When it comes to Ann Coulter\u2014the conservative blonde avenger, the loud-mouthed provocateur, the human hot-button of mass-media notoriety who is forever tossing turds into liberals\u2019 punch bowls \u2014 people always want to know: Is she for real?<\/p>\n
Even the title of her latest book, \u00a1Adios, America!: The Left\u2019s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole<\/em>, is guaranteed to raise many folks\u2019 blood pressure and strain their credulity.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know why liberals find this idea about me comfortable,\u201d Coulter tells me over dinner, \u201cbut I just had lunch with a law school friend of mine, and I had forgotten\u2014and he reminded me\u2014that at law school I wore mink coats and took up smoking just to annoy liberals, so apparently I\u2019d been like this for awhile. He said, \u2018You\u2019re exactly like you were in law school.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cIn order to change this country to one more favorable to crazy liberal policies, Democrats passed\u2014and Republicans were hoodwinked into passing\u2014this crazy 1965 immigration law that has changed the country in shocking and dramatic ways,\u201d Coulter says, explaining her book\u2019s premise and referring to legislation\u2014sponsored by the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy\u2014that abolished long-implemented preferences for immigrants from Northern and Western Europe over Africans, Asians and other third-world natives.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has been our law for 50 years now, and I blame the Republicans for idiotically continuing it,\u201d she continues. \u201cThe Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986 [creating an easier path to citizenship for foreigners who illegally entered and settled in the United States] was a mistake. As for these idiot Tea Partiers or whichever conservatives are idol-worshipping Ronald Reagan, he was great for his time, but it was a different world. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going down as the greatest president when he signed an amnesty law.\u201d<\/p>\n Coulter argues that teeming hordes of new immigrants, especially from Mexico, vote overwhelmingly Democratic, so current immigration policy is really \u201can evil-genius plan to change the country. That\u2019s what the Democrats get out of it. Obama never could have been elected in this country but for Teddy Kennedy\u2019s immigration act. Never, never, ever, ever!\u201d <\/p>\n Coulter\u2019s politically quixotic prescription: a 10-year moratorium on all legal immigration; a complete dismantling of the immigration bureaucracy, not only government agencies and sympathetic elected officials but also outside advocacy groups; the erection of an impassable fence along the entire U.S.-Mexican border (in her book, she praises the Communist East Germans for effectively, sometimes lethally, preventing their citizens from breaching the Berlin Wall); and a return to pre-1965 policies that give preference to highly educated, usually white Europeans. <\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t care if they were white or not; I\u2019m talking about peasants who come from backward cultures,\u201d she says, although she expresses alarm at predictions that by 2050 Caucasians in this country will be a minority. \u201cThere are white people from backward cultures. They just don\u2019t happen to come from a country contiguous to the United States. It\u2019s backward cultures that are providing cheap labor and Democratic votes.\u201d <\/p>\n Coulter, however, is unfailingly friendly to our waiter, who identifies himself as \u201cLuis,\u201d an immigrant from Ecuador who came here 10 years ago and is working his way toward U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n Coulter argues that U.S. immigration policies were demonstrably better a hundred years ago. \u201cThere was no mollycoddling of immigrants back then. With the Irish and the Italians, and even the Germans\u2014especially the Germans\u2014we were allowed to boss them around,\u201d she says. \u201cWe could say, \u2018No. No. You can\u2019t do this anymore. You are an American now. Knock it off!\u2019 The only problem with the fact that they [recent immigrants] are brown\u2014well, you\u2019re saying they\u2019re brown, I\u2019m saying they\u2019re peasants\u2014is that they\u2019re piggy-backing on the black experience, and saying \u2018That\u2019s racist\u2019 if you tell them to do things our way, and \u2018You can just assimilate to us,\u2019 not the other way around.<\/p>\n “Can you imagine the Irish or Italians or Germans saying that to our country back at the turn of the century? \u2018No! Fuck you! You came to our country. Learn our ways!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Using language that many doubtless will find hair-raising if not downright offensive, Coulter speaks of the \u201cbrowning of America\u201d\u2014a term she says she adopted as a negative after seeing it bandied favorably on MSNBC\u2014and how the country is being ruined by an influx from Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, Vietnam, Nigeria, and other benighted locales.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Nigeria, everyone is a criminal,\u201d Coulter claims. \u201cBut we take more immigrants from Nigeria than we do from Britain. Don\u2019t react casually to that! That\u2019s madness. The British are just going to other countries. And a lot of these countries, like Spain, are just shitholes now. Young, smart people are emigrating to Germany and they won\u2019t be collecting Social Security immediately. Perhaps we should consider them rather than a Nigerian terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n Coulter adds that among the victims of Latino immigration, especially, are African Americans. \u201cHispanic groups will move into neighborhoods and say, \u2018We don\u2019t want any blacks here,\u2019 and start physically attacking blacks,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of wild. In most race relations, it\u2019s never blacks who are victims of terror, it\u2019s whites. Now blacks are being terrorized.\u201d<\/p>\n So, Ann Coulter is the voice of African Americans now?<\/p>\n \u201cI know they\u2019re never going to adopt me, so you don\u2019t have to say it in that sarcastic way,\u201d she parries. \u201cIf they still hate me, I don\u2019t care. They\u2019re being totally screwed by this whole diversity and integration imperative, and they really are part of America. They are so important culturally in America\u2014I mean the humor, the actors…they have the comedians and the music. I love Dave Chapelle, and my close personal friend Sherrod Small. I love Eddie Murphy, although he doesn\u2019t do anything anymore. And Chris Rock.\u201d<\/p>\n In \u00a1Adios, America! and over dinner, Coulter expands on her belief that when new arrivals from foreign climes are not busying themselves with \u201cbrowning\u201d the country, collecting welfare payments and swarming to the polls to vote Democrats into office, they are committing Medicare fraud, child rape, gang rape, honor killings and a host of other un-American activities.<\/p>\n She blames politically correct U.S. government census-taking and crime statistic policies\u2014and the media establishment\u2019s reluctance to identify the countries of origin of the alleged perpetrators\u2014on the fact that she doesn\u2019t have generally accepted stats to back up her assertions, merely horrific anecdotes and back-of-the-envelope guesses. <\/p>\n In her assertions about the allegedly low average intelligence of various \u201cundesirable\u201d immigrant groups, she relies on the studies of Jason Richwine, whose work on IQ and immigration was too controversial even for the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, which dismissed him from his staff job there after his Harvard doctoral dissertation came to light.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Coulter blasts the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls\u2014with the exception of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker\u2014as \u201cbozos\u201d and \u201cmorons,\u201d and heaps special contempt on Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (whom she accuses of favoring amnesty), and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who lately pays lip service to tough policies, Coulter says, \u201cbut I don\u2019t trust him.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: The Daily Beast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to Ann Coulter\u2014the conservative blonde avenger, the loud-mouthed provocateur, the human hot-button of mass-media notoriety who is forever tossing turds into liberals\u2019 punch bowls \u2014 people always want to know: Is she for real? 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