Conservative Heroine Ann Coulter: “Tell Poor People, ‘Keep Your Knees Together Before You’re Married’ (Video)
by Bob Cull
At CPAC
on Saturday a tribute to William F. Buckley's longtime PBS show Firing
Line was put together with Mickey Kaus, columnist for the Daily Caller
speaking from the progressive side and right wing heroine, the queen of
nasty, Anne Coulter speaking for the right.
Many
issues were discussed but one of the highlights came near the end when
Kaus cited Charles Murray, the libertarian pundit who has pointed out
that while there have always been rich and poor among us, as Americans
we shared a common culture--but that is no longer the norm. He asked
Coulter, "The rich have two parent families, the poor don't anymore. The
poor have babies out of wedlock. Does anybody on the right have a
solution to this problem?"
"Yeah,
I think Murray does," Coulter replied, "and I think part of the problem
is, and I completely agree with Charles Murray on this, I mean you read
these terrifying divorce statistics and then find out they are
completely different for college educated people and those without, or
with only a high school degree. The unwed motherhood rate and that just
feeds upon itself, and the one thing that's really changed besides, I
mean you have the government often subsidizing bad behavior, or you have
Hollywood rewarding bad behavior, but there's also an overwhelming
cultural sense, I think it is a political correctness to end shaming.
Shaming is good, this is how, I mean it's almost a cruel and selfish
thing, for lack of a better term, for the upper classes, the educated,
for the college graduates to refuse to tell the poor people, 'keep your knees together before you're married.'"
This
is, of course, classic Coulter. She speaks of shaming others as a
virtue while feeling no shame herself as she belittles others often for
no other reason than they are less successful than she.
Watch her remarks in the video below at the 17:15 mark.
h/t: Salon
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