Ann Coulter: If We Ignore Her, Maybe She Will Go Away

I did an internet search for the most popular searches. There seems to be much ado about Ann Coulter. She is on the top of every list. "Isn't she that meanie that called John Edwards a Faggot?" I asked myself. Therefore, I decided to educate myself on all that is Ann Coulter.

Starting with Associated Content, an article called Sick Week: The Best of the Worst of the Week that ended July 30, 2006, Timothy Sexton wrote about "her cry asserting Bill Clinton is gay". Curtis DeBaun IV recently called Ann part of the Axis of Evil (along with Sean Hannity, only he said Hannity was much smarter. While some vilified her and made up cool new names for her that were less than flattering, others like AM Jett listed her as an American Hero. "Ann Coulter is savvy, intelligent, no-nonsense woman whom I admire profusely." In this article, the writer salutes the irreverent one who would gladly thumb her nose back. Whatever she is Smoking and/or Sniffing, Ann Coulter, can be expected to respond to everything liberal in the most vile and disgusting way imaginable. What I find most appalling is that she claims to do this to reclaim America in the name of Christ. Go figure.

I looked high, and I looked low. I found no one had anything positive to say about Ann Coulter (that was not unfairly biased or nonsensical). The most neutral information about her on the web was her bio: Ann Coulter was born in 1961 to John Vincent and Nell Husbands Martin Coulter in New York City, and raised in New Canaan, Connecticut with two brothers. She graduated from Cornell cum laude in 1984, and received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. While in college, she wrote for several publications.

Ann Coulter first stepped into the public eye after she was hired in 1996 by MSNBC as a legal correspondent. During her time there, she was fired, rehired, and fired again permanently. It seems her irreverent and caustic personality got her into a lot of trouble. Perhaps her mother never taught her that if you have nothing nice to say that you should say nothing. However, she has made a living out of rubbing the general public the wrong way.