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Ann Coulter Says Single Moms Are Bad For Society

Posted by Brett Singer

Ann Coulter is... a word that starts with C that I don't like to use. No, I don't mean Ann Coulter, the woman who once called John Edwards a "faggot" and then defended it by saying that it wasn't a gay slur, has now turned her warped mind to single mothers.

Coulter has been out promoting her new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America." She is a bizarre creature who appears to exist purely to spew venom at the world. It's not clear what possible purpose she has on this planet other than to sell her own books and appear on talk shows, which, in turn, helps her sell her own books. The promotional pattern is the same every time – "make outrageous statement in book, repeat statement on a channel other than Fox News, then go on Fox News and defend the statement." And it works – her latest tome is currently number 21 overall on Amazon.com.

One of her latest "points" is that single motherhood has now become "acceptable," despite the "fact" that it is "a recipe to create criminals, strippers, rapists, murderers." Nice.

Over on The View, Coulter was her usual charming self. She attacked Barbara Walters for the way she read the book aloud, and actually did a very nice job of playing the victim, accusing The View co-hosts of attacking her while she wasn't there. Unfortunately, everyone on The View talks at the same time so it's hard to tell what was being said during most of this clip. But it does mark the first time I can honestly say that I agree with Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (Thanks to Sassy Smith for posting this clip over at Famecrawler.)



As someone who was raised by a single mother, I have nothing but respect for any parent, male or female, who is raising a child alone. I'm married, we're lucky enough to have grandparents who live nearby, and I'm still exhausted. I often ask my mother what the hell she did with me during school vacations and half days. She always says that she "figured something out." In other words, she did what she had to do because she was a mother. That's it. What exactly would Ann Coulter like these single mothers to do? Give their kids up for adoption? Get a mail-order husband?

There are one or two words that I don't like to use. One of them fits really Coulter well. It starts with a "c". And I don't mean "cookie".

Source: Famecrawler

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Comments

 

Megg said:

Ann Coulter is a horrid, horrid woman and you can rest easy knowing I said that little 'c' word plenty.  I have been bitching about this for days and writing to The View in their little "contact us" box, to let them know that I'm glad they gave her a hard enough time and defended single mothers.

Way to go Ann, way to be single, and not a mother - and devote an entire chapter on describing us.  

grr.  Great, now my blood is boiling again ;)

January 19, 2009 2:22 AM
 

carfree childhood said:

If Ann Coulter truly believed the garbage she spews, she would be a stay-at-home, home-schooling mother somewhere in the mid-west.  Instead she is a single woman living in New York City who makes a fortune selling books explaining how evil everyone who lives near her is.  

I wish the media would ignore her so she would go away.

January 19, 2009 3:06 AM
 

christine said:

she's just trying to sell her book.  obvious.

January 19, 2009 8:13 AM
 

Laundry and Children said:

The media loves this woman!  Here you have a lunatic Republican who says crazy things that no one in their right mind would fully agree with.  The media continues to showcase this woman not to strengthen Republicans, but to weaken them.  I am a Republican, a pretty strident one at that, but I wish that this woman would just go away.  She makes the rest of us look bad, and that folks, is why she is on television so much.

January 19, 2009 9:24 AM
 

KellyK said:

I am not a Republican...but I honestly think anyone with any sense knows that this is not the Republican majority.  There's always one bad apple.

My mom was a single mother I am now a single mother.  I am not a stipper, rapist or murderer.

January 19, 2009 10:00 AM
 

Laura said:

I can't stand Ann Coulter. I, too, wish that she would just go away. But just because she is reprehensible doesn't mean that she is wrong about everything. Isn't it better for kids to be raised by two loving parents than one? (Please note that I say "loving".) One of the things I can't stand most about AC is the fact that she says a few things with which I would agree (kids better off raised in two-parent home), but because she is such a terrible person it seems that many would refuse to concede that the woman might possibly have a point buried underneath all that venom.

January 19, 2009 10:15 AM
 

Lula said:

If Ann Coulter is so concerned about the quality of life experienced by the children of single mothers, she should donate the proceeds of her book to improve family-support networks nationwide. Oh wait - that's probably Communist thinking. Sorry!

January 19, 2009 10:53 AM
 

Knitty said:

Books with the reasonable premise of "children do best in a home with two loving parents" wouldn't sell nearly as well as the old chestnut SINGLE MOMS ARE EVIL.  And they are WRECKING SOCIETY.  Unlike, say, what the Bush administration has done to this country in the past eight years.

January 19, 2009 5:10 PM
 

Vicki said:

Forget about Ann Coulter's bombastic statements and the fact that she's highly unlikable, and look at what she's saying. The facts and studies she uses are not new, and even liberals have quoted them.

She's not saying all single mothers. She's saying single mothers by choice and women who have babies out of wedlock and keep the children. Like Coulter or not (and I do not) everyone should be paying attention to what this means to men. As a journalist and the mother of two boys, I have an opinion or two about that. You'll find it here: Mommy Track'd, www.mommytrackd.com/angry-ann.

January 25, 2009 3:06 PM
 

Unk Poodi said:

What garbage.  Not one comment that disproves anything Coulter said was true.  Just call her a "c" word.  Fact of the matter is everything Coulter said was backed up with statistics and explanation, however this articles proof is a paragraph by the writer stating her single mother was wonderful.  I am sure your mother is wonderful, however that is not the point.  It would be the equivalent of writing an article about forced child labor being wrong only to have the liberal left spinning it that you hate the children.  Your hate and bias is so obvious that you cannot even think straight.  But don't worry, if you disagree I won't call you the "c" word.

January 27, 2009 4:31 PM
 

tim said:

Your name is "Poodi" (insert Beavis & Butthead Laugh)

February 5, 2009 3:24 PM

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