December 08
Ann Hart Coulter's Birthday

Ann Coulter is a columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author known for her abrasive and often hateful sarcasm, She is a self-described "constitutional lawyer", but better known as the Barbie Doll agent provocateur of the ultra far right. Coulter debuted as a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal advisor for the attorneys representing Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton.

Ann has been a lightning rod with her catty and sometimes vicious comments. In her book Slander, Coulter stated that the New York Times made several statements comparing Christians to Nazis. On September 14, 2001, three days after the 9-11 attacks she wrote in her column:

"Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

In Godless, Ann criticized the four 9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls, writing:

These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president ... cutting campaign commercials... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."

During an interview with Donny Deutsch on his CNBC program The Big Idea of October 2007, Ann stated that the United States is a Christian nation and suggested Christians viewed themselves as "perfected Jews." Deutsch, a practicing Jew, told Coulter he found the comments personally offensive and anti-semitic; Coulter replied that she could not understand his reaction.

Unfortunately, Ann’s continual catty comments may have given the cat population a very bad name. The most appropriate way to celebrate her birthday is to prepare a batch of Langue de chat and watch the director's cut of Rosemary's Baby while wondering what Ann's mother's name is.

Langue de chat
(Cat's Tongue Cookies)

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp lemon rind
3/4 cup flour

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350º F.
Cream together 1/2 cup butter with 1/2 cup white sugar. Add 1 egg, vanilla, and lemon rind
Beat in 3/4 cup flour into mixture.
Put dough into a pastry bag or cake decorator fitted with a 1/4 inch round opening. Press dough onto a greased cookie sheet in 2&1/2 lengths, well spaced. Bake for 5 minutes, or until very lightly brown.