A painfully thin Clinton joke

With Ashley Pearson, MSNBC

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June 25 — Ann Coulter has added fat to the fire in her long-running assault on Hillary Clinton by making fun of the senator and former first lady’s weight on national television.

The right-wing pundit was on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday, discussing her new book “Treason” — which argues, among other things, that commie witch-hunting Sen. Joe McCarthy was right.

“You’re going to be on the New York Times best-seller list, slugging it out against Hillary Clinton,” Sawyer commented, according to the GMA official transcript.

“I hope so,” replied Coulter.

“Who is going to win?”

“I think she has a three-to-one pound advantage over me,” said Coulter, “but we’ll see.”

“Three to one pound?” asked the normally unflappable Sawyer. “Did you say what I think you said?”

Coulter’s comments outraged some viewers. “You may disagree with another person’s politics but her comment was cheap and way below the belt,” noted one viewer at a gossip site where the exchange was being discussed at length.

Another irate viewer hoped that Coulter tries to make the same sort of joke when she’s on “The View” today. Says one, “Let’s see what Star Jones will do to her.”