To the editor:

For those who are unfamiliar with the reactionary Ann Coulter, so-called political analyst, lawyer and a guest lecturer for KU’s School of Business Vickers Lecture Series, allow me to share a few of her many inflammatory remarks, for which she makes no apologies.

“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.” — Ann Coulter to George Gurley, New York Observer, Aug. 21, 2002

“… a cruise missile is more important than Head Start.” — Ann Coulter, November 2001 speech rebroadcast by C-SPAN in January 2002

On Islamic extremists: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” — Ann Coulter, National Review Online, September 2001

“The problem with women voting is that women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it — it’s always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.” — Ann Coulter, Politically Incorrect, Feb. 26, 2001

To a disabled Vietnam vet: “People like you caused us to lose that war.” — Ann Coulter, MSNBC, 1996

“Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy ’60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism.” — Ann Coulter, TownHall.com, Dec. 26, 2002

In addition to her juvenile quips, Coulter is notorious for commentary that is virulent, baseless and absent of intellectual thought or analysis. That anyone would mistake her for a scholar is ridiculous, and the invitation to speak, an embarrassment to the KU community.

Kimberly White,

Lawrence