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In a recent interview with Donny Deutsch on MSNBC's the "Big Idea," Right-Wing columnists gave her vision of a "perfect America." Here are a couple of excerpts:
COULTER: ....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.
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DEUTSCH: That isn't what I said, but you said I should not -- we should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or --
COULTER: Yeah.
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COULTER: No, we think -- we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
DEUTSCH: Wow, you didn't really say that, did you?
COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we're all sinners --
DEUTSCH: In my old days, I would have argued -- when you say something absurd like that, there's no --
COULTER: What's absurd?
DEUTSCH: Jews are going to be perfected. I'm going to go off and try to perfect myself --
COULTER: Well, that's what the New Testament says.
The Anti-Defamation League condemned Coulter stating, "Ann Coulter may be a political pundit but she clearly knows very little about religious theology and interfaith issues," the ADL said in a statement. "Coulter's remarks are outrageous, offensive and a throwback to the centuries-old teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism. "
In response to Coulter's comments, the National Jewish Democratic Council has started to circulate a petition calling for Coulter to no longer be a guest on these shows.
After all this is not the first comment to get her in hot water. Coulter used a gay slur to describe U.S. Senator John Edwards, has implied that electing Senator Barack Obama would help Al-Quaeda, questioned the sincerity of grieving 9-11 widows and has called for a repeal for the right of women to vote in order to repeal "Roe v. Wade."