The Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok (HateWatch, 2/13/09) gives a review of Ann Coulter's lengthy history of "sliming everyone and everything she disagrees with" before disclosing that, "despite denouncing school desegregation as a 'spectacular' failure, Coulter has generally avoided bolstering white supremacist hate groups. Until now, that is":

In her latest foaming-mouth tome--Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America, released on January 6--Coulter spends the better part of three pages defending a group called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), which the New York Times had described as a "thinly veiled white supremacist organization." Coulter begs to differ. The CCC, Coulter opines, is "a conservative group" that has unfairly been branded as racist "because some of the directors of the CCC had, decades earlier, been leaders of a segregationist group."...

Coulter could hardly be more wrong.... The CCC's columnists have written that black people are "a retrograde species of humanity," and that non-white immigration is turning the U.S. population into a "slimy brown mass of glop." Its website has run photographic comparisons of pop singer Michael Jackson and a chimpanzee. It opposes "forced integration" and decries racial intermarriage. It has lambasted black people as "genetically inferior," complained about "Jewish power brokers," called gay people "perverted sodomites," and even named the late Lester Maddox, the baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, "Patriot of the Century."

Potok explains that Coulter "really ought to know" this, since "the organization where she frequently speaks, the Conservative Political Action Committee, has publicly banned the CCC from its annual gathering because it is racist."

Read how, crank though she may be, Ann Coulter is one of a class of media figures that facilitates the spread of such hate into much larger venues--see the FAIR magazine Extra!: "Academic Racists Make Mainstream Inroads: From National Review to the New York Times" (3-4/05) by Steve Rendall.

For more on the Council of Conservative Citizens, see FAIR Press Release: "National Media Should Cover Racist Links of Prominent Elected Officials Like Rep. Bob Barr and Sen. Trent Lott" (12/11/98)

Your daily dose of radio bigotry is brought to you by the super-hater team of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Rush recently hosted Coulter on his radio show (RushLimbaugh.com, 1/16/09), where they got down to some of the racist banter they're so famous for:

Rush: Arianna [Huffington], you need a translator.

Coulter: And George Soros!

Rush: Yeah, him, too. I've never heard the Daily Kos guy speak.

Coulter: Yeah, he was brought up in someplace in Latin America. You can't understand them. They speak in foreign accents. They represent the Democratic Party.

Maybe this is just an example of their particularly xenophobic brand of "humor," but really, how witty is it to ridicule people who may, or may not, speak English with an accent?

There was a whole lot of chatter a couple of days ago (thanks to the Drudge Report) about NBC's Today show canceling an appearance by far-right bomb thrower Ann Coulter. Should the network be applauded for deciding that they had better things to do than grant Coulter's falsehoods and hate-mongering network airtime? Turns out not:

Coulter's segment was dropped from the schedule because of news that the show was expecting to cover in the Gaza Strip with the Israeli military action there and in Washington with the Obama transition. Today had booked former British prime minister Tony Blair. Coulter was to promote her new book, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America.

"We've had Ann Coulter on Today many times, but because of the news in Washington and the Middle East, we decided to cancel her appearance tomorrow," NBC News said in a statement Monday. "Understanding the media as well as she does, we are sure she knows this happens from time to time. We look forward to welcoming her back in the future."

Coulter, for the record, appeared on the CBS morning show instead. For someone who crusades against the liberal media, she sure spends a lot of time in network TV studios.

New York Times TV reporter Jim Rutenberg (11/2/08) tries to make a case that Fox News and MSNBC are (in Tom Rosenstiel's words) "reverse images of each other." Here are the actual quotes used by Rutenberg to demonstrate this supposed parallelism--first, Ann Coulter on Fox (10/30/08):

I feel like we are talking to the Germans after Hitler comes to power, saying, "Oh, well, I didn’t know."

And then Chris Matthews on MSNBC (10/29/08), addressing those who wouldn't vote for Obama because he's black:

He's been a good father, a good citizen, he's paid attention to his country.... Give the guy a break and think about voting for him.

Again, these are the quotes Rutenberg picks to show how similar the coverage on Fox and MSNBC is--one arguing that you shouldn't vote against a candidate based on his race, and the other comparing that candidate to a genocidal dictator.