No, Really, Let Ann Coulter Clarify October 18, 2007

So apparently, after being blasted by so many of her critics, Ann Coulter decided that she wanted to set the record straight. She felt she had been misquoted, and, in this piece on the very right-wing NewsMax, wanted to strike back at those who had lambasted her as of late.

Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, was quick to condemn her comments, calling them “hate speech” and saying:

“How does someone who says that Judaism should be thrown out, that Jews should be ‘perfected’ and that America would be better off were everyone Christian continue to receive a megaphone and platform from the news networks? When will the media say ‘enough is enough’?”

Coulter – author of the new book “If Democrats Had Any Brain, They’d Be Republicans” – responded by telling Newsmax:

“Let’s rewrite the NJDC statement to refer to what I actually said: ‘How does someone who says it would be better if everyone were a Christian or practicing Jew continue to receive a megaphone and platform from the news networks? When will the media say ‘enough is enough’?

“Who’s engaging in hate speech now?” she asked.

Ahh, so we “practicing Jews” can sleep easier. I wonder what her definition of “practicing Jew” is. Everyone sins — the verse in Ecclesiastes says it flatly that there is no “righteous man [on the earth] who only does good and never sins”. Then again, a “practicing Jew” is also probably practicing repentance as well.

Coulter, in the NewsMax piece, though, when all is said and done, goes right back to what she was saying in her original interview though. Quoting the Catholic Encyclopedia as her source, and flatly dismissing her critic, the head of Catholics United, she brings that “the imperfect state of yesterday must give way before the perfection of today although the one has normally prepared the other” vis-a-vis the transition from “Old Testament to New”.

I don’t doubt she’s not making it up — there is no end to the amount of anti-Jewish literature the Christian scholar could theoretically draw from in dissing his Semitic counterpart. There being an extant source doesn’t dilute the fact that one would have to be an unmitigated ass for saying something like this on TV.

But, again, this is her MO — and she is proving herself to be the disgrace to the Republican Party with zero tact we’ve all come to expect to see soiling our screens.