Just weeks after Republican Sen.Ted Cruz compared
the glitches plaguing the website for Obama’s
signature health care law to the methodologies of
“Nigerian email scammers”, drawing diplomatic
anger of Nigeria, another American has picked on
the country.
“You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email
scammers have become a lot less active lately,”
Cruz said, according to the Houston Chronicle.
“They all have been hired to run the Obamacare
website.”
Ann Coulter, a rabid conservative ideologue, in an
article posted on Yahoo, ridiculed Nigerians, over
the Obamacare.
Coulter wrote: “Do you notice anything that stands
out about the list of convicts? Would any of their
names have sounded strange to Ben Franklin? Of 22
people convicted of defrauding American taxpayers
by fraudulently billing Medicare or Medicaid, at
least 17 have almost comically foreign names.
“None of the scammers should be foreigners! We
can’t do anything about our native-born crooks, but
why are we importing them?
“Enormous, unwieldy corrupt government programs
run by arrogant bureaucrats would be bad enough
in 1950. But after decades of our Third World-only
immigration policies, one can’t help noticing that
Medicare and Medicaid are beckoning Disneylands
for foreign-born thieves.
“The problem isn’t their complexion, it’s their
culture. In America, we think only dumb people
become criminals. That’s not true in the Third
World!
“Nigeria, for example, leads the world in criminal
enterprises. Every level of Nigerian society is
criminal, with the smart ones running Internet
scams, the mid-range ones running car theft rings,
and the stupid ones engaging in piracy and
kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can
major in credit card fraud.
“There were almost no Nigerians in the United
States until the 1970s. Today, there are nearly
250,000 Nigerians in the U.S. (committing the
cyber-crime Americans just won’t do!). In 2011, we
took in more immigrants from Nigeria than from
the United Kingdom (9,246 from the U.K. and
9,344 from Nigeria).
“Of course, Obamacare never would have passed
without decades of massive immigration from the
Third World. Liberals didn’t change any minds —
they changed the voters. In order to pass
Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the Third
World to vote Democratic.
“The downside is that the country is now chock-full
of people who come from cultures where criminality
and government corruption is a way of life — at the
very moment that the country is expanding a
government-run health insurance program already
shot through with fraud and abuse.
“Only confiscatory tax rates can support such a
system.
“Gosh, I sure hope our new Somali and Nigerian
immigrants have German-style rectitude and are
very honest about reporting all their income to the
government”.
Recent events have shown how dented the image
of Nigeria is many countries of the world, with the
Minister of Goa in India freely using derogatory
comments following protests by Nigerians in the
province after a Nigerian was killed in a drug-
related attack.
Coulter was once alleged to have refused to stay
onboard a commercial airline flight to New York
from Miami after learning the pilot was a woman of
African-American descent, an allegation the
conservative commentator and author denied.
The text and photo below was said to have
originated in a satirical (i.e., fictitious) article
published on the humor website The Daily Currant
on Jan. 29, 2013.
Nigeria is yet to respond to Ann Coulter’s
disparaging comment.
Ann Hart Coulter was born December 8, 1961. An
American conservative social and political
commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and
lawyer, Coulter frequently appears on television,
radio, and as a speaker at public and private events.
She rose to prominence as a talking head in the
1990s as an outspoken critic of the Clinton
administration. Well known for her conservative
political opinions and the controversial ways in
which she presents and defends them, Coulter has
described herself as a polemicist who likes to “stir
up the pot”, and does not “pretend to be impartial
or balanced, as broadcasters do”, sometimes
drawing criticism from the right, as well as the left.
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