Foot in the mouth disease (Lula and Coulter)
Lula goes to the Congo, calls it democratic and say it’s giving lessons in democracy. Odd for a country that hasn’t had a democratic election since 1992. Maybe this is the kind of democracy Lula wants to spread, one candidate, one result, lather, rinse, repeat.
Meanwhile right here in America, the right is showing its ugly anti-Semitic head. From Nixon’s constant referral to Kissinger as “Jewboy” to the Mega Churches that preach the fiery-hell-for-Jews-end-of-the-world heresy known as ‘the Rapture’, the right wing of this country is plagued by people who believe Jews are better converted or else. The same ideas that once fueled the inquisition in Spain and Portugal, the progroms of the rest of Europe and finally the Holocaust are still alive and resounding in Republican circles. Anne Coulter this week said Jews needed to be “perfected” on national TV, that Jews should convert to Christianity, because it would just make things easier. It’s typical of the right to pay lip-service to Israel and then preach this kind of hatred amongst themselves. I call on everyone out there that cares about prejudice and discrimination to call Border’s and other bookstores and ask them to stop carrying Anne Coulter’s books, a rich anti-Semite is a very dangerous anti-Semite indeed.
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