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Here’s the reply I posted on the NYU bulletin board:

Norman Rogers
Dec 11, 2008 10:39

Gee, I think she answered both parts of your question (she said she didn’t know).

As to your commentary, I find it peurile (”shitty conservative commentator”). I am pleased that you rabid lefties actually permitted a conservative to speak without silly disruptions. Perhaps everyone does eventually grow up. And, having to live with your choice as our President for the next four years will only help.

And I’m pleased that it was my alma mater that showed the “students” and “faculty” (of such important subjects as “Women’s studies” and “Gym Flloor Mopping) of Columbia how to behave. I am a graduate of NYU (BS Engineering Physics ‘70, MS OR and Computer Science ‘72). It’s a subject of amusement to me how the prestige of this school has grown over the years. And, I think it’s a stitch that they’re reacquiring the Engineering School with the “merger” with Brooklyn Poly.

OBTW, Ms. Coulter really does stay on point. If you had actually read any of her numerous books, you’d know that. You obviously heard what you wanted to hear.

As to your commentary, I find it peurile (”s****y conservative commentator”)... -- from your message to Ned
See: I edit out the off-color words posted by EVERYBODY.

I'm "old school" FR. Posting words like that USED to be frowned on here. It coarsens the debate, IMHO.

Here is MORE from Ned, about Ann's speech:

Inside Coulterfest ‘08
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 11th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I do my best to avoid shamelessly plugging my extra-curricular projects on Pushback, but in this case I’m going to give in to that temptation and highlight my penultimate post on NYU Local: a rundown of Ann Coulter’s speech last night at NYU.
I want to expand on a couple points in the piece, because I don’t think they’re specific just to Ann Coulter. One is the emphasis of political theater over actual political commentary; you can find this everywhere, but particularly in certain corners of the right: Coulter, O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. It’s one area where the right has a definite edge over left-wing punditry, but while that’s good for ratings, it’s problematic for a host of other reasons. Which brings me to the final point I made in the piece: that the College Republicans made a huge error by inviting a mudslinger like Coulter to speak instead of an actual conservative thinker.
It’s a sad reflection of what’s happening to the conservative movement on the national level: as long as people like Coulter are the public face of conservatism instead of, say, Douthat, Larison, or Salam, then it’s just going to more and more resemble a fringe movement.
Finally, one thing I barely touched on in the piece: Ann Coulter’s weird, latent anti-Semitism, or at least paternalism and condescension towards Jews. Check out her response to my question about the left and Judaism:
YouTube video: Ann Coullter Question
As far as I can make out, she thinks that Jews overwhelmingly vote for progressive candidates because we used to be the left’s celebrity victims–thanks, Holocaust!–but now we’re too ignorant to realize that they’ve moved on to terrorists and sodomites and somesuch.
It’s hard to tell though, given that her response (like most of the responses she gave to serious questions) was borderline incoherent.