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Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting'
Published: October 11, 2007 12:15 AM ET updated 1:30 PM ET
NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they needed to "perfect" themselves into -- Christians.
It led Deutsch to suggest that surely she couldn't mean that, and when she insisted she did, he said this sounded "anti-Semitic."
Asked by Deutsch whether she wanted to be like "the head of Iran" and "wipe Israel off the Earth," Coulter stated: "No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
... That's what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament." Deutsch told E&P's sibling magazine, Adweek, today, "I was offended. And then, and this was interesting, she started to back off and seemed a little upset."
Asked to gauge her reaction, Deutsch said, "I think she got frightened that maybe she had crossed a line, that this was maybe a faux pas of great proportions. I mean, did it show ignorance? Anti-Semitism? It wasn't just one of those silly things."
A transcript, provided by Media Matters, follows.
DEUTSCH: Christian -- so we should be Christian? It would be better if we were all Christian?
COULTER: Yes.
DEUTSCH: We should all be Christian?
COULTER: Yes. Would you like to come to church with me, Donny?
DEUTSCH: So I should not be a Jew, I should be a Christian, and this would be a better place?
COULTER: Well, you could be a practicing Jew, but you're not.
DEUTSCH: I actually am. That's not true. I really am. But -- so we would be better if we were - if people -- if there were no Jews, no Buddhists --
COULTER: Whenever I'm harangued by --
DEUTSCH: -- in this country? You can't believe that.
COULTER: -- you know, liberals on diversity --
DEUTSCH: Here you go again.
COULTER: No, it's true. I give all of these speeches at megachurches across America, and the one thing that's really striking about it is how utterly, completely diverse they are, and completely unself-consciously. You walk past a mixed-race couple in New York, and it's like they have a chip on their shoulder. They're just waiting for somebody to say something, as if anybody would. And --
DEUTSCH: I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that at all. Maybe you have the chip looking at them. I see a lot of interracial couples, and I don't see any more or less chips there either way. That's erroneous.
COULTER: No. In fact, there was an entire Seinfeld episode about Elaine and her boyfriend dating because they wanted to be a mixed-race couple, so you're lying.
DEUTSCH: Oh, because of some Seinfeld episode? OK.
COULTER: But yeah, I think that's reflective of what's going on in the culture, but it is completely striking that at these huge megachurches -- the idea that, you know, the more Christian you are, the less tolerant you would be is preposterous.
DEUTSCH: That isn't what I said, but you said I should not -- we should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or --
COULTER: Yeah.
DEUTSCH: Really?
COULTER: Well, it's a lot easier. It's kind of a fast track.
DEUTSCH: Really?
COULTER: Yeah. You have to obey.
DEUTSCH: You can't possibly believe that.
COULTER: Yes.
DEUTSCH: You can't possibly -- you're too educated, you can't -- you're like my friend in --
COULTER: Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion, but you have to obey.
DEUTSCH: No, no, no, but I mean --
COULTER: We have the fast-track program.
DEUTSCH: Why don't I put you with the head of Iran? I mean, come on. You can't believe that.
COULTER: The head of Iran is not a Christian.
DEUTSCH: No, but in fact, "Let's wipe Israel" --
COULTER: I don't know if you've been paying attention.
DEUTSCH: "Let's wipe Israel off the earth." I mean, what, no Jews?
COULTER: No, we think -- we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
DEUTSCH: Wow, you didn't really say that, did you?
COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we're all sinners --
DEUTSCH: In my old days, I would have argued -- when you say something absurd like that, there's no --
COULTER: What's absurd?
DEUTSCH: Jews are going to be perfected. I'm going to go off and try to perfect myself --
COULTER: Well, that's what the New Testament says.
DEUTSCH: Ann Coulter, author of If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, and if Ann Coulter had any brains, she would not say Jews need to be perfected. I'm offended by that personally. And we'll have more Big Idea when we come back.
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DEUTSCH: Welcome back to The Big Idea. During the break, Ann said she wanted to explain her last comment. So I'm going to give her a chance. So you don't think that was offensive?
COULTER: No. I'm sorry. It is not intended to be. I don't think you should take it that way, but that is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews. We believe the Old Testament. As you know from the Old Testament, God was constantly getting fed up with humans for not being able to, you know, live up to all the laws. What Christians believe -- this is just a statement of what the New Testament is -- is that that's why Christ came and died for our sins. Christians believe the Old Testament. You don't believe our testament.
DEUTSCH: You said -- your exact words were, "Jews need to be perfected." Those are the words out of your mouth.
COULTER: No, I'm saying that's what a Christian is.
DEUTSCH: But that's what you said -- don't you see how hateful, how anti-Semitic --
COULTER: No!
DEUTSCH: How do you not see? You're an educated woman. How do you not see that?
COULTER: That isn't hateful at all.
DEUTSCH: But that's even a scarier thought.
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Think about it for 2 seconds:
No room for jews, atheists, muslims, agnostics, etc.
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"Also, Christians believe that Christianity is the natural and correct extension of Judiasm - that Christ fulfilled the Jewish prophecy of the Messiah."
And jews believe otherwise. So do muslims. So do atheists.
"How is telling a Jewish person that the Messiah was Christ divisive?"
Gee, how is telling catholics that their pope is a former nazi divisive? Especially when there's a lot more proof and truth to the nazi assertion than their is for Jesus the Messiah.
Heaven would probably be a great place if
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No, it's not. It smacks of superiority, and (newsflash!) pretty much all the other faiths feel the same way about Christians. Talk about your insufferable circlejerk, eh?
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Because, from a Christian perspective, all of those people are wrong. Coulter is... a total loon ("We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express." What does that even mean??), but Deutsch didn't represent himself well either. Saying that all Jews should convert to Christianity is not hate-speech or even anti-Semetic. She's just being honest with her belief that Christ is the one and only path to salvation, a core belief of Christian
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I consider myself a Christian, but to me personally the behavior of Ann Coulter (and far FAR too many people like her) is completely antithetical to the teachings of Christ. Actually, if you take a small amount of time to think about it most Christian Dogma is quite the opposite of what the man said.
The whole idea of conservatives identifying with one of the most progressively liberal personalities from that era would b
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I know that Anne Coulter doesn't typify most christians ... but she certainly speaks for a lot of them, and those who don't stand up against her aid and abett her by their silence; such complicity (morally, errors of omission are just as bad as errors of commision) damns all christians. That's just the way it is. The squeeky wheel gets greased, and if you're not going to stand up and denounce it, then its no surprise when you end up grease-stained yourself.
When was the last time your priest/pastor/deacon
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Oh, and I don't go to church. Your question about my hypothetical cleric is very much one of the reasons why, because they usually don't denounce real filth, especially not in the evangelical area I live in now. They're too busy pretending breasts and four letter words are evil to be bothered with some such small transgressions like mass-murder in the na
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I hear you, and don't blame or judge you for not going to church. You're probably better off that way, sad to say ...
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As hard as it may seem, I think the best response to these idiots is to just quietly ignore them. Why should Ann Coulter receive any more press time than, say, an outspoken KKK member?
Yes, she's an idiot. Yes, she contradicts herself. The world is full of idiots like her. I've stopped caring about them. And I'm aware of the irony of posting a comment saying "ignore her". Sigh.
I suppose the depressing part is not that yahoos like Ann Coulter exist and spout their views, but that newspapers, books, ra
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My Rebuttal, Using Coulterian Logic (Score:1)
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Ughh, I feel dirty just from talking like her. But anyway, just illustrating just how passive-aggressively ha
Standard Christian Doctrine (Score:2)