The irony is that Ann is being excoriated by the left, and lambasted by the right, for something she said specifically that she was not going to say. She did not say it and gave the reason why.
The glaringly obvious reason for Ann's sarcastic remark was to point out the hypocrisy of supression of speech that does not have the political left's stamp of approval. Far more egregious things have been said and done by people on the left, and for far more dispicable reasons. It is usually categorized as humor, or ignored, when a leftist says or does it.
I don't think it's too much to ask that those on "our side", who are jostling with the left to seek the 'moral high ground' by condemning Ann for such "offensive" speech and behavior, should recognize that honesty demands defending Ann's pointing out the hypocrisy of the left even as they express their disapproval of the way she said it. A general condemnation cedes the moral high ground to hate-filled, less than moral, leftists, who do not deserve it. It also allows the left to reinforce their stereotype of Conservatives by condemning Ann, who does not deserve it.
Precisely!