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Huh? Soccer un-American? Ann Coulter thinks so

Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network 4:19 p.m. EDT June 26, 2014

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Soccer is destroying the USA. So says conservative syndicated columnist Ann Coulter.

Coulter went on a rant about the sport, calling it un-American in a column
Wednesday headlined, "America's Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer."

Readers called the column "contemptible," "uneducated" and "moronic" in comments posted on The Clarion Ledger's website. The Ledger is owned by Gannett, which also owns USA TODAY. Coulter's column is distributed by Universal Press.

"Hahaha this is the biggest lot of nonsense I have ever read," one commenter wrote.

Coulter argues the reason people are watching soccer now is because of Sen. Edward Kennedy's 1965 immigration law.

"I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer," she wrote. "One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time."

She also says soccer is not a "real sport." A real sport, she argues, requires individual achievement and "the prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury."

"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," she wrote.

Tweeters also joined in on the chorus of criticism.

"Ann Coulter meets a new low. I have no words. Probably the worst column I've read. And I don't even like soccer," one person tweeted.

Boy- this Tea Party babe has totally lost it... I really think they are purposely trying to run educated, worldly, and immigrant folks away from the Republican party.... No wonder so many think Republicans can never again win a national election...

A person is un-American if you watch soccer :???: .... Destroying the country... :???: Here I thought Palin said she was a soccer mom :???: Is Sarah and all soccer-moms un-American :???:
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