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Coulter has made frequent guest appearances on national [[television]] and syndicated [[radio]] programs. She has appeared on a large number of topical talk shows, including [[Hannity and Colmes]], [[The O'Reilly Factor]], [[American Morning]] with [[Paula Zahn]], [[Crossfire (television)|Crossfire]], [[The Today Show]], Real Time with [[Bill Maher]] and [[The Daily Show]] with [[Jon Stewart]]. She is also a public speaker.
Ann Coulter is a moronic conservative bitch.
==Personal background==
Ann Coulter was born into a family that she has described as "upper middle class". She claims to have developed both her conservative opinions and her acerbic rhetorical style growing up in [[Connecticut]]. She has two elder brothers. Her father, John V. Coulter, was a lawyer, known for his legal work in cases against [[labor unions]]; he later became a constable. Her mother, Nell M. Coulter, is a member of the New Canaan Republican Town Committee. (Cloud, 2005)
As an undergraduate in [[Cornell University]]'s College of Arts and Sciences, Ann Coulter helped to launch a conservative newspaper, The [[Cornell Review]], with funding provided by the Institute for Educational Affairs' [[Collegiate Network]]. She graduated [[cum laude]] from Cornell in [[1984]], and went on to receive her [[J.D.]] from the [[University of Michigan]] Law School, where she was an editor of ''The Michigan Law Review''. At Michigan, she founded a local chapter of the [[Federalist Society]]. She also received training at the National Journalism Center. After practicing [[corporate law]] for four years, she became a congressional aide in [[Washington, D. C.]] in [[1994]], working as a staffer to Republican Senator [[Spencer Abraham]], who served on the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] before working for a public interest law firm.
In [[1996]], the fledgling television network [[MSNBC]] hired Coulter as a legal correspondent and political pundit, which launched her media career. Though she was allowed to make many partisan and controversial comments as a panelist, she was fired in [[1997]] after an exchange with [[Bobby Muller]], president of the [[Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation]], in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost" (MSNBC's NewsChat, October 11, 1997).
Ann Coulter, when asked if she is a [[fundamentalist]] [[Christian]], told interviewer David Bowman, "I don't think I've described myself that way, but only because I'm from Connecticut. We just won't call ourselves that." (2003) Though she seldom argues from a religious point of view, Coulter has commented on "leaders" the [[New York Times]] has labeled the "religious right", stating that [[Jerry Falwell]]'s support was overrated and that [[Pat Robertson]] is ineffective and not conservative. (Slander, ch. 9) She commonly supports the positions of other Christian conservatives -- although she argues that such a term constitutes a liberal slur.
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