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The Next Ann Coulter?

December 16th, 2011 9:32 pm Associated Press

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A 20-year-old college student has developed a following and gotten at least five marriage proposals after writing a column about her experiences with welfare recipients as a Wal-Mart cashier. She says she wants to be the next Ann Coulter.

Christine Rousselle, who attends Providence College in Rhode Island, wrote on the website The College Conservative about her experiences working as a teenager at a Wal-Mart store in her hometown of Scarborough, Maine.

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  • sobedem

    Miss Rousselle wants to be the next Ann Coulter? Can you set the bar any lower? This reminds me of the Acorn situation where as it turns out was mostly Bullsh#t. Yes there are people that will always game the system (of course right wingers are only outraged when poor people do it, there doesnt seem to be outrage when politicians do it)Does this young lady have any proof other than her say so?

  • PaulaB

    How scary is that? Someone wants to be the next Ann Coulter. This probably means there is someone out there wanting to be the next Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or god forbid, the next Bill o’reilly. Frightening……………

  • MichaelBriggs

    I wonder if Miss Rouselle would be as gleeful about covering the interesting situation in which Texas Governor and ditzy Presidential contender, Rick Perry, double dips into the state coffers, collecting a salary and retirement benefits simultaneously. My guess is that the next Ann Coulter would tend to forgive Republican welfare queens.

  • chance

    The lady is 100% right, get a grip all of you bleeding heart liberals. I was in the grocery business for 30 years and saw food stamps on a dailly basis. I rarely saw anybody that appeared to be in dire need of the stamps, not only from their appearance but especially from their purchases. Yes there were certain standards in place, but how do you justify buying filet mignom instead of ground beef?

  • peteserb

    It’s amazing how quickly the liberals attack someone for telling of thier experience with the welfare moochers. Obviously OWS has a lot of fans in the liberal sector. It’s exactly what the democrats, The Memo and Obama like.

  • DisgruntledDemocrat

    I’m not going to deny that there are people who abuse the food stamp and welfare system, because it’s been proven too many times. But just like when one corrupt cop is exposed, no one shines a light on the nearly million law enforcement officers who daily risk their lives to protect the rest of us with little thanks and not nearly enough income for doing so. If this young conservative woman really wants to do something constructive for the Republican Party, she’d want to be the antithesis of a polarizing blight on the GOP like Ann Coulter. She should be writing about corporate welfare which is so huge and widespread that it makes this food stamp fraud penny ante nonsense. Another anti-Semitic, misogynist, ball-busting, pro-warmongering, pro-terrorist, racist, homophobic, pro-fascist publicity-hungry imperialist spewing hate is not exactly what this country needs. You do have to give Coulter credit for being an equal opportunity offender, since she calls men wimps (she’s smarter and has more balls) and she hates women in general (they shouldn’t vote, have premarital sex, be in politics or serve in the military, but they should all carry guns). If Coulter’s interpretation of the Bible was indeed accurate and THE true Gospel (rape the planet, conquer at will), every God-fearing Christian in the world would immediately convert to something else. I’ve always wondered if she’s really just a drag queen who hasn’t come to grips with her identity.

  • Dean May

    And we don’t need to improve the education of our young???????

  • valszy

    Why not try to be the next ranter from the far right — Coulter, Beck, O’Reilly all make tons of money — the American dream. The American way, get rich by spewing hate and fear.

  • FryarTuk

    The food stamp system is replete with fraud by the poor as well as the grocery stores large and small. It can be fixed by prosecuting a number of the stores and clients with a lot of heavy press. But Ann Coulter? Puhleeze. Coulter is just intellectually encopretic.

  • W8kwses

    The difference between Coulter and ethical commentators is the degree of looking into things that precedes opening the mouth and uttering noise.

    The problem some perceived of welfare cheats requires a little thought. If someone has food stamps, it may be impolitic to use them to buy a luxury food item, but Congress and the President have not chosen to limit how stamps may be used, and if someone wants to burn up their monthly allowance on something expensive, it is their right, and they will pay for it additionally by the card being exhausted before the month is out.

    The only difference between any among the 99% who cheat to obtain access to food stamps, and any among the 1% who play games with their taxes or health and safety regulations, is that the latter can hire armies of accountants and attorneys to advise him how best to do so secure in the knowledge that his such assistants are at least as good and likely better at what they do than any the government may send against them. A holier than thou attitude rarely sells well.

  • Jim Groom

    Apparently anyone on food stamps must look terrible when using them. Heaven forbide that they present a good appearance when buying food at his store. Obviously he has never been in need and carries around a cultural bias. BTW, he has a problem with their choice of food items as well. Would he prefer a food stamp aisle with the appropriate food offerings for such people? Too bad, but not surprising.

  • gotedge

    Isn’t the first one enough? I’m not so much disturbed by the young lady’s position—she is entitled to be a neanderthal (and proud of it)—but I am disturbed by the fact that all she learned in college was to imitate someone else. And all this time I believed that colleges taught their students to think for themselves. So, tell me you are an arch-conservative. Tell me even that you would love to see poor people starve in the street. Tell me that you will see everyone die because a few are dishonest, but don’t tell me you want to imitate Anne Coulter…or for that matter, Jessica Alba.

    We have here a young woman who judges the many fron the few she has had contact with, and not even all of those she has had contact with but she sees only those who SHE considers to have abused their benefits. I mean, she must have been at the head of her class to aspire to spend her teens working at Wal-Mart where employees are treated like plantation slaves. If your employer steals through buying products of child labor, underpaying its staff and paying women less than men, who is she to be the first in the pot to call the kettle black?

    Propose marriage to her? I think not. Perhaps I would propose she take a course in how to evaluate data fairly. I’d accept even a grace-of-God “D” from her for the course.

  • jumpingnots

    Yes there are always people that abuse a system,she does not tell me any news here and there should be ways to stop this,I think giving all these people that special credit card was the wrong move,so you can not controlle what they buy it was just an other move from our Government to make it easy so they don’t have to mess with the foodstamps in the early days,and the shops don’t care as long as they sell their products and make a profit,so it will never work out this way and some people keep just buying stuff on that card other then the food they really need,but don’t put this on all of these people,that is a bunch of bull.I would say go back to the foodstamps like in the old days,our family had them in the depression years and we went to the stores to cash them in for food,but no luxury items,and that’s the way it should be.

  • dagumpster

    I am sure I would be upset with people taking advantage of the system who happen to be on food stamps. But then I get upset at people who have handicap license plates who park in handicap parking places. But the biggest slap in the face is when presidential contenders are double dipping by drawing pension benefits such as Rick Perry.And how about the executives who draw millions even though they are bilking the working American.

  • ajaxgeneral

    “…how quickly the liberals attack someone for telling of thier experience with the welfare moochers”…
    Maybe it’s because they only know the true poor who must live on this benefit for existence.. What do you think, that the abusers and frauds actually broadcast their intentions? I’ve seen this crap as well (watching as old biddy posers with their noses in the air, getting out of their Cadillac at the A&P and paying for sides of beef with food stamps) but all I could do is complain to those (who I knew) that needed and were worthy of receiving FS for themselves and their children (figuring that of all the people who could find the right authorities to complain to, it would be a true welfare recipient) but in every instance, they would (later) tell me that no one would listen to them.. Now, how’s that for abusing the system, when the frauds are pointed out (license plate number and all) while those in charge refuse or ignore the reports and going over their heads results in the same manner. To get rid of welfare abuse, first eliminate those who knowingly allow this abuse and replace them with people who value their jobs and are honest enough to represent the people and not toads that don’t give a flip.

  • terango.lf

    Bitch? A heartless souless hateful and mean money whore?

  • k.drone

    Ann Coutler is hilarious and a catalyst for liberals, she does nothing but irritate and motivate liberals, she is dry, witty and extremely saracsstic. Anybody that wants to fill Glen Becks shoes or Limbaugh’s wants money and fame and will use conservatism to get it. Democrats and liberals are highly susceptible to reactionary tactics and fall for it weekly. They play you people like a board or video game. Whats even more true and scary is liberal looking or fronting entertainers and media moguls rip off “libs” feeding into their sensibilities, aspirations, and preferences. I can name and think more than three highly wealthy media moguls/entertainers, that use liberals for profit, rape portions of the art and activists communities-but because they appeal to the liberal sensibility without insult-no one pays them mind and they recieve a “free pass” from Democrats to carry on.

  • CarolOttinger

    As a 20 yr checker, she knows all that goes on in someones life? Food debit cards are the same cards used for state cash benefits. You can not even buy toilet paper with food benefits! If someone buys a toy, it would not come from the food benefit part of the card but the cash monthly allotment if they are on welfare. Even those on welfare now and then will buy their child a toy. Expensive IPhones? Many of them are free simply for signing up. I hate welfare fraud like everyone else but also hate those who have no idea of what they are talking about.

  • JohnSix

    she lies like “andy” coulter and totally disregards the fact that those lies are easy to disprove! and for you conservatives who think we evil Liberals are just jumping in to defend those non-corporate welfare queens, suck it! We just like the truth to be a factor before we jump in with opinions unlike you horse shit followers that believe anyone who tells you what you want to hear!

  • Bill Redding

    In response to an article in the National Memo nationalmemo.com regarding a young lady who wants to be the next Ann Coulter.
    Christine Rousselle, who attends Providence College in Rhode Island, wrote on the website The College Conservative about her experiences working as a teenager at a Wal-Mart store in her hometown of Scarborough, Maine. In the column this week, Rousselle described customers using welfare money to buy toys, lobsters and jewelry, and welfare recipients yakking on expensive iPhones. She suggested that a hot dog stand operator used food stamps to supply his business.
    ‘Thievery’ is an American sub-culture: welfare fraud, Medicare fraud and probably the most common thievery…income tax cheating.

    I suggest that Ms. Rousselle spend an equal amount of time in the corporate board rooms of Wall St; drug companies; oil companies and the big banks. Then she’ll forget about the welfare pennies compared to the theft of billions by our corporate world.
    I suggest that she weed the entire garden rather than her little garden patch.

  • JohnSix

    I just heard Rousselle and Christine O’Donnell are having a relationship! She may end up being anne coulter sooner than she thinks.