Ann Coulter’s guest appearance Thursday night on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show took a startling turn when she veered from lamenting how Rush Limbaugh’s NFL dream supposedly got sacked by the far left to holding forth about yet another of those “crazy left-wing hoaxes” that have “spooked” the NFL. According to Coulter’s apparent expertise on the subject of domestic abuse: “Husbands rarely beat up their wives … single women get beaten up more.”

How she arrived at that particular sweeping statement is unclear, but you can read some empirically researched information about domestic abuse here, here and here.

Meanwhile, here’s one clip that Limbaugh’s detractors (and defenders) have pointed to while discussing why the NFL, a privately owned organization, was opposed to letting Limbaugh become a minority investor in the St. Louis Rams. –KA

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