Reddit and Ann Coulter: a match made in heaven?
In service of hawking a new book, the right-wing humorist and pundit agreed on Monday to participate in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) and duke it out with Reddits notoriously fearless community. As anyone familiar with Coulter and Reddit would guess, the results were interesting and often incendiary.
With that in mind, here are the five most Ann Coulter-y answers of this profoundly Ann Coulter-y event.
1. Ann Coulter on racial politics
Redditor question:Ann, in arecent op-ed article discussing the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman incident, you saidPerhaps, someday, blacks will win the right to be treated like volitional human beings. But not yet. Can you please expand on this? Do you consider Black people to be sub-human? Do you believe that the 13th Amendment should be repealed? Im very curious.
Coulters answer: If you have a line from the column, then you read the whole column, so you know perfectly well I was issuing a complaint about how liberals treat black people. (A brief summary: for the first century of the nations existence, the Democrats refused to treat blacks like human beings, for the 2d half the Democrats refused to treat them like adults.)
2. Ann Coulter on the media
Redditor question:How do you think the media handles violence?
Coulters answer: They run like the girls that they are.
3. Ann Coulter on the womens vote
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Ann Coulter’s 5 most Ann Coulter-y Reddit AMA answers
Firebrand conservative columnist Ann Coulter is probably one of the last people youd expect to host a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session. But in the midst of a tour promoting her latest book, she came through with one on Monday afternoon.
For those whove read our interview with her, youll already be familiar with the more substantive answers she gave the Reddit community in regards to her book topics, the future of the GOP, and the media. But below are some of the funnier highlights from moments in which Coulter and/or her audience attempted to troll one another.
At the beginning of the session, Coulter took on a pair of adversarial questions: One asking whether she viewed black people as sub-human based on a sarcastic line from a recent column; the other calling her out for purposefully insulting people:
Coulters response? She trolled the questioner by copying and pasting their question with a twist:
Another questioner asked her point-blank why she opposes gay marriage. Coulters terse response:
Coulter also took to poking fun at a Reddit user who was getting impatient with her slow start time:
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‘I Mostly Oppose Gay Divorce’: Highlights From Ann Coulter’s Reddit AMA
At least Ann Coulter didn't just want to talk about Rampart. The conservative lightning rod took to Reddit on Monday to answer some questions, and, uh, it was a bit rough. Before Coulter even managed to successfully sign into her account, she'd already started comparing the entire site which millions of users log onto every day without an issue to Obamacare.
Coulter's comparison of her experience to the troubled Healthcare.gov site is apt, but not for the reasons she might think. We're not sure of the exact chronology of events in Coulter's quest to sign up for health insurance answer a few questions on a long-running internet forum, but here are the results: Ann Coulter's Reddit thread was posted under the userann_coulter1, who has answered zero questions, and is apparently the account Coulter failed to log in to earlier for reasons that are not entirely clear. Eventually, Coulter began answering questions on that thread from a second account,AnnCoulter_, which posted a second, abandoned, attempt to start an AMA in the wrong section of Reddit. That abandoned thread is titled "IamA n author AMA!" To make things even worse, Redditors "downvoted" many of her more combative answers so hard that they were hidden from view on the thread itself meaning the only way to read what she said is to click through to her user profile, but not the one listed at the top of the thread, because that's the one she couldn't access.Got it?
Good. Let's move on to the actual answers. It will surprise no one that Coulter answered some pretty combative questions from liberals with some pretty combative answers. But Reddit isn't really a liberal utopia, so Coulter faced plenty of questions from conservatives, and those previously unfamiliar with her oeuvre, too. Those answers were...disappointing. Here are a few of her non-answers
Pretty much any good AMA contains some bit of trivia about the participant that you never knew. Coulter's AMA managed to have one of these moments anyway did you know that Coulter likes dogs better than people?
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