(I apologize in advance for the long post)
"I am not as big a fan of Ann since her irresponsible and unnecessarily inflammatory suggestion in 2001 that Muslims forceably be converted to Christianity."
Ann's constantly misquoted/misunderstood on this. Ann NEVER said anything about force. "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Ann's talked extensively about this quote in interviews. She was basically making a reference to what actually was govt policy in post-WW2 Japan & in post-war Korea. Gen MacArthur rejected Hirohito's offer to force the entire country of Japan to convert to Christianity. But MacArthur did request US Christian missionaries to go to both countries, b/c he believed if they converted to Christianity (by choice, not by force) that would make them more likely to fully embrace Democracy. That's what she was referring to. She was saying that our govt policy in this war should be the same as it was in those other wars, b/c it worked. Both countries are still democracies &, though Japan resisted conversion, both have great religious tolerance.
As for the Spawn of Satan remark, her point was really about certain parts of the Democratic platform & many of the speakers & hard-core activists, not all Democrats. Hell, she's dated Democrats. The first person she called when she heard about 9-11 was her friend Democratic strategist Pat Caddell.
I was initially put off by Ann when I first starting seeing her on tv. Eventually, though, when I really started to listen to what she was saying between the inflammatory rhetoric & the sarcastic one-liners, I thought she made a lot of sense.
Btw, does anyone know where Ferguson's show is taped? There should be a LOT of Coulter fans in the audience to support her, otherwise this could get really ugly. Leno's basically a non-confrontationalist & a nice guy. I don't know if Ferguson is, & after her successful appearance on Leno, lefties are really going to want to show up to make her life hell.
Btw, does anyone know where Ferguson's show is taped?Not to worry.There should be a LOT of Coulter fans in the audience to support her, otherwise this could get really ugly.
A few members of the L.A. Chapter [plus a few of OTHER "FRiends of Ann"] intend to be in the studio audience tomorrow night. :o)
"I am not as big a fan of Ann since her irresponsible and unnecessarily inflammatory suggestion in 2001 that Muslims forceably be converted to Christianity." -See also, from this transcript of her appearance on the "Today Show" -- with Katie Couric:
Ann's constantly misquoted/misunderstood on this. Ann NEVER said anything about force. "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Ann's talked extensively about this quote in interviews...
Katie Couric: You were also fired, I guess, because you wrote in the National Review that we should -- when it came to fighting terrorism, we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. Do you still believe that that's the best way to combat terrorism worldwide?
Ann Coulter: Well, that's a somewhat dishonest quote. I was referring to the people in the previous sentence of that column, cheering and dancing in the streets right now, and, in fact, this -- the way that was so widely misquoted is an example of what I described in my book, which is the constant mischaracterizations, which is a small word, picking out the word of parents. It makes a big difference. And these subtle differences that are then glossed over as if there's absolutely no difference.
To try to portray conservatives as crazy people, as Nazis, slave owners, (unintelligible), homophobic, how about dealing with our ideas? I mean I've written two books now, I've written hundreds of columns, I've been on TV hundreds of times.
The idea that someone can go out and find one quote that will suddenly, you know, portray me just dismiss her ideas, read no more, read no further, this person is crazy --
Katie Couric: Well, obviously --
Ann Coulter: -- is precisely what liberals do all the time.
Katie Couric: But obviously the National Review had a problem with these articles and some of the pieces you did because you were fired from that job. Can you elaborate or at least tell us what you exactly meant?
Ann Coulter: That also isn't quite true. I mean I write a syndicated column, I write for Human Events. That's the newspaper that hires me. People buy a syndicated column, and they dropped the column. But a lot of people don't like me for a lot of different reasons, including --
Katie Couric: Why don't you explain what you meant, then.
Ann Coulter: -- that they're my competitors.
Katie Couric: What do you think is the best way to battle terrorism?
Ann Coulter: Point one and point two [We should invade their countries, kill their leaders] by the end of the week had become official government policy.
As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels. I mean perhaps that's the Peace Corps, perhaps it's working for Planned Parenthood, but I've never seen the transforming effect of anything like that Christianity.