Ann Coulter Returns To MSNBC (VIDEO)

Ann Coulter returned to MSNBC Thursday night for a discussion about Chris Christie with "Last Word" host Lawrence O'Donnell.

Coulter, who was fired twice from the network in the 1990s, joked with O'Donnell about her MSNBC past.

"It's the only network I've ever worked for," Coulter told O'Donnell of MSNBC. "I started with you. They liked you more than they liked me."

Coulter would go on to praise New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as the most viable 2012 Republican presidential contender, and add that Sarah Palin shouldn't bother running for office.

"I love her, I think she could win the nomination," Coulter said of Palin. "I especially love her for her enemies. I'm insanely jealous of that. I love her for how she makes liberal heads explode....but I think it would be a step down for her to run for president. It's like saying Rush Limbaugh should run for president. She's huge, she has enormous power. She sends out a Twitter on death panels and everyone's talking about it. I think it would be crazy for her to run for president."

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Coulter was hired by MSNBC when the network launched in 1996, and "quickly became one of its most loved and hated contributors," according to a TIME magazine profile. She was fired twice: first for insulting US Ambassador to France Pamela Harriman during the coverage of her funeral, and later over an on-air argument with a Vietnam veteran in which she said, "No wonder you guys lost."

Comments

[Canadian on the border]

04:27 AM on 02/24/2011

ann's pretty hot when she isn't offending anyone every now and then

[sean0008]

03:06 PM on 02/23/2011

Ann Coulter is one of the few figures on the Right that makes Palin look competent and sane by comparison. I'm amazed MSNBC is even giving her air time. I'd like to think she's irrelevant, but I guess producers still like to bring Coulter on shows because they know people can't look away. Kind of like how I wish Glenn Beck would go away, but I sort of look forward to finding out if he can possibly get any more ridiculous. He scares me though, because so many people believe him. Coulter scares me too, because I know she says a lot of offensive things that others are thinking.

[Northern Observer]

02:11 PM on 02/23/2011

Oh is she that person who used to be someone people listened to, but now just looks more and more pathetic trying to rekindle the good ol' days of shock commentary. By today's standards anyway, she's not shocking and anything she says that she thinks would be shocking, has already been said by other more current and "relevant" (only to some) people.

[eightyeight]

12:03 PM on 02/23/2011

Here we have another reason why not to write articles - have TV commentary and all other forms of media comments about Anne Coulter ,Glen Beck ,Rush Limbaugh ,Sarah Palin and any other publicity seeking shockists.What is very frustrating to me is every time some ridiculous comment is made to enrage the left - the left duely falls for it.Money is the main motivator not politics or ideology for these succesful protagonists. All of the people I just mentioned are getting very rich of ridiculous comments that are loosely fact based .I just don't understand why the media is so blinded by this political pornography or are they getting rich off fuelling cynical extortionists of other peoples ignorance and misplaced rage.

[jeremyfive]

11:50 AM on 02/23/2011

Sour grapes. No more. No less.

[AD]

10:15 AM on 02/23/2011

Jeeez, Lawrence, please DO NOT give this woman a forum.

[jaslyn]

09:33 PM on 02/22/2011

Everything she says is meant to be inflammatory, and get attention. Beyond that, you can't take anything she says seriously.

[Greenchilistew]

12:41 PM on 02/23/2011

She's also not as bright as she likes to think she is. She was remarkably uninformed about Canada's role in Vietnam:

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/sticksandstones_multimedia2.html

Coulter simply speaks without thinking. Her arrogance does not allow for even the possibility of error or opposing positions. She is imperious and condescending beyond belief.

[FoxIslander]

03:13 PM on 02/22/2011

...hadn't heard much from AC in the last 6 months & was enjoying it immensely....geez...thanx msnbc.

[StopMakingSense2]

01:08 PM on 02/22/2011

And MSNBC would be crazy to hire you but there you are! Does make everyone else on the network look more credible.

[waynesmyer]

09:17 AM on 02/22/2011

Have you ever been "mooned" by Annie"Ole Brown-Eye" It was not a pretty sight!

[Patrick Romandy-Simmons]

03:20 AM on 02/22/2011

Dear MSNBC please stop giving this woman a platform!

[llfutrell]

05:21 PM on 02/22/2011

Dont give a platform to someone who doesn't think like you? Yeah sure. We should get everyone off tv that says stuff we dont agree with because all just want to hear what we like.

[Samson1]

07:27 PM on 02/22/2011

Tea Party TV, maybe TPTV?

[jaslyn]

09:32 PM on 02/22/2011

she has nothing of value to offer Ever. She's a bomb thrower who loves the limelight ala Palin.

[GaiasChild]

02:18 AM on 02/22/2011

if it helps any, i find you, ann, just as revolting a figure as palin. you are much less interesting a public figure because you lack sarah's presence and patchwork quilt of naieve and inappropriate confidence stewing around with opportunism and cynicism. your problem is that you are consistent and consistently mean minded and drab. sarah is more like a combination of a volcano and a pinyata ... quite a fire show . . . and if she can get the nomination, she would not be crazy to run. she would be nominated. which would mean your party would consider her presidential. that's crazy.

[SueEll]

08:13 PM on 02/21/2011

She's all giggly and cheerful now -- looks like she's trying to spin a new image for herself.

[JoeHurley]

07:00 AM on 02/22/2011

She's always like that. In fact, most of her "one-liners" are delivered in the same sing-song voice that you find so giggly and cheerful now.

[JerryMerry]

06:38 PM on 02/21/2011

She's being put there to promote Chris Christie.

[Tulka2]

03:12 PM on 02/21/2011

I want Palin to run.  Oh, yes, indeedy. 

[GaiasChild]

02:19 AM on 02/22/2011

she's running she's running she's been running ever since she got turned away with her concession speech in her hand.