Controversial Tweets: Ann Coulter Rants About Jews During GOP Debate
Ann Coulter is no stranger to stirring up drama, but controversial tweets she posted this week may have taken it too far. During Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate, Coulter apparently began to lose patience with who she perceived to be the candidates’ target audience. It was then the controversial tweets began flying from her Twitter account.
How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015
Maybe it's to suck up to the Evangelicals.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015
Really, Ann?
The Jerusalem Post reports that immediately prior to the controversial tweets, four of the Republican presidential hopefuls (Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Chris Christie) had chosen to include their unflagging support for Israel in their closing speeches, with Cruz even pledging to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem if he’s elected.
Coulter’s followers wasted no time in calling her out for her controversial remarks, with some even calling her tweets anti-Semitic.
@AnnCoulter Hey, Ann! You know these are public, right?
— Evan Weiss (@eaweiss) September 17, 2015
"@AnnCoulter How many f—ing Jews …" OK, just to be fair, if Ann comes on the Hustle, I'll let her shave MY legs for ME. #QuidQuoPro
— Paul Heyman (@HeymanHustle) September 17, 2015
.@AnnCoulter rails against "f—ing Jews." Support for Israel, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism often go together pic.twitter.com/6rxVLxo7f5
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) September 17, 2015
@AnnCoulter What kind of jackassery, anti-Semitic Tweet is this? Totally gratuitous. Despicable.
— Quin Hillyer (@QuinHillyer) September 17, 2015
While tweeted responses to Coulter’s controversial comments were mostly outraged, there were some followers who never wavered in their support of the conservative pundit.
It didn’t take Coulter long to realize she’d incited a very negative firestorm with her controversial question (the answer is, roughly 9 million Jews, by religious practice and/or ancestry, live in the U.S.), and she was quick to throw out some pseudo-contrite follow-up tweets.
I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan. Didn't need to hear applause lines about them all night. https://t.co/4guFehK0CM
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015
True, but if we keep importing the 3d world, no GOP will ever be elected POTUS again, just President Obamas forever. https://t.co/tkZ7nvSEJN
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015
Despite her backhanded “sort of apology,” Coulter kept the controversial tweets flowing. The barrage of tweets primarily had to do with the “pandering” Republican candidates, illegal immigration, abortion, and Israel’s own border fences.
Indeed, the inexplicable nature of Coulter’s initial controversial tweets, followed by dozens more that seemed constructed to strike up a dialogue, is an interesting study in juxtaposition. The narrative that can be followed by reading her stream of tweets makes one wonder: Could she have posted the first of her controversial tweets with an agenda? Perhaps to generate some attention and buzz for herself?
Some of her followers found this to be the case. No one can argue that she certainly guaranteed a captive audience for her subsequent controversial diatribe.
@AnnCoulter OK class. Let's all look at Ann. She wants our attention. Are you happy now? Ok, now sit down and be quiet please.
— Save Lakewood? (@savelakewoodnj) September 17, 2015
Ring of Fire Radio certainly thinks that the controversial Coulter might be feeling ignored. They broke the story on September 15, the day before the GOP debate and her string of offensive, controversial tweets. The article states that the abrasive conservative personality hasn’t only felt overlooked by her fans, but by her right-wing media bread-and-butter bosses, too.
“They’re ignoring me, now!”
Regardless of the “why,” there was clear ugliness behind Ann Coulter’s debate night tweets. The Telegraph reports that her controversial comments triggered the offensive social media movement #IStandWithAnn, too. Most of the tweets associated with the #IStandWithAnn hashtag have been in support of Coulter’s controversial sentiments. Many of the tweets have also been offensive, racist, religiously intolerant, and/or anti-Semitic in nature.
The hashtag is reportedly a mockery of #IStandWithAhmed, which was created to generate tweets to support a 14-year-old Irving, Texas, student. He was arrested for bringing a controversial homemade clock to school, which teachers mistook for a bomb.
With Ann Coulter once again dominating social media today, one thing’s for certain: we haven’t seen the last of her controversial tweets.
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