Ann Coulter Outrage is "Hate Speech," American Jewish Committee Says

The American Jewish Committee on Friday announced that the organization is outraged by Ann Coulter's assertion, made while she was on the Donny Deutsch CNBC show "The Big Idea," that Jews require "perfecting" by becoming Christians. Coulter expressed the idea that
Ann Coulter Outrage is "Hate Speech," American Jewish Committee Says
Date: October 12, 2007
New York, NY
United States of America
Judaism should be discarded, that Jews required Christianity to be "perfected", and that Christianity holds out the unique promise of a "fast track" to God.

"Ms. Coulter's assertion that Jews are somehow religiously imperfect smacks of the most odious anti-Jewish sentiment. One would think she would know better than to utter such intolerant words," said AJC President Richard J. Sideman.

Ann Coulter is known for her unabashedly extreme socio-politically Right positions and to many she seems to thrive on being utterly insensitive to anyone who is at all to her Left. Even to her supporters she is known as someone who makes a career out of being offensive.

In the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York Coulter asserted that the widows of those who had died were liars and mere instruments of the Leftist media outlets who were being paid off to spread harmful disinformation about the Republican administration. Her statements caused outrage and earned her a new level of resentment.

Coulter is also well known for labeling all Democrats as anti-American and unpatriotic.

Many of Coulter's apologists believe that she "goes over the top" deliberately in order to gain publicity for herself ("there's no such thing as 'bad publicity'", goes one adage) while also using extreme statements to counterbalance what she and those of her ilk see as a hypnotism of the American mind by too much extreme Leftism.

 
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Thanks for your commentary. Anne Coulter is deliberately offensive and she believes the ridiculous things she says - her supporters notwithstanding. She isn't just doing this to get attention and sell books - she is selling the ideas, including the outrageous ones. Yes, I do believe she envisions a perfected America with only Christians - her brand of Christians - probably not including Catholics like me or Episcopalians or Lutherans, or... Can we please stop interviewing her, puclishing her books or giving her any audience at all? If she shuts up for a while maybe her ears and her heart will open...

Posted on 10/15/2007 at 2:10:00 PM

I would say you made a good commentary, Jeff, if it were not for the fact that you desire the exact same thing that she does, except at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Posted on 10/15/2007 at 10:10:00 AM

Coulter is an idiot, but has a big following (other idiots) Jews, and others - know full well what it means when right wingers start talking about the need for them to be "perfected" it means convert or die. In the America Coulter and company want, it would mean exactly that for anyone not like them.

Posted on 10/15/2007 at 10:10:00 AM

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