Don’t Want To Offend, So I’ll Use Dashes To Say “F___ing” Jews

By Ann Coulter

Credit: Gage Skidmore

It upsets me, to put it mildly, that every Republican candidate in this debate, without exception, felt it necessary to proclaim their commitment to Israel’s security, as if the issue carries such electoral importance in a country where Jews account for less than half a percent of the population. But I have to watch my phraseology if I tweet my objections, because people are sensitive. So I’ll be conservative (see what I did there?) and not use the actual F-word when tweeting, “How many F&^%ing Jews do they think there are in this country?”

Political tweets are risky that way. You get used to thinking about things from a certain perspective, and don’t consider that audiences might not share your assumptions, so they read or hear it completely differently from what was intended. You have to be careful. Better an ounce of prevention, blah blah. Lest this tweet rub people the wrong way, it would be a good idea not to use overt profanity. I’ll put in some dashes instead of some of the letters. That ought to convey the emphasis I want to impart while preserving cultural sensitivity.

These are fraught political times. Almost anything a political figure says will be taken and analyzed for objectionable content, all the more so when that figure is someone such as I, who, for better or for worse, attracts critics. This time, though, they’ll have nothing to work with. It will be a simple comment on the absurdity of one small, historically-accused-of-dual-loyalties ethnic minority’s apparent influence on our government and politics that every major GOP candidate, plus several minor ones, feels compelled to out-Zionism the others on national television. But I won’t put a full-scale F-bomb in there, so nuts to the haters!

I’m used to the abuse, the confrontation, and the attention. In fact I thrive on them. However, certain kinds of attention and abuse are not what I’m looking for. Those would be the ones that completely miss the point, creating a distraction instead of substantive discussion – or, at the very least, a chance for me to pontificate. Let’s discuss issues, not language. But sometimes I don’t really want to discuss – I just want to alert people to various absurdities, such as all the leading candidates feeling like they have to kowtow to supporters of Israel, most of whom aren’t even Jewish. It’s just a tweet. So I’m going to bleep out the F-word and avoid controversy.

Is that F&^%ing OK with you?

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