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Posted on 10/01/2001 10:00:14 PM PDT by Jean S
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Even by her usual incendiary standards, Ann Coulter's response to the terrorist attacks was something of a jaw-dropper.
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity," the conservative commentator declared in her column on National Review Online.
Those words created an uproar at the Web site, which refused to run a follow-up piece in which Coulter singled out what she called "swarthy males." She promptly began bad-mouthing National Review, which responded by axing her as a contributing editor.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A. . .'just kidding'. . .from Ann and a short leave to cure her 'migraines'; and it might have been okay.
From a more practical standpoint, her idea would really take too long. But if we just made valleys where mountains once stood, it might speed up the cultural evolution.
. . .'swarthy males'; well, a little vacation added to her 'leave' . . .
Given the hires, fires. . .resignations et al; these tough times. . .make for a lot of 'coulda, shoulda. . .woulda. . .
We cannot return. We were never there!
Why? Because up until the 1960's, we were a Christian nation. As Ronald Reagan said of us, "You are a city upon a hill." America shined a beacon of hope and freedom to the world because America's foundation was built upon the bedrock of Christianity and its principles, which even dieists and agnostics recognized. And, when America unashamedly declared that heritage, nobody dared do what the bastards did to us on 9-11.
Their hit count just went down 20%.
;^)
As the saying goes, we either hang together, or hang separately...
Naah, not only do I think you don't get the gist of Ann's comments regarding "Christianity" (see post #95), but you happen to be wrong about your statement above which infers FR Christians are nothing short of fascists.
I will say this about National Review: they were irresponsible for not cutting Coulter's infamous line in the Barbara Olson column ("We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity"). I'm not sure how the editorial chain of command works, but if I were the man in charge I'd give whoever edited Coutler's piece holy hell.
As for Coulter crying "censorship" because her editor told her she couldn't use certain language in a column — tough! Maybe no one informed her, but here in America we have something called private ownership. At any publication, just like at Free Republic, the only real free speech belongs to the person or people with final say over content. Coulter's rhetoric was getting too caustic for NR, so they let her go (I suspect after she pitched a fit about an editor cutting her columns). That's their perogative. The fact that she's whining about it proves to me that they made the right decision.
Dumping one hysterical, semi-talented jingoist pundit from the columnist roster is no black mark on NR in my book. I'm keeping my subscription.
Precisely. They owed her that much. If NR had an ounce of integrity, they would have given her at least that.
Would agree.
Well Anne, if you need anything, a place to crash, anything, let me know. I'm here for you baby.
Kidding aside: Anne was right. This political correctness thing has gone a lot deeper than I would have ever thought. W constantly using the 'justice' crap when anybody short of planet Mars knows it has nothing to do with justice. It's war.
Then there's all this clamping down on ma and pa six pack while we mince around trying to accomodate all the rag-heads.
The political correct crowd (and that may mean YOU Mr. Gung Ho Kill Em All American) refuses to admit that we are neck deep in a religious war with a knife at our throats .... but Anne knows. Netanyahoo knows. Osamayomama knows.
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Just 20%? hehehe ;^)
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