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Ann Coulter speech at DePaul divides students (Protesters Verklempt)
neighborhoods.redeyechicago.com ^ | June 2, 2011 | Jeremy Mikula

Posted on 06/04/2011 6:41:47 PM PDT by Syncro

Ann Coulter speech at DePaul divides students

Ann Coulter speech at DePaul divides students

Ann Coulter speaking at DePaul University on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. (Jeremy Mikula photo for RedEye)

BY , DePaul reporter · Thursday, June 2, 2011 9:09 a.m.

Ann Coulter comes to DePaul University and talks about Illinois’ new civil union law … that might sound like the start to a bad joke, but that’s really what happened Wednesday night.

The outspoken conservative addressed some 150 students, faculty and staff at a lecture titled “What Your Professors Will Never Tell You,” part of the Young America’s Foundation Reagan 100 Lecture Series.

Suzanne Kilgannon, director of the Office of Student Life, noted that DePaul “welcomes different viewpoints.”

Coulter started her speech by congratulating the Obama Administration for the killing of Osama bin Laden, but noted that killing the al Qaeda leader would not bring an end to terrorism or the terrorist organization. From there, Coulter used humor to speak about everything from being “molested” by TSA agents at the airport (“It’s nice to know if that if I’m lacking intimacy I can just go to the airport”) to Obama’s golf handicap (“16″ strokes).

Coulter then turned to policy questions, such as U.S. involvement in the uprisings in the Middle East, saying that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was a supporter of U.S. policy, and questioned why France was more “macho” than the U.S. in the Libyan conflict.

Throughout the speech, Coulter’s jibes towards liberalism were met by sarcastic laughter and coughing from protesters, approximately 35- to 40-percent of whom turned their chairs around instead of facing Coulter during her speech as an act of silent protest.

When asked what her thoughts were on the 2012 presidential election, Coulter said, “[Obama] has a glass jaw. I think he can be beaten, largely because of the economy.”

Coulter also stated that it depends on the candidate running against the president.

Coulter sparked the biggest outrage from protesters when she talked about abortion, gay marriage/civil unions and single motherhood.

Saying that Democratic Party is “obsessed with abortion,” Coulter called abortion a “litmus test for membership in the Democratic Party.” Coulter also questioned how a liberal could ever be a Christian when “they’re in favor of killing a baby peacefully sleeping in the mother’s womb, sucking its brains out [in the eighth month of pregnancy].”

Coulter also criticized Illinois for passing its civil unions law, citing that marriage between a man and a woman is “the linchpin of society.”

“It’s just another attack on marriage,” Coulter said.

The conservative author also fanned flames when she talked about the “problem of single motherhood,” claiming that movies and television promote single motherhood when, according to her, statistics on crime show most offenders come from single parent households.

Reaction to Coulter’s speech was mixed.

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“I can’t believe she used ‘rape’ as an adjective, first of all,” said Katie Weiss, 22, after the speech and Q&A. “Second of all, I can’t believe that when she talked about single motherhoods, she completely went in a circle. First she said that we don’t blame deadbeat dads, or we don’t enforce deadbeat dads, and then she talked about all the ways in which deadbeat dads are talked about in media in a positive light. Then said that we shouldn’t support deadbeat dads. That doesn’t make sense.”

“I don’t know where she got her facts, she never stated one source,” Weiss continued. “It was like going into a stand-up comedy. If she had been portrayed as a stand-up comedy I think I would have laughed, I would have had a really good time.”

“And not only that, she offended every single minority group: single mothers, Muslims, gays,” added Mike Moynihan, 23.

“What appalled me the most was she was looking at that young woman in the face and didn’t even apologize for that flying carpet remark,” said Joe Marnen, 21. “She said it was a fact that if [Muslims] boycotted the airports that we’d all be safer.”

Meanwhile, DePaul College Republicans felt the event went well.

“I think we got a lot of conservative students who don’t get their voices heard on campus,” said Dan Dunham, 24, the vice president of DePaul College Republicans. “They got to hear they’re not alone, that a lot of these opinions are being espoused off campus and I think that resonated with a lot of them. I think for the more liberal students, hopefully they got a chance to hear that other side that they just don’t hear in class.”

With regards to the protest, Dunham said, “I think that certainly we all don’t have to agree with her, and I applaud them for coming out. I think it was good that they came — even if they weren’t facing her, they certainly heard what she had to say. They were quiet for the most part, respectful. Would I have preferred that they didn’t turn their chairs around? Yes, I think that was rude to the speaker, but I’m glad that they did come.”


1 posted on 06/04/2011 6:41:55 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Syncro
DePaul is one of those so-called Catholic colleges that isn't very Catholic.
2 posted on 06/04/2011 6:44:14 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: RonDog; jellybean; Rummyfan

“And not only that, she offended every single minority group: single mothers, Muslims, gays,” added Mike Moynihan, 23.

“What appalled me the most was she was looking at that young woman in the face and didn’t even apologize for that flying carpet remark,” said Joe Marnen, 21. “She said it was a fact that if [Muslims] boycotted the airports that we’d all be safer.”

Of course the flying carpet comment was from some time ago. I guess that got some of the PC crowd something to remember forever.
3 posted on 06/04/2011 6:44:42 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro
DePaul is one of those so-called Catholic colleges that isn't very Catholic.
4 posted on 06/04/2011 6:48:28 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: bwc2221

I am sick of the headlines where
Conservative (x) DIVIDES liberals
Every opinion and point of view is divisive.
As Rush says, where is the common ground between good and evil?
Pope DIVIDES Satanists with talk of good?


5 posted on 06/04/2011 6:48:55 PM PDT by omega4179
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To: Syncro
The quotes from the young skulls full of mush say it all--devoid of reason, barely able to mount a coherent train of thought. If these are typical college students, we're dead meat America.
6 posted on 06/04/2011 6:53:26 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Syncro

I don’t understand if someone didn’t like someone why go and see them and why act like a silly little kid?


7 posted on 06/04/2011 6:55:02 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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I give DePaul credit for inviting her.

“And not only that, she offended every single minority group”

Conservatives are a minority group on almost every campus, we get offended on a daily basis. Get used to it libs!


8 posted on 06/04/2011 6:56:38 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: freekitty

Because modern Liberalism is a mental illness. They literally cannot help themselves.


9 posted on 06/04/2011 6:58:32 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: bwc2221
Thanks X2!

Yea, like Notre Dame.

The great apostasy is creeping in at the speed of a bullet train. (Not ours, the ones in japan...lol)

10 posted on 06/04/2011 7:01:48 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: omega4179
It wasn't about dividing liberals, it was the divide between liberals and conservatives.

They are blaming it on Coulter.

Who’da thunk it?

11 posted on 06/04/2011 7:03:47 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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I wonder if Dan Dunham has traced his family tree.

When I was a kid flying carpet cartoons were common--they seem to have disappeared a long time ago. I don't know if cartoonists were afraid of offending Arabs or just got tired of the theme.

12 posted on 06/04/2011 7:09:01 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Coulter sparked the biggest outrage from protesters when she talked about abortion, gay marriage/civil unions and single motherhood.

The clearer the truth, the louder the "outrage". There is never a counterargument, just "outrage". It is reactionary "outrage" instead of considering the opposing viewpoint.

Coulter should have ended by telling them about U6 unemployment, how a degree in the Basket Weaving Habits of Migrant Lesbian Womyn doesn't lead to a six figure income and how student loans can't be discharged through bankruptcy!
13 posted on 06/04/2011 7:10:10 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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One of my nephew’s kids goes to DePaul. The nephew at least is a quite devout, traditional Catholic. Don’t know about his kids, or their political leanings. BUT ... are all the quoted students on the 5-6 year plan? Why aren’t they out of college at least by age 22? Or is it a commuter college where kids work and attend school, delaying graduation?


14 posted on 06/04/2011 7:10:57 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Syncro
Coulter sparked the biggest outrage from protesters when she talked about abortion, gay marriage/civil unions and single motherhood.

Last I heard Catholicism doesn't espouse, homosexuality, abortion, or single motherhood.

15 posted on 06/04/2011 7:33:56 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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“And not only that, she offended every single minority group: single mothers, Muslims, gays,” added Mike Moynihan, 23.

Hey! What is she...slipping?

What about union thugs, peace queers, vegatarians, global warming worshippers?

She should have repeated her moslem line: "We need to kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

16 posted on 06/04/2011 7:38:58 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans freed the Slaves Month")
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To: EDINVA

Yes De Paul is largely a commuter school, in which many students work part-time and go to school part-time.


17 posted on 06/04/2011 7:43:03 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Thanks. I wondered why all the quotes were from 22-24 year olds. Why don’t conservative students go to lib presentations, turn their chairs around with their backs to the speakers, and otherwise protest? You know, show how divided the students are ;)


18 posted on 06/04/2011 7:50:07 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: hinckley buzzard

No... we make them slaves or Soylent Green... either way... I do not care.

LS


19 posted on 06/04/2011 8:04:49 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If you lie hard enough and sell your soul... you can scam your way to the top" barack obama)
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To: All; omega4179
Somehow liberals never divide. They don't draw protesters at colleges.

I recall Speaker Gingrich was invited for a commencement, students threaten the administration and staged protests demanding the invitation be rescinded. When Clinton came to the same university, a year earlier, there were only cheers.

You see the same theatrics replicated across the nation, school after school.

20 posted on 06/04/2011 8:14:38 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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