View to promote her latest book, Ann Coulter reiterated her well-known anti-immigrant stance. Guest host Ana Navarro responded, saying, "Let me point out that you're sitting at this table next to two immigrants ... What is your family's immigration story? Are you a Native American?"

Coulter's reply was curious: "Yes, I am. I'm a settler. I'm descended from settlers. Not from immigrants ... I'm not living in the Cherokee Nation. I'm living in America, which was created by settlers, not immigrants."

Every school child knows that the United States is a nation of immigrants, and genealogists in particular are hyper-aware of this reality since we routinely trace our family trees back to those who came to America from the "old country," so Coulter's peculiar logic and word play provoked my own curiosity about her heritage. I decided to take a peek into her past, starting with her parents.

The obituary she wrote in tribute to her mother, Nell Husbands (Martin) Coulter, revealed that the maternal half of her family history is well known and extends back to colonial times, so I opted to explore the unknown - her father's side of the family.

My research got off to an unexpected start when one of the first documents I consulted - the 1940 census - recorded Coulter's father and grandparents as African American. If you look below in between the columns that note gender and age, you'll see "Neg" (census instructions that year specified this abbreviation for "Negro") for all four family members.

(as seen on Ancestry.com, FindMyPast, and FamilySearch)

This is an error (writing on the page varies, suggesting the enumerator completed some fields from memory after the fact) and the balance of my research led to very different conclusions. Ultimately, here's what I learned about this side of her family:

All eight of her paternal great-great-grandparents (four couples) came to America from Europe. Six of these eight were Famine-era arrivals from Ireland, while the other two were from Germany. Her Irish ancestors wouldn't have been welcomed with open arms as can be seen from these typical 19th century political cartoons showing the Irish as desperately poor, conniving, criminal, lazy, and impossible to assimilate (more examples here).

Many regarded the Irish as being of a different and inferior race, made all the worse by the fact that most were Catholic:

(Thomas Nast Cartoons website, though this is not one of his)

Nor were Germans exempt from anti-immigrant sentiment, as illustrated here where both the Irish and Germans are depicted as running away with the vote.

The occupations of Coulter's ancestors were a cross-section of what was typical for the time - laborer (most likely on steamboats, given the location), brick and tile maker (who later ran a saloon), carpenter, and flagman. Sadly, after working for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad for roughly 35 years, this last fellow - Peter Keegan - lost his life when hit by a train.

(fultonhistory.com)

Her family lived in a cluster of New York counties - Albany, Ulster and Dutchess (and later Columbia) - formally founded by the British in 1683, though all had a European (mostly Dutch) presence earlier in the 1600s. This area was home to the Lenape, Delaware Indians who had first encountered Europeans in 1524 when Giovanni da Verrazzano arrived. In fact, the Ulster County contingent of Coulter's family resided in Port Ewen, part of the town of Esopus named after a Lenape tribe the Dutch had once traded with there. They undoubtedly knew of Port Ewen's most famous resident, Sojourner Truth, who was briefly enslaved there and began her rise to national attention just as Coulter's Irish ancestors established their new home.

NY counties where Coulter's paternal ancestors resided (diymaps.net)

All four of these ancestral couples had their first American-born child between 1855 and 1860, placing them in this region approximately two centuries after fellow Europeans, some portion of that same 200 years for the more than 15,000 free African Americans who resided in Albany, Dutchess and Ulster counties as of the 1850 census, and an indeterminate period after Native Americans. On a nationwide basis, this timeframe also coincides with the tail end of the importation of enslaved Africans (made illegal decades earlier, but lingering before finally sputtering out), meaning that ancestors of the vast majority of African Americans today arrived well before Coulter's paternal forebears.

Given all this, referring to Coulter's conspicuously immigrant ancestors as settlers is a bit of a stretch - and I say this as someone who also happens to have four great-great-grandparents who left Ireland to escape the Famine and found their way to New York where they worked on the railroads (including one would perish on the job). Her ancestors and mine gave their labor, talents, and even their lives to their adopted country, but they were also the beneficiaries of all those - Native American, African American, and European - who were here long before.

That their contributions came a little later doesn't diminish them, but it's Coulter who wants to carve out a special class of "settlers," so it's inconvenient that she's descended from the kind of immigrants she'd like to deny entry to. Just as the Know-Nothings wanted to slam the door in the faces of Irish Catholics like Coulter's relatives in the 1850s, she wants to cherry-pick who to let in now. But as much as Coulter might wish to, you can't choose your ancestors, so it's worth contemplating that if the Know-Nothings had succeeded in doing what she advocates now, she and almost 12 percent of the American population wouldn't exist today. Still, if Coulter insists on claiming "settler" roots for the paternal half of her family tree, she could always accept her father's 1940 census record at face value.

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Ann Coulterstrikes again.

The conservative pundit appeared onThe View this morning to promote her new book, Adios America and, as can be expected, the segment was heated. And that's putting it lightly. When you pit five hosts who love to stir up controversy against one talking head whoreally loves to stir up controversy, it's not going to be an easygoing conversation.

Things started off with a bang, with hostAna Navarro asking Coulter about her contentious views on immigration. (For those of you who haven't been following Ann's platform on this issue, let's just put it this way: She's really not into immigrants). Anyone who gets squirmy around awkward confrontation should probably run away nowand quicklybecause things get real.

After having a little tiff on the proper pronunciation of the word adios, Coulter explains that she backsDonald Trumpon his opinion that America should be keeping out people from "very poor, very backwards countries."

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Spoiler alert: This doesn't go over well. True to almost any segment onThe View, voices are raised and everyone talks over each other, with the hosts protesting her (frankly, untrue) generalizations that all immigrants are "maids" and Ann firing back constantly. There's a little gem in which Annclaims to be a Native American, beforeRaven-Symonsteps in and asks the pundit why she thinks it's important to "mud-sling" and use words that "obviously touch the hearts and souls of so many people of America."

True to form, Coulter was ready for an immediate retort, and she decided to go after Symon's recent controversial comments in which she said she wouldn't hire someone with a "ghetto" name. "I'm at least talking about policy," said Coulter. "You have a position on what people's names should be. Watermelondrea! I mean you'll insult people for their names."

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The group went on to fight about the profession of the average immigrants, welfare and a slew of other super light-hearted topics. But we'll just let you watch for yourselves.

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Friday, October 16, 2015, 4:27 PM

For a change, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter had trouble getting a word in edgewise.

Coulter rampaged through "The View" Friday, intentionally mispronouncing the word "adios" while defending her controversial immigration views to a Nicaraguan-born panelist, calling co-host Raven-Symon a hypocrite for her recent racist comments, and expressing enthusiastic support for GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

But the hosts of the ABC talk show fought back.

The discussion quickly grew tense when they began grilling Coulter who appeared on the show to promote her new book, "Adios America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third-World Hellhole" on her unyielding views on undocumented immigrants.

"We're bringing in millions and millions of people from very poor cultures, from very backwards cultures," the sharp-tongued author said of the United States' post-1965 immigration policies. "We don't need to be importing other countries' poor people."

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Co-host Ana Navarro, whose family emigrated from Nicaragua in 1980, challenged Coulter to defend her own family's immigration story.

"I'm descended from settlers, not from immigrants," the 53-year-old pundit replied. "I'm living in America, which was created by settlers, not by immigrants."

Indian-born panelist Padma Lakshmi argued that Coulter was generalizing, mentioning that her own mother immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s to work as a nurse.

"Whenever people talk about the immigrants we like, like your mother, they cite the immigrants that aren't the majority of immigrants coming in," Coulter fired back. "So fine, OK, if they're going to be doctors. But we have a majority of immigrants on welfare."

Co-host Raven-Symon, who apologized Sunday for saying she would never hire someone with a "ghetto" name like "Watermelondrea," stewed quietly for much of the gabfest and when she finally piped up to accuse Coulter of mudslinging, the blond-haired commentator swiftly slung back.

"Well, I'm at least talking about policy," Coulter said. "You have a position on what people's names should be. Watermelondrea I mean, you'll insult people for their names."

The pundit's least controversial comments came when she praised the self-funded billionaire candidate Trump for taking on "the political class and the donor class."

"He's fantastic," she gushed. "He's saying things that people have been dying for someone to say, but they won't."

"I love his hair," she added.

mjagannathan@nydailynews.com

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Ann Coulter is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers Guilty: Liberal Victim and Their Assault On America (January 2009); If Democrats Has Any Brains,They'd Be Republicans (October 2007); Godless: The Church of Liberalism (June 2006); How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (October, 2004), Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors:The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).

Ann Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and writes a popular syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate. Ann Coulter is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including Hannity and Colmes, Wolf Blitzer Reports, At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Scarborough Country, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, The O'Reilly Factor, and Good Morning America; and has been profiled in numerous publications, including TV Guide, the Guardian (UK), the New York Observer, National Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle magazine, among others. Ann Coulter was named one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner in 2001.

Ann Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.

After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Ann Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, Ann Coulter became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.

A Connecticut native, Ann Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.

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