Friday, April 13, 2007

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!"

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