PolitiFact | Coulter says husbands rarely beat up their wives

by Melanie on 22/10/09 at 11:15 pm

Ann Coulter speaks at the Young Americas Foundation Conference in Washington

PolitiFact rocks! I saw Ann Coulter on The Sean Hannity show (while channel surfing! I admit to liking/watching/even Tivo’ing Geraldo, but that’s the extent of my Fox News viewing) and thought her comments about husbands not beating up their wives nitpicked a serious issue. I wrote to PolitiFact and they did a fantastic job of tracking down the truth of the matter. Bravo! Well Done! (I am psyched!)

Check out my PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter widget at the bottom of this blog. Here’s an excerpt from PolitiFact’s analysis of Coulter’s remarks and there’s a link to the full article below.

“Coulter also leaves out the Department of Justice statistics on homicides committed by a person “intimate” with the victim. Historically, most “intimate” homicides involved spouses (though in recent years, the number of deaths by boyfriends and girlfriends was about the same).

Coulter accurately cites figures from the Department of Justice study on violence against women, but she draws conclusions that the authors of the study specifically caution against. And that’s because women may be a lot less likely to report violence by someone they are still married to, and living with. And so we rate Coulter’s claim Half True.”

via PolitiFact | Coulter says husbands rarely beat up their wives.