Ann Coulter Smacks Down Mark Shields for Calling Her 'The Marie Antoinette

NewsBusters.org ^ | February 9, 2013 | Noel Shepperd

[Kaslin]

Conservative author Ann Coulter has strongly responded to PBS's Mark Shields calling her "The Marie Antoinette of the Conservative press corps."

Shields made this remark on PBS's Inside Washington Friday in the middle of a discussion about Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fl.) recent views regarding immigration reform (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Mark Shields Calls Ann Coulter 'The Marie Antoinette of the Conservative Press Corps'

MARK SHIELDS, PBS: Ann Coulter, the Marie Antoinette of the Conservative press corps, has already come out against Marco Rubio saying that all you’re doing is creating more Democratic voters with a path to citizenship, just like you did with easy divorce in her judgment.

GORDON PETERSON, HOST: Does she have a point, Colby?

COLBY KING, WASHINGTON POST: I don’t, as far as Rubio is concerned? No…

PETERSON: Creating more Democratic votes.

KING: They will probably continue to vote Democratic until the Republicans come up with policies that attract their attention.

Coulter responded by email Saturday:

I could write a book about what Mark Shields doesn't know about French history. Wait, I already did! Using his ahistorical cliche, it's the "Marie Antoinettes" who demand that the rest of us support their nannies, maids and gardeners. If illegal aliens competed with rich yuppies, Senators and Washington journalists for jobs (instead of being their underpaid nannies, maids and gardeners), I don't think people like Shields would be so excited about getting more of them here.

Ouch! That'll leave a mark on Mark!

For some background, here's what Coulter wrote about Rubio at the end of January:

The Democrats never change their ideas; they change the voters. For decades, Democrats have been working feverishly to create more Democrats by encouraging divorce (another Democratic voter!), illegitimacy (another Democratic voter!) and Third World immigration (another Democratic voter!).

Strangely, some Republicans seem determined to create more Democratic voters, too. That will be the primary result of Sen. Marco Rubio's amnesty plan.

IT'S NOT AMNESTY! Rubio's proponents cry. They seem to think they can bully Republicans the way the Democrats do, by controlling the language.

Rubio's bill is nothing but amnesty. It isn't even "amnesty thinly disguised as border enforcement." This is a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Despite all the blather about how Rubio demands "Enforcement First!" the very first thing his proposal does is make illegal aliens legal. (Don't call them "illegal aliens"!)

Read the whole piece here.

[SeminoleCounty]

Had Ann Coulter, and some of her fellow “conservative” pundits, were not attacking Birthers and supporting Obama on the Eligibility issue....we would not be here defending America from bipartisan liberals pushing Illegal Alien Amnesty.

Of course, she is a few years late discovering that Marco Rubio is a La Raza Amnesty Liberal

[jimsin]

These bozos never never learn....

The lesson is:

'Don't eff with THE ANN unless you can fly.' ... BAHWAHAHAA

Further again, unless you want to end up with:

1. her cowgirl boot up yer liberal can....

and

2. yer butt both black AND blue....

best avoid getting within booting distance of this BRAINY BEAUTY any time, any place.....

[kenavi]

What does divorce have to do with this?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

You could have at least put some pants on her.

[OneVike]

This from a woman who called conservatives like me Neanderthal idiots because we dislike Romney.

Who by the way has the same stance on immigration as Rubio.

I quit listening to this lady last Summer during the primaries.

She is whatever she wants to be when it comes to defending who she wants to support at the time.

I will never ever spend another dime on her books, which I used to consistently purchase.

[OneVike]

She said something onetime many of you disagreed with and now you are like a pack of Hyenas attacking her every chance you get

You obviously never watched her on the talk shows going off like she was batsh^@ crazy because conservatives would not support Romney during the primaries.

It was not that she did it once, it's because she repeatedly said it time and time again.

The woman is politically dead to me. I could care less what she says or sells for the rest of her life.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

"She said something onetime many of you disagreed with and now you are like a pack of Hyenas attacking her every chance you get.

Not true, Kaslin. This is the first time I've publically stated anything negative about Ann and if you look at my original statement you'll see I'm pained to admit the thrill is gone.

I'm not in an hyena pack, K, and that's unfair of you.

[jimsin]

she’s a hottie no matter what...i said so....