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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“Ann said everyone should be a Christian .... I agree.”
OBL says everyone should be a Muslim. I think people should choose what’s best for them, but that’s me.
Why does she always have to talk sh&t every now and then? Some epokesperson for conservatism she is.
There's nothing wrong with what she said. Not from a Christian point of view. As a Christian, I agree with her. I want to see all people come to know Christ as their savior.
Am I a bigot for saying that? Anti-semitic? Nope.
As a Christian, I am called upon and strive to love all people (and I sin miserably here) and part of that love is wanting to see them redeemed in Christ.
What’s wrong with some of you?
This was another MEDIA MATTERS attempt to smear a conservative.
NOTHING more.
Some of you are falling for it, hook, line and sinker. No questions asked.
THINK, people, THINK
I have to agree. Donny's show is the Trap Stamp of television.
Is Andrew Stein jewish ? Is Ann Coulter nuts ?
Do people really think that missionaries aren't trying to do exactly what Ann just wished for?
Don Imus said something outrageous, and came away with $20,000,000, a 6 month vacation and a better place on the AM dial.
Seeing the two sources, Media Matters and editorandpublisher.com tells me to reserve judgement until I can see and hear for myself.
Two weeks after the failed hit on Rush Limbaugh, and you would trust Media Matters?
If you profess to be a Christian, you should be agreeing with Ann.
Christianity is the FULFILMENT of the Old Law (Law of Moses, aka Judaism). Christ came to do away with the old law. Read the book of Hebrews.
Coulter is right, from a RELIGIOUS perspective.
Media Matters is trying to make this a RACIAL/ETHNIC thing. Donny Duetch is clueless on this, hence his reaction.
Gosh Ann usually has a new book out in order to get this sort of negative attention.
Oh wait, she does.
So what’s the big deal? Naturally, Christians think the world would be a better place if everyone was Christian. Isn’t that the Great Commision? To evangelize the world. I am sure Jews think the world would be a better place if everyone was Jewish, etc etc
Over the cliff like lemmings still yet.
Or has rather-gate and slander of Rush of late taught us nothing
you didn’t even READ what you posted. Editor and Publisher USED THE MEDIA MATTERS PROVIDED TRANSCRIPT.
You missed that part.
You’re being used by the liberal media to smear a conservative.
Unless you’re one OF them.
My God almighty, I weep for my country........
As you say:
If a Mormon prays for me to become a Mormon, how does that hurt me in any way?
The problem comes when someone clamps a hood on you and threatens to off your melon if you don’t convert.
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