And now, I’m livid.

Earlier this week, raving lunatic Ann Coulter appeared on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch to promote her new book, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.  On this show, she blatantly showed her anti-Semitic tendencies (which was ironic, considering Deutsch is Jewish) by declaring that everyone should become Christian, that Christians see themselves as “perfected Jews” and that Christians want to perfect the Jews by making them Christian.  She said this on national TV.  Don’t believe me?  Watch it here.  Still don’t believe me?  Read the transcript here on Fox News’ site, an outlet usually sympathetic to Coulter and her insane rantings.

I am incensed that the American media would permit this woman to continually traipse around the country, spewing her hatred, intolerance and closed-minded stupidity on its airwaves, and I’m more incensed that there has not been an outcry from any groups demanding that Coulter be censured, forced to apologize for anything she’s said or banned from giving interviews or being given a forum to deliver her message of prejudice to the public.  When Don Imus uttered three words, there was such an uprising from the African-American community that the entire country knew what had occurred, and Imus was banished from the airwaves after almost 40 years.  Yet Coulter constantly utters such hateful insults, but there is never a response, and nothing seems to stick to her.  We’re talking about a woman who called Bill Clinton a “latent homosexual” and said he was a “very good rapist,” referred to Arabs as “camel jockeys,” called John Edwards a “faggot” and Al Gore a “total fag,” said that the 9/11 widows were “harpies” who were exploiting their husbands’ death, referred to Islam as “a car-burning cult,” said that feminists were “weak and pathetic” and recently claimed that “if we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat [sic] president.”

How much more of her hate-filled haranguing should we allow?  It’s not like Coulter hasn’t established a clear pattern of being a racist, homophobic, sexist and intolerant.  If Don Imus should be forced to publicly apologize and be fired after saying only three words, how can we continue to permit Coulter to say such things without any kind of consequence?  For once, we need to speak out and say that this kind of thing cannot be tolerated, and she should be made to retract her statements and offer an apology — if not to the Jewish community, then to the gay, Islamic and feminist communities, at the very least.  This country was founded on the principles of freedom from persecution, and we shouldn’t have to deal with it coming out of our TVs and radios.