Critic discusses liberals, Iraq [Ann Coulter at NW]

The Daily Northwestern ^ | November 21, 2003 | By Samantha Nelson

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Conservative author Ann Coulter answers questions after her speech Thursday in the Owen L. Coon Forum. More than 600 students attended the event, where Coulter discussed racial profiling and religion's role in the war on terrorism. photo by Peter Stephan

Need for racial profiling, 2004 election predictions top conservative's agenda

November 21, 2003

More than 600 students filled the Owen L. Coon Forum on Thursday with intermittent applause and nervous conversation as conservative author and political activist Ann Coulter spoke on the war in Iraq, liberals and racial profiling.

"The war has been a magnificent success," said Coulter, author of bestsellers "Slander" and "High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

"Liberals carp about every bombing," Coulter said. "We're not liberating Ohio here. After we won the war in 17 days flat, with amazingly few casualties, they complained about some museum pottery being broken."

Coulter said liberals should look at their own policies before constantly questioning the justification and duration of the U.S. occupation.

"How about the left's war on poverty?" Coulter asked "When are we getting an exit strategy on that? When are we getting out of that quagmire?"

Another major topic for Coulter was the role of racial profiling in fighting terrorism. She brought up the accusations that Bush had prior knowledge of Sept. 11, 2001, and said if he had prior knowledge, racial profiling of Arab-looking men by the airline industry was the only precaution available. She listed a series of attacks on U.S. citizens and interests perpetrated by Muslims since 1979 and complained about policies that require airlines to search toddlers and elderly women for weapons, while allowing men of Middle Eastern descent to fly unchecked.

"When there's a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile -- it becomes a suspect description," Coulter said. "They all have the same hair color, eye color. They're all males. Half of them have the name Muhammad."

During the question and answer period after her speech, Coulter clarified that she only supports profiling in extreme cases but still believes it needs to be implemented for airline security.

On topics other than Iraq, Coulter said she expects a Bush victory in 2004.

"I do not think any of the Democrats prove a threat to George Bush," Coulter said. "When the nation is under attack, you have to have a Republican in the White House. I don't think Clinton would have been elected during the Cold War. The wall had fallen, the nation was feeling fat and happy, they thought, 'OK, we'll put this horny hick in the White House.'"

Some audience members said they were shocked by Coulter's comments on the role of religion in relation to the war on terror as well as U.S. government and society.

"This is a religious war, not against Islam but for Christianity, for a Christian nation," Coulter said. "When this nation was founded, there was nothing like it. Our founders said there is a God and we are all equal before God. The ideal of equality and tolerance is like nothing that has ever existed in the world before. That, too, is a Christian value. The concept of equality, especially when it comes to gender equality, was not invented by Gloria Steinem -- it was invented by Jesus Christ. As long as people look long enough, they will always come to Christianity."

Opinions on the speech were mixed.

"Ann Coulter makes some interesting and some valid points," said John Sisk, a Medill senior. "The problem is she undermines her credibility by going too far. She makes Republicans look like nut jobs."

Henry Bowles, vice president of College Republicans, a sponsor of the event, said he was impressed by Coulter's performance.

"I thought it could not have gone better, honestly," said Bowles, a Medill sophomore and Daily advertising representative. "I've never seen a speaker care more. Every person who asked a question from an opposing viewpoint walked away having heard a great answer. She wasn't evasive or anything. She galvanized conservatives and presented an interesting and legitimate view to liberals."

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Ann lands another beachhead at a liberal university, with a better reception than at CU.

Ann's pic:

If you follow the link, there's a new pic of ann, but it seems to be served via java and I cannot make it display here at FR.

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[WaterDragon]

What we love about her is her adamant refusal to participate in 'political correctness,' she doesn't fudge her statements to avoid stepping on the toes of political correctness.

The Bolsheviks were the ones who first institued political correctness, used it to destroy any hope of freedom in Russia.

We all would do well to simply refuse to play the political correctness games. It only has power over us if we kneel to it.

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

D_MN!! I was visiting a friend in Evanston THAT night!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Woah!

Life sized!

(rips our hard drive and heads to Kinko's...)

[areafiftyone]

LOL I can't seeee!!! Its too small!!!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

It takes AC five minutes to say what hundreds of congressional republicans have been too impotent to say since the Gingrich era. The behavior of the anti American, socialist, race war party should be attacked constantly and aggressively by all Republicans... and yet they do nothing, even after the 2002 mandate and recent elections. They see their chances of reelection as so good that they couldn't care less about threats to the Republic.


"Liberals carp about every bombing," Coulter said. "We're not liberating Ohio here. After we won the war in 17 days flat, with amazingly few casualties, they complained about some museum pottery being broken."

Coulter said liberals should look at their own policies before constantly questioning the justification and duration of the U.S. occupation.

"How about the left's war on poverty?" Coulter asked "When are we getting an exit strategy on that? When are we getting out of that quagmire?"

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Site best viewed in 1600x1200 resolution!

[Gritty]

Ann, answering the questions which should have been asked!

[sausageseller]

Coulter said liberals should look at their own policies before constantly questioning the justification and duration of the U.S. occupation. "How about the left's war on poverty?" Coulter asked "When are we getting an exit strategy on that? When are we getting out of that quagmire?"

SS. Awesome! We need a million more like her!

[putupon]

The behavior of the anti American, socialist, race war party should be attacked constantly and aggressively by all Republicans... and yet they do nothing, even after the 2002 mandate and recent elections. They see their chances of reelection as so good that they couldn't care less about threats to the Republic.

Republicans are too doing something.

Comrade Bush and his RINOs have come out of the closet and revealed that they too are socialists and are now goosestepping the United States straight down the path to socialized medicine.

Frist predicts US Senate passage of Medicare bill [Bush hailed the measure as a needed breakthrough]

[Forgiven_Sinner]

So, how'd you do that? I used img src=URL and I got a red x.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

The appoinment of Frist said it all about the direction of the Republican party.

No one cares that over the last 4 years, he has sponsored or co sponsored legislation (failed and passed) that ONLY advocated spending billions upon billions of increased spending, especially for anything connected to the NEA, medical sector, and foreign medical spending.

For example, he said that there was no one willing to teach. So, he wrote a bill- if any teacher would make a 2 (or 4, I cannot recall) commitment to teaching, the fed govt will pay of the ENTIRE student loan of that teacher, PLUS give them a signing bonus. Talk about an NEA giveaway! In NJ, there is a waiting list to teach... strings must be pulled to even get a job.

In another bill, he wanted to give tens of millions to the NEA for 'pre training' teacher programs... as in training the teachers for training! I kid you not.

His foreign AIDS bills advocated spending tens of mils on birth control pills for African women. In these bills, there was always million $$ paydays for fringe homosexual groups with NO accountability required.

He has been pushing free drugs since 1997.

The list goes on and on.

Many of these bills did not pass, but they certainly opened my eyes about Dr spendgood.

Conclusion: Frist sees the Senate and taxpayer money as his personal charity and philanthropic cause. he wants to dump 100's of billions of taxpayer $$ into the med sector, while protecting that sectors ability to make as much money as possible.

He is a socialist. Period.

[WOSG]

"How about the left's war on poverty?" Coulter asked "When are we getting an exit strategy on that? When are we getting out of that quagmire?" ROFLMAO!!

[tet68]

"How about the left's war on poverty?" Coulter asked "When are we getting an exit strategy on that? When are we getting out of that quagmire?"

Ann nails it.

[wizardoz]

The War on Poverty IS a quagmire. There are neighborhoods in all our inner cities that you need a tank to drive through. I remember watching Black Hawk Down and thinking "Looks like Detroit."

[bethelgrad]

Ann is the soundbite queen. Normally that would not be a flattering title, but her soundbites carry so much truth in them they literally stand alone.

[Go Gordon]

There are neighborhoods in all our inner cities that you need a tank to drive through. I remember watching Black Hawk Down and thinking "Looks like Detroit."

And guess which party has been in power in all those cities across the US, during the dilapidation?