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Your juvenile ad hominem attacks must have made quite a hit among your fellow middle school lunch room cronies. However, to us adults, it’s rather unbecoming.
I have heard and read the full context of the exchange between Coulter and her interviewer ("Donnie who?"). By any definition of anti-semitism, what she said was not anti-semitic. Additionally, I have never read anything in any of her many books or columns that could be considered anti-semitic. In fact, she is very pro-Israel and supportive to the worldwide threats and challenges facing Jews from Islamic radicalism.
If you have a point to make I think it would be far more interesting and worthy for you to define anti-semitism and then explain how Coulters comments fit to that rather than engage in a verbal food-fight.
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Blaine
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I am always amazed when the political commentator Ann Coulter manages to raise such a ruckus.
It’s not that she doesn’t say outrageous things. Clearly she does. It’s not even that she doesn’t have a kind of credibility. She’s written a few books with obnoxious titles and manages to get her morose face plastered all over cable TV.
But how can you take her seriously? She looks like a middle-aged giraffe stuffed into a teeny weenie little skirt that wouldn’t even be tasteful on Lindsay Lohan (or any other attractive woman two decades her junior).
But alas, that flimsy garment provides all the insight she has to offer.
Shortly after 9/11 she infamously provoked the entire Muslim world in her moronic syndicated column: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity,” she wrote.
Sage advice. Next, we’ll tick off China and make them all Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Recently she verbally assaulted the Jews. Speaking on the boring Donny Deutsch show she asserted that the Chosen needed to be “perfected” into Christians. This was actually the less offensive part of a bigger point that she was making — that America would be better off if we were all Christians.
Certainly, if Coulter had her way, we would be a nation with nicer home furnishings, indoor voices and a ham in every pot.
Anyway, since Coulter is considered a conservative voice, many on the left are finding a lot of joy in her stupidity. This is a shame since conservatism has clearly given us meaner individuals of greater consequence, real old-school Jew haters like Pat Buchanan.
Of course, putting so much energy into worrying about a publicity streetwalker is wasteful and causes us to take our eyes off the real ball here. First of all, if there is an American threat to both Israel and the Jews, it is not the buffoons on the right who are providing it. They’re too out of favor to threaten a fly.
The real problem for America’s Jews now is clearly on the left. The nation’s campuses are infested by termites. They’re grubbing on the beams and foundations of tolerance, eroding everything that once held the diverse country together. For every so-called liberal intellectual trying to gasbag the Jews to death, accusing them of controlling government, media and money in their boring essays, there are scores more who agree but won’t speak up because they fear the clandestine councils of Levites.
Since the Democrats are definitely going to win back the White House next year, this southpaw anti-Jewish hostility is worth looking into. Perhaps Jewish Americans wouldn’t have helped elect Jimmy Carter had they known in advance that he blames the Jews for Middle East tensions, or that he would hire anti-Jewish advisers like Zbigniew Brzezinski, or that he felt that the Jews were not pious enough.
Before we elect a president this time we should overlook the fact that they were once married to a president, or that they’ve got Oprah’s endorsement.
Instead we should try to divine what they really think about the Middle East and understand where they believe the blame really lies. We should find out which academics and career government officials they will hire as advisers, and then examine their views. We should flat out ask them if they believe that there are cabals of Jews behind the media.
There’s going to be a lot at stake for the Jews and the world in this next American plebiscite. We need to know how the leaders we are about to elect, the leaders from the left, really feel. To achieve that we should waste precious little time debating the ignorant babblings of a pogo stick in a miniskirt.
Posted by on 11/09/07 at 10:36 AM | Comments (1)
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