Ann Coulter upsetting people....again

YukonJack

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"Ya, she is the right age and temperament to be a Cougar. Probably likes young men who are her intellectual equals, like junior high school students."



No surprise that you agree with the "students" whose only description is "useful idiots".
 
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Juan

I agree - I still don't "get" why she was invited and accepted the speaking engagements? She is getting negative publicity but is that what she needs?
I don't understand her. Here is her take from her website....Hardly a good
testimony to her making a repeat visit lol.

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com


The publicity could not be purchased - maybe she wanted it that way - I still don't get it.

She'd be a fool to turn down the free publicity. More Americans buy her books anyhow.
 

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"Ya, she is the right age and temperament to be a Cougar. Probably likes young men who are her intellectual equals, like junior high school students."



No surprise that you agree with the "students" whose only description is "useful idiots".
No Jack, I am all for free speech. I always look forward to reading your posts.
 
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Juan

I agree - I still don't "get" why she was invited and accepted the speaking engagements? She is getting negative publicity but is that what she needs?
I don't understand her. Here is her take from her website....Hardly a good
testimony to her making a repeat visit lol.

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com


The publicity could not be purchased - maybe she wanted it that way - I still don't get it.
Great post Curio, that rant made me lol.
 

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"No Jack, I am all for free speech. I always look forward to reading your posts."



I am gratified that I bring sunshine and smiles in your cloudy and murky mornings.
 
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Morning Bear!!

(Bikini Wax Night) hahahaha

Glad you enjoyed her..... she is so obvious like she feels great being torn to shreds..... the perfect example of the expression:

Bring it on!!!
 

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Morning Bear!!

Glad you enjoyed her..... she is so obvious like she feels great being torn to shreds..... the perfect example of the expression:

Bring it on!!!
Exactly, this fed right into her trap.

Those students backed into the room, with their pants down, mouth open and grabbing their ankles.

Personally, I think Coulter is a tit. Her political views are repugnant, but she is completely entertaining while delivering them.

Any child with a mild grasp of reality could poke holes in her rhetoric. Yet the fine students of U of O failed to rise to the challenge.

Pitiful.

I liked..."French for "Frank A. Hole"...:lol:
 

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Juan

I agree - I still don't "get" why she was invited and accepted the speaking engagements? She is getting negative publicity but is that what she needs?
I don't understand her. Here is her take from her website....Hardly a good
testimony to her making a repeat visit lol.

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com


The publicity could not be purchased - maybe she wanted it that way - I still don't get it.

From the statement you quoted, I'm inferring that she was asked to speak as a counter to some of the previous speakers whose views run counter to hers. To me that seems as it should be in an academic setting: look at all information sources/points of view before deciding on their validity. We can argue that Ann Coulter may not have been the best choice of American Conservative speaker to bring up but then again that also depends on things like availability, budget, etc. and we are also left with the question of if not her, who? The fact of the matter is those who find her most odious would say the same about just about any American conservative speaker that could be brought in and probably would have reacted in much the same manner.

I find it ironic that she says she will be presenting a complaint to the HRC, not least because in my opinion she DOES have a case. The sending of a warning letter specifically to Ms Coulter is misguided and inflammatory and should be censurable if it is not something done to all speakers prior to speaking at UO. The leaking of the contents of said letter to the public is irresponsible. I'll have to snoop and see if I can find a copy of it on-line before I decide if Mr. Houle should be terminated for cause (although we all know that will never happen even if it IS deserved).
 

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Wulfie

Thank you - brought me back to my senses re Ms. Coulter - I find her hilarious because she says things nobody else has the cojones to speak in fear of losing
whatever imagined status they have.

She is one woman - as irrational and aggressive as she is who probably sleeps well at night because she deals in her own honesty.

Being a dedicated coward - I find it admirable - and I don't always agree with her thoughts - but her honesty in speaking them.

Honesty is tough to be fully committed to these days.
 

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Coulter calls Canada the least diverse country she's seen

March 26, 2010
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CALGARY–Calgary gave American right-wing commentator Ann Coulter a mostly warm welcome, with a scattering of protesters outnumbered by the nearly 1,000 people who paid to see her speak Thursday night.
Security personnel at the Red and White Club, a University of Calgary-owned venue, say about 20 protesters broke a window while banging on the door during Coulter's speech.
They held signs — one said "Calgary is Cold to Coulter" and a small child's said, "I don't have a camel or a flying carpet, can you lend me your broomstick?", a reference to a comment Coulter made earlier this week to a Muslim woman at a university in London, Ont.
The scene was vastly different than the one Coulter faced in Ottawa a few days earlier, and she remarked how she felt so much safer and that she knew it would be the best of the three stops she made in Canada.
The polite crowd of 900 listened as Coulter talked about diversity, gays, and bias in the media.
The audience gave a huge cheer when Coulter proposed making Calgary the 51st of the United States.
She said Canada was the least diverse country she's seen — which brought objections from the audience, but she pointed out that everyone in the crowd looked like she did.
Coulter spoke a lot about how there's standards for Liberals but not for everyone else, especially Conservatives.
She cited late night talk show host David Letterman, who admitted on TV that he had an affair with one of his employees. Anyone else would have been fired for sleeping with an employee, and if that person happened to be a Republican, he would have been deported, Coulter added.
"In conclusion, if anything I've said tonight offended you, my work is done," she said to end her speech.
The event was supposed to be held at the University of Calgary campus, but was moved after her speech at the University of Ottawa was cancelled earlier this week when hundreds of protesters came out after learning about comments she made at another university.
Coulter told a Muslim student at the University of Western Ontario that she should "take a camel" for international travel after the student challenged a previous Coulter statement that Muslims shouldn't be allowed on airplanes and should take flying carpets instead.
She says she intends to file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission over the way she was treated by the University of Ottawa.
Provost Francois Houle sent Coulter a note before her speech on Tuesday, urging her to educate herself about Canada's hate laws, saying that promoting hatred against an identifiable group could lead to criminal charges.
The inflammatory commentator pulled out of that appearance after 1,500 people tried to get into the venue that was already filled to capacity with pre-registered guests. Another few hundred loudly protested her speech outside the building.
In a column posted on the American conservative website Townhall.com, Coulter said she hopes the "august" human rights commission will find out whether the university has warned any other speakers to watch their words or if it's a caution reserved for female conservatives.
"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech — which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech — is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech," she wrote.
Canadian conservative Ezra Levant, who helped bring Coulter north of the border, confirmed he had been retained by the fiery pundit, but said he had been too busy with the tour to research what legal actions she could potentially take.
The school's president, former Liberal cabinet minister Allan Rock, issued a statement underlining that the institution would remain "a safe and democratic environment for the expression of views."
Calgary has been a popular stop on speaking tours for right-wing American figures. Former U.S. president George W. Bush gave his first speech after leaving office in the city, despite a small crowd of protesters. Former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin recently received a warm reception after a talk in which she compared Alberta to her home state of Alaska.
Coulter has made a name for herself in the U.S. through appearances on Fox News and she has written a number of books. She is famous for saying "not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims" and accusing the widows of those who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of being self-obsessed and enjoying their husbands' deaths.
Reaction to Coulter's bumpy reception in Ottawa has been mixed. Protesters claimed victory, saying she is hateful towards religious minorities, homosexuals and women, but free speech advocates said stifling freedom of speech at universities sets a dangerous trend.

Toronto Star
 

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One quality Ann Coulter does seem to have is to get people she doesn't even know bickering among themselves.
 

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I agree - I still don't "get" why she was invited and accepted the speaking engagements? She is getting negative publicity but is that what she needs?
I don't understand her. Here is her take from her website....Hardly a good
testimony to her making a repeat visit lol.

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com


The publicity could not be purchased - maybe she wanted it that way - I still don't get it.

The thing is, that we have laws governing hate directed at a recognizable group. Coulter regularly goes after Muslims in ways, that in this country would be illegal.
I fail to see why Coulter should get away with something a Canadian might be arrested for. The University tried to give her a heads up about our laws and she chose to take it as a threat. or discrimination or whatever.
 

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The thing is, that we have laws governing hate directed at a recognizable group. Coulter regularly goes after Muslims in ways, that in this country would be illegal.
I fail to see why Coulter should get away with something a Canadian might be arrested for. The University tried to give her a heads up about our laws and she chose to take it as a threat. or discrimination or whatever.

I can't really get too upset about people taking a crack at Muslims, they've caused a lot of grief for a lot of people. Maybe more people should look at them the way Ann Coulter does.
 

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The thing is, that we have laws governing hate directed at a recognizable group. Coulter regularly goes after Muslims in ways, that in this country would be illegal.
BS


I fail to see why Coulter should get away with something a Canadian might be arrested for. The University tried to give her a heads up about our laws and she chose to take it as a threat. or discrimination or whatever.
:roll:
 
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Hi Juan

The University was not the venue for Coulter - I can't understand why they did not cancel her before her engagement. Why she was signed on amazes me.

Publicity can't be that beneficial....not for the University.

She will benefit in her own venue later and will consistently use the Ontario school as an example for months....
 

#juan

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I can't really get too upset about people taking a crack at Muslims, they've caused a lot of grief for a lot of people. Maybe more people should look at them the way Ann Coulter does.

Whether you want to believe it or not JLM, the U.S. does not operate in a vacuum. The U.S. has to accept some of the responsibility for causing 9/11. American bombing has killed hundreds of thousands of Arabs....read Muslims. Ann Coulter's comment regarding flying carpets and camels was probably not considered funny by Muslims. Muslims are not innocent either but there is give and take on both sides.
 

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I don't support Neo Cons at all. Don't confuse me with a right-wing Republican.

I'm a left-wing libertarian, with some right-wing views. I don't support invading countries without good reason.

I know the war in the Middle East is unwinnable, and mostly for oil. Then again, giving terrorists a free pass to attack whatever they want is also a bad idea.

There is no good solution to the conflict, but I favor a non-interventionist foreign policy.

That's what the Founding Fathers of America would do. But if someone attacks America, they are free game (same with Canada).

Yet, you could argue 9/11 was an inside job, in that case, it is much more complicated.
 
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Oh and I know about Israel's huge influence in American foreign policy. I also know about the Palestine-Israel conflict. I don't support Israel, nor Palestine. I think Canada should support zero countries but Canada. Not even the USA. We should only trade with them, and possibly work with joint projects, but definitely I am against NAFTA and globalist corporatism.
 

#juan

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The University was not the venue for Coulter - I can't understand why they did not cancel her before her engagement. Why she was signed on amazes me.

Publicity can't be that beneficial....not for the University.

She will benefit in her own venue later and will consistently use the Ontario school as an example for months....

Yes Curio. I'm sure that university will be the meat of Coulter's act for some time. I agree that she was a poor choice for a university. Perhaps a car salesmen's convention would have been more suitable. ;-):smile:
 

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Yes Curio. I'm sure that university will be the meat of Coulter's act for some time. I agree that she was a poor choice for a university. Perhaps a car salesmen's convention would have been more suitable. ;-):smile:
I'm still waiting for you to provide some facts that Coulter has acted in contrary to Canadian Hate Speech Laws.