Ann Coulter and “perfected” Jews
I do not like Ann Coulter. Long-time readers of this blog (all four of you) should already be well aware of that fact. Much like Rosie O’Donnell, formerly of The View, Ann Coulter is a self-agrandizing attention whore who deliberately makes controversial statements simply to get noticed. However much I may dislike her and dislike what she says, she does a lot to prove one of my major points – that people in this country are way too thin-skinned. People on both the left and the right side of the political spectrum get offended way too easily. This leads to political correctness, a watered down and inefficient means of communication, as a means of not hurting anyone’s precious and all-important feelings.
Yesterday, Ms. Coulter said in an interview:
COULTER: Well, OK, take the Republican National Convention. People were happy. They’re Christian. They’re tolerant. They defend America, they —
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?…
COULTER: No, we think — we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
I can think of several words that would describe this diatribe: stupid, ignorant, etc. Offensive, however, is not a word I would attribute to this. Ms. Couter was asked what she believed, and she responded with what she believed. Nothing more, nothing less.
Granted, I believe Ms. Coulter is misguided and misinformed as to the nature of religion, particularly in the area of tolerance, but that is her right – just as it is my right to hold my aforementioned opinions. Yet, many people are too busy getting their diapers all twisted up in knots to stop and think about what Ms. Coulter just said, or more specifically, the question to which she was responding.
When someone says something I don’t like, I am faced with a number of choices. I can choose to a) get offended and get all huffy puffy about it, b) roll my eyes for a moment then move on, or c) just plain shrug, say “oh well,” then move on with life. Sometimes, if it is something particularly stupid, I wll blog about it and poke fun at it. Personally, I think option “a” is a waste of time and energy, so I rarely let myself go that far.
This is not to say, of course, that I think I am perfect. I have made (and continue to make) my share of blunders, so I am far from perfect. I do, however, realize that I can take a moment between stimulus and response to evaluate the context of the stimulus, then to take another moment to formulate an appropriate response. Apparently, this is a skill that is no longer taught. Sticks and stones and all that jazz.
But, I have digressed from my initial point. Yes, Coulter is an attention whore. You know it, I know it, and most importantly, she knows it. She thrives off the controversy she generates with her stupid statements. The best way to deal with attention whores is to roll your eyes at them, then move on with your life.
Oh, and grow some damn skin.
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Actually she is a very smart lady, she made a comment that has everyone in an uproar and she is getting attention. She is a real BITCH but she knows what she is doing.
The problem is that the Republican Neocons don’t shut her up. They let her continue on and on, which to me tells me that they agree with her.
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Thanks for the comment, Ted.
I do agree that Ann Coulter is a smart woman, and knows full well what she is doing and saying. She is the classic example of an attention whore. She says what she does just to get her name in the headlines, especially when she trying to get the plebes to buy her latest book.
I agree that failure to condemn usually means that one condones what is being said/done. However, the classic attention whore, a category for which Coulter certainly qualifies, believe there is no such thing as bad publicity, and thus thrive on such condemnation. The best thing one can do is just ignore her and deprive her of the attention she so desperately craves.