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Saturday, August 02, 2014

Today in Disgusting People

Ann Coulter seems to be trying for a comeback. Now she's weighing in on the refugee children:

Appearing on Fox News Hannity, frequent guest Ann Coulter told host Sean Hannity that she wished Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “our president,” so he could deal with our border problems the way he deals with border issues in his own country.

Comparing tunnels found at the U.S./Mexican border with tunnels used by Hamas, Coulter asserted the U.S. is being invaded.

“More than a hundred tunnels have been found on our border,” Coulter said. “To smuggle in weapons, guns, they’re invading, They’re murdering, they’re raping. The head of the DEA said about a year ago that he thinks the surge of homicides in Chicago is a Mexican drug cartel. . . . "

“We need a Netanyahu here. Can you imagine all these — yes, sometimes Palestinian kids get killed, ” she said as she began to laugh. “That’s because they are, they’re associated with a terrorist organization that is harming Israel, and Netanyahu doesn’t care what the religious leaders say, weeping about Palestinian children. He doesn’t care what the UN says. He doesn’t care what the media says.”

Emphasis added.

So, if you know anything about the horror that is the way Netanyahu's government is dealing with Gaza, that will give you a good idea of how far out there Coulter has gone to maintain her Teabagger Barbie status. Enzo at Aksarbent has been following Gaza pretty closely; read his posts here and here, and then just scroll down. See this one, especially, if you want to get a clear idea of how morally and ethically bankrupt Israel has become under Netanhayu. Words fail me.

So this is what Coulter is advocating as US policy regarding refugee children who are fleeing unbelievably grim conditions in Central America.

I've noted a number of times that the right has very little understanding of the concept of morality, usually in connection with their blanket condemnation of same-sex relationships based on the three-thousand year old tribal taboos of a bunch of Middle Eastern nomads. Coulter has just raised that issue a couple of degrees of magnitude. It's quite obvious she has no moral foundation whatsoever.

Addendum: This is the sort of thing Coulter is advocating:
“To me, they’re breaking the law when they come here,” a hooded man identifying himself as Robert Jones said. “If we can’t turn them back, I think if we pop a couple of them off and leave the corpses laying on the border, maybe they’ll see that we’re serious about stopping immigration.”

Shooting kids. Well, we do it all the time here in the good ol' US of A, so why not brown kids, too? That's probably even better -- at least, to people like this asshole.





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