By: Cedric Longworth
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter was recently recalling instances in which she was roughed up by liberals. One time came five years ago when she was roughed up by a dozen or so thugs as she left a comedy club in Greenwich Village. It reportedly happened at three in the morning as Coulter left the Comedy Cellar.
“They were animals, they were physical,” she told the New York Post. “We walk back in and got a couple of the big black guys at Comedy Cellar and the four of us had to fight just to get in a cab.” Another time, Coulter and some friends were accosted by a woman outside a bar screaming that she was – a female body part.
“The moments — while harrowing — are not unusual for Coulter,” the Post pointed out. “The conservative firebrand, now 57, says the abuse goes with the territory outside of the Upper East Side where she keeps a pied-à-terre and now spends most of her time in New York. The phenomenon long predates the election of Trump and her once vocal support for him.”
Indeed, the focus of the Post’s story is neither Coulter nor the increased thuggishness of liberals in the 21st century, but the real estate. “Long known for being one of the wealthiest enclaves of the city, the Upper East Side has a reputation for being more GOP-friendly than most famously liberal Manhattan neighborhoods. While Democrats still dominate elected offices, the UES sided against Bill de Blasio in 2013 and offered similar resistance in 2017, according to an analysis by the City University of New York.”
The Upper East Side “is absolutely the best for right-wingers. Even the liberals in [here] will send me bottles of wine,” Coulter said in an exclusive interview with the Post. “Coulter is a regular at the neighborhood staple which first opened in 1968, sometimes hanging out there with longtime friend and Daily Beast columnist Lloyd Grove. You can also catch her at Elio’s Sunday evenings when she’s in town, where she is especially fond of the restaurant’s salty right-wing bartender Brian,” the paper noted.
“Liberals on the Upper East Side paid $7 million for their apartments, they care what kind of world they live in. They are not lunatic antifa living with their mothers,” Coulter commented.
Coulter poked the proverbial hornet’s nest for the umpteenth times recently when she tweeted a message comparing hurricane Dorian to illegal aliens. “At least Dorian patiently waits outside our border before crashing ashore, more than can be said for your average illegal.”
