Posted on 10/11/2007 2:15:31 PM PDT by goldstategop
The Internet and Mainstream Media are abuzz in their latest attack on Ann Coulter. This time, they're claiming she's an anti-Semite.
It all stems from an interview she did with CNBC's horrid talk show host Donny Deutch. Apparently one of the two viewers watching this incredibly boring show was a Media Matters monkey trained to tape Ann's every word and think of ways to twist it.
Ann Coulter
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 Rheric'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 that.
Why should that offend me? I've had brunch with Ann and we've had many conversations through e-mail, etc., and 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 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 is 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 great friend to the Jews and their allies than the billionaire atheist Jew whose 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 Deutch was lying about his own religious status. When Ann started down this road, and Deutch got so "offended," Ann asked him why he doesn't practice his religion, Judaism. He responded that he is a "religious" Jew. I doubt that, since his show is on 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 Deutch as a "religious" 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 Deutch, who are feigning this shock and outrage. That's because she's a threat to their real religion: liberalism.
If anything, perhaps Ann shouldn"t have used the word "perfected" if only because it was a perfect word for liberals to twist and use
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Last week I saw Ann on some show, she was lamenting the fact that Hillary Matters was not attacking her, she needed the attention to up book sales. Ann said she was working on fixing it.
Problem fixed.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Some backup, though, just in case...
ahh the Clinton Attack mutts are at it again.
The thing that I love about Ann Coulter is that she will defend herself, those MediaMutts can say what they will they will only receive condescension in return....
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That picture is not at all flattering.
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Debbie, how do you really feel about Soros?
From Jesus' prayer before the arrest in the garden......
ROFLMAO!
“George Soros, a Jew who proudly worked for the Nazis rounding up Jews and sending them to their deaths.”
Wow, I know he’s a slimeball and convicted felon (France), but does anyone have a link to this part of his sordid past?
Wikipedia has this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Native_Hungary.2C_and_move_to_England :
Soros was thirteen years old when Nazi Germany took military control over its wavering ally Hungary (March 21, 1944), and started exterminating Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust. Soros worked briefly for the Jewish Council, which had been established by the Nazis, to deliver messages to Jewish lawyers being called for deportation. Soros was not aware of the consequence of the messages.
The reference for that is Kaufman, Michael T., Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002, p. 32-33.
On another similar thread I said: “It must b very trying to be on stage eery minute of one’s life. She was referring to gentiles being the grafted branch of the chosen people, the Jews. I believe she tripped over her words in trying to make a more profound statement about a complicated subject, and her timing was off
It was certainly not meant to be offensive.<
I should have said ‘Christian gentiles’ to be more specific and correct.
In another post I said that I thought she meant she wanted all Jews to be ‘saved’. Our Savior, Christ Jesus, is a Jew, for heaven’s sake.
I agree with Schlussel, the Soros media is trying to cut Ann’s legs out from under her.
Bravo, Debbie!
Donny Douche is a perfect a-hole.....
Frankly, I doubt the "involuntary" part of the deal ~ the way the rest of his life has turned out he knew and liked it.
Check with Calpernia. She has the links you want.
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