Rick Santorum Calls Out Ann Coulter For Tweet About "F--ing Jews"

"Look, you have some people in the Republican Party who are in the pundit class, who are there to be controversial, and to try to make money, and sell their books. And that’s just fine — they can go sell their books."

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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum blasted conservative commentator Ann Coulter on Thursday, saying that a controversial Coulter tweet proves that she "is someone who clearly doesn't understand the significance" of America's relationship with Israel.

"Look, you have some people in the Republican Party who are in the pundit class, who are there to be controversial, and to try to make money, and sell their books," Santorum said in an interview with Steve Malzberg of Newsmax TV. "And that's just fine — they can go sell their books."

Santorum was responding to a tweet sent by Coulter toward the end of last night's debate, which read: "How many f---ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?" Coulter explained in another tweet that her comment was a reference to what she saw as the Republican candidates' "pandering on Israel."

"How many Bible-believing Christians does she think are in this country, who understand the significance of the heritage of the Jewish people in the Holy Land?" Santorum retorted. "I mean, again — I scratch my head and sometimes wonder what these pundits, who make money at being controversial, what they think they're doing to be helpful to the cause they say they believe in."

"I think everybody, every conservative has a right to look at that and say this is someone who clearly doesn't understand the significance of that relationship," the Pennsylvania Republican concluded.

Santorum told Malzberg that it is necessary for Republicans "to go out there and question the attack that has been made by Barack Obama on the state of Israel, on the relationship between our countries," and to support Israel "in its defense against what soon — if Barack Obama has his way — will be a nuclear Iran."

Santorum went on to add that said the issue is "probably less important in the Jewish community today, these days, than it is in the evangelical Christian community, which is another tragedy of itself."

Here's Coulter's tweet:

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