Ann Coulter: You're stupider than I am

[DavidMn]

If I dont like it, I dont listen to it. I'm a person that wants to hear BOTH sides of an arguement or issue, but along with Ann Coulter, I can't stand Liberal types that think their dhit dont stink either.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

If I dont like it, I dont listen to it. I'm a person that wants to hear BOTH sides of an arguement or issue, but along with Ann Coulter, I can't stand Liberal types that think their dhit dont stink either.

As opposed to conservative types like Man Coulter who think their **** doesn't stink? Pfft. The real question is why a state college is paying Man Coulter to come and give one of her stock speeches about how liberals are guilty of treason, how they hate America, how McCarthy is one of the greatest heroes our country has ever seen, and so on.

Let's save the "opposing viewpoints" and "respect for other views" malarkey for another day; this is a woman whose intrinsic purpose is to show disrespect for those who don't hold her amazingly absurd views by referring to them as traitors & treasonists. That's how she's made her millions and it's on that basis that she was even offered the cash for this speaking gig.

Mister Kareem Mohni must have been snorting some sort of illicit substance in the auditorium john for him to have called anything with Coulter involved a "respectful environment" with a straight face.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by dissention

As opposed to conservative types like Man Coulter who think their **** doesn't stink? Pfft. The real question is why a state college is paying Man Coulter to come and give one of her stock speeches about how liberals are guilty of treason, how they hate America, how McCarthy is one of the greatest heroes our country has ever seen, and so on.

Let's save the "opposing viewpoints" and "respect for other views" malarkey for another day; this is a woman whose intrinsic purpose is to show disrespect for those who don't hold her amazingly absurd views by referring to them as traitors & treasonists. That's how she's made her millions and it's on that basis that she was even offered the cash for this speaking gig.

Mister Kareem Mohni must have been snorting some sort of illicit substance in the auditorium john for him to have called anything with Coulter involved a "respectful environment" with a straight face.

Dont get me wrong, I CANT STAND HER believe me. BTW where the hell have you been? I've been going through withdrawl...

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Yeah, but people have got to be heard. They HAVE to let the world know their opinions regardless of time or place. During my graduation ceremony at Ohio State, one of the bachelor level grads in the Social Work program got up during the keynote speech by J.C. Watts, the out-going black Republican Congressman, because she and her group disagreed with the Republicans. What was funny for me is that all of the other Social Work grads told her to just sit down and shut up, and it's not like they're fans of Mr. Watts, either.

I would imagine that Mr. Watts was at least giving an intelligent, measured speech, though, not spouting off inflammatory nonsense and calling people stupid traitors.

Don't get me wrong, normally I would agree with you that people should be respectful of someone who is giving a speech, even if they disagree with what's being said. But Ann Coulter invites exactly this kind of reaction by acting the same way herself. And she knows it, and she enjoys it. She has no right to expect the respect of any audience when she refuses to offer her audiences that same respect.

[David]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Yeah, but people have got to be heard.

People don't have to be heard, necessarily. I hear a lot of people every day saying things that no one else needs -- or even wants -- to hear. I don't make the mistake of assuming that all opinions are meritorious & deserve dissemination. But the alternative is the problem: I don't under any circumstances want other individuals or bands of censorious thugs & busybodies deciding what I hear or don't hear. It's none of their damned business.

If I want to read a book or see a speech by Ann Coulter or Noam Chomsky or Gore Vidal or John Wayne, I will not allow Students Against Hate or Grandmas For Pornographic TV or any other busybody group to impinge on my prerogatives. I don't need babysitting. I've outgrown that need.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by David

People don't have to be heard, necessarily. I hear a lot of people every day saying things that no one else needs -- or even wants -- to hear. I don't make the mistake of assuming that all opinions are meritorious & deserve dissemination. But the alternative is the problem: I don't under any circumstances want other individuals or bands of censorious thugs & busybodies deciding what I hear or don't hear. It's none of their damned business.

If I want to read a book or see a speech by Ann Coulter or Noam Chomsky or Gore Vidal or John Wayne, I will not allow Students Against Hate or Grandmas For Pornographic TV or any other busybody group to impinge on my prerogatives. I don't need babysitting. I've outgrown that need.

Grandma's for pornos huh? Actually, I wouldnt be surprised it a group like that existed.

[ryan8472]

Apparently she was booed off stage too. I love my state.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

Apparently she was booed off stage too. I love my state.

I like it too, at least the part that are Red Sox fans...

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by Jyqm

I tend to find these types of student responses silly as well, but nowhere in the article did it say the students were calling for the speech to be cancelled. It just said that they were "protesting," which likely means nothing more than that a bunch of them sat outside the auditorium in the cold and talked amongst themselves about how they don't like Ann Coulter, and maybe yelled at other students walking into the auditorium to boycott it and hang out with them outside in the cold instead.

Stephanie Miller reported that they booed her all through the part of the speech she was able to get through and she finally quit.

[Merf]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

If I dont like it, I dont listen to it. I'm a person that wants to hear BOTH sides of an arguement or issue, but along with Ann Coulter, I can't stand Liberal types that think their dhit dont stink either.

Just a "sh*t doesn't stink liberal" coming in to clarify, "thinking that your sh*t doesn't stink" isn't a Liberal or a Conservative thing for that matter. It's just a human thing.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by dissention

As opposed to conservative types like Man Coulter who think their **** doesn't stink? Pfft. The real question is why a state college is paying Man Coulter to come and give one of her stock speeches about how liberals are guilty of treason, how they hate America, how McCarthy is one of the greatest heroes our country has ever seen, and so on.

Let's save the "opposing viewpoints" and "respect for other views" malarkey for another day; this is a woman whose intrinsic purpose is to show disrespect for those who don't hold her amazingly absurd views by referring to them as traitors & treasonists. That's how she's made her millions and it's on that basis that she was even offered the cash for this speaking gig.

Mister Kareem Mohni must have been snorting some sort of illicit substance in the auditorium john for him to have called anything with Coulter involved a "respectful environment" with a straight face.

Ah, the voice of reason. I've missed you!

If she had a single real point to make I would listen but you pretty much covered her agenda above. What a waste of the students' money.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

Apparently she was booed off stage too. I love my state.

Woops, I see you covered the booing already, my bad.

[gldstwmn]

Her books sales must be lagging so she does something outrageous to get her mug in the news again.
I wonder if all the money is really worth the lengths she has to go to in order to exist in this world. Or maybe she really is just drunk all the time.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by David

People don't have to be heard, necessarily.

I was being sarcastic. My point is that there are some people who feel that all is not right with world unless they've given their opinon, and should probably learn the joys of just sitting down and shutting up every once in a while.

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Her books sales must be lagging so she does something outrageous to get her mug in the news again.
I wonder if all the money is really worth the lengths she has to go to in order to exist in this world. Or maybe she really is just drunk all the time.

Ann doesn't strike me as an alkie. She seems more the cokehead type.