Ann Coulter

Her next books title should be,

If I Had Any Brains I Would Be Quite

Subject: Re: Ann Coulter

Hamilton wrote: Her next books title should be,

If I Had Any Brains I Would Be Quite

"Quiet" too :-)

(btw, the mods will probably move this to te lounge as it's not PS-related and since Ann Coulter is the definition of random BS)

Check out this little gem from a recent appearance:

she knows how to make people get work up over things and that sells books. I wouldn't call that stupid.

I called a very religious (Christian) friend of mine and asked him whether he considered himself a perfected Jew.

He said, "Yes, but I would never EVER say that in public!"

Apparently, he was at a truck stop when that gem came on and he went ballistic.

Ann Coulter is an evil little troll.

Ann Coulter is a man.

You just know she's fucking some liberal...probably a Jew, too :-)

Oh no, she's on the express train! Us poor little Jews can't run fast enough on our little legs! :shock:

Carny, maybe she's got a goiter.

all conservatives deep down are repress. i'm sure she loves jewish men .

Oh yeah, you could definitely tell by how she was flirting with Donny. :roll:

First, you have to get her to admit that she likes sex. She's so uptight she could open beer bottles with her butt.

thats her public face silly!!

armchair_warrior wrote: thats her public face silly!!

Quit saying "her."

SHE"S A MAN, BABY!

well that means tons of closet guys on the conservative side. he sells them books well. and they say sex sells.

Seriously, I'd like to hear what the likes of David Horowitz have to say about Coultergeist's most recent bs.

Btw, I've never before heard the "Christians are perfected Jews" thing, ever.
And I grew up Catholic, went to school among Evangelicals, and have a few relatives that are Jehova's Witnesses, so...I dunno...maybe I wasn't paying attention.

Apparently it's very much an evangelical thing. They would never had said that around you because you aren't one of them. It's something that evangelicals only say behind closed doors.

Source: my best friend, the evangelical, weird though he may be.

Carny, are you SURE that isn't a goiter? Perhaps her thyroid makes her so cranky and nasty (and delusional and...)

Maxim.com wrote: Perfecting Ann Coulter
Phony blowhard Ann Coulter said Jews need to be perfected. She could use a few of these upgrades herself.
In a recent conversation with Donny Deutsch, cold-fish Coulter claimed the country would be better off without Jews. After a heated debate, she conceded that keeping them around might be tolerable if they were "perfected." Who died and made her Führer? Here are our suggestions for a new and improved Adolf Coulter.

In all seriousness, I had 2 bosses that were crazy and evangelical, but didn't straight out admit it. I heard the word "charismatic" a lot, then found this out and it explained everything:

Charismatic Catholicism, also known as Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a movement within the Catholic Church which is very similar to the Pentecostal and Evangelical movements. Worship services are characterized by a high energy Mass, as well as prayer meetings featuring prophecy and sometimes glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues." Some supporters within this movement see it as based on the belief that certain charisms (a Greek word for gifts), bestowed by the Holy Spirit, such as the abilities to speak in tongues and to heal (which all Christians believe existed somehow in the early Church as described in the Bible) should still be practiced today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charismatic_Renewal

Much ado about nothing.


By Debbie Schlussel


"In describing the connections between Christian and Jewish beliefs, Ann said that Jews believe in the Old Testament, but Christians believe in that AND the New Testament. Jews need to be "perfected," she said. Reading the full script (also read Omri Ceren/Mere Rhetoric's and Allah Pundit's excellent comments @ Hot Air), it's abundantly clear what she was talking about. To wit: That we, as Jews, don't accept the full Christian Bible, and therefore, it's the Christian belief that we need to be fully accepting of it. She said "That is what we [Christians] believe we are--perfected Jews."

Why should that offend me? I've had brunch with Ann, and we've had many conversations through e-mail, etc. During all of that, she's never once told me she's offended that I believe that I am part of the Chosen People. To you far-left Jews and other uber-liberals who want to rush off and call Ann an anti-Semite, that means that we as Jews believe Christians and Hindus and Bahai Faithers (and definitely, Muslims) are not Chosen. Does that make me a religious bigot? Nope. It just means I actually believe in my religion. Just like Ann does. Nothing more. Nothing less.

This whole thing is a lot of manufactured hype in order to try to play gotcha with Ann. Like I said, I know Ann personally and I like and respect her. She doesn't have an anti-Semitic bone in her body. If anything, she is one of the most philo-Semitic gentiles I know, and her columns--constant attacks on the modern day enemies of the Jewish people and defenses of Israel and America--are strong evidence of that.

Contrast that with the villain here: Media Matters. It's anti-American, anti-Israel, and funded by George Soros, a Jew who proudly worked for the Nazis rounding up Jews and sending them to their deaths. Hmmm . . . him versus Ann Coulter? That's an easy choice. I'd much rather go with the woman who looks like an Aryan but is a friend to the Jews and their allies than the billionaire atheist Jew who's lived his entire life like a Nazi.

Again, if she is not bothered that I think that as a Jew, I'm one of the Chosen People (and she isn't), I certainly can't be bothered in the least that she thinks that Jews must be perfected to Christianity. I think the fact that far too many of my fellow co-religionists have substituted unabated liberalism for Judaism is what gives so many a platform for questioning us, though I don't believe that is what Ann was doing here.

And for the record, I believe Donny Deutsch was lying about his own religious status. When Ann started down this road, and Deutsch got so "offended," Ann asked him why he doesn't practice his religion, Judaism. He responded that he is a "practicing" Jew. I doubt that, since his show is on live during the Jewish Sabbath, and keeping the Jewish Sabbath is the most important commandment for a religious Jew to keep. I believe most religious Jews would not characterize Deutsch as a "practicing" Jew, not that it matters, but since we're nitpicking along with the self-appointed nit-watchers here . . . . I, for one, enjoyed Ann needling him on that, since he needled her.

True religious Jews are not offended by Ann's comments, though they really appreciate her alliance with our causes. It's only the Jewish libs, like Deutsch, who are feigning this shock and outrage. That's because she's a threat to their real religion: liberalism."

As my evangelical friend puts it, '"It's not WHAT she said that was so offensive, but the WAY she said it." With such friends, who needs enemies?

I think the story that Soros helped the Nazis has been debunked. Weren't his parents killed by Nazis? Plus, if he actively collaborated with the Nazis, he wouldn't be a billionaire, he'd be dead. The Nazis had a habit of killing collaborators once they were through with them, particularly if they were Jewish. If one is going to spread nasty stories like these, I wanna see proof, not bald assertions.

And I don't think that any level of observance is necessary to have the right to be offended. That very idea is offensive, that only practicing religious people have the right to be offended, as if non-religious or non-practicing people don't have beliefs and values of their own to be violated.

Typical right-wing smear campaign.

Mamacita wrote: In all seriousness, I had 2 bosses that were crazy and evangelical, but didn't straight out admit it. I heard the word "charismatic" a lot, then found this out and it explained everything:

Charismatic Catholicism, also known as Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a movement within the Catholic Church which is very similar to the Pentecostal and Evangelical movements. Worship services are characterized by a high energy Mass, as well as prayer meetings featuring prophecy and sometimes glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues." Some supporters within this movement see it as based on the belief that certain charisms (a Greek word for gifts), bestowed by the Holy Spirit, such as the abilities to speak in tongues and to heal (which all Christians believe existed somehow in the early Church as described in the Bible) should still be practiced today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charismatic_Renewal

Growing up I heard about "the Charismatics" and remember family members speaking of them with a certain awe: they had a rep for being very generous, involved in the community, and, yes charismatic, in the dictionary-defined sense of the word. But the thing that I found kinda cool was that they were also considered progressive, tolerant and questioning of both society AND church hierarchy, and its teachings.

If I recall correctly 3/4 of U2 are Charismatic Catholics. (Bassist Adam Clayton is not.)

as a liberal gay southerner, i've got plenty of bones to pick with the bulk of the evangelical and fundy churches, but i must say i find the charismatics very beautiful. the idea that the holy spirit is actively using you as a body is compelling and just the sort of thing religion ought to be for, i think. the church across the street had their door propped open while people were speaking in tongues a couple of weeks ago, and it made me feel so electrified.

very like hassidism in certain respects -- the idea of ecstatic connection to the universe through music and dance.

while i think debbie schlussel makes a good point -- if we're going to have religion, we have to deal with the fact that people believe in it -- she does ignore the fact that the reason it skeeves people out more when christians talk that way than when jews do is that christianity is an evangelical religion. christianity seeks converts, which naturally makes non-christians more wary of being told they are broken in some way. hearing jews talk about being chosen may make us gentiles feel left out (or not), but we don't have to worry that someone is going to try to force us to become jewish.

since jews don't want us to convert and are not the majority, we can also feel fairly confident that becoming jewish will never be a de facto requirement to, say, become president. (whereas, on some level, some christians might believe that it's fine to think only a christian should be president, since, after all, anyone can become one.) born-again christianity includes the notion of "seeing the light" and the error of one's past, which makes it particularly problematic in this regard -- anyone who isn't born again is just someone who hasn't reached that stage of development yet.

obviously, i mean the above in regard to the US only -- the requirements of belief for politicians are different in, say, israel. and islam is susceptible to the same issues surrounding conversion, but it's not the hegemon here.

Actually, in Israel, the only proper religion for an Israeli politician is Zionist. Israelis tend to be very leery of the Orthodox, who have enough power to make sure that they are the only approved sect. You cannot legally be married by a Reform or Conservative rabbi in Israel, and until recently, both sects were banned from practicing in Israel. Your only choice is to be Orthodox or completely secular, which is probably why the vast majority of Israelis are atheists. They really don't trust religion at all. Which is why it is so weird that the right wing is making alliances with Christian Zionists.

And while it's true that the vast majority of the Jewish community does not seek out converts, you've clearly not spent enough time around the Lubavitcher sect, which DOES actively seek out converts. They proselytize through their Chabad houses and their mitzvahmobiles. And while it does skeeve me out a little, in general, I do find their proselytizing quite a bit less offensive than that of Christians. I never had a Lubavitcher tell me that I was going to hell in a handbasket for not accepting his religion. It seems that they try to convert more by setting a good example.

of course i've encountered lubavitchers -- you know where i live, right? but their potential convert pool is quite small compared to truly evangelical religions'. for instance, once i tell them i'm not jewish, they don't then continue to talk to me. try that with a mormon and they'll move into your living room.

They do try to convert non-Jews though they concentrate on Jews. And they are a lot less pushy than Christians. I once had a Christian try to bring me to Christ RIGHT BEFORE AN AUDITION and violating every rule of audition etiquette in the book. He wouldn't shut up and let me prepare. Ironically, my audition monologue was from St. Joan.

But here's a great way to get rid of a Jehovah's Witness. Fast!

Wait for it....


Tell them you're Jewish!

You heard right. According to their theology, Jews are already damned so there is no point in trying to save them. Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole like Jews on a personal level, so they'll look real sad when you tell them (with those puppy dog eyes that on my less charitable days make me want to kick them) because they're real sorry that you're going to hell, but they won't try to convert you and will quietly go away. I imagine a mezzuzah on the door frame would be a Jehovah's Witness repellant.

My funniest JW story happened this way. I was on my way to acting class on a warm day. I was wearing a cut-off green velvet belly shirt with long bell sleeves. From the front, it covered my boobs and that was about it. As I was leaving to go to class, my bell rang, so I figured I would answer the door on the way out. I opened the door and there were two Jehovah's witnesses there. They took one look at me, said "Sorry! Wrong address!", turned around and LEFT!!!

I didn't even have a chance to tell them I was Jewish.

lilbangladesh wrote: But here's a great way to get rid of a Jehovah's Witness. Fast!

Wait for it....


Tell them you're Jewish!

You know, I recently read that Prince's strained relationship with Wendy Melvoin--formerly of The Revolution and Wendy & Lisa--got worse when he converted to the JW, since Ms. Melvoin is both a Jew and a lesbian. They've since reconciled but still...

The various Christians denominations are always bickering, critizing, and pointing the finger at one another. But, in my experience, nothing unites them quicker than their mutual disdain for the JW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kL075UHqyk

Ann Coulter and Kathy Griffin are the same person. :twisted:

Hey! That's an insult to Kathy Griffin! You really ought to watch that link. It's hilarious. And it reveals Matt Lauer to be one cool dude.

Here is a clip where Ann Coulter gets her clock cleaned:

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