Posted on 10/02/2001 9:14:04 AM PDT by truthandlife
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, fired from her contributing editor perch at the National Review Online, blames it on free-speech hysteria in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a recent online column, Coulter opined that the United States should respond forcefully to the terrorist attacks: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," she said. The comment provoked an uproar, and the National Review Online subsequently refused to run another Coulter piece in which she referred to "swarthy males." When Coulter complained, she was fired. Tuesday's Washington Post quotes Coulter as saying she doesn't need friends like that. "Every once in awhile they'll throw one of their people to the wolves to get good press in left-wing publications," she told the newspaper. National Review Online Editor Jonah Goldberg told the Post, "We didn't feel we wanted to be associated with the comments expressed in those two columns." Coulter told the Washington Post she's getting great publicity as a result of the flap.
Perhaps that's what she meant, but a lot of people are taking it literally. Just look at some of the people here that are. Not only that, but they agree with that literal interpretation.
NRO is private property. She can go someplace else to express her opinions. She has no constitutional right to remain a contributor to their site.
LOL! A fan of ee cummings or just a bit lazy?
The Irish to whom you are referring don't behave like Christians at all.
They behave like false-prophet-following, blasphemous bloody Nazi islamic mass-murderers. And like what they are.
Moronic, gutless, psychopathological, bank-robbing, drug-dealing, lying, thieving, drunken, little-old-ladies-and-babies-arms-and-legs-and-heads-blowing-off, fascist, gangster bastards.
Like terrorists.
Maybe in the context of the article that would be more obvious. But taken out of context, I don't see it meaning anything different than what it says. Obviously, many other people see it that way also.
How true, the reason so many mid-east immigrants are in the U.S.A. is because they prefer the country that Christianity built to those Islam built.
Anne was speaking in hyperbolae, but the point is well taken and NR has lost another subscriber.
Somehow, you interpret 'disagree' with being 'frightened'. I don't remember OWK ever being 'frightened' by any discussion, here, at FR. Perhaps you can post a few examples to illustrate your point?
Its the suggestion of forced conversion that is the problem.
Yes. And, it is a perfectly wonderful 'discussion' line, except that the PC police haven't the courage to defend it as such. And, like OWK, I don't defend it, only her right to speak it, in the courage of one who doesn't 'kowtow' to the 'sensitivity terrorists'.
Perhaps we should parse the word 'believe'.
To truly believe, one must submit totally to all that he has presented to us, not jump ship when he fulfilled his most important prophecy.
Your self-righteousness is breathtaking.
This was how Africa was conquered, this was how Islam was ultimately spread. This is history Muslims want you to gloss over.
What Anne said was no different than what Jonah said. The only difference was that she was in a subordinate position to Jonah. And oh yeah, Anne is female, Jonah male. Sorry, folks...I am not going feminazi on FR here, but I happen to have the suspicion that when it comes to making bold statements, sexism DOES come into play.
STICK TO YOUR GUNS, ANNE.
Nice logic. In other words, Jesus Christ Himself did not believe in God, since He was just a heathen Jew. Wait...wouldn't that mean that Christianity itself is founded on a lie? You are saying, essentially, that an entire religion was based on the teachings of a non-believer, aren't you?
Satirical rage.
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