Come On, People, Ann Coulter Needs Some Attention!

Yawn. Is it wrong that I am almost completely unexercised about Ann Coulter's latest bon mot? I mean, is it possible to top smearing 9/11 widows? Yet it's big news, as Ann Coulter idiocies tend to be, so we are bound to mention that it's making headlines across the board today, including on bread-and-butter network Fox News. What, pray tell, did the queen of lucid and rational commentary say this time? In a nutshell, she said that Jews ought to become Christians so they could be "perfected." Well, this Jew must be on her way because the only thing I can think of to say to that is "Jesus Christ."

Here's the transcript from Monday's The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch on CNBC, courtesy of Media Matters. Donny Deutsch's revulsion and incredulity are pretty apparent. Here's the set-up: Deutsch asked Coulter about what her ideal version of the country looked like. She said it would look like the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, which we remember as having huge protests but she recalls as "Happy, joyful Republicans in the greatest city in the world." And so it went from there:

COULTER: Well, OK, take the Republican National Convention. People were happy. They're Christian. They're tolerant. They defend America, they --

DEUTSCH: Christian -- so we should be Christian? It would be better if we were all Christian?

COULTER: Yes.

DEUTSCH: We should all be Christian?

COULTER: Yes. Would you like to come to church with me, Donny?

DEUTSCH: So I should not be a Jew, I should be a Christian, and this would be a better place? (snip) We should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or --

COULTER: Yeah.

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DEUTSCH: Really?

COULTER: Well, it's a lot easier. It's kind of a fast track.

DEUTSCH: Really?

COULTER: Yeah. You have to obey.

DEUTSCH: You can't possibly believe that.

COULTER: Yes.

DEUTSCH: You can't possibly -- you're too educated, you can't -- you're like my friend in --

COULTER: Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion, but you have to obey.

DEUTSCH: No, no, no, but I mean --

COULTER: We have the fast-track program.

COULTER: No, we think -- we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

DEUTSCH: Wow, you didn't really say that, did you?

COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we're all sinners --

DEUTSCH: In my old days, I would have argued -- when you say something absurd like that, there's no --

COULTER: What's absurd?

DEUTSCH: Jews are going to be perfected. I'm going to go off and try to perfect myself --

COULTER: Well, that's what the New Testament says.

DEUTSCH: Ann Coulter, author of If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, and if Ann Coulter had any brains, she would not say Jews need to be perfected.

There you go. Ann Coulter believes that Jews need to be "perfected" and that Christianity is the Federal Express of Judaism, whatever the hell that means, and never mind the Ten Commandments Exodus 20:17, but whatever. I mean, this woman is a fucking moron. Do we really expect more from the person who said that "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity?" (She has claimed that she was only talking about Muslim terrorists here, but again, whatever.) Tolerance has never been her strong suit. The only people who have been tolerant of her has been a media that continues to give her a megaphone by reprinting all of her ridiculous statements — and inviting her back again and again to push her various high-minded books (just yesterday, she was on "Tucker" on MSNBC).

The good news is that each time she cries wolf, more and more people react this way. With revulsion, but more importantly, with boredom and impatience. Yes, it's true, her inane comment is plastering the internet and the cablers right now (CNN,Fox, Ha'aretz (obvs), no doubt all the cable shows tonight and surely many already), but every reaction seems to be along the lines of "Here she goes again." (It's not even like her heart's in it, for God's sake — c'mon, Ann, at least call someone Sugar Tits or something.) All told, it's hardly a recipe for credibility — not that that's what she's going for, but still, there's got to be a tipping point and with every one of these we get closer and closer to it. For me, this is it. I don't think I'm alone — see Jezebel, Wonkette, Ha'aretz, which are all less outraged than bemused. At this point, I'm just hoping that the rest of the MSM is with me. Hm, maybe I'll offer up a prayer to my heathen God for it. Leviticus 5:5 - 6 should do it. There's a New Testament fast track joke in here somewhere, hm. Maybe here.

We haven't quite learned to ignore her yet — but we're getting there.

Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians' [FoxNews]
On CNBC's The Big Idea, Coulter said that "we" Christians "just want Jews to be perfected" [Media Matters]

Related:
Ann Coulter Loves Jews, Sinning, Probs Abortion [Jezebel]
Oh Shut The Fuck Up: Ann Coulter Will Annihilate the Jews [Wonkette]

Comments

[squareyellowpaper]

You see, this is not an attack on Jews. The lovely and brilliant Ms. Coulter is merely stating the beliefs shared by all Fundamentalist Christians: the only true religion is American Fundamentalism. If this message offends people, too bad.

Fundamentalists know that Jews are misguided and need to be "perfected" by accepting Jesus as the Messiah. Mormons, Catholics, Jevhova's Witnesses, and Seventh Day Adventists are cults. Episcopalians (Anglicans), Lutherans, Presbetyrians, Methodists, and the UCC are all misguided to the point where they no longer can be identified as Christians.

These United States need one religion that is found in Southern Baptists, and a few other Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Pentacostal True Christians of Jesus Christ. It is just a matter of time before all Americans see the light and Christianity will permeate every aspect of life in these United States: Under God, indivisible, with libery and justice for the righteous.

[DrEthan725]

Yesterday, I woke to the news of Ann Coulter's latest rant: This time, targeting Jews (I guess she knew that October 11th is National Coming-Out day so in deference to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered (GLBT) community, she picked on someone else for a day ). This is so, so, very sad. I am hopeful that the media and Americans everywhere will seize on this in a way similar to the way that they did when they ousted Don Imus for his racist comments. And while I'm an advocate and defender of free speech, when someone spew venomous hate we have a moral obligation to stand up against it and fight back. Ann Coulter attacked the Jews and she will pay, much as Imus did for attacking black women.

Here's the thing, and I say this from my very unique perspective as a very proud Jew, a very proud and out Gay man, and an undyingly patriotic American: This woman has been railing against the GLBT community for years, and the only people who have been shouting out against her have been the liberal Left and the GLBT community. When she is vilified and burned at the political stake for these anti-Semitic remarks, it's important that we remember that homophobia is truly the last socially accepted/ tolerated form of discrimination in American Society today. And it's sad that there is no major uproar against her throughout the innumerable homophobic attacks, but one anti-Semitic comment, and she's history. In America, it shouldn't matter who the target of your hate and intolerance is: it should all be equally repulsive, unacceptable and not tolerated. And if you think there is no moral equivalency between homophobia and anti-Semitism, or any other form of racism and hate, please remember this when "they" come for you.

[VOTER]

Watched Bill Maher's show last night and was very

disappointed he failed to mention Ann the Man's latest

hateful words. In the past, he has mentioned she is

his friend. Disturbing.

Bill usually attacks anyone spewing such hatred so what is up that Ann the Man is not discussed?

Joy Behar mentioned Ann the Man but Bill let her comment go without additional discussion.

Ann the Man spews her lies about the 9/11 widows, John Edwards, the Clintons, Obama and ALL JEWS, with his approval?
NEW RULES FOR BILL:
Perhaps he can answer the long asked question.
Which is she/he? Ann or Ann the Man?

[grainger5]

Only a comedian could come up with "The Federal Express of Judaism".

C'mon, goys! It's humor!

[davy]

That woman sure knows how to get attention. Even those who "are not interested" write about her. Let em write, Ann shows those of us in "the rest of the world" exactly what American has become. What do you yanks say? "What would Jesus do?" he would PLUTZ AND PROBABLY TURN OVER A FEW TABLES. You have become a laughing stock america.

[bradylord]

Christians need to be perfected by becoming atheists. I know becoming rational thinkers will be new for them, but they need to do it before they blow up the planet through sheer lunacy.

[LeaderofMen]

Here! Here!

[Annisee]

AMEN !!!

[who38]

Let's not leave other religions out of that kind of perfecting.

[sebocd]

Get Ann Coulter of the air waves. Make her Ambassador to the Vatican. Once in Rome she can perfect the pope and cardinals by circumcising them with her teeth and turning them into Jews.

[barrycourage]

Mouth teeth or pussy teeth?

[IMPRISONBUSH]

I KEEP HEARING ABOUT THE ANN COULTER AND CONDI HOME MADE PORN FLICK ITS BEING HANDED OUT A FAR RIGHT GOP MEETING.
IT COMES WITH A SHORT FLICK IF A MEMS ROOM IN AN AIRPORT.

[realpolitic]

Ann Coulter- media whore!

[marko77]

What Britney Spears is to "entertainment" Ann Coulter is to "politics." And we hear about both on a regular basis. How disgusting is that!

[levibatgirl]

Coultergeist keeps stressing, "you have to obey".

Obey. Obey.

Too crazy!

[MaryMullins]

Thou shalt not kill...............

Those are words the Nazi Americans should OBEY!!

[PeaceThroughObedience]

In the New America, all Must Obey, Citizen Batgirl. Obedience is Freedom. All Hail Bush!

[FrozenC]

Has she actually read the new testament? I am not sure that she knows what actually is in it. I remember a lot of 'don't judge others' and treat others as you would like to be treated. I'm pretty sure she has no idea what she is talking about. I think she may be the suckiest christian yet.

[BeerHolder]

How can we get rid of this bitch? Can she be deported? Exiled? Banished?

I am so sick of her bullshit. She is a shining example of what the GOPedophiles have become. It's all hate all the time and stupid beyond belief.

Get rid of this woman.

[Qbear]

It wouldn't be very perfected Christian of me to wish Ann Coulter was drawn and quartered.

but I wouldn't bat an eye if she accidently got tied to four horses headed in each of the cardinal compass points...just saying.

[dawlishgal]

LOL. You are begging for the brutish peabrained empathy-challenged trolls to come here and whine because people on Hufpost advocate "pretend" deaths for the most disgusting, the most hopelessly uncivilized, of their water carriers. Of course, none of them gives a damn about all of the REAL DEATHS inflicted arbitrarily by their small-weenie chickenhawk leaders just to prove to other small-weenies (like the trolls) that they have the power to do anything they want to.

[aznurse]

I thought only God is perfect

[balzar]

Coulter is a troll. Dont feed the trolls!!

[lescargot]

800 Comments! Including an adolescent rant about the Jews' control of the media!
Don't you guys on the Left know when you are being put-on?
Don't you guys on the Right realize you are being used?

Anne Colter is the ANDREW DICE CLAY of Politics: shrewd, smart and without an ounce of ethics.

[dawlishgal]

Sorry...I just keep hoping that the brain-chip that is dedicated to generating empathy or compassion will kick in at some point in these pathetic sociopaths. And, if not that chip, the one that provides EMBARRASSMENT for crapping on one's self.

Not going to happen with Coulter or any of the rest of them (all the way down to Chris Wallace), but it doesn't hurt to try because (and YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE) they misinterpret stunned silence at the cruelty and indecency of their statements as AGREEMENT with them.

[NoGenius]

coulter is like britney's pussy:

not shocking
attention hungry
has a retarded brain
kinda worn out

[afgail]

What if it is all a put on? She said "women shouldn't be allowed to vote because they vote Democratic." Maybe she is the female version of Steven Colbert? If taken at face value she was saying that she herself should not be allowed to vote because she votes Democratic. Bottom line: could she just be pulling our leg and getting handsomely paid to do so and showing how really stupid the right wing of the Republican Party is because they think she speaks for them. Unfortunately, in many ways she does, more's the pity.