Discussing Imus, MSNBC's Jansing sugarcoated Coulter quote on converting Muslims
On the April 13 edition of MSNBC News Live, host Chris Jansing gave viewers a truncated version of right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's post-September 11, 2001, comments about Muslims, claiming that Coulter "said they should all be converted to Christianity." In fact, a day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, Coulter wrote in her syndicated column, published on September 13, 2001, in National Review: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." She was later fired from the right-wing National Review Online as a result of those comments. Furthermore, as Media Matters for America has noted, in her book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, October 2004), Coulter wrote: "I am often asked if I still think we should invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. The answer is: Now more than ever!"
Jansing was discussing "what's OK to say" about religion and faith in the wake of CBS Radio and MSNBC's decision to fire Don Imus for calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos." After she mentioned Coulter's comment, Jansing then asked her guest, Rev. A.R. Bernard, founder and CEO of the Christian Cultural Center: "Do you think that sometimes, circumstances -- and in this case, it would be the feelings of people who were attacked on 9-11 in a post-9-11 world -- feel then it's OK to think differently about people and Islam?"
As Media Matters has noted, Coulter appeared several times on NBC and MSNBC in mid-2006 to promote her book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum, June 2006), in which she unleashed a stream of attacks on the widows of 9-11 victims.
From the 10 a.m. ET hour of the April 13 edition of MSNBC News Live:
JANSING: Well, since 9-11, for example, Islam has been the huge subject of debate. A few politicians made what some consider to be offensive remarks about Muslims. Columnist Ann Coulter said they should all be converted to Christianity.
Do you think that sometimes, circumstances -- and in this case, it would be the feelings of people who were attacked on 9-11 in a post-9-11 world -- feel then it's OK to think differently about people and Islam?
c'mon, you reich wing cue ball, how about telling the whole truth?
Of course, 9-11 changed everything, right?
sugarcoated Coulter? Yikes!
We have a phrase in the construction trades (maybe it's common elsewhere) for cosmetic or superficial repairs done on a badly dilapidated or structurally unsound building (Usually budget related).
I am now replacing "polished turd" with "Sugarcoated Coulter"
Best commet of the day. I will actually use that from now on.
We need to make sure every one knows what a warmonger Ann Coulter is. Thank You MMFA
Again with the "warmonger."
I am so curious to find out what your game really is, Mr. String-of-Digits Guy!
I like that.
If I ever get bounced and can come back, I'm coming back as "MrStringofDigitsGuy.
With your permission, of course.
Yeah, all my stupidity is covered under CreativeCommons fair use..
NRO fired Ann Coulter for saying something hateful. Wow, they were violating her free speech long before MMFA! NRO is the McCarthy of our time!
UGH! Again with the infringement of free speech BS.
Take a look at the U.S. Constitution and tell me which part of it obligates the NRO to carry Coulter's column.
Let me know when you find it. I won't hold my breath.
Sorry Pete,
I thought it would be obvious that I was being sarcastic. The defenders of Imus are claiming that MMFA violated Imus's free speech. If that is the case, then NRO violated Coulter's free speech. I was trying to show the absurdity of the free speech argument, not repeat the same bs.
And if we want to use their own stupid arguments against them, we should also claim that the Imus defenders are hypocrites and showing selective outrage. Why didn't they protest the NRO when it fired Ann Coulter?
I'm sorry, too.
I saw that same stuff used by Ldoren and Rino on a Savage thread from yesterday and when I saw it here it set me off again but I didn't note who wrote it.
I am going to petition Libtard-Reichsführer Brock to enforce a ban on sarcasm. Nothing good ever comes of it.
Yeah, Val, that should work reeeally well. Good luck with that. I totally respect your position on this.
Shame on MSNBC
They should know better since they allowed Imus to be on for so long to preach his brand of hate.
Supporting John Kerry for president is NOT hate!
It was from the viewpoint of Palestinians and Iraqis. He wanted to wall them up and blow them up...which is what the Nazis did to the Jews in Warsaw at one time in history. I still don't know how he got a liberal label stuck on his war criminal self. Must be more of them conservative media lies. They're so good at it...they even got people thinking Democrats are liberals.
I personally was sure 9/11 gave americans the right to be racist and say racist things towards muslims and arabs. !
Afterall, the Oklahoma bombings certaintly made it okay to be racist against White-southern rednecks.
Well, you must admit that it did give justification to all the racist things we were doing to Moslems BEFORE 9/11, liking supporting Israel's brutal and illegal occupation of Palestine and keeping Iraq in a state of economic seige so tight that their children were dying in the hundreds of thousands from lack of adequate health care. 9/11 made it ok to be openly racist INSIDE the USA....while outside, we've been exposing our racism to the world for decades.
hmmm, so Imus has both Aaron Neville and the Blind Boys of Alabama on his show earlier this year. Both decidedly black musical artists, and ones who do not use hip-hop, profanity, or anything deemed objectionable in their music. These artists are generally not promoted on black radio stations or really any radio stations. So Imus was helping them out by putting them on his show.
So how is the new king of cruel, vile, and hateful words towards blacks and women re-payed? He's lynched and destroyed at the hands of the black community. Am I the only one who thinks somethings not right here? You think Al Sharpton has ever promoted the Blind Boys of Alabama? I think not, though he has plenty of pictures of himself and hip-hop artists. hmm media matters doens't seem too interested in reporting about this?
MrSure, you should take your fingers off the keyboard when your lips are saying "hmmm". Unless you're conveying thoughtfulness, in which case, never mind.
Ya sure jansing it's " ok to think differently" . My response would have been, What Do You Mean By Thinking Differently ", Oh you mean say racist and bigoted comments like what Koulter said " Kill all their leaders and convert the rest to Christianity ", and you mean because of 9-11 all arabs are off the polite list, and it's open season with verbal attacks.
First of all she's a little sniveling little coward, by saying "think differently", when she really means it's ok to verbally attack Muslims or Arabs because of 9-11, and given the fact they were cheerleaders for the invasion of Afghanistan AND Iraq, it makes her comments even MORE despicable. The so-called "news" in this country has never been worst, and this country is in DEEP trouble, because of the lack of independent information, and the parroting of not only the right wing echo chamber, but by hiring every General, colonel, or CIA employee, they can, they have turned the "news" into mouthpieces for NEOCONS.
This has been going on for a long time. I remember waking up one day in the late 80s to the realization that our "news" media was one perpetual non-stop ultranationalism rant. If the US government bombs someone, the corpo news is there to cheer it on. I still think it all changed the day Cronkite retired and the "blow-dried" anchormen took over and the new way of image over issues began. What's happening now is just the evolution of that.
I wish Gangleskank would quit embarassing the Human Race. Your basic Amoeba has more human decency than she will ever have.