{"id":32869,"date":"2015-09-27T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32869"},"modified":"2015-09-26T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T12:43:35","slug":"p-j-orourke-on-ann-coulters-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/27\/p-j-orourke-on-ann-coulters-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"P.J. O&#8217;Rourke on Ann Coulter&#8217;s anti-semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Weekly Standard<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/she-said-what_1035823.html#\" target=\"_blank\">P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/a> discusses Ann Coulter&#8217;s recently expressed anti-semitic remarks during the Republican candidates&#8217; debate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She is young, scatter-brained, and heedless, but she is not an idiot. She graduated <em>cum laude<\/em> from Cornell and has a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. But no intelligent hike through the Minotaur\u2019s labyrinth of politics can be made in 140-character baby steps. Especially when you\u2019re walking in clown shoes.<\/p>\n<p>What Ann Coulter tweeted was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Cruz, Huckabee Rubio all mentioned ISRAEL in their response to: \u201cWhat will AMERICA look like after you are president.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>How many f\u2014ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not anywhere near as many as there would and should be if FDR hadn\u2019t been as much of a jerk about immigration as you are, Ann, you etiolated bean sprout butt trumpet.<\/p>\n<p>As to why Israel is important, to paraphrase John F. Kennedy, \u201cToday, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is \u2018<em>Ikh bin a Ishral<\/em>.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I mean it, even if, pope-kissing Mick that I am, my Yiddish is maybe sketchy.<\/p>\n<p>Partly this is personal, Ann, you jangle-tongue, you all-clapper-and-no-carillon, you crack in the Liberty Bell. To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, \u201cIt\u2019s not me, it\u2019s you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, first, my contempt is moral. Antisemitism is evil. <em>Per se<\/em>, as you lawyers like to put it. For the sake of argument, let us \u201cstipulate\u201d that you are not <em>per se<\/em> an antisemite. Instead of saying that\u2019s true, let us stipulate it with all the snarky lawyer freight that \u201cstipulating\u201d carries.<\/p>\n<p>Being so stipulated, you are damn rude. One does not say, \u201cf\u2014ing Jews.\u201d One does not say \u201cf\u2014ing blacks\u201d or \u201cf\u2014ing Latinos\u201d or even \u201cf\u2014ing relentlessly self-promoting Presbyterian white women from New Canaan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manners are the small change of morality. You, Ann, are nickel and diming yourself. And may all the coins in Scrooge McDuck\u2019s money bin land on you and squash you flat. (Scrooge, by the way, is not a Jew, he\u2019s a duck.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Weekly Standard, P.J. O&#8217;Rourke discusses Ann Coulter&#8217;s recently expressed anti-semitic remarks during the Republican candidates&#8217; debate: She is young, scatter-brained, and heedless, but she is not an idiot. She graduated cum laude from Cornell and has a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. 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