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Ten years ago, Ann Coulter was featured onthe cover of Time magazinewith an article entitled Ms. Right. At the time she was a very big presence in the political media but the article pushed her into the realm of popular culture; thus, she became more than just a political bomb thrower. Shed always had the looks and the confidence, and now she had the imprimatur of the mainstream media. Coulter became a full-fledged star.

The article caused a tremendous stir. After all, Coulter was among the most flamboyant of the newer, edgier breed of right-wing provocateurs. In 2000, she had won the Media Research Center-presented Conservative Journalist of the Year award, and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute gave her its annual conservative leadership award for her unfailing dedication to truth, freedom and conservative values and for being an exemplar, in word and deed, of what a true leader is. It seemed as if she and her incendiary polemics were everywhere, from daily personal appearances on television, her weekly newspaper columns and a series of books that were extremely popular among right-wingers.

From 1998 to 2005, when the magazine cover appeared, she had published a series of books High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, and a collection of her columns, called How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter all of which were very successful. The theme of these books is obvious from the titles. She was famous for her cleverness in hating and baiting liberals. And in those heady days of conservative apotheosis, with sex scandals, stolen elections, terrorist attacks, unnecessary wars and liberalism on the run as never before, Coulter was the most deliciously vicious of all the haters.Among her famous quotes of the era were:

And one of her most memorable (to me at least) was this one:

We need to execute people like John Walker [Lindh] 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,

Coulter later clarified what she meant;

When I said we should execute John Walker Lindh, I mis-spoke. What I meant to say was We should burn John Walker Lindh alive and televise it on prime-time network TV. My apologies for any misunderstanding that might have occurred.

If that reminds you of certain fundamentalists operating today in the Middle East, you wouldnt be alone.

Slander and Treason were filled with such vitriol. And they were also cited by numerous critics for their many inaccuracies. Coulter, like her talk radio funhouse mirror image, Rush Limbaugh, always slithered away from any such controversies simply by claiming that shes a comedian of sorts. Heres how that Time Magazine article illustrated her comedic talent:

People say that Jon Stewart has blurred the line between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like comedian Dennis Miller on one of his rants than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded:

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Ann Coulter appeared on The Kelly File last night ostensibly to discuss the uproar over an Associated Press photograph of Ted Cruz at the CrossRoads Shooting Sports store in Johnston, Iowa in which a poster of a large handgun appeared to be aimed directly at his head but all she wanted to talk about is how there arent any racists in America today.

Megyn Kelly began the segment by noting that if that had been Hillary Clinton or President Obama, the left would have been losing their mind over it. Which is no doubt true, even if it ignores the fact that neither Clinton nor Obama would likely find themselves in an Iowa gun store whose walls were festooned with posters of handguns.

As for the APs claim that the photographer didnt notice the barrel of a gun appeared to pointed at the GOP presidential hopefuls head, Coulter said dont insult our intelligence by saying, we didnt even notice, who would have seen something like that?

She explained that liberals are hypersensitive to images like this when they involve the current president because of their fantasies about racist America, the flames [of which] are being fanned by Americas leading hate-group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which Coulter cant believe still exists because the Klan and Stormfront only have, like, seven members.

(Because its not as if any recent events have proven that white supremacy is still, in fact, an operative ideology large swaths of the country.)

Kelly tacked back to the subject at hand, reminding viewers that Sarah Palin was blamed for the shooting of Gabby Giffords because she used crosshairs on a campaign poster. God forbid anything should happen to Ted Cruz because of this threatening photo, she said. Should everyone be more careful if theyre going to apply that kind of standard to messaging?

But Coulter only had one subject on her mind. Maybe we can back off with the hysteria about America being a racist country every time the sun rises or the wind blows, she said.

Watch the entire interview below via Fox News.

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Conservative commentator Ann Coulter recently creditedhate websiteVDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow with inspiringtheattacks on progressive immigration policywithin her new book, 'Adios, America.' In fact, many ofthe ideas presented in the bookappear to be closely modeled afterideas presented bywhite nationalist and anti-immigrantextremistmovements in America.

Coulter Claims US Is Seeking Immigrants From "The Most Misogynist Cultures." In Adios, America, Coulter asks "why are we importing primitive cultures that are centuries behind the West in their regard for women and children?" Further, Coulter claims it is "sheer madness" to be "welcoming cultures with medieval views on the sexes." Additionally, she claims that "it's as if Ted Bundy designed our immigration policies to ensure that the most misogynist cultures go to the head of line." [Adios, America, pg. 143; pg. 145, 2015]

Coulter's Language Mimics Nativist Organizations The Social Contract Press and VDARE. The white nationalist publication of The Social Contract Press, The Social Contract, and white nationalist website VDARE, have both claimed our immigration policy favors "misogynist cultures":

The influx of low-skilled Hispanics will continue, despite claims that the Senate formulation will admit more skilled immigrants. Hispanics have a culture of misogyny that isn't going away, either here or points south.

[...]

Washington is also importing misogyny from the Middle East. [VDARE, 9/24/13]

Why is it never mentioned in immigration debates that women's rights are endangered by the demographic mix now entering the country? Do Americans blithely assume that millions of foreigners steeped in misogynist cultures will be magically transformed into egalitarian citizens when they arrive on our shores?

[...]

The majority of current and likely future immigrants come from countries where the rights of women are few or nonexistent. American women should question how safe their recently won political and reproductive rights will be with millions of misogynist men added to our society. Most non-European cultures still regard women as inferior, yet we are urged to embrace this anti-woman ideology - multiculturalism - as better than our own. Exactly where are these marvelous egalitarian societies that we should emulate? [Social Contract, Winter 99-00]

SPLC: The Social Contract Press "Routinely Publishes Race-Baiting Articles Penned By White Nationalists." According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), The Social Contract Press "routinely publishes race-baiting articles penned by white nationalists" and was "created by John Tanton, the racist founder and principle ideologue of the modern nativist movement." The organization is considered a "hate group" by the SPLC. [SPLC, accessed 6/16/15; SPLC, Summer 2002]

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As reported here on Tuesday, Ann Coulter is on the anti-immigrant warpath once again, appearing on Fox News Hannity program to promote her new book, Adios, America. Coulters position on immigration has evolved into an equal opportunity nativist hatred, she told Sean Hannity, from merely anti-Mexican racism to an elaborate ideology which founds American decline on all immigrants.

Just a couple days before, Coulter was joined by former congresswoman and presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann and godmother of anti-feminism Phyllis Schlafly to flesh out this theory for World Net Daily. The three influential conservative women were asked to respond to a landmark finding by Gallup, whose most recent poll showed that for the first time, Americans who identify as socially liberal have caught up with self-identified conservatives.

All three were in agreement with Coulters new theory: Its not that Americans minds are changing; its that un-American foreigners (which the rest of us call naturalized citizens) have been allowed to come and stay! here with their radical takes on traditional values. Replacing Coulter and companys anti-Mexican immigrant tack of the last decade or so is an across-the-board condemnation of immigration as a permissible phenomenon.

But its not Swedes or the French (i.e., foreigners with views typically to the left of Americans) that worry the three women. Its immigrants from Third-World nations that are the problem, says Bachmann. The trio isnt content with their already problematic proposition, and poverty gets stirred in, as though poverty is any kind of reliable companion to the possession of liberal social values. With only an obligatory mention of Europeans, the article names Hispanics, Asians and Muslims as the poor immigrants without American-like traditional values of patriarchy and homophobia.

Stop all immigration now, says Coulter even for asylum-seekers. One of the biggest rackets in immigration is those admitted as refugees, she says, using the Boston bombers as a bogeyman to paint all refugees as potential terrorists. And not only will they eventually bomb sporting events, these refugees, but theyre expensive to take care of before they figure out C-4. The Tsarnaevs were welcomed as refugees from persecution and given $100,000 in welfare handouts, Coulter complains.

These poor people dilute our standards, our values, our constitutional system and our pro-American population, worries Schlafly, building on language that by the end of the article unsettles a reader acquainted with nativist nationalists like the Depression-era demagogue Father Coughlin.

Charles Coughlin was a radio personality whose soaring popularity during the 1930s makes Rush Limbaugh look, by contrast, like a ham-radio enthusiast. Coughlin entertained as many as 30-million listeners every week with his anti-Semitic broadcasts, using language and logic alarmingly similar to that of Coulter and her crew.

For example, in the weeks after the Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938, Coughlin delivered a series of sermons on how the Jews might have invited hatred onto themselves. For Coughlin, Communism was the cultural infection that Jews were responsible for. And, not even two weeks after the Kristallnacht, Coughlin took to the airwaves to consider why Germans might reasonably believe that Jews were responsible for the economic and social ills suffered by the Fatherland.

The series of homily broadcasts can be read in a book compiled by Coughlin, Am I an Anti-Semite? Those expecting 150 pages of the word Yes will be disappointed, as Coughlin instead performs some early versions of scientific racism. Like Coulter and company, Coughlins got facts: In a spirit of mutual cooperation; in a scientific spirit of coldly facing causes in order to remove effects, let us pause to inquire why Naziism is so hostile to Jewry (Yikes.)

He continues in the same vein of learned hatred: Speaking as a student of history, I am endeavoring to analyze the reason for the growth of the idea in the minds of the Nazi Party that Communism and Judaism are too closely interwoven for the national health of Germany, he offered. He proceeds to detail how Communism is a global Jewish conspiracy, explaining that the Soviet upper ranks were full of Jews. In the contradictory world of virulent racism, global Jewry can sit atop both capitalism (they run the banks, say anti-Semites) and communism.

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Conservative firebrandAnn Coultergrosslymisrepresented Pew data,falsely suggestingthat 25 percent of Mexico's population hasbeen "taken in" bythe United States, creating a false narrative that is spreading through right-wing media.

During a May 26 interview with Fusion's Jorge Ramos, Coulterallegedthat the United States has "taken in one quarter of the entire Mexican population."

Coulter doubled-down on her claim while appearing on theMay 28 edition ofThe Sean Hannity Show,citingthe Pew Research Center toassert"yeah we already have a quarter, a quarter of the entire Mexican population."

Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh parroted Coulter's assertion the same day,claiming"25 percent of the total population of Mexico has already immigrated, not all legal obviously, to the United States." Rush went on to say "you can trace the demise of California to this."

The Pew data Coulterreferenced actually includesboth "native born" and "foreign born" Hispanics of Mexican origin. Pew's summary of thedataexplained that"this estimate includes 11.4 million immigrants born in Mexico and 22.3 million born in the U.S. who self-identified as Hispanics of Mexican origin."

That means 65 percent of the people Coulter claimed thatthe United States has "taken in," were born in this country.

Using Coulter's flawed logic, if we were to analyze the number of people ofIrish descent in the United States, the country has taken in 737 percent of the population of Ireland.

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