Posted on 11/15/2003 10:01:05 AM PST by EveningStar
Coulter gets what she wanted at CU
Conservative author says she thrives on battling liberal critics
By Aimee Heckel, Camera Staff Writer
November 14, 2003
Ann Coulter knew what she was getting into when she agreed to speak at arguably the most liberal hotbed in Colorado on Thursday night.
That's why she came.
"How many normal females are going to want to stand up and be called a Nazi and a racist?" said the conservative author and columnist. "As luck would have it, I happen to enjoy it. ... It perks me up to see liberals have nothing in the arsenal."
About 2,000 people filled the University of Colorado's Macky Auditorium on Thursday night to hear Coulter criticize Democrats in light of the war in Iraq. About half hissed and booed, and the other half laughed at her prickly humor and thanked her with a standing ovation.
Some, like Kevin Cooper of Louisville, said he wanted to hear another viewpoint, even if it contradicted his own.
"You can't make a viewpoint with one side. You have to understand the other side, too," he said.
Coulter said CU was typical of most colleges she speaks at, with a little extra heckling. But one thing surprised her, she said.
"I've never seen this on a college campus before: They were applauding Saddam Hussein," she said after her speech. "I was a little taken aback."
Coulter was referring mainly to one question about when the United States will put the interests of the world before its own.
"I think removing Saddam is good for the world. That question presupposed it's not," she said.
In response, some audience members said that because they do not support the war doesn't mean they support Hussein.
Coulter criticized most of the crowd's questions, calling them not intelligent or thoughtful.
"I go to these college campuses and I'm witnessing a breakdown in cognitive thought," she said.
But criticism Thursday night was mutual. In response to Coulter's advocacy of racial profiling to weed out terrorists, some called her racist and others stomped out of the auditorium.
"It's one thing to talk about liberals or conservatives," said Kerry Kite, CU's diversity director. "There's a big difference to come out and crack jokes that have some sort of meaning. But to just defame other cultures and ethnicities is just plain ignorant."
The CU Cultural Events Board organized the event.
Contact Aimee Heckel at (303) 473-1359 or heckela@dailycamera.com.
So she wants us to use some common sense and stop putting WASPy Nebraskan grandmas on the same suspicion list as Saudi "businessmen" with 1-way plane tickets. Yes, certainly something to revile her for. Gee what a racist she is.
".. But to just defame other cultures and ethnicities is just plain ignorant."
What exactly did she say about "other" cultures? They don't really give a correlating quote to this comment... unless of course, promoting a common sense approach to finding terrorists equals defamation and ignorance. Which, for a diversity director, would do it, I suppose.
Yep. That one needs to go in the new English to liberalese lexicon.
We did not "fire" Ann for what she wrote, even though it was poorly written and sloppy. We ended the relationship because she behaved with a total lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty.
If america black culture don't suck then why all ghettos hell holes and most of Washington D.C.
Randy young college men are everywhere.
Why is it logical to not add in the 500,000 dead from US and EU backed UN sanctions that impounded the 5 billions of equipment that Saddam bought to try to improve his drinking water system?
Could it be because the scale would swing the other way? Nahhhhhhh.... you would never think so...
But these aren't the critical numbers. Those will come in the future. If the US pulls out and leaves a power vacuum which leads to a long and bloody civil war that kills millions, then the argument becomes who caused it, and neither side will have a clear and convincing answer.
Sources reveal that the Democrat Playbook is actually The Koran !!! ;-))
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I've said for years we ought to all have bumper stickers that say:
"Honor Diversity...Vote Republican."
ROTFL! Yep. But then I don't think FReepers are quite like "normal" people.
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