So when everyone freaked out at Ann Coulter for calling Nikki Haley an immigrant, we wondered if she had done it on purpose for attention. Given a New York Magazine article about how she was whining that no one gets outraged at her anymore, it really sounds like she did it on purpose.
“They’re ignoring me now!” Coulter wails, sitting in a conference room at the National Press Club in Washington as a large crowd filters in to hear her promote her new book, ¡Adios, America!.
“I haven’t been on CNN yet, because I was made up, my hair was done, I was mic’ed up, I was walking to the set,” where Don Lemon was anchoring, she said. “He was doing a full hour on the Doogans or whatever their name is,” she said, referring to the Duggars. Given the interest in one Duggar son’s confession of molestation, the network ended up bumping her segment. “The next night, ‘We’re going to do all Doogans again.’ And then the next week, it’s the cop who yelled at a girl in a bikini! And then it’s Bruce Jenner!”
She made these comments before an audience while touring for her book.
“Nobody will debate me!” she said. “There’s been no ABC, NBC, CBS for me on this book! This is my 11th New York Times best-seller. I write them myself! I research them myself! I’m the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn’t write another book, I’d be so busy collecting awards! I’d be posing for the cover of Vanity Fair!”
And then, just a few days later, she called Nikki Haley an immigrant and the internet gave her 15 minutes of outrage. Coincidence? I kinda doubt it. Coulter was trolling us for attention, but she’s getting less and less influential every time she does it.