Posted on 12/07/2005 8:32:41 PM PST by SmithL
STORRS, Conn. - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter gave up trying to finish a speech at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday night when boos and jeers from the audience became overwhelming. Coulter cut off the talk after 15 minutes and instead held a half-hour question-and-answer session.
"I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," Coulter told the 2,600 people at Jorgensen Auditorium.
Coulter's appearance prompted protests from several groups, including Students Against Hate and the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center. They criticized her for spreading a message of hate and intolerance.
Nearly 100 students gathered inside the Student Union for a rally against Coulter. About a half-dozen people held protest signs outside the auditorium.
After a book signing following her appearance, Coulter called the audience's reaction "typical."
Coulter, originally from New Canaan, Conn., has a history of bashing Democrats in best-selling books, frequent television appearances and speeches. Harding University in Arkansas dropped her from its lecture series in September, citing her abrasive image.
Last April, the president of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota denounced a speech on the campus by Coulter, calling it hateful. In October 2004, University of Arizona police arrested two men who ran on stage and threw custard pies at Coulter; one of the pies glanced off her shoulder.
In her speech at UConn, Coulter called Bill Clinton an "executive buffoon" who won the presidency only because Ross Perot took 19 percent of the vote. She called California Sen. Barbara Boxer a good candidate for the Democrats because "she is a woman and she's learning disabled."
During the question-and-answer session, someone asked Coulter if she really was against a woman's right to vote.
"Not having women vote is a joke," she said, reversing comments she has previously made.
Eric Knudsen, a 19-year-old sophomore journalism and social welfare major at UConn, didn't attend the speech.
"We encourage diverse opinion at UConn, but this is blatant hate speech," said Knudsen, head of Students Against Hate.
Kareem Mohni, a 20-year-old junior and a member of a campus Republicans group, said he was disgusted with the Jorgensen crowd.
"It really appalled me that we're not able to come together as a group and listen to a different view in a respectful environment," he said.
The left has chosen a dangerous path when they deny others the right to any speech, even while erroniously claiming their rights are 'repressed'.
You should see what the "tolerant" "we support the troops" left has done to US Soldier's websites. Grey Eagle just got her site up and was hacked several times by the "tolerant", "open minded" left.
http://www.afemalesoldier2.com
Did any of the hecklers wet their diapers?
Horses**t.
LOL A few dozen cheeseburgers would be a good start-I've got pencils thicker than her legs, but I do like her boots!;)
Nor First apparently.
Students against logic and learning
Stop being so intolerant!
This is absolutely the most biased reporting job. I just showed it to my friends and they can't believe it either. The liberals made absolute fools out of themselves. They did disrupt the speech through playing music, conveintly not mentioned in the article, and Ann just called them up and for Q and A. One by one she just tore into everyone one of them. And even my moderate friends said they were convinced the liberals are completely insane. All week UConn was bombarded with how she was hateful and an extremists, and even they admitted she looked completely rational in front of them. One girl i brought who is kind of a liberal fence sitter (eats up all the B.S. the professors put out) is now saying "Ann Coulter is my Idol!"
Maybe because i personally witnessed it, but this is by far the most biased, out of line, article i have read in awhile.
Here was my view of the night here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536086/posts
It's no wonder many of the other countries are now anti-American.
All they see, thanks to the MSM, are the Hollywood weirdo's and these rude, ignorant, unkempt, uncouth, unruly, biligerant mobs 'doing their thing' and assume this is typical of everyone else in the U.S.
Along with their insane DC leaders, I think they're giving me an ulcer now, besides being the cause of my unstable HBP.
Any chance I can sue?
Pretty lady, but someone needs to feed her a 24oz sirloin every once in a while.
"journalism and social welfare major?"
BAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No agenda here....
It always amazes to see how all these tolerent Libs are so Stalinist with their censorship. Guess when you have no ideas, yell.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I don't think you're cute. You obviously do.
"If 90 lb. post-op trannies are your bag..."
Ha! There's no way she weighs that much!
It's a 'liberal thing'. Better get used to it.
There are always a few.
Aw go on. You just wish you could have sex with a man who looked that good. Or maybe you just have a problem with good looking women? Could be both. Sorry, probably is both.
"Free speech for me, but not for thee" seems to be the liberal motto nowadays.
Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center
Were they protesting in spanish?
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