Coulter Trolls US Soccer Fans: Growing Interest Shows ‘National Decay’

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Leave it to Ann Coulter to try and spoil the fun ahead of Thursday’s pivotal USA-Germany World Cup soccer match.

After cautioning that she’d held off from writing about the beautiful game so as “not to offend anyone,” the conservative pundit dedicated her syndicated column to a rambling, point-by-point explanation of how “any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay.”

Coulter cited some predictable criticisms, arguing that “individual achievement” is barely a factor in the sport and that “it’s foreign.”

But she also laid out a few wackier gripes. Coulter took issue with the fact that a soccer player can’t use his or her hands in play, then made a bizarre comparison between the sport and the metric system that invoked the French Revolution and the guillotine. Basically, she argued that liberals’ adoration for soccer and the metric system runs deep because they’re both “European.”

Not one to leave any box unticked, Coulter even touched on immigration in the column’s kicker:

If more “Americans” are watching soccer today, it’s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

It’s worth noting that aside from the Olympics, the World Cup is really the only occasion when an American audience gets a chance to cheer on a national — rather than a regional — sports team. But apparently that doesn’t jibe with Coulter’s vision of patriotism.

TPM illustration by Christopher O’Driscoll. Image via AP.

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  1. bite it Ann-drew.

  2. No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer

    Guess I’m not an American. But seriously what is with these people and constantly trying to designate what makes you a “real American”. Even among their base, I’m sure there are people that don’t like the exact same things.

  3. that will sure help this shrill racist win hearts and minds.

  4. Ann, isn’t it time for another bite of that candy bar? This time, go all in and binge out on it. Why stop at one? Eat several! Please.

  5. Important to remember that this person, like Limpballs, is an entertainer. The fact that her audience is xenophobic-bigots doesn’t change that. It is expected that she says this stuff because that is her schtick. She is playing to what the audience wants. Bob-Dylan-going-electric she will never be, and don’t ever confuse her with a “pundit”, as low as that bar is.

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