On tonight’s Hannity & Colmes, co-host Alan Colmes asked Ann Coulter, who was promoting her new book, to defend her statement that all Arabs are “camel jockeys.”

COLMES: So you have no problem referring to Arabs as camel jockeys?
COULTER: Oh, yeah no, they killed 3,000 Americans, I’ll be very careful with my language!
COLMES: All Arabs killed 3,000 Americans?
COULTER: The point is they were a little slower to attack me for that than the Jews were.
COLMES: But when you refer to an entire ethnicity as camel jockeys, it sounds bigoted.
COULTER: Yes, and it’s so mean after they killed 3,000 Americans. And I shouldn’t be mean.
COLMES: But they were not all Arabs.
COULTER: We have sure moved from the day when we called them krauts and nips.
COLMES: You are very proud of yourself, aren’t you?
COULTER: No, I am making a point. We’re at war and what liberals are concerned about is what language we’re using. I’m describing humanity.
COLMES: Language is very important and in fact if you are going to try prosecute a war or try to win a war, you do not win it by using nasty language toward your opponent or calling everyone who is an Arab…

Colmes is right. As former CENTCOM Commander Gen. John Abizaid noted recently, “the battle of words is meaningful, especially in the Middle East to people.” In fact, by giving sensationalist commentators like Ann Coulter a platform, the Fox News Channel “makes it ‘very, very difficult’ to ‘work together’ with mainline regional leaders to keep extremism “from becoming mainstream.”

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