Friday’s Feast #164

Appe­tizer

When was the last time you were surprised?

About five min­utes ago when I walked into my house, sat down to read my e-mails, and saw that Ann Coul­ter once again opened her insen­si­tive, big­oted mouth. You might think that, given my pro­fes­sion, I would not be sur­prised by such behav­ior. But the oppo­site is true: Just when I think I’ve heard it all …

Coul­ter draws fire over remarks about Jews

Con­ser­v­a­tive author offends CNBC host Donny Deutsch with comment

From CNBC and MSNBC

Oct. 11, 2007

Con­ser­v­a­tive author Ann Coul­ter finds her­self in the mid­dle of a firestorm once again after remarks on a CNBC tele­vi­sion show in which she said Jews need “to be per­fected” and sug­gested the nation would be bet­ter off if it were all-Christian.

Appear­ing on “The Big Idea” with host Donny Deutsch on Mon­day, she said Chris­tians were tol­er­ant of racial diver­sity but that it “would be a lot eas­ier” for Jews if they were to become Christians.

Deutsch, who described him­self as a prac­tic­ing Jew on the show, was clearly dis­mayed by the remarks, which he called “hate­ful” and “anti­se­mitic,” accord­ing to a tran­script pub­lished on the Web by Edi­tor and Publisher.

In her defense, Coul­ter apol­o­gized for the remarks and said they were misinterpreted.

“I don’t think you should take it that way (as offen­sive), but that is what Chris­tians con­sider them­selves: per­fected Jews. We believe the Old Tes­ta­ment,” she said.

Deutsch told Adweek mag­a­zine that he had invited Coul­ter on to dis­cuss her “brand strat­egy” but that the topic drifted into pol­i­tics. After Deutsch was offended by Coulter’s remarks, he said, “I think she got fright­ened that maybe she had crossed a line, that this was maybe a faux pas of great proportions.”

After the com­ments were made on the late-night cable show, they were picked up by sev­eral online mag­a­zines and began gain­ing momen­tum in the blogosphere.

Coul­ter has a his­tory of mak­ing inflam­ma­tory remarks on Deutsch’s show and elsewhere.

Last year she told Deutsch that for­mer Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton showed “some level of latent homo­sex­u­al­ity” and then fol­lowed it up by telling Chris Matthews on MSNBC that for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Al Gore was a “total fag.”

In one of her books she lashed out at 9/11 wid­ows, say­ing, “I’ve never seen peo­ple enjoy­ing their hus­bands’ deaths so much.”

Soup

Fill in the blanks: My eyes are ________, but I wish they were __________.

My eyes are dam­aged due to reti­nal detach­ments, tears, and lat­tice degen­er­a­tion, but I wish they were healthy and fully functional.

Salad

If you were a Beanie Baby, what would you look like and what would your name be?

Jel­ly­roll Janie. I’d be a round lit­tle beanie girl play­ing rag­time on a beanie upright piano.

Main Course

Name two things you con­sis­tently do that you con­sider to be healthy habits.

I don’t eat junk food. I work out (water aer­o­bics and tread­ing) as often as possible.

Dessert

What brand of tooth­paste are you using these days? Do you like it? Why or why not?

Menta Dent. I don’t know if I like it or not … It’s tooth­paste. One of life’s lit­tle neces­si­ties. I don’t think about it. I just brush and run.

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