Nobody's "Perfect"

Ann Coulter is her own worst enemy.

Being denounced by such lightweights as Keith Olbermann or Al Franken, who seem most pissed off at the volume of her book sales, generally helps to solidify her popularity (and sell even more books).

But for every one of her smart, funny comments, she utters an unnecessarily obnoxious or just plain stupid one.

Last week she went on Donny Deutsch's "The Big Idea" and made an off the cuff remark pitting Christianity against Judaism: (link)

DEUTSCH: ...we should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or --

COULTER: Yeah.

DEUTSCH: Really?

COULTER: Well, it's a lot easier. It's kind of a fast track.

While I guess that according to Christian dogma her remake is technically accurate, she was being pretty glib about it.

DEUTSCH: Why don't I put you with the head of Iran? I mean, come on. You can't believe that.

COULTER: The head of Iran is not a Christian.

DEUTSCH: No, but in fact, "Let's wipe Israel" --

COULTER: I don't know if you've been paying attention.

DEUTSCH: "Let's wipe Israel off the earth." I mean, what, no Jews?

Now Donny's being a bit overly dramatic. It's not ipso facto anti-Semitic to believe in the New Testament. Doesn't, a believer of ANY faith think that their's is the correct one (and, by default, other faiths are incorrect)?

At this point, Coulter should have asked Deutsch, who claims to be a practicing Jew, what HE believes.

Instead, she goes on to say:

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...

So, does that mean being Jewish is like working for UPS?

Again, Coulter is being very flippant about it. Instead of going for laughs (and failing), she could have at least acknowledged that she understands how non-Christians may be offended by her remarks.

For his part, I think that ad man Deutsch is protesting a bit too much to drive up the ratings for his show (which are now virtually nonexistent).

Would he be so hard on Christopher Hitchens who wrote a bestselling book that blames religion as the source of ALL the world's problems?

I doubt it.

Then again, I doubt that Hitchens would sound so stupid while trying to explain his position.

Sigh. Maybe blonds ARE dumb after all (btw, I acknowledge that some may be offended by that).