Ann Coulter is a conservative writer and commentator on news shows. She is known mostly for her strong opinions and her strong words voicing those opinions and has been named "Rush Limbaugh in a mini-skirt".
Coulter was born in New York City and moved with her family to Connecticut, her father was a lawyer that Coulter has described as being a union buster. She graduated from Cornell University in 1984 and recieved her law degree from University of Michigan Law School where she was an editor for the Michigan Law Review. In Michigan Coulter founded a local Federalist Society and trained at the National Journalism Center.
After law school she worked as a clerk in the United States Court of Appeal in Kansas. She also worked in the Senate Judiciary Committee when the republicans took control of congress in 1994, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham. While working for Abraham she was a part of creating a bill that made it easier to deport immigrants who were convicted of felonies. She went on to work with the Center for Individual Rights.
While she in single now, she has been connected to Spin Magazine publisher, Bob Guccione and conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza. She has a place in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida where she is registered to vote. She is reported to like "The Grateful Dead", the Bible, Anna Karenina and true crime stories.
Coulter first appeared in the media in 1996 when she was hired by MSNBC as a legal correspondent. She was actually fired from MSNBC twice, the first time for an insult to Pamela Harriman, while MSNBC was covering her memorial. The second was a result of a conversation regarding land-mines, in which Robert Muller - co-founder of the international organization to ban land-mines - stated that 90 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam were killed by our own land-mines. Coulter responded by saying, "no wonder you guys lost". Her being fired though, freed her to work with CNN and Fox News Network.
She has appeared in three films, "FahrenHYPE 9/11", a rebuke to Micheal Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11", "Feeding the Beast", a documentary on the 24-Hour news cycle and "Is It True What They Say About Ann?" She is a frequent guest on radio shows such as Sean Hannity's, Rush Limbaugh's and Mike Gallagher's.
She has published a number of books, her latest book "Goddless:The Church of Liberalism", debuted at number one on the New York Times best sellers list. In it she talks about how Liberals are against the church, while holding all the qualities of being a religion themselves. She has another book due to be released in 2007, "If Democrats had any brains, they would be republican".
Her column which is publish by United Press Syndicate is published in a number of news papers across the country, at a number of conservative news sites on the internet and at her own internet site. She is said to have a strongly loyal conservative base of readers, which is why many papers run her column.
She has not been loved by everyone though, she had a dispute with the editors of National Review Online over and article she had written after the Sept. 11th attacks, in which she was asked to make changes. USA Today refused to print her coverage of the Democratic Convention in Boston after she referred to it as the spawn of Satan and described some of the womyn present as being, "corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons." She was also dropped by the Arizona Daily Star, after it said they had received complaints about her style and her tone. She most recently made headline for calling John Edwards a fagot, in the wake of which it was reported a number of papers dropped her column.
Coulter has taken a number of roles in public life, from assisting the lawyers of Paula Jones in her lawsuit against President Clinton. She was strongly against a settlement in the case, believing that the case was strong and a settlement would lead to the suggestion that it was based on getting money for Jones. She thought about running as a candidate for congress for the Libertarian party in Connecticut in 2000, to act as a spoiler to republican candidate Christopher Shays. She wanted to punish Shays for voting against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
She may be best known for her comment on the widows of 9/11:
These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president ... cutting campaign commercials... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy.
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