Coulter to appear on June 26 Hardball - first time since "brilliant brain" called Gore a "total fag"

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Coulter to appear on June 26 Hardball - first time since "brilliant brain" called Gore a "total fag"

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According to an advertisement during the June 24 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter will be returning to MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews on June 26 -- her first appearance on the program since July 27, 2006, when she referred to former Vice President Al Gore as a "total fag." Since that appearance, she has also referred to former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) as a "faggot." The ad on Meet the Press said: "She's ignited controversy across America. But can Ann Coulter stand the heat in the Hardball hot seat, going head-to-head with Chris Matthews?" During Coulter's last appearance on Hardball, however, Matthews repeatedly complimented Coulter -- referring to her as writing "beautifully" and having a "brilliant brain." During the interview, Matthews asked Coulter, "How do you know that Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her statement the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that Clinton "show{s} some level of latent homosexuality." Coulter responded, "I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag."

She went on to defend her theory about Clinton's sexuality by stating that "everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them." Coulter said she was "just kidding" about Gore, but stated of her theory about Clinton, "It's not only not a joke, it's not even surprising." Coulter explained her assertion that Clinton is gay by stating, "For any feminist with the benefit of something beyond a community-college education, this is standard feminist doctrine that wild promiscuity shows a fear-hostility of women." Matthews responded: "Well, thanks, Ann. You're great."

At the beginning of the interview, Matthews told Coulter: "You write beautifully. You have a brilliant brain." He continued: "I stayed up last night reading your chapter on Willie Horton, which was absolutely stunning in its satire, it reminded me of the young {conservative columnist} George Will." He also described her as "the picture of heaven." Coulter remarked during the interview that when "most Americans" heard that an Israeli airstrike had hit a United Nations observer post in south Lebanon on July 25, killing four U.N. observers, they hoped to hear similar news about "the installation on 42nd Street" -- presumably a reference to the U.N. headquarters in New York City. In response to this suggestion, Matthews said: "Thank you, Ann." In concluding the interview, Matthews said of Coulter, "We'd love to have her back."

Following her July 27, 2006, appearance on Hardball, Coulter has continued in her tradition of making "controver" remarks, as Media Matters for America has documented:

In her August 9, 2006, column, Coulter wrote that, without affirmative action, African-American Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) couldn't get a job "that didn't involve wearing a paper hat."