Ann Debates Sally Kohn: Is American Conservatism Hostile to Women?

    On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, the Comedy Cellar hosted a debate between Ann and Carol Swain, and Sally Kohn and Janus Adams, with Kathleen Parker moderating. The debate is almost 2 hours. You can watch it here or below.

Hour 1:

Minutes 0-6: Introduction.
Minutes 6-10: Ann's opening statement.
Minutes 10-11: Carol Swain's opening statement.
Minutes 12-16: Janus Adams' opening statement.
Minutes 17-19: Sally Kohn's opening statement.
Minutes 20-22: Ann explains identity politics.
Minutes 23-34: Swain's additional statement.
Minutes 35-37: Adams discusses education.
Minutes 37-39: Kohn discusses Republican policies on abortion.
Minutes 40-41: Adams says the parties switched.
Minutes 41-42: Ann explains abortion.
Minutes 42-43: Kohn loves America.
Minutes 43-44: Kohn on guns.
Minutes 44-45: Swain on the parties not switching.
Minute 45: Moderator gives her own thoughts.
Minute 46: Kohn on back-alley abortions.
Minutes 47-51: Ann explains why women should vote for Trump even though he says rude things.
Minutes 51-53: Kohn responds.
Minute 54: Ann explains how to raise wages.
Minutes 55-56: Adams on why Clinton can be a good leader.
Minutes 56-57: Kohn on why you should vote for Clinton.
Minutes 58-59: Adams thinks Trump has bad humor.

Hour 2:

Minutes 0-2: Swain on not voting for Clinton.
Minutes 2-5: Ann says Sanders is somewhat like Trump and she explains why Hillary is only successful because of her husband.
Minutes 5-7: Ann explains why Trump is better than Hillary.
Minutes 6-7: Kohn responds.
Minute 8: Ann explains why Clinton is bad for Libya.
Minutes 8-9: Adams says Ann is wrong.
Minute 10: Adams says the Central Park 5 are innocent and Ann says they are guilty.
Minutes 11-12: Adams on the police.
Minute 13: Lauren asks about Clinton lying to the FBI.
Minute 14: Ann answers.
Minute 15: Kohn answers.
Minute 16: Ann defends Trump.
Minutes 16-17: Kohn discusses Trump.
Minutes 18-19: Kohn on Russia and Georgia.
Minutes 19-20: Why are single, young women voting Democrat?
Minutes 20-21: Ann answers.
Minutes 21-22: Swain answers.
Minutes 23-24: How can people support Trump having control of the nuclear weapons?
Minutes 25-27: Ann answers.
Minute 27: Swain answers.
Minutes 27-28: Kohn answers.
Minute 29: Finding someone to ask a question.
Minute 30: How can Swain say she supports someone because of her religion and not expect to alienate people?
Minutes 30-32: Swain answers.
Minutes 32-33: Do Hillary and Obama hate America?
Minute 34: How can you ignore your candidate's faults?
Minutes 34-36: Ann answers.
Minute 36: Adams is surprised Ann would compare Al Sharpton with David Duke.
Minutes 37-39: The KKK vs. Black Lives Matter.
Minutes 40-41: How can the Republican party reach out to younger people?
Minute 41: Ann answers.
Minutes 42-43: Swain answers.
Minutes 44-45: Kohn's thoughts on gays and Republicans.
Minutes 45-46: Swain on political correctness.
Minute 46: Kohn disagrees.
Minutes 47-48: How can Trump make America safer?
Minutes 48-49: Ann answers.
Minutes 49-50: Adams discusses the KKK and immigration.
Minutes 51-52: Kohn on Muslims.
Minute 52: Ann responds.
Minute 53: Adams responds.
Minutes 53-54: Swain explains how Americans need to be united.
Minutes 54-55: Closing.
Minute 56: Who will win the election? Close.

Ann Sits Down with Ben Shapiro

    On Monday, July 13, 2015, Ann went to an ¡Adios America! event in Garden Grove, CA at around 7:30pm-9pm. The video is available on Youtube or C-SPAN (computer generated transcript included). The C-SPAN video is 69 minutes long and embedded below. Ann is only on from minutes 0:09-1:09.

    Here are some quotes:

"Shapiro: Speaking of Donald Trump, obviously... he's had a big jump in the polls... You don't back Donald Trump for president.

Ann: Oh, I totally do.

Shapiro: Oh, really? [Surprised.]

Ann: Yeah [nodding].

Shapiro: Okay [grinning and nodding]." [Quote found in minutes 11-12.]

    On losing elections because of immigrants voting Democrat:

"I think probably some of you were as surprised as I was, the day, at 3am, election night. 'Huh, I thought [Romney] was gonna win that.' Well, get used to saying that a lot more. 'Huh, I thought we were gonna win that election. What happened to that state?'" [Quote found in minute 14.]

    On liberals calling immigration limits or deportations "racist" or "xenophobic."

"There has to be a restriction at some point. They're xenophobic the same way... any country is... [Shapiro says there are 7 billion people in the world.] They'd all like to live here and collect welfare in America and... have a nice life here... We're not taking them all, so at some point liberals are cutting them off too." [Quote found in minute 22.]

    If you do not have time to watch the full hour, here is what they talked about:

Hour 0:

Minutes 9-10: Ann wants to make interesting titles for Thomas Sowell's books.
Minute 10: Democrats, businesses, Republicans, and the media are all in favor of immigration.
Minute 11: The media determines the conversation, but now Donald Trump is bringing the topic up.
Minute 12: Trump read ¡Adios America! and it will help his campaign if other people read it too.
Minutes 13-15: Why immigration is the most important policy/topic.
Minute 16: America's immigration policy is bringing in peasant cultures.
Minutes 17-18: The middle class, blacks, and Hispanics are paying the cost that comes with immigration: hospitals, roads, schools, etc.
Minutes 18-19: America is becoming Brazil in terms of income inequality. Stopping immigration will cause wages to rise naturally.
Minutes 19-20: Is Ann's stance racist?
Minutes 20-21: Immigrants get affirmative action for absolutely no reason.
Minute 21: Jesse Jackson and Cesar Chavez opposed immigration.
Minute 22: All people (even liberals) are xenophobic to some point.
Minute 23: Immigration should be cut off to help the people here now.
Minutes 23-24: Should we pass amnesty in order to attract Hispanics?
Minute 25: Proposition 187 and Pete Wilson.
Minute 26: Hispanic groups do not like each other.
Minute 27: Any immigrant makes America less free. White immigrants are a problem too, like Piers Morgan, or even New York immigrants to Vermont making it Democrat.
Minutes 28-30: The government provides almost no statistics on immigrants in prison.
Minutes 30-33: Democrats say Americans commit more crime than immigrants, but the studies they cite do not even say that, or the studies are behind internet paywalls.
Minute 34: Immigration should be used to benefit Americans, not foreigners.
Minutes 35-36: $20 billion is sucked out of the economy every year by immigrants sending money home. Carlos Slim.
Minutes 36-38: The difference between pre-1970 immigrants and post-1970 immigrants.
Minutes 38-39: Legal immigrants are bad too.
Minute 39: The H1B visa program is fraud.
Minutes 39-41: Lakireddy Bali Reddy.
Minute 41: H1B visas are indentured servitude.
Minutes 42-44: If we stop letting cheap labor immigrate to America, will American companies leave for cheap labor in other countries? Ann admits she does not know the answer to the question, but Americans are not getting the jobs now anyway, so let's just try it.
Minutes 44-46: The media hides the immigration status of criminals or does not reveal their ethnicity at all.
Minute 47: Why are Republicans so blind to the truth on the topic of immigration?
Minute 48: So many times the media reports horrible immigrant crimes, but makes it sound like all-American teenagers are the criminals.
Minutes 49-50: There was a rape in Texas and it wasn't revealed to be an illegal until the media used his ethnicity as a reason he shouldn't be executed.
Minute 51: Immigration is the most important topic.
Minutes 51-52: Trump, in spite of being a novelty candidate, may need to be the nominee because he is the only one staunchly against immigration.
Minute 53: Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will ruin America with amnesty, but Hillary Clinton wants to ruin America in lots of ways.
Minute 54: How Congress can stop immigration even if Clinton, Rubio, or Bush win.
Minutes 54-55: The 2014 election wave was because of amnesty.
Minute 56: The trade deal allows free movement of goods and people.
Minutes 56-57: Take out John Boehner or another establishment Republican so the others will fight amnesty.
Minute 57: Dave Brat was fantastic.
Minute 58: This problem will not just go away.
Minute 59: The whole country will be California and no Republican will every be POTUS again.

Hour 1:

Minute 0: America's middle class is one reason it is so great.
Minute 1: The rich want immigration.
Minutes 1-2: What do Californians do at this point? [Long pause.] Ann guesses California is just a warning to the rest of America.
Minute 2: We need a triple-layer fence.
Minute 3: Israel should be moved to the southern border of America.
Minutes 3-4: El Chapo.
Minutes 4-5: The 14^th Amendment is not about gays or anchor babies.
Minute 6: The anchor baby policy should be retroactive. [Crowd claps.]
Minutes 7-8: We need an immigration moratorium to shut down the immigrants' rights groups.
Minute 8: Ann can pick who is allowed into America.
Minute 9: Close.

Ann Went on C-SPAN to Speak with John McArdle

    On Tuesday, June 23, 2015, Ann visited the Washington Journal with John McArdle on C-SPAN to discuss her new book, ¡Adios America! The video is over 48 minutes long. A computer generated transcript is available also. You can watch the video below.



    Here are some quotes:

"The wealthy places of America are white and getting whiter while the suburbs are filling up with their servants." [Quote found at 9:04am ET.]

"[Before answering your question] I wanted to say, Michael, if your watching in the next room... I'm incinerating in here. Could you possibly turn up the air conditioning, um. Sorry, I didn't think I would need it on. Usually I'm, I'm always cold." [Quote found at 9:08am ET.]

"Look, this is a country... If we just let everyone into our successful society, it won't be that successful society... anymore." [Quote found at 9:16am ET.]

"[People think we're] a public hospital in an urban neighborhood and just because someone needs our help we're required to take them in. Well, no. This is a lifeboat... We're sinking if this doesn't stop soon. Um, no country has the, the insane policies we have. The idea of immigration, like any other government policy, ought to be to help the people already living here. We can't take all of the world's poor... I'm sure they'd all like to live here. We can't. What, how many people live in the... world? 4, 5 billion? [Actually 7+ billion.] ...There are a few [Ann furrows brow] billion who live on, on $2 a day? Yeah, I'm sure they'd love to access our, our welfare programs. We can't! We can't do that. So, at what point do we stop?" [Quote found at 9:16-17am ET.] [Emphasis implied.]

    When a caller asked if Ann could write a book about how Republicans are not racist:

"I think you're being a little defensive. Yeah, of course Republican policies help African-Americans... Why are you being defensive about it? It's not that "We're not racist." The point is: Democrats are racist." [Quote found at 9:23am ET.]

    If you do not have time to listen to the full 48+ minutes, here is what they talked about:

(Time is kept by the clock in upper right corner and the time zone being used is ET.)

8:37: Introduction.
8:38-39: The Confederate flag controversy.
8:40: Gun control will not succeed in spite of Charleston shooting.
8:41: Republicans being stupid on immigration. The subtitle of ¡Adios America!
8:42: The left thinks America is bad.
8:43: Democrats tricking Republicans.
8:44: Democrat caller says more people like Ann should be on TV so Republicans look bad.
8:45: Immigrants will not help Social Security.
8:46: The media censors immigrant crimes.
8:47-49: Republican caller asks a couple of questions.
8:50: Ann's answer.
8:50-51: Republican caller says America needs E-Verify, a fence, and prison terms for illegals.
8:51-53: Ann responds.
8:53-55: Democrat caller says Republicans love cheap labor and are essentially causing illegals to come to America.
8:55: Ann explains how she does go after rich Republicans.
8:56-57: Which Republican is talking about immigration? Answer: Donald Trump, but Romney should join the race.
8:57-58: Self-deport is compassionate.
8:59: Obama would not be elected unless the demographics were changed. Immigration decides everything.
9:00: Independent caller says immigration is okay, but not with a welfare state.
9:01: Ann's answer. (Ann implies that she owns guns and she almost says which ones she owns.)
9:02: Immigration groups are intentionally trying to bring in bad/poor people.
9:03: Laws say criminals should be sent back to their countries, but no one sends them back.
9:04: Citizenship ceremonies are being held in Spanish.
9:05: Democrat caller says Ann shouldn't be on C-SPAN or anywhere else.
9:06: Ann responds.
9:07: Republican caller says protecting borders is fundamental and obvious.
9:08: Ann asks air conditioning to be turned on.
9:08-11: Ann explains why the number of illegals is really around 30 million rather than 11 million.
9:12: Democrat caller asks about the difference between Republican and Democrat presidents in processing immigration.
9:12-14: Ann responds and also explains how Democrats are registering as many immigrants as possible so they can win elections.
9:15: Independent caller asks what Ann thinks about the Dominican Republic deporting Haitian immigrants.
9:16: Ann explains how America is the only country who lets just anyone come in and stay.
9:17: We cannot bring in all the poor, so when will we stop?
9:18: Democrat caller suggests a third party.
9:18-19: Ann says a third party might be necessary.
9:19: Republicans won in 2014 because of opposition to amnesty, but are now turning their backs on Americans.
9:20-21: Conservatives stay home on voting day when Republicans do ridiculous things the recent "free trade" bill, which is actually amnesty.
9:21-23: Republican caller says Ann's next book should be on how Republicans are not racist and that their policies help blacks. The caller mentions the high abortion rate of blacks and school choice for blacks.
9:23: Ann answers that the "Republicans are not racist" book has been written, but as a "Democrats are racist" book. She says it is Mugged.
9:24: Ann explains the option on her site where people can send a copy of ¡Adios America! to their own Congressman, or Rubio, Boehner. or McConnell.
9:24-25: ¡Adios America! in audio format is the director's cut.
9:25: Close.

    Here is a clip at 9:23am ET:

    Ann pulls a Marco Rubio: