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To: JTN

"Well, you just have to remember, Ann Coulter's writing isn't about conservative outreach. It's about whipping up the foam around her already conservative reader's mouths so that they will be more likely to buy her books."

More lies from you.

From this week's Time:

What Would Ann Coulter Do?

On campus, a new conservative women's anti-feminist group is rising, and both their liberal counterparts and conservative mentors are taking notice

Jun. 12, 2006

As female college activist groups go, the Network of Enlightened Women, or NeW, is a very different breed. They don't distribute condoms on the Quad or march for a woman's right to choose. Instead, they bake chocolate chip cookies and protest campus productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, a controversial play about female sexuality that conservatives say degrades women and glorifies rape.

Barely two years old, NeW is a small but fast-growing campus alternative to the Feminist Majority and the National Organization of Women, with a foothold in seven states. More importantly, it has already gained the attention and support of the most powerful conservative women in Washington.

This Friday controversial pundit Ann Coulter, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and others will address the leaders of NeW and their peers at the Conservative Leadership Seminar, a Capitol Hill conference where aspiring right-wingers learn from the pros. The seminar is sponsored by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, an organization that mentors young conservative women. Though conservatives rising up on campus isn't exactly a new phenomenon, until now there hasn't been a group on campus that has specifically taken on modern feminism the way national groups like the Independent Women's Forum and the Eagle Forum have done in Washington...

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1203281,00.html


140 posted on 06/16/2006 7:36:11 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

Ah, I see. Ann Coulter is appearing with other conservatives to speak to two conservative groups at a conference "where aspiring right-wingers learn from the pros" and this demonstrates that she is involved in conservative outreach. Somehow.


158 posted on 06/16/2006 7:48:37 PM PDT by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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