Ann Coulter is a liar!

Once again we have persons who know full well they are lying doing so for purely political reasons. This one, not surprisingly, from A familiar teller of tales, Ann Coulter, or I as I sometimes think of her, "that crazy guy in the blond wig and black dress."  

First, the story she told Tucker Carlson:

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Feb. 2, 2014, offered what she called a "shocking and horrible" personal story on Fox & Friends Weekend illustrating lethal consequences of the health care law. Coulter told host Tucker Carlson that she woke up Saturday morning to an email from a friend who said her sister "almost died because of Obamacare."

Coulter zipped through the backstory: The woman "had been thrown off her insurance plan, you know Blue Shield completely just pulled out of California." The woman tried to "get on Obamacare, (but) couldn’t get through the website." Then she got a fever, but she didn’t want to go to the emergency room without insurance.  (my editorial note here: Remember that Reagan signed a law in 1987 which requires all hospitals to treat everyone, insured or not so, if true, Coulter's "friend", if she exists, is a dunce, as well as having poor taste in friends) On Thursday, the woman went into septic shock, Coulter said, and went to the hospital.

Now, Poltifact (Conservative, remember) investigated and responded:

“Coulter said a friend’s sister ‘died from Obamacare’ because she was ‘thrown off her insurance plan, you know Blue Shield completely just pulled out of California.’  We're not fact-checking whether someone died. We're looking at the circumstances Coulter presented. Blue Shield did not pull out of California, and the company did not leave people without insurance. In fact, customers were allowed to keep their existing insurance plans through March. If the basic facts of Coulter’s story are accurate, the woman in question elected to drop insurance coverage.

Whatever the story of Blue Shield, saying someone died "from Obamacare" is incendiary and grossly misleading.

Coulter’s claim rates "Pants on Fire.” (Politifact’s nice way of saying she’s a bare faced lying weasel)

Additionally:

Coulter said her friend’s sister tried to get Obamacare but couldn’t get through the website. (That’s assuming she canceled her Blue Shield coverage.) But if the woman was looking for new coverage in California, she would not have needed to access the troubled federal marketplace, healthcare.gov. California is one of the states running its own insurance marketplace. Consumers are free to buy coverage directly from insurers. Covered California was not hampered by technical difficulties as healthcare.gov, though it has not been without its snags, particularly during the hectic leadup to the end of open enrollment for 2014 coverage. The marketplace extended deadlines to accommodate some shoppers, said California deputy insurance commissioner Janice Rocco, and about 500,000 people chose an insurance plan during the Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2013, enrollment period.

To reiterate, Coulter lied about this specific instance, and she also lied about The ACA in general. She has the moral fiber of a slinky.