Has anyone heard what Ann Coutler said?

[packersfan]

Has anyone seen what Ann Coutler said Monday on CNBC with Donny Deutsch? About Jewish people? That's digusting. I'm not Jewish and I was so offended it made me like so sad:( i was angry:flare: She said Jews needed to be perfected? Oh my goodness! Something needs to be done! It can't be ignored! She was on Donny Deutsch's show and he's Jewish himself and it offended him! Isn't is an honor to be on someone's show? Wouldn't you not offend them? And it's fine that she thought that (well, not really), but she didn't even appoligise. She said it wasn't meant to offend him. Yeah right, it wouldn't offend him? She must be joking! And if you saw the interview or watched it on YouTube, she was laughing the whole time. Oh my goodness! How can somebody say that! Freedom of speech maybe, but that's pushing it! Please reply. I'm interested to hear what you guys think!

[Virgil]

That's politics Packersfan and we don't talk politics here.

[packersfan]

Oh okay thank you
I didn't realize.

[Granny5]

Ann Coulter is scank and if everyone would stop giving her a platform to
perform on, she'd go away. How anyone can watch her, listen to her on radio, buy the junk that she calls books and let her be on tv is beyond me.
I turn the channel if I see anything about her coming on. Her thing is to say outragous things just to get on tv. No intelligent person could possibly believe any of the trash she spouts.

[B-Mental]

ok, does anyone believe she writes those crappy books with her name on em?

[motherhubbard]

Since this thread is very likely to be shut down at any moment- All I want to say is that I love the avatar packersfan. I carried my children just like that.

[sonofaslan]

That's politics Packersfan and we don't talk politics here.

Oh wow! How do you discuss literature with political undertones? For example, Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. I only ask because it is such a prominent theme in literature. Not necessarily contemporary politics, which I agree, with all its spin and smearing, is a farce beyond reckoning, but political policies that various authors believed will inevitably lead to a degradation of society.

Of course, I agree that politics, even if it were permitted elsewhere, has no place in a forum designated for the discussion of religious texts.

I am not defending Ann Coulter (she has enough publishing houses in line to do that for her). She is a Christian (howbeit one that has apparently never read Genesis 12:3), and perhaps she thinks this of Jews because most are not Christian. Perhaps what she said was a slightly more abrasive, and more inconsiderate, way of saying the same thing C. S. Lewis said in one of his essays, which is better said, and is certainly not as offensive to the Jewish nationality...

"In a sense the converted Jew is the only normal human being in the world. To him, in the first instance, the promises were made, and he has availed himself of them. He calls Abraham his father by hereditary right as well as by divine courtesy. He has taken the whole syllabus in order, as it was set; eaten the dinner according to the menu. Everyone else is, from one point of view, a special case, dealt with under emergency regulations. To us Christians the unconverted Jew (I mean no offence) must appear as a Christian manqué; someone very carefully prepared for a certain destiny and then missing it. And we ourselves, we christened gentiles, are after all the graft, the wild vine, possessing "joys not promised to our birth"; though perhaps we do not think of this so often as we might. And when the Jew does come in, he brings with him into the fold dispositions different from and complementary of ours; as St. Paul envisages in Ephesians 2. 14-19."

[Virgil]

Oh wow! How do you discuss literature with political undertones? For example, Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. I only ask because it is such a prominent theme in literature. Not necessarily contemporary politics, which I agree, with all its spin and smearing, is a farce beyond reckoning, but political policies that various authors believed will inevitably lead to a degradation of society.


You don't have to bring up politics to discuss those works. Any insuation that any current leader of any free society is similar to 1984 is frankly childish.

[Logos]

And watch out! (us Mods) Big Brother is watching you all :lol:

This topic is closed because

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b) it is about current (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/announcement.php?f=9) politics.