Posted on 10/11/2007 1:23:10 PM PDT by america4vr
NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they needed to "perfect" themselves into -- Christians.
It led Deutsch to suggest that surely she couldn't mean that, and when she insisted she did, he said this sounded "anti-Semitic."
Asked by Deutsch 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."
Deutsch told E&P's sibling magazine, Adweek, today, "I was offended. And then, and this was interesting, she started to back off and seemed a little upset."
Asked to gauge her reaction, Deutsch said, "I think she got frightened that maybe she had crossed a line, that this was maybe a faux pas of great proportions. I mean, did it show ignorance? Anti-Semitism? It wasn't just one of those silly things."
A transcript, provided by Media Matters, follows. *
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?
COULTER: Well, you could be a practicing Jew, but you're not.
DEUTSCH: I actually am. That's not true. I really am. But -- so we would be better if we were - if people -- if there were no Jews, no Buddhists --
COULTER: Whenever I'm harangued by --
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Your title doesn’t make sense
Ann’s getting uglier by the day. :-(
Her act is getting old.
How would you revise it to make sense based on the contents of the article?
Sigh.
You posted a piece that used a transcript from Media Matters......and with that transcript, you made comments about Ann Coulter.
You see nothing wrong with that.
My God, I weep for my country.
Ann jumped the shark a while back.
Was she demonstrating the new “bull in a china shop” evangelism?
Just what she said
Ann Coulter thinks everyone should be a Christian.
I agree with her.
I would hope every Muslim would wish that everyone should be a Muslim. I would hope that every Jew felt the same way. I would be insulted if a Jew looked at me and said “No way. He can’t be a Jew”. If he said “I wish you were a Jew”, I would be honored.
So is Ann Coulter some sort of closet Nazi?
Maybe it was taken totally out of context...the media is good at that.
The transcript doesn’t match what the headline says..... and it’s from a Monday appearance. If Ann Coulter really said this it would have been headlined across the country Tuesday morning. Then again it was an appearance on Donnie Deutch’s CNBC show (didn’t know it was still on).....
Once again I read the whole transcript and the lead in paragraph.
I can follow the train of thought but see others can’t.
Oh, well.
texas_mrs, it seems we were the only ones to catch the media matters connection.
The rest just piled on, as if they took their orders from the DNC.
Who is she dating now? Isn’t he Jewish?
Oh, please. Media Matters? Is this their “gotcha” moment for Ann, like with Rush, and Imus, and, and, and.
So much bullbleep. So little time.
“How would you revise it to make sense based on the contents of the article?” What a lame statement! As if anyone could “revise it to make sense based on the contents” of a Media Matters article? Why did you even post this junk?
Ann said everyone should be a Christian .... I agree.
She’s a complete loon.
New book or not, there are limits that even she shouldn't sink to...
I have no problem with that, it is your view. But this is not the reason to CHANGE the original title of the article.
Especially when the original title already twists what has been actually said.
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