Posted on 09/17/2015 11:39:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ann Coulter said late Wednesday she was just asking questions.
Prior to an appearance Wednesday evening with Fox News' Megyn Kelly, Coulter said in reference to pro-Israel remarks made during the second televised GOP primary debate, "How many f---ing Jews do these people think are in United States?"
The right-wing provocateur defended these and other questionable tweets Wednesday, explaining in her Fox interview that she was merely criticizing "pandering" by the GOP candidates.
"You want to take that back?" Kelly asked the author about her tweet.
"No," Coulter responded, "I just tweeted the question – well, actually, I was tweeting all night when all the candidates were pandering, pandering, pandering. I wrote my column about it. They seem to be getting certain boxes: Have to mention Reagan, have to mention that they're pro-life, have to mention Israel."
"The entire Republican Party is pro-Reagan, pro-life, pro-Israel," she added. "The last question was: After you're president, how will America be better? And suddenly, we're back to Israel again. It's just this checking off of the boxes, and the virtues boxes and it's one of the things I like about – in fact, I think they're probably pandering … to evangelicals, um, not Jews. It's just pandering, pandering, pandering, something we all agree on is not really separating the candidates."
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Her long time live in boyfriend is Jewish.
>> Evangelical Christians have a deep loyalty to Israel, and it is no secret. It isn’t pandering, pandering to who? It is just who they are. Who we are.
Yes, and Amen. Good post.
How true.
The language is simply used to intensify the statement. It was not any kind of negative towards Jews at all. Anyone who thinks that doesn’t understand spoken English and slang. The word f-—in is dropped in all over the place just to intensify statements these days, not used as a negative adjective.
She was channeling her “inner Hillary”.
Exactly.
That’s because there are a lot of evangelicals who value Israel. She’s missed that entirely.
Yes she is. I understand hyperbole and I have given her the benefit of doubt in the past, but this was past that. She needs to own up.
= :^(
Exactly, she was just expressing frustration over the GOP checkbox political use of invoking Jews for points. In that, she was actually supporting Jews by complaining about their use as political talking-point props.
I think ann dropped too much Acid at the Dead shows.
The universal adjective is f***ing up my life!
I’ve used some black slurs in my time but to my recollection, never a Jewish slur. Could be because Jewish people have never done anything to me to warrant a slur.
Same with Indians (Feather, not dot.)
I wonder if she thinks she is not pandering when she writes those sometimes vile books.
That said: What a stupid tweet. She should know that no one cares about the context, once you throw out nuke-strength words like those.
So dumb.
(PS: Ann - One glass of Chardonnay with these debates - not one bottle!)
Ann Coulter will regret those words dearly one day.
She may not like Jews or Evangelicals (fine), but by alienating both, her list of allies grows thin. (not that she gives a damn).
“in fact, I think they’re probably pandering … to evangelicals, um, not Jews.”
Strike two!
Does she have any friends left?
Dems can say it with impunity. I overheard Chris Cuomo in a dark Upper West Side restaurant say that he blamed the “f@$&ing Jews” for some political loss he was involved with. I was waiting for some sort of acknowledgement, even an involuntary shudder or flinch, that he was aware of bis mistake. There was none.
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