Ann Coulter goes nuclear, tweets Seattle isn't 'worth saving'

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She once told a radio reporter, "They love me in Seattle," but conservative pundit Ann Coulter is making this liberal city the object of her own "nuclear option."

Coulter has given a tongue-in-cheek green light for North Korea's "Great Leader" Kim Jong Un to develop a nuclear missile capable of hitting Seattle, a city making national news for defying the Trump administration.

In a Tweet posted Thursday, Coulter said:

Gen. Michael Hayden: N Korea will make nuke capable of hitting Seattle! Situation will be dire as soon as they can hit a city worth saving. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 6, 2017

Hayden is a former director of the National Security Agency, and ex-chief of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Coulter is renowned for saying outrageous things to sell books, and for her dislike of liberal cities and immigrants.

She began a dispatch from the 2004 Democratic National Convention with the words: "Here at the spasm of Satan convention in Boston." She has fulminated over the decline in the percentage of Americans who are white. At World Cup time in 2014, she blamed the moral decay of America on its embrace of soccer.

Yes, actually.

Naturally, this frequent Fox News guest would turn her attention to this corner of what Wall Street Journal editorialists call "the Left Coast." After all, less than 10 percent of Emerald City citizens voted for Trump.

At last year's Republican National Convention, she did tell Jason Rantz of KIRO Radio: "They love me in Seattle. And if they don't they would if they got to know me."

What she practices, however, is not love.

Coulter has railed against U.S. District Judge James Robart, who issued the restraining order that stopped Trump's Muslim travel ban No. 1 She found a quote from the judge -- who is overseeing Seattle police reform -- and Tweeted: "Watch Judge James Robart say 'black lives matter' in court."

She defended Delaware's gaffe-prone 2010 Republican Senate nominee by saying, "Whatever they say about Christine O'Donnell, there is no one stupider in politics than Patty Murray of Washington."

Accuracy has never been a Coulter forte. Last year, for instance, Coulter Tweeted: "Seattle mall shooter, Muslim immigrant Arcan Cetin, voted 3X in US elections, though he is not a citizen."

Cetin was a resident of Skagit County, 60 miles north of Seattle, and killed five people at the Cascade Mall in Burlington.

As well, Coulter might be challenged to reconcile her suggestion of Seattle as a target with her past statement: "Christianity fuels everything I write."