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

[Gary47]

It all just makes me want to say the same thing to both Britney and Ann: please just keep your lips closed. In both cases, it's way, way, way too much information.

[PaHairO]

Huh ? What's that ?

Some moronic media whore said something stupid, yet again ?

Back to sleep ...

[blueinannarbor]

Let's cut the poor lady some slack and recognize her comments for what they are: she's hitting on David Duke through the media. We should be wishing her luck.

[Lilrod]

Demon Coulter wins, you wrote about her.

[loki]

Donny Deutsh kind of got revenge tonight. First he showed Ann Coulter doing bashing the Jewish religion and people, then he showed her non attempt to explain herself. then he showed her on another CNBC show basically saying how stupid Deutsh is because he doesnt understand what she meant.
And then, Donny Deutsh said today Al Gore was presented the Nobel Peace Prize, and showed a rerun of a recent interview with Gore..

How sweet that was. Bash the racist bitch and follow her with one of republicans most hated people.

[realpolitic]

Ann Coulter is like other extremists who want to use our institutions of tolerance and freedom of speech to mold a country that would not be a whole lot different from that of the Taliban. Christianity would be the state religion. Prayer in schools would be mandatory. Perhaps she would outlaw the teaching of evoloution and global warming science. She has said women should not have been given the vote because they tend to vote Deomocratic. These extreme conservatives who claim they love freedom and liberty have a very perverted idea of what these concepts actually mean.

[BeerHolder]

Somebody needs to take her up on religion. If she represents any religion I want no part of it. She worships herself and that's all. mAnn Coulter is a terrorist and should be behind bars.

[film381]

Rachel! Rachel! Rachel! I figure you for a very intelligent person... so I am confused here... did you just now find out what a useless piece of flesh Coulter is? One sentence out of her mouth the very first time I heard her I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that she was a Looney! As time has progressed, she has proved it over and over in spades! Hmmm!!! They shoot horses don't they?... why the wait with her???

[MovingtoNorway]

What would be worse than shooting? Let her keep speaking and humiliating herself. What is the motivation? Is she angry about how Daddy molested her? She is on sick wacko. I hope she gets some help before she offs herself.

[IMPRISONBUSH]

ANN COULTER is the heart and soul of the FAR RIGHT AND OTHER CHRISTAIN GROUPS who say they want to help " ISREAIL ".
THE are two parts to the BIBIL the OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT LIKE THE POPE IN 1939 HILTER came to the POPE and asked :
" I WANT TO RELOYCATE THE JEWS IN GERMANY TO OTHER PLACES "
AND the POPE AGREED.
ABD as history tells us HILTER did take action and in the end close to SIX MILLION WERE:
GASED
SHOOT
WORKED TO DEATH
USED as CHEMICAL TESTS
STOVED
RAPED
TORTURED
ETC.
AND THE POPE HE FIGURED THAT IF THE NUMBER OF JEWS WERE DISAPEARING THE FEW LEFT WOULD BE BORGHT INTO THE CHRISTAIN FAITH .
AND the "OLD TESTAMENT "WOULD BE FORGOTEN,TAKEN FROM HISTORY, AND THERE WOULD BE ONE GOD ONE FAITH ( CHRISTAIN ).
TO DAY PEOPLE LIKE COULTER ARE TO EXCITED THE RUN THERE NOUTHS, THOUGHTS TO OTHER BUT AT THE SAME TIME INFORMING US BUT THINKING WE ARE TO STUPID TO SEE OR GRASP IT
JUST LIKE BUSH AND FRIENDS " DISTROYING THE CONSTATUTION LAW BY LAW, FREEDOMS BY FREEDOMS
JUST LIKE THE WAR IN IRAQ TO KEEP THE AMERICAN PEOPLES MINDS OFF THE HIGHJACKING OF AMERICA AND THE SELLING OFF OF OUR COUNTRY.
KEEP YOUR EYES CLOSED IT WILL BE TO LATE WHWN YOU OPEN THEM.?

[Qbear]

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[Qbear]

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[keelerbee]

Gear Genericblogger, I am leaving you but without taking Meds. As all good Republicans do, I'm going to get a drink of dirty water, get a breath of polluted air, throw a senior citizen out of a nursing home, take away kids school books, try to make myself rich on the backs of the poor, and spy on my Muslim neighbors. I might go eat a steak, chop down a tree and burn something to increase our temperature. If a dog comes by I'll try to kick it. Look, I'm just reading the talking points from the next Dumocratic Pres debate.

[RaderBarbarian]

If as you suggest, we should ignore Ann Coulter, might it not begin with YOU? YOU are the one who put her name in your headline. YOU are the one who is empowering her. YOU are behaving like the enemy, and YOU need to get YOUR act together. Quit preaching to us. YOU are behaving like the hypocrite evangelical televangelist who says one thing and then does the other. Why don't YOU shut the F up about whatzername? Get yourself some credibility and then I might read another word from you.

[fourex]

Ann Coulter should not be silenced. She is a leading commentator for Republican right wing ideas. To silence her would only move those ideas underground where they would hide and fester. It is helpful to have her "Christian' ideas out in the open, exposed to the light of decency.

[chumleypotts]

Ann thrives on controversy, that's why she says all the outrageous things she is known for. I wouldn't be surprised if she were reading all these furious responses at this very moment, laughing all the way to the bank.

[Steamboater]

TV pundits continue to give Coulter credibility when they continue to say that she's the ultimate publicity hound for her books. Well, that 'bitch' is more than that. There's plently of anti-semites out there who really believe what she says and she only reinforces those beliefs. As long as TV hosts continue to have her on TV and therefore take her seriously, she'll have a forum for her Jew rants and gay bashing. That Deutch didn't have the balls to tell her to get off his show when she blatantly insulted him (not to mention so many viewers) shows how politically correct we've become.