ABC's Behar on Coulter: She 'Thinks Schindler's List Is a Comedy'

On Monday’s edition of "The View" on ABC, Barbara Walters despaired that Ann Coulter is getting any attention for her religion remarks on CNBC last week. When Whoopi Goldberg suggested she get an invite to the show, Walters yelled "No! No! No!" She declared "there are so many wonderful, fascinating people on this show, and we don't have time for all of them. So I'd rather have positive, rather than controversial, rather than negative."

Walters also expressed her displeasure that a Jewish man was dating Coulter. "Doesn’t he care? Doesn’t it matter?" Joy Behar agreed with the insult: "This a woman who thinks 'Schindler's List' is a comedy, okay?"

The "View" crew also interviewed Hillary Clinton, but that was quite bland compared to the universal Coulter disparaging. MRC's Melissa Lopez did the transcript:

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Hey, now. We are back and I have to tell you there, Ann Coulter has seemingly done it again. Uhh, I don't understand. You know, I really don't want to get into an ugly spat with her. But I don't understand what this is about.

JOY BEHAR: Because why? Because it sells more books.

GOLDBERG: It probably sells more books and I'm never going to be able to understand where she's coming from. But this really should have set my teeth on edge.

BARBARA WALTERS: She loves ugly spats because it sells more books. That's the only reason I don't want to discuss her. But here we are.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: What did she say?

BEHAR: Well, she was on 'The Donny Deutsch Show.'

WALTERS: A television show.

BEHAR: And anyway, she starts talking about we should just -- he said to her, so, we should just though Judaism away and we should all be Christians and she responded yeah.

WALTERS: What she was saying to begin with, she said, she was talking about Christians. She talked about the Republicans at the convention here and they were all Christians and they were happy and so on. She said the Jews should be Christians because that makes them perfected Jews.

BEHAR: …(crosstalk) we want Jews to be perfected, is what she said.

GOLDBERG: Doesn't she realize that Judaism came first? Judaism came first.

SHEPHERD: And first of all, the only person who should have perfected is Jesus Christ, in front of him. You know, Christians are not perfect. And I think that this is what makes me really mad about when people say stuff like this is, how do you expect people to want to know who God is when you present God as a God who excludes everybody?

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: There’s this book I’m about to start reading, it’s called "On Christians" about how people who sometimes the loudest people talking about Christianity are, they get out there they give anything but grace off. They give anything but true love out there. (Crosstalk) I was at the Republican National Convention. I spoke there. Not everyone was Christian and not everyone was happy."

GOLDBERG: I would be really pissed, I have to say, if I was a Muslim Republican or a Jewish Republican. Who the hell is this woman to sit and say that the perfect Jew -- who is she?

WALTERS: I got a phone call yesterday coincidently from a man I know who said -- I won't give his name, who said I'm taking out Ann Coulter, what do you think?

HASSELBECK: Like on a date?

WALTERS: On a date.

BEHAR: Andrew Stein. He was in the paper. I'm telling it.

SHEPHERD: I thought [Barbara meant] he was going to kill her. That’s what it sounded like.

[Laughter]

WALTERS: Anyway. I didn't give his name. He said I'm taking out Ann Coulter, what do you think? I just said I have no thoughts. He’s is Jewish.

BEHAR: He’s Jewish!

WALTERS: Doesn’t he care? Doesn’t it matter?

BEHAR: This a woman who thinks "Schindler's List" is a comedy, okay?

WALTERS: But my point is that people who are, all of us who are, instead of I mean there are people who praise her, but at a certain point --

BEHAR: Who?

WALTERS: People buy this book, people must praise her.

BEHAR: I love it that she's the face of the Republican Party sometimes. They really want to get rid of her now.

GOLDBERG: I don't know if that’s true, I don’t think she’s the face anymore.

HASSELBECK: I don't consider, I don’t think she's the face of the Republicans.

GOLDBERG: I don’t think she’s the face anymore.

BEHAR: The woman makes a mint on the road. They come in droves to hear here speak She said in this interview she goes to mega-churches and they come from everywhere. They love her.

GOLDBERG: But you know what? They come to you. They come in droves to see you. They come in droves to see me.

BEHAR: I don't preach.

GOLDBERG: Oh, I do. [Laughter] I do. I just, I just find it I'm not sure that I understand what her point was. What was she trying to say? That’s what I’m trying to understand.

HASSELBECK: She was trying to say buy my book. I think is really the bottom line.

BEHAR: No. She's trying to say that Christians have perfected the religion.

SHEPHERD: She's not speaking for Christians at all.

GOLDBERG: All right. Moving on.

WALTERS: By the way -- [Applause] that’s what I wanted to say, the way to counter this, the way to counter this is to not treat it as people do: ‘Oh, did you hear what she said?’

GOLDBERG: No it’s like passing gas, you push it out and let it go.

WALTERS: Exactly.

BEHAR: I don't agree with that. I think you speak about, see I think that you speak about these things to inform people.

GOLDBERG: But, we have spoken about it and there is nothing more to say. You have already said it. You said the word you can't say.

BEHAR: How come she didn't go after Muslims? She's afraid there will be a fatwa on her behind, what’s why. She’ll go after the Jews but not the Muslims, this woman. Why? What is she afraid of there? She thinks she’s so brave.

GOLDBERG: Has she been on this show?

HASSELBECK: We should bring her here and psychoanalyze her.

WALTERS: She's been here in the past, yes.

BEHAR: In the past.

GOLDBERG: Ann, come on back, baby. We want to talk to you.

WALTERS: No! No! No! I don’t want to give more credit.

GOLDBERG: Oh, please. Come on. Wait a minute. You just said --

BEHAR: I can't stand her.

GOLDBERG: Okay.

SHEPHERD: She didn’t go after the Muslims because on Donny Deutsch they were talking about Jewish people that’s why.

WALTERS: Donny Deutsch is Jewish. Look, anybody can be on this show if they want to. But, I'm only saying, there are so many wonderful, fascinating people on this show, and we don't have time for all of them. So I'd rather have positive, rather than controversial, rather than negative."

[Applause]