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Firebrand Sets Off Furor (Coulter In Canada Tour)
The London Free Press ^ | March 20 2010 | JONATHAN SHER

Posted on 03/20/2010 8:37:46 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom

Firebrand Sets Off Furor

Outspoken American pundit Ann Coulter gives a London speech Monday

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American conservative firebrand Ann Coulter won't be in London until Monday but already the dust is flying.

Local activist and one-time NDP candidate Megan Walker says of Coulter, "She's venomous . . . She crosses the line and promotes hatred and violence."

Walker's comments provoked a response from a woman instrumental in bringing Coulter to London, Mary Lou Ambrogio, whose group, the International Free Press Society, is paying $10,000 for the appearance, the balance of Coulter's fee coming from an American group that promotes conservatism in young women, the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute.

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Ambrogio said Coulter was chosen to test the tolerance of Londoners for free speech, a test she says Walker has flunked.

"She pays lip service to free speech," Ambrogio said.

While Coulter pushes peoples' buttons, she doesn't incite criminal activity nor hatred, she said.

"That's pretty outrageous," Ambrogio said, challenging Walker to "prove it."

Walker responded with 10 comments made by Coulter including:

"My only regret with (bombing terrorist) Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

After American abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in church last year, Coulter was asked to condemn the killing by conservative Fox host Bill O'Reilly. She replied: "I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester . . . I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others."

Ambrogio defended Coulter, saying, "Incitement to violence is very specific and these comments, while they may be offensive or hurtful to the people involved are not criminal . . Ms. Coulter, like millions of others, happens to believe that terminating the fetus is murder. She is simply using their language in a clever way, I think, to point out how absurdly their language strikes those who defend abortion."

Walker's comments have served to shine the spotlight on Coulter's visit, and in doing so, has sapped attention from another American visiting two days later, Robert Kennedy Jr., a talk paid for by Western.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; canada; comedy; coulter; freedomofspeech
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Comedy gold...
1 posted on 03/20/2010 8:37:46 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom
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To: Enduring Freedom

Ann is AWESOME!!!


2 posted on 03/20/2010 8:40:00 AM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: Enduring Freedom

Walker’s comments have served to shine the spotlight on Coulter’s visit, and in doing so, has sapped attention from another American visiting two days later, Robert Kennedy Jr.,

Hahaha!


3 posted on 03/20/2010 8:41:31 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Enduring Freedom
While I may not agree with everything she says, then again, I may, I love the way she sticks it to 'em.

Go Ann!

4 posted on 03/20/2010 8:43:53 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: Enduring Freedom

She’ll be welcome in Alberta, and if she needs protection while travelling this socialist hellhole that is Canada, I’m sure myself and few ex platoon-mates could handle the job:)


5 posted on 03/20/2010 8:45:57 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Enduring Freedom

No sense of humour Libtard.


6 posted on 03/20/2010 8:48:18 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: tet68

Robert Kennedy Jr. is being invited by, and paid for, a speech by the local university (UWO).

Coulter has stolen their thunder.

She has created even more socialist envy (if that is possible).


7 posted on 03/20/2010 8:49:54 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Socialists are not inspired by success and achievement - they are diminished in its presence.)
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To: Mr. Jazzy

Hatred is the way you exterminate enemies. If they are not hated, they will survive. Hatred assures extermination.

Utopia will not have any conservatives. They will be dead and gone.


8 posted on 03/20/2010 8:53:41 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
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To: Enduring Freedom
Coulter, a firebrand? Why, I've never seen her to be anything but meek and mild and easy to get along with. Surely they're talking about somebody else.

;-)

9 posted on 03/20/2010 8:54:04 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Enduring Freedom

Liberals are just ignorant. Ann has a great sense of humor, you need at least a little understanding of sarcasm.


10 posted on 03/20/2010 8:54:22 AM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Enduring Freedom

I hope she gets in a few gay slurs to send those Human Rights Commissions into a tizzy (make sure the jet is fueled and has clearance for a quick take off).


11 posted on 03/20/2010 8:57:07 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: tet68

Who in the heck, other than drug dealers, would want to waste 2 hours of time listening to robert kennedy jr.?


12 posted on 03/20/2010 8:58:57 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Enduring Freedom

AC rules!


13 posted on 03/20/2010 8:59:50 AM PDT by barbarianbabs (Liberty 5-3000)
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To: Enduring Freedom; Clive

Ping


14 posted on 03/20/2010 9:00:13 AM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Bulwyf
this socialist hellhole that is Canada

Looked in the mirror lately?

15 posted on 03/20/2010 9:01:19 AM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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Looked in the mirror lately? I’m a Canadian living in this socialist hellhole, unfortunately I don’t understand your point, perhaps you can elaborate.

Canada is not a free country, they take your hard earned money with no chance of opting out to pay for things that we’ll never know the full extent of, not to mention the human rights tribunals which are so offensive to freedom I don’t understand why more Canadians don’t demand their demise.


16 posted on 03/20/2010 9:09:47 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: fanfan
Coulter In Canada Tour also goes to Ottawa.

They are going nuts there...

Group attempts to silence U.S. right-winger's talk

Ann Coulter not welcome at U of O, president of student federation says The president of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa has barred a volunteer organizer from putting up posters advertising the upcoming appearance of American right-wing columnist and political commentator Ann Coulter.

She is to talk about political correctness, media bias and freedom of speech Tuesday night at Marion Hall as part of a Canadian lecture tour. Canadian conservative political activist Ezra Levant will also speak at the event and introduce Coulter.

Read more here... Coulter is killing them in Canada

17 posted on 03/20/2010 9:12:49 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Socialists are not inspired by success and achievement - they are diminished in its presence.)
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To: Enduring Freedom

“After American abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in church last year, Coulter was asked to condemn the killing by conservative Fox host Bill O’Reilly. She replied: “I don’t really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester . . . I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don’t want to impose my moral values on others.”

You really have to be a moron to miss the humor in that.


18 posted on 03/20/2010 9:14:03 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Enduring Freedom
Walker's comments have served to shine the spotlight on Coulter's visit, and in doing so, has sapped attention from another American visiting two days later, Robert Kennedy Jr., a talk paid for by Western.

Well that and the fact that Robert Kennedy Jr. is a know-nothing, vapid sap whose only claim to fame is that he's from a family of degenerate rapists and murderers.

19 posted on 03/20/2010 9:16:45 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Enduring Freedom; Ann Coulter
After American abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in church last year, Coulter was asked to condemn the killing by conservative Fox host Bill O'Reilly. She replied: "I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester . . . I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others."

Ambrogio defended Coulter, saying, "Incitement to violence is very specific and these comments, while they may be offensive or hurtful to the people involved are not criminal . . Ms. Coulter, like millions of others, happens to believe that terminating the fetus is murder. She is simply using their language in a clever way, I think, to point out how absurdly their language strikes those who defend abortion."

Great explanation of how Coulter turns the tables on the leftist pro baby murdering crowd using their own methods
20 posted on 03/20/2010 9:17:10 AM PDT by Syncro (TPXIII coming soon! March 27th to April 15th 2010)
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