They did it again, shutting down freedom of speech on a college campus. The current victim (other than the US Constitution and the rights of every American citizen) was Ann Coulter, best-selling author, syndicated columnist, and mainstream political commentator.

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter cut short a speech at the University of Connecticut amid boos and jeers, and decided to hold a question-and-answer session instead.

"I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," Coulter told the crowd of 2,600 Wednesday.

Before cutting off her speech after about 15 minutes, Coulter called Bill Clinton an "executive buffoon" who won the presidency only because Ross Perot took 19 percent of the vote.

Coulter's appearance prompted protests from several student groups. About 100 people rallied outside the auditorium where she spoke, saying she spread a message of intolerance.

"We encourage diverse opinion at UConn, but this is blatant hate speech," said Eric Knudsen, a 19-year-old sophomore journalism and social welfare major who heads campus group Students Against Hate.

No, Eric you moron, you clearly do not encourage diverse opinion at UConn -- other wise you and your anti-civil -liberties goon-squad would have graciously permitted Ms. Coulter to say her piece. Instead, you carve out an exception to the notion that people have a right to speak on political and social issues by calling ideas you don't like "hate speech." What, exactly, was hateful? I doubt you could point to anything.

And what about the rights of Ms. Coulter and your fellow students to explore ideas with wich you disagree. You know, people like this classmate.

UConn junior Kareem Mohni, 20, said he was disgusted by his peers' reaction to Coulter.

"It really appalled me that we're not able to come together as a group and listen to a different view in a respectful environment," Mohni said.

That's right, they don't count -- they are part of the problem of "hate speech" that you have to wipe out, even if it kills freedom of speech in the process.

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1 you can't be fucking serious, has anyone on the left said anything as horrific as Coulter the cunt? (as she is so lovingly called by The Rude Pundit) Maybe there have been some, but no one with the media exposure the this stupid tweat gets.

Posted by: I'm an effin left-wing traitor at Thu Dec 8 11:25:50 2005 (Sfcu+)

2 Actually, I haven't encountered anything "horrific" out of Ann COulter -- and even if I had, that would not negate her right to freedom of speech and the right of her audience to hear her.

As for the Left, I diret you to the hateful comments of Cindy Sheehan and Ward Connerly, for starters -- not to mention the current brouhaha in the Surrendercrat Party.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Dec 8 11:37:12 2005 (uXfhz)

3 It's hard to imagine that anybody is more disgusted by Coulter and her brand of inflammatory attention-begging than I am, but I have to agree that IF this story has a shred of truth to it (a big IF wherever Coulter is involved), then the morons at UConn who participated deserve all the abuse you can dish out. But, somehow, I suspect the facts are not quite what is being spread right now.

Posted by: Dan at Thu Dec 8 13:54:58 2005 (aSKj6)

4 Unless you think she managed to get to the wire-service to present the facts with a pro-Ann slant, I don't see how you can think there is some slanted version floating around.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Dec 8 14:45:19 2005 (sC23U)

5 Well, reading the story you link to, it doesn't say that she was shouted down or that the students prevented her from doing her speech. If it's just a matter of a few boos, then who cares, and the people who are trying to make it into a bigger deal are getting fooled. But, I certainly wasn't there, so I don't know what really happened.

Posted by: Dan at Thu Dec 8 15:07:20 2005 (aSKj6)

6 http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-coulter1208.artdec08,0,2591762.story?&track=rss

This might provide a little more clarity for you regarding what was done to rape free expression at UConn. Wanna reevaluate now?

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Dec 8 22:58:43 2005 (HmynK)

7 Sure - that's a good article from a respectful source, and it sounds like they did shut down her speech, which was the wrong way to deal with her (though she was able to carry on with a Q&A - your choice of the word "rape" is a little overblown).

She is a hateful person, but shutting her message down is wrong. The UConn students who cranked the music should be ashamed of themselves.

Posted by: Dan at Fri Dec 9 01:23:05 2005 (aSKj6)

8 I believe the real reason liberals don't like Ms. Coulter is the fact that the Republican/Conservative women are ALWAYS Prettier than the liberal women.

Pelosi/klinton/boxer/sheehan

compared to

Laura Bush/Coulter/Michelle Malkin

I mean come on, there is no comparison.

Ok, that aside, the truth is, if this happened on a conservative campus, not likely, the liberals would be screaming from every tree top about how their rights were oppressed.

Yet it seems it is fine for them to suppress the rights of those with which they disagree.

Seems communism/fascism is alive and well, but under a different political name, liberalism/progresiveness.

Posted by: Scubachris at Fri Dec 9 03:25:12 2005 (AktpP)

9 First and foremost, you are right in that there is such a thing as freedom of speech, and therefore anyone should be able to open their mouths and speak whatever trash they want. That said, allow me to point out some reasons why Coulter has built quite the hate following:

* To New York Observer reporter George Gurley on Oct. 22, 2002, Coulter said “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”

* From a 2001 column in the National Review Online, with regards to muslims:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

* In January of 2002 to CPAC she equated being a liberal to being a traitor:
"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."

There are other examples out there if you wish to find them...

Posted by: Luke at Fri Dec 9 07:26:11 2005 (BHNvD)

10 Actually, I don't see anything wrong with any of those statements -- other than her preferred target.

I would have preferred to see McVeigh hit the UN.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Fri Dec 9 10:32:27 2005 (fI2Yv)

11 Sorry, RWR, you can only get away with talk like that if you're a decent looking whorish blonde who shows a lot of flesh. In other words, you're no Ann Coulter.

But you're kind of cute when you say outrageous things to beg for attention.

Posted by: Dan at Fri Dec 9 16:40:23 2005 (aSKj6)

12 That's an outrage. How dare these students speak over the beautiful and wise Ann Coulter. Those morons must think the First Amendment applies to them as well.

I thought they were in college to educated and they don't realize that freedom of speech doesn't apply those who disagree with the Predisent. Pathetic.

Fortunately there are a few like that last student who understand. Booing and jeering isn't the way to create a respectful enviroment. If they want a respectful enviroment they need to approach things the way ms coulter did; by calling people buffoons and stupid.

Posted by: Mr.GOP at Sat Dec 10 06:45:00 2005 (YAEN3)

13 Would you mind trolling somewhere else, dude? You've yet to make a significant contribution to this site.

And when people behave like stupid buffoons it is appropriate to point that out -- you stupid buffoon.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sat Dec 10 07:32:28 2005 (YMzHW)

14 I agree! It's completely respectful to call someone a stupid buffoon. I mean, just think WWJD. That's what I do. You think Jesus would let somebody dare disagree with him without slapping them with an insult? OF COURSE NOT.

Posted by: Mr.GOP at Sat Dec 10 08:14:34 2005 (YAEN3)

15 Actually, Jesus called folks fools and vipers on a number of occassions.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sat Dec 10 09:22:06 2005 (YMzHW)

16 Well as I knew you would, you blew off the hateful Coulter/cunt comments as nothing to be upset about. You sir are a clueless fucktard conservative ass hat. Your opinions are not worth one ounce of the fecal matter that the Houston sanitation system flushes into the Gulf of Mexico. You refused to answer my previous question about your fellow clueless fucktard conservative Michael Steele. Maybe because you have no answer other than to denigrate those that disagree with you, and snidely call them "liberal" in as pejorative a manner as you can muster. So all in all, a big go fuck yourself from the blue states that provide your asses with the tax money from the federal government, that you use to keep state taxes low you fucking imbecile.

Posted by: effufuckface at Sun Dec 11 09:17:33 2005 (Sfcu+)

17 I think, Bubba, that you've proved all that needs to be proved about civility from the Left & Right.

You spew vile, hate-filled, intellectually vacant personal attacks.

I call folks "liberals" with a contemptuous tone.

Yet you claim that I am the hate-monger -- especially after referring to a mainstream political commentator and best-selling author with a misogynistic obscenity. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds!

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