Ann Coulter is at it again, this time claiming
anyone who likes soccer is clearly not a “real American.” Among her brilliant,
and completely inaccurate, statements regarding a sport she has clearly never watched
are the following:
“If more ‘Americans’ are watching soccer today,
it’s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy’s 1965
immigration law,” Coulter wrote. “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.”
“Doing the job Americans just won’t do: Immigrants
fill up roster of ‘U.S.’ soccer team.”
“Baseball and basketball present a constant
threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game
-- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100
miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After
a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.”
“I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people
trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's
"Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New
York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only
by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.”
“Individual
achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble
passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When
baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's
also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.”
“In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no
one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no
child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed
women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."
“Do they
even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every
once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go
wild. I'm already asleep.”
“Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in
which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys.
No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.”
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