and don’t forget gorgeous ……
Annie you Rock!!!
Posted on 03/28/2010 7:29:20 AM PDT by Clive
As the conservative anti-Christ — aka U.S. political firebrand Ann Coulter — left Canada Friday, did every outraged leftie in Canada wake up with a phantom pain in their cheek?
Kind of a sharp pain? Puncture wound sharp? Big owie?
That’d be where you bit down hard when Coulter dangled the hook in front of you.
Hell, you did more than bite. You bit down hard and swallowed the bait ... hook, line and sinker.
Canada’s left-wing outrage machine?
You been punk’d.
Coulter’s Canadian tour was put together by Calgary free-speech crusader Ezra Levant, whose travails with the Soviet-style thought police that is the Alberta Human Rights Commission are well documented in his book, Shakedown.
Other players were local student organizer Matt Gelinas — who dealt with a last-minute venue change and security hysteria with incredible aplomb — the Clare Boothe Luce Institute, which mentors young, conservative women, and the International Free Press Society of Canada.
Their task was simple.
How to bring attention to the cause of free speech?
Coulter’s job is to sell books — a noble pursuit in and of itself in this post-literate age.
If selling books is her job, her avocation is raising the blood pressure of leftists to dangerous, aneurysm-inducing levels.
Coulter and company in a mere couple of days hijacked big real estate in newspapers and newscasts across the country. Paying for that kind of ad space would have cost millions. They had people in workplaces across the country talking about free speech and Ann Coulter ... even though most of those doing the talking have never read her; merely read about her.
It started with a letter from University of Ottawa provost Francois Houle warning Coulter to watch her mouth when she spoke there because Canadians aren’t like Americans.
Because we’re so vewy, vewy sensitive.
So Coulter, who drew an audience of a lousy 300 at the University of Western Ontario, sees her University of Ottawa appearance cancelled because of fears of violence... and then flies into Calgary where 900 people lined up for two hours to see her.
Nearly 1,000 people. To hear somebody talk about politics. I don’t think that would have happened without the wonderful work of the left-wing outrage machine.
After the speech, about half the audience lined up to have their books signed. That works out to at least $12,000 worth of Coulter-lit ... and a lot of the books looked brand new.
More than one nice, young university student told me they came to see Coulter because of the publicity and had come prepared to hate her ... but walked out a fan.
Fans with credit cards and books to buy.
I met another three kids who drove down from Edmonton. On a week night. To listen to a speech about politics and U.S. politics at that.
Way to go, outrage machine.
While the weather was good, the gormless extras in the Coulter publicity machine — the self-proclaimed guardians of all that is good and pure led by some guy with bad hair and a bullhorn — were a pain, despite the fact they were helping Coulter’s books fly off the shelves. By the end of the evening, they were reduced to screaming obscenities at patrons leaving the event.
They were very angry.
By contrast, Coulter, almost always described as “angry” in news copy, smiled and laughed through her entire speech, relentlessly cheerful.
The only people I’ve ever seen that happy are pre-schoolers watching the Teletubbies while eating ice cream and college students whose Ecstacy just kicked in. Coulter may be a lot of things, but angry ain’t one of them.
What she is, is funny and smart and some kind of freaky, black-belt debate ninja. Bright, leftie university students kept trying to outwit her during the Q&A, by and large she made them look like midgets trying out for the NBA.
Her last words to the crowd were these: “In conclusion, if anything I’ve said has offended you, then my work here is done.”
For those of you with the sore mouths?
Don’t blame the angler.
Blame all you fish.
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my wife’s canadian
and ashamed of canada.
O Kanada!
"By contrast, Coulter, almost always described as “angry” in news copy, smiled and laughed through her entire speech, relentlessly cheerful.The only people I’ve ever seen that happy are pre-schoolers watching the Teletubbies while eating ice cream and college students whose Ecstacy just kicked in. Coulter may be a lot of things, but angry ain’t one of them.
What she is, is funny and smart and some kind of freaky, black-belt debate ninja. Bright, leftie university students kept trying to outwit her during the Q&A, by and large she made them look like midgets trying out for the NBA.
Her last words to the crowd were these: “In conclusion, if anything I’ve said has offended you, then my work here is done.”"
Beautiful.
LOL. I don’t care what anyone says, I love Ms Coulter. She and Dick Cheney have something in common-brains and an utter lack of fear of the left’s Alinsky tactics, and the intelligence to turn them back on the left. Oh, and integrity in standing behind the words they speak.
I like....
Chortle!
Bump!
All that - and gorgeous, too.
Sigh....
I guess the most laughable thing was the image of leftists whining about losing those “safe places” they thought they had secured for themselves on Canadian campi. In short, the leftists didn’t want to hear anything that might break the Marxist bubble in which they had enclosed themselves. I can imagine a number of the lefties holding their hands over their ears so as not to hear things like maybe the nanny-state isn’t good for you.
Well played!
Now THAT was a well-written, to-the-point piece!
Loved it.
A perfect example in basic journalism of how to state a theme and developed it “punchily”.
and don’t forget gorgeous ……
Annie you Rock!!!
I saw her speak in Henderson NV yesterday. It turned out to be a 10-hour day driving and waiting in line, and she only spoke about 20 minutes, but it was worth it. Most were returning from the Palin speech in Searchlight.
There were a couple of thousands there in the pavilion and surrounding grass. She was so well received, she said she didn’t even need to write jokes for our crowd. She reminded us that in order to get the jokes, we would have to wait till the end of the sentences before we started laughing and cheering.
She said since it was Earth Hour last night, she set up all her post speech interviews for exactly 8:30 PM. She saw an announcement posted at her hotel “not to request sheets to be replaced unnecessarily,” and that’s when she opened the windows, turned on the AC to high, turned on the lights and opened the minifridge.
And the part about her being happy: what a refreshing way to expose the mentality without firing a shot.
And we need more conservatives willing to stand behind the words they say behind closed doors, over an inadvertent open mic and whisper only to other closeted conservatives. Conservatives come in all stripes and flavors, but we should never apologize for speaking the truth.
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