"Victim of crime? Thank a single mother"

Don't gang up on me, I didn't say it...It was Ann Coulter who made that comment among many other disgusting statements that I will mention soon. I figure some people don't know who Ann Coulter is, according to Wikipedia,Coulter is an American conservative political commentator, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. Known for her controversial and confrontational style, Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to "stir up the pot" and, unlike "broadcasters", does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced".[1]
Coulter was promoting her newest book, "Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America," when, during an interview with Matt Lauer, she blamed the majority of society's ills on single mothers. She claims that the "liberal media" exalts the single mom, despite the fact that -- her words, not mine -- most teenage mothers, runaways, murderers and rapists can be traced back to them.

She definitely stirred up the pot this time. In her upcoming book she seems to shoot a fussilade of insults to single mothers and women in general, let me give you a little taste, shall I?
Coulter calls children whose parents divorce "future strippers" in a chapter titled "Victim of a Crime? Thank a Single Mother":
In any event, divorced mothers should be called "divorced mothers," not "single mothers." We also have a term for the youngsters involved: "the children of divorce," or as I call them, "future strippers." It is a mark of how attractive it is to be a phony victim that divorcées will often claim to belong to the more disreputable category of "single mothers." [Page 36]
Later in the chapter, Coulter writes: "Single motherhood is like a farm team for future criminals and social outcasts." [Page 38]
• Coulter claims that Obama, actress Halle Berry, and musician Alicia Keys "race bait[ed] their way to success": Even grifters know that to be embraced by the cool people in America, you must claim to be a victim, preferably abused by religious fundamentalists.
In a related phenomenon, various half-black celebrities insist on representing themselves simply as "black" -- the better to race-bait their way to success. Actress Halle Berry, singer Alicia Keys, and matinee idol Barack Obama were all abandoned by their black fathers and raised by their white mothers. But instead of seeing themselves as half-white, they prefer to see the glass as half-black. They all choose to identify with the fathers who ditched them, while insulting the women who struggled to raise them.
In 2002, Berry engaged in wild race-baiting to win her Oscar and then ate up most of the awards show with an interminable acceptance speech claiming that her award was "so much bigger than me." People who say "it's bigger than me" always mean it's just about them. During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly said the exact same thing: "This election is bigger than me." Would they be able to pawn off their personal victories as transformative events for the nation if they were not claiming to be doing it for the blacks? [Page 7]
During a Wednesday morning visit to the "Today Show," the Queen of Conservatives unleashed her wrath on single moms and 9/11 widows, calling women who lost their husbands in the terrorist attack "griefazillas" and saying that any societal problem -- including murders and rape -- can be traced back to single moms.
Later in her visit she told Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb that 9/11 widows "advance" socially and financially using their "victimhood as a shield."
Below is an excerpt of the Circus antics Coulter displayed on "The View"
“What is your issue with single mothers?” Whoopi Goldberg inquired.

After a lengthy tirade, Coulter then took issue with the manner in which Hollywood is portraying women having children out of marriage.

“It’s the new thing, as opposed to the sex tape,” Coulter said of single moms. “Hollywood, mainstream media, the New York Times, women’s magazines, exalting single motherhood, movie after movie about single motherhood, book after book, sisters are doing it for themselves.”

Goldberg stopped Coulter’s rampage against single moms, asking, “Are you married? Do you have kids?”

“No, but it wouldn’t change the difference of the facts I cite,” Coulter said, referring to the claims she makes in her book.

“Well, it would,” Goldberg countered. “If you had children, you would know more of what you’re talking about.”

I should firstly say that Coulter is both unwed and has no children so she has no point of reference for anything she has said thus far. But then again, critics don't much need a point of reference, better yet a point worth proving. How is that single motherhood gives one a victim complex? My mother has been a single mom for most of her life, and a victim of many things, but has never exploited any of it for any type of gain or glorification, none of her children are criminals or strippers, her statements are nothing more that a prime example of an extreme hasty generalizarion. I have nothing but respect for the single parents I know, not because of their status of single mothers, but for the audacity and persistence of tackling such a task without being tragic victims, for doing something made for 2 parents and doing the best they can with what they have. And as far as the bi-racial comment, which is absurd as well, how many people that are bi-racial could really pass themselves as white unless they looked completely the part? Race isn't chosen by the parent who raised you, it is by our society who considers a person with a drop of black blood to be black. Well really, i'm about to go back to work, I have to rant on this later from my laptop when I go home...In short damn you Ann Coulter, for trying to sell a book at the expense of women.