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The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) called on mainstream media outlets to stop inviting Ann Coulter as a guest commentator/pundit and strongly condemned her comments that Jews should be “perfected” by accepting the New Testament and that America would be better off if Judaism were “thrown away” and all Americans were Christian.
During the October 8 edition of CNBC’s The Big Idea, host Donny Deutsch asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter: “If you had your way … and your dreams, which are genuine, came true … what would this country look like?”
Coulter responded, “It would look like New York City during the [2004] Republican National Convention. In fact, that’s what I think heaven is going to look like.” She described the convention as follows: “People were happy.
They’re Christian. They’re tolerant. They defend America.” Deutsch then asked, “It would be better if we were all Christian?” to which Coulter responded, “Yes.” Later in the discussion, Deutsch said to her: “[Y]ou said we should throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians,” and Coulter again replied, “Yes.” When pressed by Deutsch regarding whether she wanted to be like “the head of Iran” and “wipe Israel off the Earth,” Coulter stated: “No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. … That’s what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.”
After a commercial break, Deutsch said that “Ann said she wanted to explain her last comment,” and asked her, “So you don’t think that was offensive?”
Coulter responded: “No. I’m sorry. It is not intended to be. I don’t think you should take it that way, but that is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews. We believe the Old Testament. As you know from the Old Testament, God was constantly getting fed up with humans for not being able to live up to all the laws. What Christians believe — this is just a statement of what the New Testament is — is that that’s why Christ came and died for our sins. Christians believe the Old Testament. You don’t believe our testament.” Coulter later said: “We consider ourselves perfected Christians. For me to say that for you to become a Christian is to become a perfected Christian is not offensive at all.”
“While Ann Coulter has freedom of speech, news outlets should exercise their freedom to use better judgment,” said NJDC Executive Director Ira N. Forman. “Just as media outlets don’t invite those who believe that Martians walk the earth to frequently comment on science stories, it’s time they stop inviting Ann Coulter to comment on politics.”
“How does someone who says that Judaism should be thrown out, that Jews should be ‘perfected’ and that America would be better off were everyone Christian continue to receive a megaphone and platform from the news networks?” continued Forman. “When will the media say ‘enough is enough?’”
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Ann Coulter is an ass. That’s it for me.
Ann Coulter, like many other religious zealots, doesn’t have the common sense to come out of the rain.
Coulter is an idiot, she proves it all the time, this time by forgetting that Jesus was born & died a Jew.
Coulter is no Christian but a brain damaged human (I say human because she is no lady) who is too offensive for words.
Ann Coulter is also a best-selling author, which proves this nation is full of drooling morons.
Ann Coulter = female verison of Mel Gibson.
Ann Coulter has only one purpose in life–namely to get a rise out of those she opposes. She will say anything–ANYTHING! She has absolutely nothing positive to say–her platform (if you can call it that) is 100% negative! To listen to her is a complete waste of time!
Ann Couler is about 50 cards shy of a full deck, mentally. I think that any news network who has this bigot on as a pundit should be boycotted until they stop. She is only trying to sell her poorly written and asine books. She should come out of the closet and quit hiding behind the religious rights “if I call them homosexuals long enough, and loud enough, no one will know that I am!”
If Ann is such a goody goody Christian, why isn’t she married and under the authority of a good Christian MAN?? Pat, Ralph, Dan: better have a talk with Ann!
I agree with all the negative coments about Ann Coulter. The only important remark I can remember was the one she made on Fox News. Woman should not be used in the military and sent into Combat. Maybe we could send her into Combat, It could improve her mean outlook on life.
Ann, is the missed link and should not be given the time of day. Everytime I read anything that she has said I feel mankind has been set back 1000 years.
“If Ann is such a goody goody Christian, why isn’t she married and under the authority of a good Christian MAN?? Pat, Ralph, Dan: better have a talk with Ann!”
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Ralph Reed?! He couldn’t consumate the mariage - he’s a flaming homosexual. But then again, she’s a transvestite, so it might work!
It will be interesting to see if Coulter’s remarks “we should throw away Judaism and that all of us should be Christians” is finally the straw that relieves us all of her nasty rhetoric? If only….
I despise Ann Coulter. I see her as a shrewd, calculating, opportunist, worthy of being shunned, derided or ignored at every opportunity. But to shut her often foul, always laughable presence off of the air at the behest of a ‘Jewish group’, or any other group, for that matter, is indefensible.
Take her off of the air because she’s stupid, lacks good taste in clothing, or her remarks make yur anchors look silly…but not because some group finds her opinions offensive. That path leads to the ostracism of Desmond Tutu.
Rinthy
Ann is a typical right wing christian:
she thinks she is better than everyone else! In fact she isn’t as good as most Jews!
I was never brought up as Jew to believe my religion was better than any other.
As a Jewish person who went to Catholic jr. high (had no friends as everybody said I killed Jesus), Episcopalian high school, had a born-again Christian roommate in college and then worked for a year in Utah at a Mormon company, I am still proud to be a Jewish person. People have often said to me that I “don’t look Jewish.” To which I in-kind reply, you don’t look stupid. But to Ann Coulter, I would not dignify her with such a reply; just implore all media (broadcast, book publishing, internet, etc) to stop giving her a forum! Out of sight, out of mind.
As a Mesianic Jew, I, like everyone else, find Ann Coulter’s remarks moronic. Yes, I said that I’m a Mesianic Jew. That means that, even though I’m Jewish, I DO believe in Jesus/Yshua. (Don’t be thrown off by my name.) And we do not trash either the Old or New Testament. Rather we study the common beliefs and prophecies found in both Testaments. If Ann knew ANYTHING about Judaic studies, or even Christian studies, she would have known it. But she’d rather ignore the truth presented in both Testaments, manufacture her own truth and sell it to any other moron who is willing to give her a soapbox to stand on.
If the Jews were “perfected” would this be a Christian nation? What about the Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, Agnogists, et al. Couter’s remarks are just anti-semetic!
I find it strange that the Jewish community gives Ann Coulter not just a bye but freedom to spew her hate on all topics, but say something about Jews and all hell breaks loose. If only she would publicly denounce Aipac, that would immediately stop her vicious and hate-filled rantings dead in its tracks.
During the first five years or so of BushCo in the WH, the media welcomed every opportunity to display Ann Coulter and her offensive books and remarks to some of the most respected “news” programs. Coulter spoke with the voice of authority as though the Ego-God communicated only with her and never was a disenting voice allowed to debate publicly with her views.
She took great pleasure in insulting every single group that she thought would bring her the most attention. Her remarks were taken seriously and repeated ad nauseum by some of the same media personalities who now claim repugnance for her remarks about Jews. Where was the outrage when so many others were being disparaged by this same “favored child?”
I can’t recall any journalists or the head of any organization calling for her head then - so why NOW? Are they in essence saying that it is ok for someone like Coulter to insult millions of democrats (who also form a “group”) by calling them “Godless” but not be allowed the same opportunity to insult another particular group by claiming that they are Non-Perfect Jews and claiming that “Christians are Perfect Jews” ?
Even Imus is going to be allowed to return to broadcast after his offensive remarks, so why shouldn’t Ann be allowed to keep her celebrity after insulting a different ethnic group? After all, if every thing she says is true - then why not this also?
She has already been given free rein to insult political groups by dragging in religion so why not insult religious groups by dragging in the Bible?
Coulter’s Ego-God has finally given her the pedestal to broadcast her own personal convictions i.e., that [white] Christians are “superior” to ALL others…including those who are her bread-and-butter.
Just think how many others believe as she does…they slavishly buy and read her books!
What a crazy world this is!
Ann Coulter is a poor spokesperson for Christianity. Her attitude and spirit betray the most fundamental teachings of Jesus. However;It is amazing to me that people know so little about each other’s spiritual beliefs. Of course Ann Coulter thinks everyone should be a Christian. This has been the Orthadox Christian belief sense the time of Jesus Christ! Nowhere in Christ’s teachings does this infer that Jews are sub-human, to be hated, hurt, or attacked. We believe Jesus was/is the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. Isaiah 53 etc. While many early Jews received him as the Messiah (remember the first Christian missionaries were all Jewish), many others rejected him. We think that all Jews would be better off making the same choice that Simon, Saul, and John made in the first century. To them, following Christ wasn’t a rejection of Judiasm, but a fulfillment of the promise of Judaism.
I think the Jewish outrage at Ann Coulter, like the outrage at “The Passion of the Christ”, demonstrates that most American Jews, just like Muslims, hate Christians; because true Christianity, by it’s very nature, seeks to bring everyone–Jew, Muslim, atheist–to Christ. American Jews want Christians to reject the Great Commission. True Christians never will.
I have never thought much of Ann Coulter. Things I have heard she said, before this, always seemed to be just registering her strong Republican bias. If she couldn’t come up with facts to dispute, she would manufacture them. Nor do I recall any hot assault on what she wrote or said before this! Jewish people resent any reference to the fact that their version of religion is “imperfect” or “incomplete”. Evidently this strikes at the Old Testament idea that they are God’s chosen people, and they have reason to be offended by any suggestion that this may not be true. But, sadly, Jews are also very touchy about anyone who disagrees with them. Every one must agree with not only their religious convictions, but also with their political views, OR ELSE! Don’t anyone say anything about how the Israelis are treating the Palestinians! Don’t suggest that Israel has stolen property in the West Bank! Why is it that we can’t sit down and discuss some of the political and relgious differences we hold with Jews? Is their only answer that we are all anti-semites? Come on now…..
This further proves the kind of brain-dead bigoted thug Coulter is. And they keep putting her on TV to spout off her stupid statements, for shock value?
She is a FASCIST.
Stop watering down
that fact by labeling
here ignorant, bigot,
ass, thug, insane,
brain-dead.
Her words and actions
are based on(guided by)
the political philosophy
and movement of FASCISM,
not impotent name calling
that lacks political
understanding of her actions;
which is why she has power
and you so-called political
progressives don’t.
Ann Coulter is an embarrassment — her brain is constipated and her verbalizations, diarrhea. Why the media give airtime to her crap is simply a matter of money, so add media-whore to the list of adjectives, too.
Those who said Ann Coulter is brain-damaged are probably closer to the truth than they realise. She “gets a rise” out of anyone getting worked up about her; she is full of contempt for others; she is cruel and heartless; she knows all the right things to say to ingratiate herself with her patrons, but she demonstrates little or no depth of understanding; she instinctively knows how to manipulate other people’s emotions for her own ends; she has the absolute self-assurance of someone who is congenitally unable to understand the difference between telling the truth and lying; she has no shame. In other words she is probably a psychopath.
Coulter is certainly a nasty piece of work, but she is also, like many psychopaths, ridiculous. This makes her slightly less dangerous than others of her kind (when was the last time anyone laughed at Vladimir Putin?). George W. Bush is even more ridiculous than Ann Coulter because he has those kind of genes on both sides of his family. However many of his close relatives are just as heartless, but not nearly as funny.
There are all kinds of psychopaths around. Some are thuggish. Some are charming. Some live aimless lives as petty criminals and some make it to positions of great power. They will wear whatever political, relgious or social colours suit the purpose of the moment. They are often hard to spot because it is hard for non-psychopaths to imagine how anyone could think the way psychopaths do. That’s why psychopaths keep getting away with their nasty games.
The website of criminal psychologist Robert Hare - hare.org - is probably a good place to find out more about all this.
I don’t see Ann quite so dangerous or threatening. Don’t forget she does reflect an on going idea and feeling, that Jesus is not given enough importance in the Jewish community. The Christain idea of Jesus son of God, or the Jewish idea, are we not all children from the same father, either way, even when they don’t know it , all Christians are Jews, Jesus was and still is a JEW. So Ann is Jewish, big deal!
It apparently is true Ann Coulter was allowed many words against an entire people or constituents of the DEM-party in total, but now cannot have media opinion regarding religion, or at least Jewsih.
What is most troublesome, are those that immediately attacked most viciously not her message, but with ranker of a rabid animal.
My experience is that a true religious Jewish people would rarely be found attacking in this manner, however the secular Zionist often found use these coupled with the terrible Genocide and Antisemitism used as weapons.
True Jewish people know that their Messiah will come, gathering the remnant into covenant and into Israel, where also the Temple will be established forever.
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Ann is wrong to say that Christians are perfected, or perfected Jews. Stop kidding yourself, Ann, as Christians we are not perfected, just forgiven. But we are called to be a Holy people. As God’s chosen people we are known in the new testament as the Bride of Christ. Jesus will come for us one day and resurrect those who died and knew Him as their saviour. Those who did not know him as saviour will go to hell. Jews on the other hand who are still trying to work their salvation according to OT law, are currently separated from God but they still have a way! God has not forgotten them. Read Romans 9, 10, and 11 for God’s plan to redeem the Jewish people.
The best of both worlds, I find facinating and encourageing are the Jewish Believers, or Messianic Jews, or simply put, Jews that have embraced Jesus Christ as the Messiah. I would just like to make another point perfectly clear. We must remember that our Jewish friends who follow the law are a very moral people. How can Ann say America would be better off if they would convert to Christianity. I can think of one good reason - for their own salvation!. And it would make Christian numbers grow stronger in America and Canada where it is needed if we are going to change society. What we do not need are aethistic unmoral unbelievers influencing government, young people and others and put down alsmost every good stand that Christians and Jews stand for. I pray that together Christians and Messianic jews together can reach the Jew and especially the gentiles in these tough times. Romans 3:23 states that we have all sinned and fall short of the Glory of God. The only way the bridge can be crossed to bring us back to God is by embracing the only true Son of God and Saviour of the world, Jesus Christ.
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.
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