Conservatives rip Ann Coulter for blaming Ebola doc’s illness on ‘Christian narcissism’

[DonViejo]

Conservative gadfly Ann Coulter drew widespread condemnation for attacking a Christian missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while serving in Africa.

Coulter suggested in her column Wednesday that Dr. Kent Brantly chose to help the poor in Liberia instead of the United States because “serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn’t have been ‘heroic.’”

“American Christians go on ‘mission trips’ to disease-ridden cesspools because they’re tired of fighting the culture war in the U.S., tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists, and bigots,” Coulter wrote. “So they slink off to Third World countries, away from American culture to do good works, forgetting that the first rule of life on a riverbank is that any good that one attempts downstream is quickly overtaken by what happens upstream.”

Conservative blogger Rod Dreher agreed that Christians could do much more to help poor Americans, but he strongly rebuked Coulter for questioning the motives of those who go overseas to serve.

“It’s revolting that Coulter accuses this man who, with his family, risked their lives to serve poor Africans, of doing so for the personal glory,” Dreher wrote for The American Conservative. “Something is deeply wrong with that woman.”

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[moriah]

5. Excuse you?

I'm not saying there's not plenty that needs to be done here.

But her line of nonsense is the same that suggests we shouldn't send money to help fight AIDS in Africa, or alleviate famine, because it's not taking care of ourselves first. Our GDP is enough to do both, and we SHOULD be helping other countries where the vast majority lack the things our vast majority takes for granted.

[Wounded Bear]

2. “Something is deeply wrong with that woman.”

No shit, Sherlock.

[moriah]

3. Amazing, she finally pisses off conservatives. And for good reason.

It's just as sickening as those who disparage the work that medical mission groups do just because they're Christian.

I admit I would rather give money to Doctors Without Borders, but screw dissing on people for trying to make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. She got what she wanted

Bad attention is better than no attention to a narcissist. See: Coulter, Ann; Trump, Donald; etc...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. “Something is deeply wrong with that woman.”

Where does one even start?

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Pass the popcorn. . .and watch from a distance.

[Warpy]

10. Too right, don't want to be near enough to get any of that shit splashed on me

What that scrawny twit doesn't seem to realize is that Africa is upstream, if you're talking about most emerging diseases.

Any medical personnel who go there to fight them at the source are heroes, and I don't care if they're Jesus jumpers or not.

I'm just glad she's starting to piss off the Christians. It's about time they noticed what she is.

[gratuitous]

7. Well, that's surprising

Usually conservatives don't mess with each others' play.

The easy response to Coulter's drivel is that if she sees something that she as a good Christian ought to be doing something about, rather than criticize others for what they're doing, perhaps she should do it herself. Unless her God-given mission is to provide jobs for cigarette manufacturers and chardonnay vintners.

[joeybee12]

8. Good, now the right will have this so-and-so also...nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. The root here is that Coulter is not a Christian

She's a follower of Ayn Rand, and Rand was an atheist.

Not a slam at any atheists on this board, mind you, and I certainly don't mean to drop the turd of Ann Coulter into what is an otherwise decent and humane punch bowl. She's a conservative atheist who basically says, "Fuck the poor and let the good times roll for the rest of us."

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Except that she professes to be a Christian, and that claim is central to her conservatism and her

rhetorical themes. She in no way and at no time has claimed to be an atheist. She says she's a devout Christian, and she says so repeatedly. She says so when berating gay people, atheists, Muslims....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Let's see who else you can piss off Ann

[Kber]

13. Ann's definition of a narcissist:

Anyone who pays more attention to anyone or anything else than they do to her.

[Thinkingabout]

14. Ann Coulter has been saying nasty things about others, this is how she gets attention.

This time she said something about a Christian missionary and went over the line with the religious right.

[Marrah_G]

16. Way to piss off your fan base Ann. Keep it up!