Posted on 04/04/2006 6:02:23 AM PDT by RonDog
WED — APRIL 5 — COULTER AT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA! -GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ann Coulter, political commentator and author of four New York Times bestsellers, will speak at 8 p.m. April 5 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida. Doors open at 7:15 p.m.Advance tickets will be available at the Phillips Center and University Box Office to University of Florida students with a valid UF student ID beginning April 3, with a limit of two tickets per student.
Beginning on April 5, tickets will be available to the general public at the Phillips Center and University Box Office, with a limit of two tickets per person.
The Phillips Center Box Office is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday. The University Box Office is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.
There will be a press conference at 7:15 p.m. in the Black Box room of the Phillips Center on the night of the show. The University of Florida Bookstore will be selling copies of Coulter’s books at the show.
Ann will need as many FRiendly faces in the audience as we can get......to help her counteract the usual BOZOS from the hard left who will attempt to disrupt her speech, as they tried to do a few months ago in Connecticut:
Ann Coulter, UCONN - After Action Review (Vanity)
Chudogg
Posted on 12/07/2005 6:09:55 PM PST by chudogg
Ann Coulter just finished her speech at UConn, and she was Great! Completely shutout Uconn's liberals.
The lefties showed up in significant numbers but the majority of the crowd was definitely for Ann. Of course the liberals went absolutely nuts during the speech but Ann Coulter just em down, every SINGLE time! And the majority of the conservatives would stand up and cheer everytime they started trying to act up.
At midpoint through her speech some liberals got a hold of the PA system and played a song through the speakers, I couldn't tell what it was. It effectively shut out Ann's speech. I figure some students must have had help from UConn faculty to oranize that. If anyone remembers, during this point the liberals started chanting "you suck", I was the guy in the front that stood up and yelled "No, You Suck!" and put and my arms out in the air and kept saying "what!". They stopped chanting and nobody said anything so i turned around and started clapping and then sat down.
After this charade, they finally got the music off the PA and Ann Coulter was just like "Allright, you want play games, lets see what you got?" and invited everyone up for questions.
Just about every liberal who went up got completely shut down by Ann Coulter. It was hilarious! Every liberal would stand in line all proud like they were gonna show Coulter, but after their question Coulter just shut em down with her answer they ended up walking back all shouting and swearing under their breath...
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GOOOOOOO GATORS! 73 > 57 woohoo bump for Ann.
Thanks for the ping.
Don't know if you've been pinged to this thread, so here's a heads up in case you haven't already heard who's gonna be in town tonight (Wed).
Hey, cyn! It was a great game, wasn't it!
I sure wish Ann would eat more cheeseburgers.
Article published Apr 5, 2006
Coulter's visit to UF may start a stir on campus
Known for her disdain of all things liberal, political commentator Ann Coulter's visit to the University of Florida tonight already has some students cringing.
"I'm not opposed to listening to Republicans, it's just that she disgusts me," said Stephanie Sims, president of UF's College Democrats.
She may give Democrats a sour stomach, but Coulter has emerged as a hero to some conservatives. Author of "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," Coulter is a frequent guest on political television programs like "Hannity and Colmes" and "HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher."
Her speech tonight is sponsored by Accent, UF's student-operated speakers bureau. Evan Tyroler, chairman of Accent, said the selection committee was well aware Coulter might start a stir on campus, which is in part why she was invited.
"Accent's goal is to spark debate and controversy on campus," Tyroler said.
Coulter has created her share of controversy, most notably in a column she wrote shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"We know who the homicidal maniacs are," she wrote. "They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Coulter was fired by the National Review Online after the column ran.
Accent has invited other guests who've been poorly received by Republicans, as well. The group invited filmmaker Michael Moore, a vocal critic of the Bush administration, in 2004. Most recently, Accent paid $15,000 to host Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who lambasted President Bush's environmental policies.
Matt Dean, executive director of the College Republicans, said it was refreshing to see Accent invite a more conservative speaker to strike a political balance. But Dean said he also had mixed feelings about Coulter.
"I agree with most of her views - 99 percent of them," he said. "I just don't like the way she presents them."
Coulter has appeared in Gainesville before, addressing the Alachua County Republican Executive Committee at a barbecue in October.
Accent has a $370,000 annual budget, $32,000 of which will go toward Coulter's speech, travel and lodging.
Jack Stripling can be reached at 374-5064 or Jack.Stripling@gvillesun.com
FYI: If you go
- WHAT: Ann Coulter speech
- WHEN: 8 tonight, (Doors open at 7:15 p.m.)
- WHERE: Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
- COST: Event is free and open to public, but seating is limited
"...Coulter has created her share of controversy, most notably in a column she wrote shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.More sloppy reporting by another LAZY reporter.
"We know who the homicidal maniacs are," she wrote. "They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Coulter was fired by the National Review Online after the column ran..." - Jack Stripling, with The Gainesville Sun
See the transcript from Ann's interview with Katie "the affable Eva Braun" al-Couric:
Katie Couric: You were also fired, I guess, because you wrote in the National Review that we should -- when it came to fighting terrorism, we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. Do you still believe that that's the best way to combat terrorism worldwide?
Ann Coulter: Well, that's a somewhat dishonest quote. I was referring to the people in the previous sentence of that column, cheering and dancing in the streets right now, and, in fact, this -- the way that was so widely misquoted is an example of what I described in my book, which is the constant mischaracterizations, which is a small word, picking out the word of parents. It makes a big difference. And these subtle differences that are then glossed over as if there's absolutely no difference. To try to portray conservatives as crazy people, as Nazis, slave owners, (unintelligible), homophobic, how about dealing with our ideas? I mean I've written two books now, I've written hundreds of columns, I've been on TV hundreds of times. The idea that someone can go out and find one quote that will suddenly, you know, portray me just dismiss her ideas, read no more, read no further, this person is crazy --
Katie Couric: Well, obviously --
Ann Coulter: -- is precisely what liberals do all the time.
Katie Couric: But obviously the National Review had a problem with these articles and some of the pieces you did because you were fired from that job. Can you elaborate or at least tell us what you exactly meant?
Ann Coulter: That also isn't quite true. I mean I write a syndicated column, I write for Human Events. That's the newspaper that hires me. People buy a syndicated column, and they dropped the column. But a lot of people don't like me for a lot of different reasons, including --
Katie Couric: Why don't you explain what you meant, then.
Ann Coulter: -- that they're my competitors.
Katie Couric: What do you think is the best way to battle terrorism?
Ann Coulter: Point one and point two by the end of the week had become official government policy.As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels.
I mean perhaps that's the Peace Corps, perhaps it's working for Planned Parenthood, but I've never seen the transforming effect of anything like that Christianity...
Anyone have a report from Geekville?
..so, how'd it go?I am in southern California (aka northwest Aztlan) -- but here is a report from www.gainesville.com:Anyone have a report from Geekville?
Apr 5, 2006
Fiery Coulter lambasts liberals, shows support for war
By JEFF ADELSON
Sun staff writerLiberals are "traitors," "cowards" and "idiots," the fiery conservative commentator Ann Coulter told a nearly full house at the University of Florida's Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Wednesday.
Ann Coulter speaks Wednesday at the
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
(JARRETT BAKER/Special to The Sun)
And that's just as she was warming up.
In a 30-minute speech, Coulter shifted rapidly between topics as she tossed out barbed one-liners about prominent liberals for an audience of more than 1,000 people, skewering politicians, media personalities and academics.
"A college campus is the last place you should send someone to teach them American values," said the syndicated columnist and author.
While the hour-long question-and-answer session following the speech showed that there were both conservatives and liberals in the audience, the amount of applause seemed to suggest a majority embraced Coulter's views.
Accent, UF's student-run speaker's bureau, paid about $32,000 of its $370,000 annual budget for Coulter's speaking fees, travel and lodging.
In perhaps one of the most controversial statements in a night filled with them, Coulter said even actions as "horrendous" as the genocide in Rwanda would not merit American intervention. However, she noted that the Iraq war was justified by concerns about Saddam Hussein's desire for weapons of mass destruction and his destabilizing influence on the Middle East.
"There were plenty of reasons to get rid of Saddam and none to keep him," she said.
Much of Coulter's material was familiar from her appearance at the Alachua County Republican Executive Committee's Reagan Day Black Tie and Blue Jeans Barbecue in October. And many of the audience's questions harkened back to some of the more controversial statements she has made in the past.
In response to a question about whether Islamic beliefs could be problematic in the creation of an Iraqi democracy, Coulter repeated what has become perhaps her most controversial comment.
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity," she wrote shortly after Sept. 11, referring to countries whose populations expressed joy about the attacks.
Such a policy would bring the country more in line with American values, she said, crediting American beliefs in equality to Christianity.
Coulter also differentiated between people she considers "wrong" because of their opposition to the Iraq war, such as Pat Buchanan, from people she said were traitorous, a category she suggested included most of the Democratic Party.
The support of Buchanan and other conservatives for other issues, such as the use of Guantanamo Bay as a detainment center, showed they were not anti-American, she said.
Tessa Fughum, a UF sophomore, said she enjoyed the speech and agreed with many of Coulter's views.
"It's good to hear somebody who's that intelligent and is able to talk about what is going on," she said.
Jeff Adelson can be reached at 352-374-5095 or adelsoj@gvillesun.com
Thursday, April 6, 2006 1:00 a.m.
Coulter: Liberals are evil
By BOBBY EAGLE
Alligator Contributing WriterEven the Gators' national championship can have a political spin through the eyes of a highly controversial conservative author."The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount," best-selling author Ann Coulter told a crowd of about 1,100 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday.
In a politically charged speech where she referred to Ted Kennedy as a "human dirigible," Coulter talked about why liberals are "evil," and she promoted conservative ideals on gay marriage, abortion and the war in Iraq.
An adoring audience laughed and cheered between Coulter's sarcastic stabs at all things liberal. One topic that generated a rousing response was liberal-biased media.
Coulter adamantly bashed television news, calling CBS "fake news" and saying the only news channel conservatives can trust is Fox News - for now.
"Dan Rather is out, or as I say, 'One down, 16 to go,'" she said.
Another hot topic was political bias on college campuses.
"A college campus is the last place you should send someone to inculcate them [with] the values of America," she said.
College professors hate free speech and rely on tenure to allow them to say anything they want without the threat of losing their jobs, Coulter said.
Coulter also addressed complaints about generalizations made about Democrats.
"Why can't we generalize about Democrats?" she asked. "People generalize every moment of every day. If you didn't generalize about that feeling in your belly, you'd be peeing in your pants all day."
On the war in Iraq, Coulter said Democrats focus too much on the lack of weapons of mass destruction and don't understand what true evil is.
Coulter's appearance was sponsored by Accent, Student Government's speakers bureau, at a cost of about $32,000, according to Accent spokeswoman Nicole Trueblood.
Coulter's visit is a way to offer an alternative viewpoint to that of environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who spoke in March, Trueblood said.
"We like to cause a little controversy and debate, and this is definitely a speech to do that," she said.
My Alma Mater certainly has its share of lefty wackos, but this is good to see that Ann got a good reception at UF.
:o)
Now if they can just get her to be the main act at Gator Growl. :)
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