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Writer's vitriol earns wrath of a nation (Coulter getting international attention)
The Advertiser (aus) ^ | 6/10/06 | Adam Harvey

Posted on 06/10/2006 9:17:11 AM PDT by pissant

ANN Coulter hates the liberal media almost as much as she despises Hillary Clinton - but that is surely an exaggeration, as the conservative commentator owes them all - big time.

Powered by criticism from Senator Clinton and blanket coverage in the U.S. media, Coulter's new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism, has soared to the top of bestseller lists.

Last night, Godless was the most bought book on Amazon.com, thanks to reaction to comments about four September 11 widows.

"These broads are millionaires lionised on TV and in articles about them, revelling in their status as celebrities . . . I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."

Coulter's sharp phrasing and caustic opinions have made her America's most famous fundamentalist Christian and, through four previous books and many speaking engagements at $20,000 an appearance, have earned her a small fortune.

Coulter owns luxury homes in Manhattan and Florida, and boasts about her wealth.

America's constitutional protection of free speech allows her to make statements that would be considered unutterable almost anywhere else.

Yesterday, Coulter, 44, responded to Senator Clinton's criticism by linking Bill Clinton, one of her favourite targets, to a rape and a suicide.

"Hey, if Mrs Clinton is going to start being concerned about angry women," said Coulter, "perhaps she should go talk to her husband who was accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick and was groping Kathleen Willey at the moment Kathleen Willey's husband was committing suicide."

The former corporate lawyer has been a media success ever since scoring headlines at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, when she asked if Bill Clinton deserved impeachment or assassination.

On September 13 2001, Coulter wrote of Muslims: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

Her favourite targets, aside from Muslims, are liberals. Sometime she hits the two with one precise jab.

"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now," she said.

Coulter has been featured on the cover of Time magazine, inspired the hatchet-tongued West Wing character Ainsley, and is now so notorious she can't walk the streets unaccompanied by bodyguards.

Those bodyguards were called into action yesterday, when a West Virginia councillor interrupted a book signing to hand her a letter asking her to retract the comments on the September 11 widows.

"Miss Coulter, I think you are a disgrace . . ." said Mark Cuthbertson before the crowd shouted him down.

She ripped the letter in two as bodyguards pulled him away.

Coulter has been called the right-wing version of Michael Moore. She bristles at the comparison, saying she'd preferred to be known as the right-wing Mark Twain.


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This writer actually sounds impressed by Ann's marketing skills.

And, unlike the pathetic US MSM, he had the nads to reprint Ann's hilarious retort to the harpie Hillary's condemnation:

"Hey, if Mrs Clinton is going to start being concerned about angry women," said Coulter, "perhaps she should go talk to her husband who was accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick and was groping Kathleen Willey at the moment Kathleen Willey's husband was committing suicide."

1 posted on 06/10/2006 9:17:13 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Wrath of a nation? What the Nation of Islam?


2 posted on 06/10/2006 9:19:32 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (I would rather be an Iraqi in a Hidatha guarded by Marines, then a subject of Al-Qeda anywhere.)
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That sure shut the 'Beast' up though, didn't it.


3 posted on 06/10/2006 9:19:48 AM PDT by digger48
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To: MNJohnnie

That wrath is making her millions. LOL


4 posted on 06/10/2006 9:20:10 AM PDT by pissant
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.....saying she'd preferred to be known as the right-wing Mark Twain.

sounds like a good goal to me.


5 posted on 06/10/2006 9:20:11 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Seeking the truth here folks.)
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While I did not initially intend to buy Godless, as soon as I saw Ann come under attack I went straight to Amazon & purchased her book. The selective outrage from the left gets so old. And the double standard is infuriating!


6 posted on 06/10/2006 9:20:47 AM PDT by Nav_Mom
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She's still trying to dig Ann's shoe out of her arse.


7 posted on 06/10/2006 9:21:09 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Some of the other news stories do their best to distort her so she sounds like the most evil, cruel and heartless woman in America. Hopefully, more will buy her books as a result. In fact, Ann Coulter is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment and I am glad we are on the same side!


9 posted on 06/10/2006 9:22:24 AM PDT by GBA
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saying she'd preferred to be known as the right-wing Mark Twain.

An apt comparison, we'll all look back on the zingers she writes and marvel at the directness. Ann Coulter is perfecting an art form. ;-)

10 posted on 06/10/2006 9:22:25 AM PDT by glorgau
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Ann Coulter humiliates Hillary
11 posted on 06/10/2006 9:24:32 AM PDT by mjp
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Coulter in '08

12 posted on 06/10/2006 9:24:46 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America ... Where are you now?")
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You went straight to the crux of the issue...it's all marketing skills. A sure fire way to become a success these days is to create controversy. It worked for "The DiVinci Code", it worked for Lou Dobbs, it's working for the shop owner in Philly and it's working for Coulture.
13 posted on 06/10/2006 9:25:08 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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She's got a ways to go, but she's closer to Twain than the fat slob.


14 posted on 06/10/2006 9:25:39 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Nav_Mom

I may buy copies for gifts.


15 posted on 06/10/2006 9:26:25 AM PDT by pissant
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Kinda like blaming the hydrant for the fire.


16 posted on 06/10/2006 9:26:35 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Baynative

Still sitting atop the list. Can't wait until the NY Times has to list her #1 in the old gray pages.


17 posted on 06/10/2006 9:27:09 AM PDT by pissant
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She could only be on our side. Because she tells the truth.


18 posted on 06/10/2006 9:27:51 AM PDT by pissant
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I love you Ann!

19 posted on 06/10/2006 9:28:17 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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Someone will have to compile her best one-liners. The Hillary reply will be on it.


20 posted on 06/10/2006 9:28:32 AM PDT by pissant
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