Ann Coulter

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Ann Coulter (2011)

Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961 in New York ) is an American right-wing conservative columnist and author . Coulter, who describes herself as a polemicist ("polemicist"), gained notoriety due to numerous controversies she sparked .

Life and work

Coulter was born the third child of an upper middle class family in New York and grew up in New Canaan , Connecticut . Her father, John Vincent Coulter, served as an agent for the FBI for nine years before starting to work as a lawyer. Due to his disputes with various unions as a representative of the employers' side, he came to a certain prominence in the 1980s as a "union buster".

Her studies at Cornell University , where she helped found the journal The Cornell Review , Coulter graduated in 1984 with a grade cum laude . This was followed by a law degree at the University of Michigan Law School , where she temporarily took the position of editor of the magazine Michigan Law Review . She also founded a local branch of the Federalist Society and completed journalism courses at the National Journalism Center .

After graduation, Coulter first worked as a clerk in the office of Pasco Bowman II, an attorney at the federal appeals court for the eighth federal judicial district in Kansas City . This was followed by a brief stint at a private law firm in New York, where she specialized in corporate law, before joining the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1994 after the Republican Party took control of Congress in the same year . As a specialist in the areas of crime and immigration law, she worked in this role for the then Senator for Michigan, Spencer Abraham .

Coulter became known to a wider public in 1996 in connection with the Paula Jones case , in which she appeared as an advisor to Jones in their dispute with President Bill Clinton over sexual harassment.

Coulter's political column is currently published by conservative websites Human Events Online , World Net Daily , Townhall.com and Front Page Mag , right-wing websites VDARE and American Renaissance , and their own homepage.

Coulter has been an avowed fan of the Grateful Dead for many years .

Media presence

Ann Coulter (2003)

Coulter first became known to a wider public in 1996 when she worked as a judicial correspondent on legal issues for the television station MSNBC . Since then she has appeared regularly as a representative of right-wing positions in the spectrum of political opinion in television and radio talk shows. The shows she is or was on particularly often include The Today Show , Hannity and Colmes , The O'Reilly Factor , American Morning , Crossfire , Real Time with Bill Maher , Politically Incorrect , The Fifth Estate , Hannity , The Rush Limbaugh Show and Mike Gallagher . In 2005 she also served as a juror in the ranking show The Greatest American . She is also a columnist for the right-wing populist Internet portal Breitbart .

In the documentary FahrenHYPE 911 she tried to refute the claims of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 as one of many prominent conservatives . In Is It True What They Say About Ann? she dealt with the criticism of her person.

As a book author, Coulter has so far produced eleven works, all of which reached high places on the New York Times bestseller list . While her first book, from 1998, argued in favor of President Clinton's impeachment, her second book, in 2002, opposed what she believed to be unfair media coverage of George W. Bush . Your fourth book summarized newspaper columns, while your fifth book deals with the alleged godlessness and hostility to God of the "liberals".

Evaluation and criticism

In the USA, Coulter is very controversial due to sharp polemics against the Democratic Party and the political left. Her mostly provocative rhetorical attacks on the Democrats and "the liberal media" have given her limited prominence among the political right since the late 1990s. The British weekly The Observer tried to bring Coulters idiosyncratic popularity to the point by characterizing them as "the Republican Michael Moore" ("the Republican Michael Moore") and as " Rush Limbaugh in a miniskirt".

For supporters of the Democrats and the actual or supposed left, Coulter is the other way around as a stimulus figure: Keith Olbermann , news presenter and commentator of the channel MSNBC, has routinely used the corrupting nickname "Coultergeist" (a mixed word of Coulters name and the English one) for several years Word Poltergeist ) when talking about Coulter. Comedian Richard Belzer expressed the violent dislike shown by many on the left in an edition of Real Time - a humorous political program broadcast by HBO - when he responded to the announcement by presenter Bill Maher that he would switch Coulter live into the studio for an interview , raised the charge that she was a "fascist". In addition, Maher found it difficult to prevent him from leaving the studio. Maher himself, although close friends with her privately, is also a clear critic of Coulters.

As an example of Coulter's style of criticism, a speech from 2007 to the Conservative Political Action Conference can be used, in which she justified her rejection of the presidential candidate John Edwards with the fact that he was a "fagot". Edwards characterized her because of this and other attacks as "she-devil" and held against her to use a language of hate.

Political activity

In 1999, Coulter was considering running for Congress as a Libertarian Party candidate in Connecticut's fourth constituency . Her goal was to prevent the re-election of the Republican mandate holder Christopher Shays , from whom she wanted to divert important votes from the conservative vote pool in order to help the Democratic opponent to get a seat. Shays should be punished for his, in Coulters point of view, "outrageous" refusal to vote for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. After the leaders of the libertarians refused to support them, this project eventually fell apart.

In presidential elections, Coulter typically supports Republican candidates. For the nomination as the Republican candidate for the election in November 2008, she supported first the Congressman Duncan Hunter and, after his departure, the former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney . John McCain , who eventually received the nomination, rejected Coulter as allegedly "liberal". During the primary campaign, she announced that she would vote for Hillary Clinton rather than McCain if he received the nomination. She dismissed the candidate Mike Huckabee as a "Republican Jimmy Carter ".

On the side of top Democratic politicians, Coulter has been particularly noticeable because of her repeated attacks on former Senator John Edwards, whom she repeatedly criticized in the run-up to the 2004 elections as well as in 2007 and 2008. In the election campaign for the US presidential election in 2016 , she sided with the candidate Donald Trump and published the non-fiction book In Trump We Trust , the title alluding to the motto In God we trust .

Already on June 19, 2015, in a TV discussion on the program "Real Time", to the laughter of the audience and the presenter Bill Maher, she predicted that Donald Trump would have the best chance of winning the presidential election of all Republican candidates known at the time wear. She also believed at the time that Bernie Sanders would have the best chance of beating him. Sanders was then, to everyone's surprise, the longest running candidate for the Democratic Party nomination with Hillary Clinton.

Positions

  • In her work Godless: The Church of Liberalism , she professes to the creationist concept of intelligent design and therefore rejects the theory of evolution .
  • Ann Coulter accused four widows of victims of the Sept. 11 , political activists have become only on money and publicity to be made, and named it in this context, "witches" and "self-obsessed". There was also no way of knowing whether the husbands had divorced them and they should hurry up and go to Playboy magazine.
  • Coulter is at odds with the liberal New York Times and once regretted that Oklahoma City assassin Timothy McVeigh did not go to the New York Times building.
  • In March 2011, after the reactor disaster in Fukushima , she stated in an interview that, according to some studies , radioactive radiation supposedly has a positive effect on health and is therefore harmless.
  • In June 2014, during the 2014 World Cup , in which the USA reached the round of 16, Coulter complained about the increasing popularity of football in her home country, describing it as a “sign of moral decline” within society and that “nobody, whose great grandfather was born in America and would watch football. In the days that followed, Coulter's statements were widely criticized, both by US media outlets - the Huffington Post responded by commenting that "Ann Coulter reminds us that only idiots can hate football for no reason" - and social users Networks like Facebook or Twitter .
  • In 2017, regarding Hurricane Harvey , which wreaked havoc in Texas, she said she did not believe the hurricane was "God's punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor." This explanation is still more plausible than climate change .
  • In June 2018, Fox News called frightened children of illegal immigrants who were forcibly separated from their parents as a result of President Trump's zero tolerance policy " child actors ". Then she turned directly to Trump and told him not to fall for this "crying and howling that runs on all channels 24 hours, 7 days a week". She would get "very nervous" if she thought about the President seeing these pictures on TV.

Fonts

  • High Crimes and Misdemeanors. The Case Against Bill Clinton , 1998.
  • Slander. Liberal Lies About the American Right , 2002.
  • Treason. Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism , 2003.
  • How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) , 2004.
  • Godless. The Church of Liberalism , 2006.
  • If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans , 2007.
  • Guilty. Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America , 2009.
  • Demonic. How the Liberal Mob is endangering America , 2011.
  • Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama , 2012.
  • Never Trust a Liberal Over Three - Especially a Republican , 2013.
  • Adios, America. The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole , 2015.
  • In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome !, 2016, ISBN 978-0-7352-1446-0

Web links

Commons : Ann Coulter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ann Coulter: I'm A Grateful Dead Fan For Life In: billboard.com, June 25, 2016 (English).
  2. ^ Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur. In: CNN , March 4, 2007 (English).
  3. ↑ Real time. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  4. ^ Samuel A. Chambers, Alan Finlayson, Ann Coulter and the problem of pluralism: from values ​​to politics . Borderlands 7.1 (2008).
  5. ↑ Ginamaria Capogreco: Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows . In: CBS News , June 7, 2006.
  6. ↑ Ann Coulter: Radiation Is 'Good For You' (VIDEO) In: The Huffington Post , May 25, 2011 (English).
  7. ^ Ann Coulter: America's favorite national pasttime: Hating soccer . June 25, 2014. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  8. ↑ Axel Postinett: Does football seal the fall of the USA? . June 29, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ Ann Coulter says storm Harvey is more likely God's punishment for Houston's lesbian mayor than a result of climate change . In: The Independent , August 29, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  10. ↑ Ann Coulter tells Trump that immigrant children are 'child actors', in Fox News interview . In: The Independent , June 19, 2018. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Coulter, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coulter, Ann Hart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American media person, author and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City