The Forward :Coulter’s Indecency

[jaysunb]

Ann Coulter, the clown princess of right-wing chatter, has always been a reassuring figure to liberals. The rubbish she spews forth — 9/11 widows “enjoy their husbands’ deaths,” liberals are “traitors,” John Edwards is a “faggot” — seems like a comforting reminder of America’s native tolerance and good sense. Like Archie Bunker, she airs our worst prejudices and turns them into a joke. American democracy comes out stronger as a result, or so we assume. After all, Americans don’t really believe that anyone who disagrees with them is a traitor. Besides, she couldn’t really mean what she says.

All the more shocking, then, was her statement last week on CNBC television that her vision of an ideal America is a nation that is entirely Christian. Her words left her host, Donny Deutsch, genuinely insulted. Coulter was flustered; this was a rare appearance in a venue that was neither sympathetically right-wing nor comedic. Having to confront a victim of her venom face to face, Coulter was visibly distressed. She couldn’t sneer her way out of it. And so she pleaded for understanding, insisting that she meant every word, but that it should not be taken as offensive. It’s merely the faith of Christians: that Jews should be “perfected” by embracing Jesus.

http://www.forward.com/articles/11828/


Ms Coulter may have finally pick the wrong crowd to dis......

[Faygo Kid]

1. She still has a role to play. FReepers love her anyway.

You forget who her audience is. They love her like their ancestors once loved Goebbels. They don't have to think, and there's enough of them to form the base of 30 percent that Hitler once got in the elections.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Another instance of sacrilege, the name of Jesus evoked by scum.

[daninthemoon]

3. Even Jesus would shudder to be "embraced" by coulter. She

has never been "re-assuring" to me. Every penny she earns for her hate speech sickens me. She has gotten obsenely rich from it, so obviously she has a willing, receptive, and like minded daudience right here in 21st century America. I begrudge her even more than limpballs, oliely, and hannity. She's absolutley disgusting, and people bought a bunch of her books while I wrote this, and you read it. Somewhere, her book just got rung up.

[Bitwit1234]

4. To be perfected coulter should show the connection to the devil

ann the man has always had.

[DesertFlower]

5. if she were truly a christian

the hate she spews would not come out of her mouth. might i also add that she dresses like a "slut".

[liberalmuse]

6. She's the reich wing's Axis Sally.

A traitor to The Constitution and a bane to common decency.

[Donkeykick]

7. Coulter...

is the best thing that has ever happened to Democrats. Keep talking, :kick:Coulter!

[Andy Canuck]

8. What she said is as disgusting as

anything else she has ever said. She just said the wrong thing in the wrong place this time, with someone who was willing to call her on it and not go ga ga over her.