‘The View’ for Ann Coulter? Hostile

NEW YORK - Last week, Ann Coulter squared off against Matt Lauer on NBC’s “TODAY” show, and Monday the conservative political pundit brought her provocative point of view to ABC’s “The View.”

The tension was thick from the get go, as Walters introduced Coulter, saying, “We’ve all been discussing your book on camera.”

“Yes, I’ve heard,” Coulter said, interrupting Walters.

“Good, you should be pleased,” Walters snapped back, which silenced Coulter.

The hot topics quickly boiled over when talk turned to Coulter’s view on single mothers.

“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.”

The talk took a particularly awkward turn when Coulter accused Walters of reading her book like it was something Adolf Hitler had written.

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“I’ve never heard my book read aloud, like you’re reading Mein Kampf, and I just did,” Coulter told Walters, referring to Hitler’s manifesto. “Read it like you’re reading Mein Kampf again!”

“I don’t think I did,” Walters said.

“I think you did,” Coulter snapped. “You spat out the words, like I wasn’t sitting here.”

“I don’t appreciate the way you’re talking to her,” Sherri Shepherd told Coulter defending Walters. “Nobody is attacking you. You don’t have to talk to her like that!”

Luckily, Goldberg wrapped up the madness by taking it to commercial.

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