Ann Coulter

Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is a controversial American syndicated columnist, author, attorney, former litigator with the Center For Individual Rights, and "relentlessly combative" conservative pundit who frequently appears on national television and radio programs, and who frequently speaks on college campuses and at other events.

Ann Coulter on the cover of her book Slander

Coulter writes and speaks in a highly combative style:

"Coulter's approach is not so much take no prisoners as capture one's opponents, string them up with piano wire, machine-gun them until all movement has ceased and then fire a celebratory volley into the air."

Biography

Ann Coulter was born in New York City and later raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, in a family she describes as "upper middle class"; she has described her attorney father as a "union buster". She owns homes in New York and Florida. Coulter has described herself as a "polemicist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and makes no pretense at being "impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do." She is known for her expressed disdain for the Democratic Party and American liberalism. She is also a fan of the Grateful Dead, and some of her favorite books include those of pre-communist Russians.

Education and early legal career

As an undergraduate at Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, Coulter helped launch a conservative newspaper, The Cornell Review, and was a member of the Delta Gamma national women's fraternity. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984, and received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she achieved membership in the Order of the Coif (an honor society for academic excellence) and was an editor of The Michigan Law Review. At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center.

After law school, Coulter clerked for Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates. After a short time in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. She later became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit conservative/libertarian public interest law firm dedicated (according to its website) "to the defense of individual liberties against the increasingly aggressive and unchecked authority of federal and state governments" by means of "aggresive litigation and publicity."

Religious views

Coulter openly professes her Christian religious beliefs. At one public lecture she proclaimed her faith in Jesus Christ, saying: "I don't care about anything else: Christ died for my sins and nothing else matters." Time magazine's John Cloud also reported that he attended a service at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City with Coulter, where she worships and often brings guests.

When asked during an interview about the morality of non-marital sex, she replied: "Christians are the most tolerant people in the world—because we know there's original sin. We know people do bad things. But it seems to me it's a much worse thing to go around saying that it isn't a sin to commit a sin. I mean—at least feel guilty about it."

She has stated that her Christian faith, "fuels everything," she writes, and that it particularly fuels her book Godless. In that book, Coulter says in a footnote, "Throughout this book, I often refer to Christians and Christianity because I am a Christian and I have a fairly good idea of what they believe, but the term is intended to include anyone who subscribes to the Bible of the God of Abraham, including Jews and others." Coulter has stated: "Although my Christianity is somewhat more explicit in this book (Godless), Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy—you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism."

In a commentary on Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" she wrote: "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed')."

Coulter also quotes Christian scripture in her work. Godless begins with: "They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the creator.... Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor, for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature. — Romans 1:25-26", and each chapter of the book begins with a quote from Christian scriptures.

Media career

Television and films

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Coulter on Hannity & Colmes

Coulter's first national media appearance came after she was hired in 1996 by MSNBC as a legal correspondent. She was fired the next year after an exchange with Bobby Muller, president of the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, during which she said, "No wonder you guys lost."

She has made frequent guest appearances on television, including The Today Show, The Tonight Show, Hannity and Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, American Morning, Crossfire, Real Time, Politically Incorrect, The Daily Show, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's the fifth estate.

Coulter has starred in four movies. She made her first movie appearance in 2004, when she appeared in three movies. The first was was Feeding the Beast, which was a made for TV documentary on the, "24-Hour News Revolution". The other two movies were FahrenHYPE 9/11, a direct to video documentary designed to rebut Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, and Is It True What They Say About Ann?, a documentary on Coulter containing clips of interviews and speeches.

In 2005, Coulter appeared as one of a three person judging panel in The Greatest American, a four-part interactive television event for the Discovery Channel hosted by Matt Lauer. Starting with 100 nominees, each week interactive viewer voting eliminated candidates.

Books

Coulter is the author of five books. All have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Her first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (ISBN 0895261138), was published by Regnery Publishing in 1998. The book details Coulter's case for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (ISBN 1400046610), published by Crown Forum in 2002, remained number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for seven weeks. In Slander, Coulter argues that President George W. Bush faced an unfair battle for positive media coverage.

Her third book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (ISBN 1400050308), also published by Crown Forum, defends the presidency of Richard M. Nixon and claims Democratic politicians and the media have treasonously undermined United States foreign policy. She also claims that Annie Lee Moss was correctly identified by Joseph McCarthy as a Communist. Treason was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Seller list.

Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter's columns in 2004 as her fourth book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter (ISBN 1400054184).

Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is Godless: The Church of Liberalism (ISBN 1400054206). Coulter argues, first, that liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, and second, that it bears all the attributes of a religion itself. Godless debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Columns

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Portrait of Ann Coulter on the cover of Time Magazine. Coulter claims this image has been manipulated.

Coulter's weekly syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate is printed in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, and linked to by many conservative websites, including Frontpagemag.com and Townhall.com. Her syndicator says "Ann's client newspapers stick with her because she has a loyal fan base of conservative readers who look forward to reading her columns in their local newspapers."

Coulter also writes a weekly legal column in the conservative magazine Human Events in which she discusses judicial rulings, constitutional issues and legal matters affecting Congress and the executive branch. Coulter was the subject of a TIME magazine cover story in April 2005.

In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist at the National Review Online (NRO) Coulter was asked by editors to make changes to a piece written in 2001 soon after the September 11 attacks in which her friend Barbara Olson had been killed. On the national television show Politically Incorrect, Coulter accused NRO of censorship and claimed she was paid $5 per article. NRO dropped her column and terminated her. Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of NRO, said, "We did not 'fire' Ann for what she wrote. ... We ended the relationship because she behaved with a total lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty".

In 2005, one newspaper dropped Coulter's syndicated column citing reader complaints. But none of the more than 100 newspapers that carry the column have dropped it due to the controversy surrounding the 2006 release of Godless.

Coulter contracted with USA Today to cover the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but was replaced by Jonah Goldberg after an editing disagreement. She wrote one article that began, "Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston..." and referred to some unspecified female attendees as "corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons." The newspaper declined to print the article, and Coulter published it instead on her website.

Political activities

In addition to her frequent media appearances and popular writings about politics and political beliefs, Coulter's political activities have ranged from considering a run for Congress to advising a plaintiff suing the president.

The Paula Jones - Bill Clinton case

Coulter debuted as a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal advisor for the attorneys representing Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton.

Coulter disagreed with the lead lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who advised Jones that her case was weak and to settle it. (Daley, 1999) From the onset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement. However, Coulter said she believed the case was strong, that Jones was telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly accountable for his misconduct, and that a settlement would give the impression that Jones was merely interested in extorting money from the President. (Daley, 1999)

David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for the Hartford Courant recounted what followed:

Coulter played one particularly key role in keeping the Jones case alive. In Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff's new book Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story, Coulter is unmasked as the one who leaked word of Clinton's "distinguishing characteristic" — his reportedly bent penis that Jones said she could recognize and describe — to the news media. Her hope was to foster mistrust between the Clinton and Jones camps and forestall a settlement...

I thought if I leaked the distinguishing characteristic it would show bad faith in negotiations. [Clinton lawyer] Bob Bennett would think Jones had leaked it. Cammaratta would know he himself hadn't leaked it and would get mad at Bennett. It might stall negotiations enough for me to get through to [Jones adviser] Susan Carpenter-McMillan to tell her that I thought settling would hurt Paula, that this would ruin her reputation, and that there were other lawyers working for her. Then 36 hours later, she returned my phone call.

I just wanted to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I don't think I could have taken the abuse she came under. She's this poor little country girl and she has the most powerful man she's ever met hitting on her sexually, then denying it and smearing her as president. And she never did anything tacky. It's not like she was going on TV or trying to make a buck out of it.(1999)

Coulter also told Isikoff, "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President."

The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and was summarily dismissed. The judge ruled that even if her allegations proved true, Jones did not show that she had suffered any damages, stating "plaintiff has not demonstrated any tangible job detriment or adverse employment action for her refusal to submit to the governor's alleged advances. The president is therefore entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of quid pro quo sexual harassment", and dismissed the case. Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 in exchange for not appealing the decision. The Jones lawsuit led to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. Coulter wrote a book critical of Clinton called High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. And in an ironic twist of fate, Coulter was quite critical of Paula Jones in [[2000][ after she revealed that she would pose for nude pictures in an adult magazine.

Potential congressional run

In 2000, Coulter considered running for Congress from Connecticut on the Libertarian Party ticket to serve as a spoiler in order to throw the seat to the Democratic candidate and see that Republican Congressman Christopher Shays failed to gain re-election, as a punishment for Shays' voting against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. The leadership of the Libertarian Party of Connecticut, after meeting with Coulter, declined to endorse her. As a result, her self-described "total sham, media-intensive, third-party Jesse Ventura campaign" did not take place.

Allegations of improper conduct

Registration and voting

Coulter is under investigation by election officials in Florida for filing an inaccurate voter registration form in June 2005. Coulter's voter registration form lists her real estate agent's address instead of her own home address. In March, 2006, elections officials had given Coulter 30 days to explain the inaccuracy.

According to poll worker Jim Whited, Coulter tried to vote in the February 7, 2006, town council election at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, where she should vote based on her actual address. Although Coulter initially tried to vote in the proper location, Coulter left the precinct as soon as Whited inquired about the discrepancy in her address and voting precinct. She then cast her ballot at precinct that matched the address on her registration, which was actually the incorrect location, St. Edward's precinct.

Willfull submission of any false voter registration information is a third degree felony in the state of Florida.

Plagiarism

Coulter has been accused of several instances of plagiarism, critics pointing to twenty-five instances where a factual sentence or list appears to have been copied, with minimal alterations, from another source without attribution. The president of Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Coulter's column, rejected the allegations and declared in a statement issued by the company, "There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism." The publisher of Godless, has stated that the allegations regarding the book are, "as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible," and that, "the number of words used by our author in these snippets is so minimal that there is no requirement for attribution." The publisher also pointed to the, "19 pages and hundreds of endnotes," contained in the book as evidence of proper attribution by Coulter.

Notable Controversies

Coulter's polemics sometimes start firestorms of controversy, ranging from rowdy uprisings at colleges where she speaks to protracted discussions in the media.

Speeches at college campuses

Coulter has been the subject of several protests when speaking on college campuses.

Victim of pie throwers at the University of Arizona

On one occasion, during an appearance at University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her, splattering her and causing an $1,830 worth of damage to a muslin stage backdrop. The two perpetrators were charged with criminal damage, and one of them later said, "we were throwing pies at her ideas, not at her."

Speech at the University of Connecticut

In another instance, Coulter was heckled while speaking at a crowd of 2,600 at the University of Connecticut to the point that she ended her speech early and began to take questions from the audience, remarking that "I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am." A student said of the rowdy crowd, "It really appalled me that we're not able to come together as a group and listen to a different view in a respectful environment."

Remarks about Justice Stevens at Philander Smith College

Speaking at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 2006, Coulter said of United States Supreme Court Justice Stevens, "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' crème brûlée. That's just a joke, for you in the media."

Splitting the crowd at Indiana University

At a February 23, 2006 appearance at Indiana University, Bloomington, in a speech entitled, "Liberals Are Wrong About Everything," she claimed, "Liberals hate God and hate America," and that there is no hope for the Democratic party. Her speech was frequently interrupted while protestors were removed. The school's newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, reported that during the Q&A session, a young man asked her if she didn't like Democrats, wouldn't it just be better to have a dictatorship; Coulter replied: "You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?". Shane Kennedy, then president of the IU College Republicans student group, defended her comments, saying "I think the guy could have been more respectful to her."

The 9/11 "Jersey Girls"

In her book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Coulter criticizes the four 9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls", writing that they abused their status as widows by acting as partisans to push for the 9/11 Commission, to harshly criticize the G.W. Bush administration and its security policies, and to campaign for presidential candidate John Kerry. The partisan activities of the, "Jersey Girls" have also been documented by other observers.

Coulter on the cover of her book Godless.

In a long chapter titled, "Liberal Doctrine of Infallibility: Sobbing Hysterical Women," Coulter argues that one of liberalism's proselytizing techniques is to choose, "people with 'absolute moral authority' - Democrats with a dead husband, a dead child, a wife who works at the CIA, a war record, [or] a terminal illness..." as spokespersons to advance political goals. Doing so stifles a rational debate of the policy being advanced, according to Coulter, since, "you can't respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering."

She lists a catalogue of such persons, including grieving mom and anti-war acitivst Cindy Sheehan, gun-control activist Carolyn McCarthy, paralyzed actor and embyonic stem-cell activist Christopher Reeve, disabled Vietnam veteran and anti-Iraq-war activist Max Cleland, and the four Jersey Girls, about whom she wrote, "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."

Coulter's description of these women has garnered criticism, some of it invoking the memory of the women's tragically deceased husbands. The book was released on June 6, 2006, and that morning, Matt Lauer of NBC's The Today Show interviewed Coulter. He questioned the propriety of several of its statements about the four Jersey Girls, including "They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was part of the closure process." She defended the challenged statements and remarked that Lauer was "getting testy" with her.

The next day, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) called Coulter's charge a "vicious, mean-spirited attack", suggesting that Coulter's book should have been titled Heartless.

Coulter later responded to Senator Clinton: "Before criticizing others for being 'mean' to women, perhaps Hillary should talk to her husband who was accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick and was groping Kathleen Willey at the very moment Willey's husband was committing suicide."

On the same day, Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) called Coulter a, "hatemonger" on the floor of the House and urged his Republican colleagues to denounce her as well. Later, Tim Roemer, a member of the 9/11 Commission and a former Democratic Congressman, urged Americans not to buy Coulter's book.

She has consistently defended her words and makes no apologies, even goading her critics by repeating her criticism of the Jersey Girls in subsequent columns, "If you're upset about what I said about the Witches of East Brunswick, try turning the page. Surely, I must have offended more than those four harpies."

Comments regarding bombing The New York Times

When asked by John Hawkins if she regretted a statement she made implying that she wished Timothy McVeigh had bombed the New York Times instead of the Federal building in Oklahoma City, Coulter replied: "Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'" Lee Salem, the president of Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Coulter's column, later defended Coulter by saying that she was a brilliant satirist who does not mean it when she periodically wishes violence or even death on liberals and other, "traitors." Coulter has since refuted the notion that she was only joking, and E&P staff quoted her as calling her remarks, "great humor," and that it, "belongs on Saturday Night Live." The subject came up again when she appeared on the Fox News program Hannity & Colmes. Allan Colmes mentioned Salem's claim, and asked her if she wanted to take back the earlier statement that Timothy McVeigh should have bombed The New York Times office, especially if reporters were inside. She responded, "No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after The New York Times has leapt beyond -- beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week," Coulter replied (referring to a Times report that revealed classified information about anti-terrorism surveillance of private financial transactions by the U.S. government).

Coulter courts controversy

As a self-described polemicist, Coulter often makes radical statements for the purpose of gaining attention. Several journalists have pointed out instances where Coulter has done this and made allegations that she has bent the truth or omitted facts in an attempt to prove her point. The following are some examples.

Criticism of her style

Although she is in constant demand on the US lecture circuit, and has had a string of best-selling books, her style grates on some in her audience, including fellow Conservatives. Arnold Beichman reviewed her book, Treason in the Washington Times, writing that he, "tried to read Miss Coulter's book and failed. Life is too short to read pages and pages of rant."

Factual disputes

Liberal comedian Al Franken has questioned the factual accuracy of her books, and is critical of her use of numerous endnotes. Others have investigated these charges, with equivocal results. Coulter responded to these and similar criticisms in a column called, "Answering my Critics.", where she claims all accusations of her lying are either outright wrong or really just picayune factual errors (e.g. calling "endnotes", "footnotes", or incorrectly identifying Evan Thomas' grandfather as his father).

Coulter on domestic separatists

Coulter has frequently criticized the government's handling of radical separatists. She has described members of the Branch Davidians as, "harmless American citizens" despite their use of violence and after the bulk of the group was immolated in an FBI raid. Likewise, she berates what she calls the "unprovoked government assault" and "murder" at Ruby Ridge.

Coulter on Arabs and Muslims

Coulter has made a number of controversial comments about Arabs and Muslims.

In an article written a day after the September 11, 2001 attacks (in which her friend Barbara Olson was killed), she wrote, "Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

Coulter has advocated the use of racial profiling by airlines. She wrote in her column that she had reviewed the civil rights lawsuits against certain airlines to determine which airlines had subjected Arabs to the most "egregious discrimination" so that she could fly only that airline. She also said that the airline should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them. In an interview with the British Guardian newspaper, she quipped, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When asked what Muslims should do for travel, she responded that they, "could use flying carpets."

In describing the ability of reporters to get passes to White House press conferences, Coulter speculated that they must be easy to acquire since the, "White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president." Helen Thomas is a White House reporter of Lebanese ancestry.

On February 10, 2006, at the Conservative Political Action Conference she said, "I think our motto should be, post-9-11: raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences." Her comments brought criticism from both college student bloggers and fellow conservatives who attended the conference.

Coulter has described Muslims as, "camel jockey", "jihad monkey", and, "tent merchant," and joked about the offensiveness of these remarks. She has also referred to the Middle East as a, "swamp," in reference to the metaphor, "Drain the Swamp."

She wrote in her column, in response to the riots stemming from the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, "The amazing part of the great Danish cartoon caper isn't that Muslims immediately engage in acts of mob violence when things don't go their way. That is de rigueur for the Religion of Peace. Their immediate response to all bad news is mass violence. That's a "dog bites man" story and belongs on page B-34, next to the grade school hot lunch menu and the birth notices. After an Egyptian ferry capsized recently, killing hundreds of passengers, a whole braying mob of passengers' relatives staged an organized attack on the company, throwing furniture out the window and burning the building to the ground. Witnesses say it was the most violent ocean liner-related incident since Carnival Cruise Lines fired Kathie Lee Gifford. The 'offense to Islam' ruse is merely an excuse for Muslims to revert to their default mode: rioting and setting things on fire."

Coulter on women

• "I think the other point that no one is making about the [Abu Ghraib] abuse photos is just the disproportionate number of women involved, including a girl general running the entire operation. I mean, this is lesson, you know, number 1,000,047 on why women shouldn't be in the military. In addition to not being able to carry even a medium-sized backpack, women are too vicious." - appearing on Hannity & Colmes, 5 May, 2004

• "Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do." – Cornell Review, 1984, as reported in Time, April 2005

• "I think [women] should be armed but should not vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care." - appearing on the comedy show Politically Incorrect, February 26, 2001

• "Like the Democrats, Playboy just wants to liberate women to behave like pigs, have sex without consequences, prance about naked, and abort children." - How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), 2004

Confederate flag

Coulter sparked controversy with comments supporting the Confederate flag using an analogy with a kente cloth and slavery, "And why does native African kente cloth get a free pass [from liberals]? It is a historical fact that American slaves were purchased from their slave masters in Africa, where slavery exists in some parts to this day. Indeed, slavery is the only African institution America has ever adopted. But while some Americans express pride in their slave-trading ancestors by calling themselves, 'African-Americans,' and donning African garb, pride in Confederate ancestors is deemed a hate crime."

Liberals and sexuality

Coulter has argued that liberals' insistence on sexual freedoms belies their calls for restrictions in other areas of life, particularly on the issue of health. For instance, she asserted that although liberals often lobby for public bans on smoking, they take far less precaution in their sexual health, citing the acts of anal sex and fisting as examples.

Further reading

• Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). "Call her Mrs." Jewish World Review.
• Coulter, Ann (July 18, 2002). Donahue transcript July 18. Interview with Phil Donahue. Free Republic. posted by Pistolshot, July 19, 2002.
• Coulter, Ann (August 11, 2002). Slander Interview with Brian Lamb. C-Span. Booknotes. Reprinted at Booknotes.org.
• Coulter, Ann (August 26, 2002). Coultergeist. Interview with George Gurley. New York Observer.
• Coulter, Ann (January 12, 2004). Frontpage interview. Interview with Jamie Glazov. FrontPageMag.com.
• West, Nigel (2000). Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0006530710.

External links

• Ann Coulter's official website
• IMDB Profile
• NNDB Profile

Biography and quotes

• Rightwing News quotes Coulter's Treason.
• Center for Media and Democracy — Critical Biography
• Is it true what they say about Ann? — 40-minute documentary shown at conservative film festivals. DVD includes interviews, speeches and photo album.
• Wisdom of Ann Coulter using controversial quotes
• Report of dispute over Coulter's age.

Book reviews and criticism

• "Liberally Lying about Liberals" (September 9, 2002)
• "Tailgunner Ann" by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• "The Trouble with Treason" by David Horowitz in FrontPageMagazine.com
• "Screed: With Treason, Ann Coulter once again defines a new low in America's political debate" (June 30, 2003).
• Critical articles by Media Matters for America
• Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Ann Coulter
• "Devil in a Blue Dress" by Eric Alterman (September 5, 2002) in The Nation
• Fact-checking Ann Coulter
• Coulter Watch — website containing allegations that Coulter plagiarised others' work
• Archived articles critical of Coulter
• Coulter's syndicated columns
• Columns (2000-2001) for National Review Online
• Ann Coulter on Evolution, a site on evolutionary science reviews Coulter's sources and writing

Column Archive

• Article Archive at AnnCoulter.Com
• Article Archive at Jewish World Review

Interviews

• Interview with Katie Couric. NBC. The Today Show (June 26, 2002)
• Slander Interview with Brian Lamb. C-Span. (August 11, 2002)
• An Appalling Magic (May 17, 2003 interview in The Guardian)
• Treason Reprint of interview from MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews (June 30, 2003)
• "The Fifth Estate: Sticks and Stones", interview with CBC's Bob McKeown.
• Coulter on The Today Show: Attacks 9/11 Widows - Transcript and video of The Today Show interview with Matt Lauer.
• Lethally Blond, interview by Gaby Wood. The (London) Observer (June 11, 2006)

News features

• "Ann Coulter and the Title Fight" by Richard Leiby Washington Post (March 2, 2005)