Ann Coulter is no stranger to controversy.
To the contrary, the Conservative pundit, lawyer, and columnist thrives on it.
She is the author of provocative titles such as: “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter,” and “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” All eight of Coulter’s books have made the New York Times best seller list and have together sold over 3 million copies.
Her unapologetic anti-feminist views were evidenced in a 2003 interview when she said: “It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact.”
Regarding Muslim countries, Coulter wrote in an incendiary 2001 column: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
A self-described polemic, Coulter admits she enjoys “stirring the pot” and doesn’t bother pretending her views are “impartial or balanced.”
Coulter generated headlines recently by rushing to the defense of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who continues to be dogged by allegations of sexual harassment dating back to the 1990’s.
Just an hour after Politico broke the Herman Cain story, Coulter appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Geraldo at Large,” drawing comparisons to allegations of sexual harassment leveled at then Supreme Court justice nominee, Clarence Thomas.
“It’s outrageous the way liberals treat a black conservative. This is another high-tech lynching,” Coulter claimed. “Nothing liberals fear more than a black conservative… The idea of civil rights laws to begin with ironically was to protect blacks from Democrats from the South who won’t protect them.”
When pressed about her comments during a subsequent appearance on Fox’s Hannity, Coulter doubled-down on her remarks:
“The reason we do have a special place for blacks in American society is because there was slavery, because there was Jim Crowe. Thanks Democrats. The President we have now, who has benefited from this … (is) not the descendant of blacks who have suffered these Jim Crow laws, who suffered through slavery. I’m not contesting that he was born in America or anything, but he is the son of a Kenyan. He is not the son, the grandson, the great-grandson of American blacks who went through the American experience…”
According to Coulter, if a person hasn’t personally suffered the indignity of servitude or isn’t a direct descendant of an American slave, then that person can’t claim to comprehend racism experienced by other blacks.
Drawing comparisons between Democrats and slavery isn’t new ground for Coulter either.
In “How to Talk to a Liberal,” she writes: “Democrats seem to have decided blacks are safely on the plantation and Democrats can do or say anything.”
Coulter is too well-read to be unfamiliar with the political shift of the early 60’s known as the “Southern Strategy,” when Republican opposition to desegregation saw African-Americans flee to the Democratic Party in droves.
It hardly matters.
In Ann Coulter’s world, the drapes on the windows of the liberal plantation are always drawn.