Ever since Meghan McCain left The View six months ago, the show has featured a rotating roster of conservative guest co-hosts as it searches for a permanent replacement. One person who definitely does not appear to be in the running for the job is provocateur Ann Coulter.
“Yes, of course I would [take the job] but they will never pick me,” Coulter recently told The New York Post. “[It seems] they don’t mean what they say. You might be exposing a double-secret requirement: Must be a dumb, easy-to-push-around Republican.”
An unnamed source added, “They will never take Ann Coulter. They’re really looking for someone who can have polite arguments to raise the ratings without getting too aggressive. They’re also not looking for someone who could possibly win an argument.”
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Now, we have no idea why ABC’s top-rated daytime show hasn’t offered Coulter a job, but we suspect it might have less to do with her ability to “win an argument” and more to do with the fact that her entire platform has been built on spewing hatred and bigotry.
When it comes to queer people, for example, she opposes same-sex marriage, civil unions, trans bathroom rights, and non-discrimination protections for LGTBQ people. She also supports DADT, anti-sodomy laws, banning trans people from serving in the military, and homophobic “religious freedom” laws.
Oh, and she once famously told a gay man on a reality show that he should be against abortion because “as soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?”
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Call us crazy, but we can’t imagine too many television viewers tuning in to watch that kind of toxicity each and every morning.
That said, Coulter has made several appearances on The View over the years, and it has always made for good television, but probably not the kind producers want to replicate on a daily basis and certainly not the kind advertisers want any part of.
Here’s a video of her getting into an argument about race with Whoopi Goldberg back in 2012.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mister P
The problem is there doesn’t seem to be normal and reasonable repugnants anymore.
Mr. Stadnick
Or it could be she is a hateful and mean spirited racist, homophobic, “christian” who spews nastiness and untruths.
Rickster62
She’s married to a black man you illiterate liberal fool
SFMike
Why would they even want to be around this sad nasty piece of work.
Godof 1967
She is as smart as she is pretty..
scotty
good one
chat fisher
She gets Uglier every day. At least she can not get any dumber!
Heywood Jablowme
She is hard to see on TV because if she turns sideways she’s invisible. Like Maris on “Frasier.”
Kangol2
This is the same plagiarizing witch who called Bill Clinton a “f*gg*t”! Do you think that or any of her other hateful, anti-gay or racist comments ever got this witch banned or canceled? NO. The whole “left-wing” “cancel culture” canard from the right is BS, just like their endless screams about “free speech.” Right-wing fanatics in Missouri just got Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye removed from a suburban school library; right-wing fanatics across the US are banning non-existent “CRT,” even when they cannot say what it is; and Florida is trying to ban the teaching of anything about LGBTQ people. Where’s the outcry about “cancel culture” and “free speech” from the right about these real-world instances of intolerance and speech suppression?
Rickster62
She’s married to a black man you illiterate liberal fool
RTG
Rickster62- “She’s married to a black man”- What have you been smoking? She’s never been married. She’s cut of the same cloth as Tucker Carlson: They make money by slash and burn commentary and gaslighting the nation. They’ve long since sold their souls. Get a grip and stop reading OAN.
bachy
Anne Coulter is the dead-eyed baton twirler leading the Ugly American Parade.
scotty
Honestly how anyone would want to be on a panel show semi moderated by Whoopi g and joy. I mean she’s better off running away.
Cam
Maybe it was her performance on the Roast of Rob Lowe that convinced them she would be bad on TV.
Ronbo
I refuse to watch the View since they ALL came out for censorship against actual journalism. Their hypocrisy was revealed saying that they supported the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks revealing Sarah Palin; but, turning against the same Wikileaks when they printed the actual emails from Hillary.
No one liked the Nazis marching in a public parade in Skokie; but, the first amendment is more important than politics – even repugnant politics.
Rickster62
Ann Coulter is far to smart and Educated for the illiterate Liberal trash on The View. She has her Juris Doctorate Degree.
Ann Coulter Net Worth: “Ann Coulter is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist and lawyer who has a net worth of $10 million. She is a controversial figure in some circles, priding herself on making liberal stomachs turn.
Early Life: Ann Hart Coulter was born in New York City on December 8, 1961. Her father, John Vincent Coulter, was from Albany, New York, and her mother, Nell Husbands Coulter (née Martin), was born Paducah, Kentucky. Her father served as an FBI agent. She was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, along with her two older brothers, James and John. After graduating from New Canaan High School in 1980, Coulter continued her education at Cornell University. While in college, she was a member of the Delta Gamma national sorority, and also helped found “The Cornell Review”, an independent student-published newspaper that is now one of the leading conservative college publications in the US. She received a BA degree in History from Cornell in 1984, and went on to get a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988. At Michigan, Coulter was the editor of the “Michigan Law Review”, and she also received training from the National Journalism Center.”
Josie97
I miss the eye patch,it was so her
CNY1983
There is no more boring person on earth than ann coulter, and she has been consistently boring since the 90’s. I thought she was in a nursing home for mean, bitter, pinched-faced republicans with clinton derangement syndrome.