Ann Coulter Makes Stab At Single Motherhood In Controversial New Book

Phildelphia Examiner ^ | January 7, 4:56 PM

[lewisglad]

Uber conservative political commentator and author, Ann Coulter, is drumming up controversy among the masses with her new book Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America.

The gist of her book? Liberals "playing victim" when she believes them to be the actual "victimizers."

With anything Coulter has her hand in, this latest installment is sure to get tempers flaring, especially among single mothers.

Monday night Coulter appeared on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes.

Tuesday morning Coulter made a controversial appearance on NBC's Today Show (after her originally scheduled appearance was cancelled.)

In both appearances, Coulter's lastest stabs at single motherhood were discussed.

Alan Colmes quoted Coulter's book, "Single motherhood is like a farm team for future criminals and social outcasts."

And finally, "We have a term for youngsters involved, the 'children of divorce,' or as I call them, 'future strippers.'"

Coulter reverted her argument about single motherhood back to what she believes to be our country's recent "hatred" of the institution of marriage and made mention of Hollywood's promotion of single motherhood.

[frogjerk]

Every interview I saw with Ann immediately turned into a critique of her and little about her book.

Liberals never want to talk about content.

[EyeGuy]

“Dan Quayle was right after all.”

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Among observant, thinking people that was never in question, despite the hysterical, off-point screeching of self-important celebrity (gasp) Candace Bergen.

[DonaldC]

“Good message, delivered by a terrible messenger.

She seems unable to actually make a point without hyperbole and insults.”

You can’t do without the insults or nobody listens. I am sure the CDC has all kinds of studies about single motherhood just like they do about homosexuality, but nobody pays attention to the facts. But through some fuel on the fire and whalla, people both pro and con are talking about it.

[CedarDave]

Ann's right:

Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen birth rate for that year in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.

The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers — groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted.

[adgirl]

A friend of mine who is gay recently broke up with his boyfriend because the boyfriend demanded kids. My friend insisted a gay relationship is no place for kids. He also knew his boyfriend would not make a good father. Why don’t we ever hear about these types of people in the media?

[Citizen Blade]

You can’t do without the insults or nobody listens.

Which is kind of sad. Our national conversation on various important issues shouldn't be reduced to a bunch of talking heads screaming at each other. But it has.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ann should have went further and declared that the very poverty programs created by liberals created single parents. After all why have a father when the gubmint will provide for food and housing. Liberals completely destroyed traditional black families.

[CedarDave]

FR link to story:

Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says

[7thson]

I teach CCD classes for my Catholic church. Class is every Wed night. Most of the time the chapters of the book has so-so information. Last nights chapter I thought was extremely good. One of the main points of the chapter - and which I stressed in the class - that as free thinking individuals, we are responsible for our actions. I stressed as much as possible that theme to the children. I wonder if I should take these single mom stats and others such as high school drop-out rates and such and hit them with it. What do you people think? Is that a good idea? Tie it into Christian living.

[wardaddy]

Ann is quite right, if she is not yet in the changes...hopefully she is not...then she should get on it. She should reproduce. God bless her.

I’d volunteer, I’m well proven in that area but my wife won’t allow me to take a second wife or even just a mere handmaiden.

Selfish ain’t she?

[Red in Blue PA]

Agree 100%. She is a terrible representative for the Conservative cause. She may be right on most things, but she alienates alot of people just by what she says, including me.

[DonaldC]

LOL

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

She seems unable to actually make a point without hyperbole and insults

Yeah well...conservatives who do try and make these points by Queen of Marquesberry rules always get attacked and they end up apologizing. I say Ann's style is perfect because she gets liberal's attention.

[rlmorel]

This difference is that Ann Coulter backs herself up with data and logic, and is almost always right on the mark.

People like Franken back their statements up with emotion and usually, attacks on anyone who disagrees with them.

[7thson]

Yours is a BS statement. Charles Murray said basically the same thing in his book The Bell Curve. It was ignored. Was it not the New York Senator before Hillary who said the same thing back in the 60’s. He was ignored. People have been saying this for but always in the dry language of the academic. The way Ann Coulter says it makes people take notice. It makes people talk. It shakes and wakes people up.

[raybbr]

Did they talk about Laura Ingraham?

[ronnyquest]

Because objectivity means that one might not like the results one gets. Liberals cannot stand it when things don't go their way. That's why we hear so much whining from them. All their speeches, programs, and policies amount to them stamping their feet, making fists at their sides, and screeching, "But I want it MY way!"

Liberals are basically 5-year-olds and we have to treat them as such. Tough love.

[frogjerk]

You can’t do without the insults or nobody listens. I am sure the CDC has all kinds of studies about single motherhood just like they do about homosexuality, but nobody pays attention to the facts. But through some fuel on the fire and whalla, people both pro and con are talking about it.

Some will say that we need to tone down the hyperbole and insults (which Ann employs by using their own words and ideas against them) but when your opponent fights the battle in that arena you are going to have to engage them in that arena but backed by facts. I understand the adage "don't stoop to their level" but that is the only level today. When liberals start going back to a more civilized discussion (as if) then you can follow them.

Liberals are engaging in terrorist talking point tactics and need to be dealt with accordingly. Talk radio does this very successfully and that is why the Libs want it shut down.

[Citizen Blade]

She may be right on most things, but she alienates alot of people just by what she says, including me.

She's found her entertainment industry niche and is making a good living with books like this. I don't hold that against her, I just don't consider her a particularly important conservative thinker.

[Dr. Sivana]

Great ideas, she just needs to skip the hyperbolic insults.

I understand your viewpoint, and have also been annoyed because Ann uncharacteristically attacked pro-lifers who had no use for Mitt Romney with a very weak argument.

Here is what I like about Ann. She uses the same type of rhetoric that the left uses. In her column, she routinely describes a target of the left, and then lists the reasons for that person to be attacked, only the examples are actually things a leftist did. For instance, in a recent column about Sarah Palin, she listed a bunch of equally egregious Obama gaffes that received little or no airplay.

She doesn't back down. You never ever ever hear a pro-abort or even a "moderate" Republican admit that there is ever anything wrong with a single abortion. To do so means the end of Roe vs. Wade (they aren't libertarian on anything outside the sexual revolution, so saying it's evil but cannot be regulated doesn't fly.)

The other thing I like about her is that she really is extreme, at least in some of her rhetoric. This gives more room for regular mid-octane conservatives who would have otherwise been labeled "really really right wing extremist." Ann draws the fire away from them.

Much as I appreciate what good she does, she will have to change her long-legged blonde tough siren shtick. She will be pushing 50 soon, and I don't want her to go the Goldie Hawn route.