Ann Coulter attacks SC Governor Nikki Haley for flag issue because she's an immigrant

[Indus]

Source & Video: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06/23/ann-coulter-attacks-gov-nikki-haley-as-an-immig/204115

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter lashed out at South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R), who recently called for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol. Rather than respond to the Republican governor's message, Coulter dismissed Haley as "an immigrant" who "does not understand America's history."

During the June 23 discussion on her Fox Business show, host Kennedy asked Coulter about Gov. Haley's recent call for the South Carolina legislature to remove the flag from state grounds. Coulter responded that she'd "really like to like Nikki Haley," but couldn't support her actions due to her foreign birth.

COULTER: I'm a student of American history, so I'm appalled by -- though I would really like to like Nikki Haley since she is a Republican. On the other hand, she is an immigrant and does not understand America's history. The flag we're talking about --

KENNEDY: You think immigrants can't understand the history?

COULTER: Well, she doesn't. The Confederate flag we're talking about never flew over an official Confederate building. It was a battle flag. It is to honor Robert E. Lee. And anyone who knows the first thing about military history, knows that there is no greater army that ever took the field than the Confederate Army.

But Haley is not an immigrant. As reported by the Washington Post's Phillip Rucker, Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, to Indian immigrant parents (emphasis original):

She's the daughter of Sikh immigrants from India. Haley's parents, Dr. Ajit and Raj Randhawa immigrated from Amritsar to the tiny town of Bamberg, S.C. (population 3,733). Nikki was born there and grew up with a sister, Simran, and two brothers, Mitti and Charan. Mitti was an active-duty officer in the Army for 20 years and fought in Desert Storm. Haley could become only the second Indian-American governor in the country, joining Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R).

2nd class citizenship anyone?

 

[chucky2]

How can someone who is the Gov be a 2nd class citizen...WTF...

 

[First]

How can someone who is the Gov be a 2nd class citizen...WTF...

Yikes.

 

[Mxylplyx]

That woman is nothing more than a shock artist, and is not worthy of a response. The ones that should be ashamed of themselves are the ones who give her a platform.

 

[Indus]

How can someone who is the Gov be a 2nd class citizen...WTF...

Ann just dismissed her insultingly saying she's not a real American.. If that's not 2nd class citizen despite being born in the USA, what is..

 

[chucky2]

Hey man, wasn't me who is saying she's 2nd class. Coulter is obviously wrong claiming an immigrant can't understand US history. Doesn't make her overall point wrong though (or right).

 

[Jhhnn]

Anne Coulter is the Chupacabra, a blood sucking creature so foul that it's spoken of only in whispers.

 

[chucky2]

Ann just dismissed her insultingly saying she's not a real American.. If that's not 2nd class citizen despite being born in the USA, what is..

To me it sounds like she's insinuating that because she's an immigrant she doesn't have the background on what the flag is about and what it means to native South Carolinians (is that even a word?..eh who cares). Obviously Coulter is wrong that an immigrant can't understand either. I'm not sure how that magically makes what Coulter says mean that the SC Gov is a 2nd class citizen. I guess if one were hypersensitive one could take it that way, but since I'm not, I don't read it like that.

 

[First]

To me it sounds like she's insinuating that because she's an immigrant she doesn't have the background on what the flag is about and what it means to native South Carolinians (is that even a word?..eh who cares). Obviously Coulter is wrong that an immigrant can't understand either. I'm not sure how that magically makes what Coulter says mean that the SC Gov is a 2nd class citizen. I guess if one were hypersensitive one could take it that way, but since I'm not, I don't read it like that.

You have to be pretty stupid to not see that someone who is most definitely not an immigrant (SC Gov Haley) but is being treated like a foreign-born immigrant with little understanding of her state's history (Coulter's characterization) is obviously relegating Haley to 2nd class status entirely because of her ethic background. This isn't debatable....unless you're a mouth breather or something.

 

[Jhhnn]

To me it sounds like she's insinuating that because she's an immigrant she doesn't have the background on what the flag is about and what it means to native South Carolinians (is that even a word?..eh who cares). Obviously Coulter is wrong that an immigrant can't understand either. I'm not sure how that magically makes what Coulter says mean that the SC Gov is a 2nd class citizen. I guess if one were hypersensitive one could take it that way, but since I'm not, I don't read it like that.

It's an attempt to devalue Haley & all immigrants. "Haley isn't really equal, we just have to treat her like she is."

All animals are equal, but some (native) animals are more equal than other (immigrant) animals.

 

[etrigan420]

Oh Ann...

And anyone who knows the first thing about military history, knows that there is no greater army that ever took the field than the Confederate Army.

I just want to pat you on the head and feed you a carrot.

 

[Phokus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seThIG34R8

 

[zinfamous]

what a stupid cuntburger:

And anyone who knows the first thing about military history, knows that there is no greater army that ever took the field than the Confederate Army.

Sorry, Anne. Lee = Greatest general in US history? Quite possibly. Greatest army to ever take a battlefield? lolno. what a fucking idiot.

 

[Genx87]

She is a troll that got off the msgboard and makes a lot of money because people talk about her trolling.

 

[Mai72]

People like Ann Coulter are going to have a difficult time living in America. We are currently going through profound changes. The "whiteness" in America is diminishing. A new group of citizens are emerging and they look nothing like our grandparents. Personally, I think that's a good thing. People like Ann don't see it like that. They are going to be left behind while America changes.

 

[woolfe9998]

Ann Coulter is a filthy pig. Why bother even responding to her?

 

[brycejones]

The best representation of Ann was on Family Guy where her vagina was portrayed as being the refrigerator at Fox News.

Really her schlock is as old and ignorant as O'Reilly and Hannity. Best ignored in the long run. You should use her as a litmus test, anyone who takes her seriously is someone to stay away from.

 

[brycejones]

what a stupid cuntburger:



Sorry, Anne. Lee = Greatest general in US history? Quite possibly. Greatest army to ever take a battlefield? lolno. what a fucking idiot.

Stop insulting cuntburgers.

Greatest army, but they got their asses kicked and were rendered combat ineffective. Yep truly sounds like the greatest army ever. The greatest armies are those that win wars, period, full stop.

 

[Indus]

Stop insulting cuntburgers.

Greatest army, but they got their asses kicked and were rendered combat ineffective. Yep truly sounds like the greatest army ever. The greatest armies are those that win wars, period, full stop.

I wonder why people have wishful thinking. This is identical to the Alexander vs Porus Battle of the Hydaspes. If you ask any local Pakistani/ Afghan (especially if you've served in Afghanistan) they'll all say Porus won the battle and he was the greatest king to rule the region in 5000 years.

 

[Perknose]

Ann Coulter is a filthy pig. Why bother even responding to her?

She sells a ton of books and has a platform because a not insignificant number of Americans are retrograde xenophobic racist bigots. They take cover under terms like "Southern Pride" and "traditional family values" and "faith based values" and "freedom" and "states rights" and "the second amendment" . . . and symbols like the Confederate flag.

Not one of these terms or symbols are fundamentally wrong or bad. Not one is inherently evil at all. But they have long given cover to these hateful bigots, and if we continue to "wink wink" deny this their bigot values will continue to be the fetid petri dish in which the likes of Dylan Roof and Ann Coulter thrive.

Our biggest national shame is that the Republican Party, starting with Nixon and the Reagan, actively courted these homophobic, racist, chauvinistic bigots.

Just look at the initial public reactions of almost all of our prominent Republicans to the Charleston butchery. It was weasel denial pandering to this part of their base. It was disgusting moral cowardice.

The fundie yahoo bigot base is now the tail that wags the dog of the GOP. I grew up Republican in a Republican household, at a time when there were Republicans like liberal, progressive Gov. Bill Scranton in my home state of Pennsylvania, and the present day state of a once proud party, the party of Lincoln fer chrissakes, makes me sick to my goddamn stomach.

To answer your question, Ann Coulter needs responding to because she is the visible tumor of a cancer in our society which one of our two major national political parties gives "wink wink" cover to.

Now, watch the heated denials come in from posters right here on this forum. Then you will know how entrenched this cancer of courting retrograde bigotry as an electoral strategy is, and how difficult it has been to squarely confront.

 

[trenchfoot]

There she goes again.....and again......and again.....right on cue to rile up the "real Americans", the "true Americans" that think like her, act like her and hang on every piece of crap that gets excreted out of that sewer pipe below her hairy nostrils.

That she makes a lot of $$$$ spreading hate, fear and bigotry disguised in patriotic verbiage is pretty damning on her and those who like her for who she is and what she represents.

Makes me think that life is so unfair that I had to go to war and risk my life and limb to protect her right to spread that kind of divisive and negatively charged narrative every chance she gets.

But this is the America we made for ourselves, so meh, I'm glad I can choose to watch the Kardashians make asses out of themselves (of which I choose not to) or ruminate about life after *MASH* and what was in that opened briefcase that glowed so brightly in Pulp Fiction....anything that's so worthless yet so much more worthy than listening to Coulter prostitute herself for the coin of the realm.

 

[DrDoug]

Anne Coulter is the Chupacabra, a blood sucking creature so foul that it's spoken of only in whispers.

I thought I saw somewhere that she's the fridge at Fox. Rumor in the studio is that there's never anything good in there. :biggrin:

Oh Ann...

And anyone who knows the first thing about military history, knows that there is no greater army that ever took the field than the Confederate Army.

I just want to pat you on the head and feed you a carrot.

You win... I nearly died laughing.

 

[brycejones]

I thought I saw somewhere that she's the fridge at Fox. Rumor in the studio is that there's never anything good in there. :biggrin:
.

Family Guy

 

[DrDoug]

Family Guy

I was being tongue-in-cheek... I should have said "I thought I saw a Fox News show where they were showing off backstage at their studios and someone forgot to tell Ann to take a seat in the cafeteria so the camera wouldn't catch her at her real job; being the fridge."

Seth rocks. :thumbsup:

 

[kage69]

2nd class citizenship anyone?

One thing that's always amazed me about these banana republicans is the speed at which they bring out the 'you're not as American as us!' shit when people disagree with them.


LOL, Ann Coulter. If anyone is at odds with that Adam's apple packing saluki bitch, well they're doing good in my book and should carry on.