Daily Inspiration Quote by Ann Coulter

Coulter’s line is engineered to flip a familiar media narrative and dare you to enjoy the whiplash. The setup borrows a reverent comparison - Obama as Lincoln - then weaponizes it against the very people presumed to have made it: “the press.” It’s less a claim about Lincoln than a trap for contemporary journalism, implying a hypocrisy so blatant it can be settled with a single historical anecdote.

The subtext is grievance politics with a clever twist: if Obama is treated kindly, that kindness is framed as proof of press bias; if he were treated harshly, it’s reframed as historical continuity. Either outcome validates her premise that conservatives are uniquely maligned and liberals uniquely coddled. The “they ought to treat him like they treated Bush” clause is doing the emotional heavy lifting, pulling in the lived memory (for her audience) of Bush-era mockery and delegitimization, then recoding it as an unfair standard applied selectively.

Invoking the ugliest anti-Lincoln slurs is deliberate escalation. It’s not an invitation to debate presidential legacies; it’s a provocation meant to make media criticism feel visceral and asymmetrical. By citing dehumanizing insults (“ape,” “baboon”), she also smuggles in a risky ambiguity: she’s condemning past rhetoric while simultaneously normalizing the idea that brutal comparison is simply “how it goes” when a leader is consequential.

Context matters: early Obama years, when “new Lincoln” mythology circulated in mainstream commentary and conservative media built its identity around resisting that sanctification. Coulter isn’t defending Lincoln; she’s auditing the press’ moral consistency and daring it to fail.