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"Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the Oval Office. I can't remember was the first thing was?"

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Coulter’s line is built like a barbed joke, and it lands the way her brand often does: by yoking policy to personal scandal so tightly that the audience can’t separate disgust at one from disgust at the other. The setup pretends to be about healthcare, a substantive fight from the 1990s, but the punchline swerves into a knowing blank: “I can’t remember” the first thing. Everyone is meant to remember. The feigned lapse is the point - a wink that lets her invoke Clinton’s sexual controversies without naming them, keeping the smear vivid while maintaining the comic posture of plausible deniability.

The intent isn’t to debate “socialized” healthcare (itself a loaded framing of the Clinton plan). It’s to downgrade public policy into a moral offense, then rank it beneath an implied act of sexual misconduct. That ranking is the subtext: government expansion is not merely misguided, it is indecent - a violation akin to the lurid mythology of the Oval Office. In one sentence, she fuses small-government ideology with cultural grievance politics, inviting the audience to experience bureaucracy as contamination.

Context matters: post-impeachment America, conservative media’s rise, and Coulter’s role as a provocateur who treats outrage as both currency and identity signal. The line works because it’s engineered for repetition. It’s short, quotable, and structured to travel - a scandal-and-policy twofer that turns a complex legislative battle into a punchline, and then turns the punchline into a tribal shibboleth.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Coulter, Ann. (2026, February 19). Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the Oval Office. I can't remember was the first thing was? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/clintons-attempt-to-socialize-healthcare-was-the-29841/

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Coulter, Ann. "Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the Oval Office. I can't remember was the first thing was?" FixQuotes. February 19, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/clintons-attempt-to-socialize-healthcare-was-the-29841/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the Oval Office. I can't remember was the first thing was?" FixQuotes, 19 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/clintons-attempt-to-socialize-healthcare-was-the-29841/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Ann Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is a Journalist from USA.

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