Once and for all--What is Ann Coulter's background? Anyone...

[bliss_eternal]

know?

I did a search here, but anything I bring up about her here, is primarily Coulter bashing (:rofl:) which I totally understand. But I am sincerely curious, besides writing stupid books filled with lies, what is her background?

What did she do prior to becoming the fascist party doll? (I love Belzer for saying that, btw)...

I'm watching the replay of Maher--interesting that she's not happy with the Meir nomination. I expected her to kneel down before her Furher and accept that his will be done, but I digress...

[populistdriven]

1. the wiki sez:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter
born December 8, 1961 in New York City...

Ann Coulter was born into a Catholic family (she is no longer Catholic) that she has described as "upper middle class" on December 8, 1961 according to the New Canaan voting registration office. She attributes her conservative opinions and her acerbic rhetorical style to her upbringing in Connecticut. She has two elder brothers. Her father, John V. Coulter, was a lawyer, known for his legal work in cases against labor unions; he later became a constable. Her mother, Nell M. Coulter, is a member of the New Canaan Republican Town Committee. (Cloud, 2005)

As an undergraduate in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, Ann Coulter helped to launch a conservative newspaper, The Cornell Review, with funding provided by the Institute for Educational Affairs' Collegiate Network. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984, and went on to receive her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review. At law school, Coulter shared an apartment with the human and civil rights advocate Cindy Cohn who is now the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At Michigan, she founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society. She also received training at the National Journalism Center. After practicing corporate law for four years, she became a congressional aide in Washington, D. C. in 1994, working as a staffer to Republican Senator Spencer Abraham, who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee before working for a public interest law firm.

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In 1996, the fledgling television network MSNBC hired Coulter as a legal correspondent and political pundit, launching her media career. Though she was allowed to make many partisan and controversial comments as a panelist, she was fired in 1997 after an exchange with Bobby Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost" (MSNBC's NewsChat, October 11, 1997).

[dghll]

2. he later became a constable?

What sort of constable?


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-13,GGLD:en&q=define%3Aconstable

[GrpCaptMandrake]

4. Where's the part about "her" sex change?

I mean, WOW, that Adam's Apple! And hands like a stevedore's!

[niallmac]

6. Not a bad education. Wonder how Ann missed the fact

that CANADA was not a participant in the Vietnam War? Seems like a major flaw in someones knowledge base especially if they are going to go head to head with politicians.
That remark to Bobby Muller is unbelievable, or would be had I not seen Ann in action.

[bliss_eternal]

11. You're right--she's quite well educated, isn't she?

Seems strange that one so educated can say such moronic things.

[bliss_eternal]

10. I'd love to have seen her get fired for her snarky comment!

LOL!

Thank you for the information, bushmeat! I appreciate your response!

[Why Syzygy]

15. Born in Connecticut?

So she is probably Bush's half breed cousin. That explains a lot.

It makes me sick that Maher gives her a platform.

[kskiska]

24. You've got to be rich, rich, rich to live in New Canaan

I was born and brought up just over the New Canaan town line, in a generally blue collar area.

[Sandpiper]

28. She calls her background "upper middle class"

To make herself sound more like "just folks" to the red state shlubs.

In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Annthrax was the silver spoon baby of a hot shot corporate lawyer.

[Sandpiper]

3. Coulter Bio from Daily Kos

Essentially, she had a ho-hum legal career, then became a propagandist for Richard Melon Scaife's junta against the Clintons.


http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Ann_Coulter

[bliss_eternal]

12. Thank you for the link Sandpiper.

I appreciate it! :hi:

[melody]

22. She would appear on talking heads shows to call Bill "Clitton"

...as if this was some subtle linguistic psyops thing.

I guess she got extra spankings from daddy with the nice leather thing for denigrating a liberal who likes women.

Anyway, this link has a bio (1/4 down the page) which is probably wishful thinking but gosh, it's so much nicer to believe.

http://rawilson.com/jokes.shtml

[tenshi816]

27. self-delete

Never mind, someone downthread answered my question.

[populistdriven]

5. The only thing I thought was intriguing is this:

At law school, Coulter shared an apartment with the human and civil rights advocate Cindy Cohn who is now the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Man I would love to get Cindy's take on Coulter:

http://www.eff.org/about/staff/cindy_cohn.html

[bliss_eternal]

13. Tell me about it--

to be a fly on that wall! Imagine...

I wonder what she would say about her now, too.

[gratuitous]

7. Her origins are shrouded in myth and legend

But a drunken coupling between Sauron and Shelob on the slopes of Mount Doom is pretty definitively established as where it all started.

[radwriter0555]

8. Luckily, unless someone pays attention to her, she's irrelevent.

Just turn your head and cough. She goes away.

[populistdriven]

9. Paula Jones Connection!

http://mediamatters.org/items/200504180001


In establishing Coulter's bona fides as a serious person, Cloud notes that Coulter was a lawyer before becoming a commentator, explaining her "biggest case":

"And of course the biggest case Coulter ever helped handle as an attorney (she got her law degree from the University of Michigan in 1988) was a sexual-harassment claim of an unsophisticated woman against her powerful former boss. Coulter was one of a handful of informal legal advisers quietly helping Paula Jones, who had alleged in a 1994 lawsuit that she suffered distress and retaliation at her state job after refusing Arkansas Governor Clinton's request for oral sex in 1991. Coulter interviewed Jones and helped write her legal briefs."

Left out is one seemingly important detail: the case was dismissed for complete and total lack of merit. It was a glorified nuisance suit:

In a ruling that shocked both sides, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright rejected all of Jones's claims stemming from her 1991 encounter with Clinton in a hotel suite. Even if Clinton did make a crude proposition, the judge concluded that it would not constitute sexual assault and that there was no proof Jones was emotionally afflicted or punished in the workplace for rebuffing him. "There are no genuine issues for trial in this case," she wrote.

Also left out is Coulter's admission that to her, the purpose of the case wasn't to serve Jones's interests, but rather "bringing down the President."

While embellishing Coulter's legal work, pretending it was something more than partisan hackery, Cloud downplays Coulter's history of outrageous comments, unquestioningly quoting Coulter friend Miguel Estrada downplaying her vicious attacks as "a little bit of a polemicist" (Coulter herself sees no need for the qualifier; she told the Sunday Times of London that "I am a polemicist. I am perfectly frank about that") and writing that "Coulter can occasionally be coarse."

"Occasionally" coarse? A "little bit" of a polemicist? This about a "commentator" who claimed that the Democratic Party "supports killing, lying, adultery, thievery, envy"; who said of the idea that the American military were targeting journalists, "Would that it were so!"; who said President Clinton "was a very good rapist"; who insisted that "iberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole"; who said that "I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days" to talk to liberals; who said it was lucky for former senator Max Cleland's political career that he lost an arm and two legs in Vietnam; who has said her "only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building"; and who wrote that the only real question about Bill Clinton was "whether to impeach or assassinate."

[bliss_eternal]

16. Oh NO! SHE was one of Paula Jones' lawyers?

How did I not know THAT! I should have known...

[bluedawg12]

17. Cough and she's gone? Like a hernia? heh

Her books a wildly inaccurate, foot notes and all.

I think Al Franken could retire on pointing out her errors.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Yep

That's the best way. :) Oh and I still find it hilarious about the Vietnam and Canada thing. LOL!

[bluedawg12]

14. Being a neoconniver is lucrative. Why work in a dreary

law firm when you can be the psycho darling of the radicalright get on TV and write books with a billionaire sponsor?

[bliss_eternal]

18. But of course...

if only we could all whore ourselves out to our parties for major book deals and tv spots...

[bluedawg12]

20. If we could we would be called neoconn's LOL n/t

[napi21]

19. I think Ann's dream is to be the female Rush Limpballs!

I have no confirmation, just my own opinion, but the tactics are similar, and although not pretty, she does look better than Rush!

[bluedawg12]

21. Her abrasive big mouth helped make me a liberul and

move me to the left. i got so tired of her trash talk during the Clinton impeachment that I got in touch with the little leftie inside. heh heh

Thank you Ann---if I had any conservative leanings you made sure to squash them with your braying horsey face. You go girl...er..uh..man? uh...whatever, man.

The rightwing dominatrix of verbal abuse.

[Why Syzygy]

25. Blessed Be.

It always helps our side when they open their mouths.

[bluedawg12]

32. KKKoulter and Limpbag have probably created more liberals

with their venom than conservapigs.

[bluedawg12]

33. Rightwing dominatrix appeals to the conservapigs

they like stern scoldings.

[LunaC]

26. For Entertainment Purposes

Strap-On Veterans for Truth

An organization dedicating to exposing the truth about the former drag queen now known as Ann Coulter

http://www.straponvets.com/

[mandyky]

29. She wennt to college in Ithaca NY

(my original home is upstate NY) I believe she has a Law Degree

I have no clue how old she is - I'd say 30 ish.

[OhioChick]

31. 30-ish??

You're being very generous. I read that she was well into her 40's. Found this doing a quick search.......not sure of the accuracy.

"Is Human Uzi Ann Coulter 38 or 40 years old? And when she insists that she's the former, is she telling a fib? The right-wing media scourge – who has been getting plenty of ink for her best-selling book, "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right" – frequently scorches hapless reporters who dare write that she's no longer in her thirties....Our own investigation revealed:
Coulter's Connecticut driver's license lists her birth as December 1961.

Her D.C. driver's license, acquired many years later, says she was born in December 1963.

The birth date on file at the New Canaan, Conn., voter registration office is Dec. 8, 1961."
Read more...

http://www.hannityisamoron.com/anncoulter/

[NoPasaran]

30. Her sister died tragically

When a house landed on her.

[Norquist Nemesis]

34. Careful...some see her as Glenda

Personally, I think she's a Wretched Warped Whacko.

I've seen her argue that she's not a commentator or columnist..."I'm a polemicist"! So, the every time she invokes Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, and Michael Moore her self-description of her behavior is proven.

[ourbluenation]

35. She's Christian & unmarried...show of hands...Virgin?

Nix.

I could give a rip if one is christian and has sex all the time, but she goes around spouting all that christian bs and I just have my doubts that she lives the christian life...hypocrit. That's all I have to say.

[bliss_eternal]

40. She's probably the type

that goes on about being 'Christian' but simultaneously is a closeted kink proprietress, offering her services as a dominatrix.

I won't be shocked if in the future she is a part of some scandal where she's found to be the secret mistress of some high ranking political official.

[Dulcinea]

36. She's nothing but a right-wing shock jock.

She's the ultimate attention whore. Pathetic.

[drbtg1]

37. A Coulter experience in Hartford in May 2004

The Connecticut Forum hosted a debate between Coulter and Mr. Al Franken at the Bushnell. I was fortunate to obtain tickets (and my friend and I got a picture with Mr. Franken backstage afterwards).

The crowd was clearly in favor of Mr. Franken. At times, the crowd would react negatively to a foolish comment from Coulter, which would cause Coulter to reply "Norm Coleman", as if that would embarass the crowd. It quickly became cliched, and was crushed by Mr. Franken one time when he put forth the name "John Rowland".

There was one time when 9/11 was mentioned, when Coulter stated that "terrorists flew into planes". A real "Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" moment.

Another time, when moderator Steve Roberts (husband of Cokie and a real piece of shit that night*) asked them if they could, which person in history would they choose to be and why, Coulter, after waiting a LOOONG time trying to come up with an answer, finally stated she'd pick FDR to stop the New Deal. The crowd hissed and Mr. Franken followed. No waiting. He stated he'd pick Hitler. The crowd laughed with surprise. Mr. Franken then stated that if she wanted to be FDR to stop the New Deal, then he'd pick Hitler to stop (hand gesture and shoulder strug)...the Holocaust. The crowd roared with approval.

*Why was Steve Roberts a real piece of shit that night? Because he called the late Paul Wellstone, a good friend of the person right next to him, "a marginal senator" (i.e. less significant, unimportant).

[GarySeven]

38. I wonder if anyone can confirm this ...

I swear I read this somewhere years ago, around 1996 (although I am not certain.) It was definitely before the Clinton impeachment engine got really revved up and before Coulter had really made her mark - she was just at that stage where people were starting to talk about her and the tone of the stories about her were like: "who is this woman?"

Well, the article was about her love life. It had mentioned that she was dating a big shot in Washington who had dumped her or did something else. The story was that she was suspected of doing a malicious act of revenge. It seems that someone had run a garden hose into this man's front door mail slot and turned on the water, flooding the house.

Now I can't remember the story in any greater detail - not even certain it was Coulter, but I'm at least 85 percent sure. I have searched for the article to confirm that she was involved but have never been able to find it, even though I am ordinarily a whiz at searching Nexis and online. Does anyone here know what I am talking about?

[bliss_eternal]

39. I hadn't heard this before--

maybe someone else here has.

Interesting story, though. :hi: