Ann Coulter fesses up

Ann Coulter and Peter Beinart debated at Tufts University. As TAPPED's Mark Leon Goldberg writes, hilarity ensued.

Coulter opened her remarks with the usual one-liner her fans are accustomed to. "There's no one left to argue with on the Left - I've started to like liberals when they're afraid and shivering," she said.

"I keep hearing Democrats say they couldn't get their message out [during the last Presidential election] - I don't believe that was the problem," Coulter said. "Was it a good idea to say it's our constitutional right to stick a fork in a baby's head?"

She countered Beinart's figures on poverty in red states by calling it a "coincidence" and saying there was no causal effect. "It's like saying Ann Coulter lives in New York City, thus [New York City] produces right-wing lunatics. There were fewer poor under Bill Clinton because it was a booming economy - there are cycles. And if abortion is up, I don't see a relationship either." [emphasis, but not irony, added]

Actually, New Canaan, CT seems to produce raight-wing lunatics, since that was where Ann was...ahem...produced.

But I do appreciate her self-appraisal. Spot on.