Coulter: "We Christians Want the Jews to Be Perfected"

There must be some kind of rivalry between Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. Now that Ms. Malkin is getting all the ink and pixels over her raging over a 12-year-old kid, Ms. Coulter feels like she's being overlooked and ignored. What to do? Simple: come up with your own outrage that's guaranteed to attract a lot of attention. Something like saying that one way to achieve her dream of a great America would be by converting all the Jews.

During the October 8 edition of CNBC's The Big Idea, host Donny Deutsch asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter: "If you had your way ... and your dreams, which are genuine, came true ... what would this country look like?" Coulter responded, "It would look like New York City during the [2004] Republican National Convention. In fact, that's what I think heaven is going to look like." She described the convention as follows: "People were happy. They're Christian. They're tolerant. They defend America." Deutsch then asked, "It would be better if we were all Christian?" to which Coulter responded, "Yes." Later in the discussion, Deutsch said to her: "[Y]ou said we should throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians," and Coulter again replied, "Yes." When pressed by Deutsch regarding whether she wanted to be like "the head of Iran" and "wipe Israel off the Earth," Coulter stated: "No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. ... That's what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws."

Before we do that, however, we're going to give you a nice hot shower over there in that building with the big tall smokestack under the sign that says Arbeit Macht Frei.

Of course, she didn't mean to offend anyone.

After a commercial break, Deutsch said that "Ann said she wanted to explain her last comment," and asked her, "So you don't think that was offensive?" Coulter responded: "No. I'm sorry. It is not intended to be. I don't think you should take it that way, but that is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews. We believe the Old Testament. As you know from the Old Testament, God was constantly getting fed up with humans for not being able to live up to all the laws. What Christians believe -- this is just a statement of what the New Testament is -- is that that's why Christ came and died for our sins. Christians believe the Old Testament. You don't believe our testament." Coulter later said: "We consider ourselves perfected Christians. For me to say that for you to become a Christian is to become a perfected Christian is not offensive at all."

Top that, Michelle.

Cross-posted from Bark Bark Woof Woof.