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was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party.
FDR put a Klansman [Hugo Black] on the
Supreme Court, and Democrat in good
standing Bob Byrd [U.S. Senator Robert
Byrd] was a recruiter for the Klan.
KW: Nonetheless, I still have the sense
that most of the Southerners who would’ve
been segregationists in the Fifties and Six-
ties are now in the Republican camp.
AC: No, that’s only because liberals say
this over and over and over again to hide the
actual history, which is why I go through the
specifics on the big segregationists in the
United States Senate, the ones who signed
the Southern Manifesto
and the ones who voted
against the 1964 Civil
Rights Act. There’s a
panoply of issues to con-
sider.
These
were
aggressively-liberal
Democrats
who
loooooooved big gov-
ernment when it came to
The New Deal and Great
Society programs. The
first time they objected
to the Federal govern-
ment doing something
was when it came to civil rights legislation.
This is in stark contrast to the very few
Republicans who voted against the ’64 Civil
Rights Act.
KW: Harriet Pakula Teweles asks: What
do you hope will be people’s reaction to
being “Mugged” by you?
AC: [LOL] I like that! Two reactions. The
main point is: don’t make the mistake,
America, of voting for Barack Obama who,
by the way, does not come out of the Amer-
ican black experience and everything white
Americans feel guilty about. He’s a Hawai-
ian born in 1961. Weirdly enough, the best
thing that ever happened to black people in
the last twenty or thirty years was the O.J.
verdict because it shut down the white guilt
bank. And white guilt has never led to any-
thing good. It’s brought us spiraling crime
rates, mostly with black victims, and a per-
manent underclass living in public housing
projects. For years, liberals cried that “law
‘I was morose that the Era of
Obama has returned us to a period
where everything is racist, everyone
is walking on eggshells, and you
get the moral preening from white
liberals who don’t actually even
know any black people’
and order” and “welfare reform” were racist
code words. Yet, when Republicans were
finally able to push through tough policies
on crime and welfare which they’d support-
ed for decades, they were magnificent suc-
cesses for the entire country, but especially
for black people. Release us, and great
things will happen!
KW: Yale grad Tommy
Russell asks: Are you famil-
iar with Dr. Nina Jablonski
and her important work that
helps debunk the myth of
race? Do you feel it’s impor-
tant to get past the notion of
race as something that sepa-
rates us, and use our under-
standing of its at times
painful history to move for-
ward as a country, civiliza-
tion and world?
AC: I have not heard of
her work, and I have not
thought about the issue in
those terms, but I would
say “Yes!” based on the
way it was phrased in the
question.
KW: Tommy also asks:
As a former smoker, do you
feel a special kinship with
President Obama?
AC: [LOL] Yes, though I
think he’s a little more
uptight than most smokers. We’re usually
pretty relaxed.
KW: Why do you make the point in the
book that he might have slave trader ances-
tors?
AC: Because of all our presidents, Obama
is the one most likely to be descended from
a slave trader, since Kenya had a major
slave-trading port, and the Muslims were
heavily involved in the slave trade. Right
before The Civil War, only 8% of white
people owned slaves. Some plantations
would have hundreds and hundreds of
slaves, but the vast majority of whites did-
n’t have any.
KW: Larry Greenberg says: When Alan
Ball launched the HBO-series True Blood
with his pilot “Strange Love” episode, he
mentioned right in the script that he wanted
the conservative commentator on the show
to be as much like Ann Coulter as possi-
ble. How did you feel about that and about
how you are portrayed, vis-a-vis vampires
coming
out
of
the
coffin?
AC: I had no idea. I’m not familiar with
show. As soon as the subject moves to TV
shows and movies, I’m a total failure. And
I‘d been paying for all those premium chan-
nels for years, but recently cancelled them,
since I never watched any of those net-
works. Now, I may have to get them back.
As far as True Blood, I haven’t seen my por-
trayals, but I could guess that I probably
wouldn’t like ‘em.
KW: Richie the intern asks: What did you
think of how the cartoon The Boondocks
depicted you?
AC: I’ve at least heard of The Boondocks.
But again, I have no idea how that was
done. I wouldn’t know all that I do about
history, if I spent my time watching car-
toons and other TV shows. [Chuckles]
KW: Richie was also wondering what
Christian denomination you are affiliated
with.
AC: I don’t really talk about it much, but
I’m a Presbyterian.
KW: Ilene Proctor says: Beware the
Coultergeist! She asks: Why did you recent-
ly say that civil rights should only be limit-
ed to African-Americans?
AC: Because, historically, that’s what
civil rights were. The Democrats pretended
to care about black people for about five
minutes to help their electoral process, and
then civil rights suddenly became abortion
on demand, gay marriage, rights for the
homeless, etcetera. Frankly, I’d be a little
ticked off if I were black that, after the lega-
cy of slavery and Jim Crow, everybody else
wants to get to the head of the parade. Well,
no! Listen, I like white women. I am a white
woman. But we didn’t go through slavery
and Jim Crow. Knock it off with this stuff!
Ann Coulter
KW: What inspired you to write this
book?
AC: I was morose that the Era of Obama
has returned us to a period where everything
is racist, everyone is walking on eggshells,
and you get the moral preening from white
liberals who don’t actually even know any
black people. But, oh, do they love to get on
their high horses and accuse Republicans of
being racist for opposing very liberal gov-
ernment policies and a very liberal Demo-
cratic president. It’s an extension of the civil
rights label being slapped on gay marriage
and abortion. Allow me to be bi-partisan for
a moment, and love this moment because it
won’t last long. In my last chapter, among
the public officials I mention who I think
are spectacular and unaided by white guilt is
the Democratic Mayor Cory Booker of
Newark. He was Mau-Maued for not being
black enough. He’s been like Giuliani in
Newark. He’s got to become a Republican.
KW: Kate Newell asks: Would you con-
sider debating Stephen Colbert ala the
upcoming face-off between John Stewart
and Bill O’Reilly? What do you think of the
use of satire in getting your views across?
AC: Obviously, I’m a fan of satire. I’d
debate anyone, but it would have to be the
actual person. That would be my only hesi-
tation about debating Colbert. If he were
playing a character, it wouldn’t really work.
But I’d pretty much debate anybody. I pre-
fer to debate smart liberals. I’m not saying
this about Stephen Colbert but, unfortunate-
ly, the most famous liberals generally aren’t
the smartest ones. I have a list of the smarter
liberals I recommend.
KW: Fellow attorney, fellow Cornellian
and, in his opinion, fellow fiction writer
Peter Brav says: Where do I start? I worked
really hard to come up with a question for
you, telling myself that your act is just an
act, that you might actually help my wheel-
chair-bound mother across the street and not
push her into traffic to help reduce the
Medicare deficit, because I don’t want to
risk Kam’s not making it onto your web-
site’s short list of seven “Interviewers Who
Are Allowed to Interview Ann Again.” But
I just couldn’t.
AC: [LOL] Read the book, Peter! You’ll
come up with a lot of questions. I don’t
know why liberals find it comforting to say
this is an act. If you like saying that, okay.
But it’s an act that apparently you can’t
respond to, and an act that is intellectual and
well thought out enough that you don’t have
a response to, otherwise you would.
KW: Peter’s wife, Professor Janet Brav
says: Since things are not going as well as
you might have hoped for Mitt Romney,
with the benefit of hindsight, whom would
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