The London Free Press was quick to put up an article about the Ann Coulter lecture in London earlier this evening. As always, Randy Richmond proves himself to be a leftist fool incapable of stringing a rational/coherent sentence together not always embrace the journalistic technique known as “using facts.” Interestingly enough, Randy didn’t register for the event, but rather decided that he would attend, and then threatened to not write about the story if we didn’t let him in. I accepted his ultimatum and walked away without putting him on the guest list…but unfortunately he ended up in the room anyway (in other news, a campus security guard loses their job.)
I will re-print his entire article in full, inserting my own observations about his idiocy in between paragraphs. Fair? Thought so.
A 17-year-old Muslim student sparked the testiest exchange and the loudest cheers and jeers at a speech by controversial U.S. conservative Ann Coulter at the University of Western Ontario Monday.
Actually, this girl was one of over a dozen people to ask Ann a question, and she certainly wasn’t the highlight of the evening.
After a wide-ranging speech attacking gay rights activists, the mainstream media and the Barack Obama administration, Coulter took questions from an audience clearly divided in its support for her style of attack conservatism.
She mentioned that gay men can’t get married or throw a baseball without looking like a girl — not seeing the “attacks.” Also, the audience wasn’t that clearly divided as the room was roaring with applause for the majority of the speech. And, she had a standing ovation from a clear majority of attendees. Interestingly, I’m not too sure how Randy from his lovely seat in the corner would come to the socio-political conclusion that “attack conservatism” isn’t popular in a room of her fans.
Fatima Al-Dhaher, a political science student from London, rose and spoke about comments Coulter made after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The firebrand Republican had suggested Muslim countries be invaded, their leaders killed and all Muslims converted to Christianity. She later suggested Muslims denied air travel take “flying carpets” instead.
I don’t think Ann would appreciate being called a “Republican.” (Ugh, it pains me to even say that.) In fact, she did a lot of bashing of the Republican Party (*cough* John McCain *cough*.)
“As a 17-year-old student of this university, Muslim, should I be converted to Christianity? Second of all, since I don’t have a magic carpet, what other modes do you suggest,” Al-Dhaher said to loud and sustained applause.
Firstly…17? Seriously, don’t Universities run daycares nowadays. In any case, if Fatima were to be converted to Christianity, I imagine she would be slightly less obnoxious and subsequently more capable of saying something insightful (don’t worry Fatima, you’ll mature as you go through unive…actually, never mind.)
“I thought it was just American public schools that produced ignorant people,” Coulter replied, prompting her own round of applause.
Coulter then noted many Japanese were converted to Christianity after the Second World War and “we haven’t heard a peep out of them.”
To shouts of “Answer the question,” Coulter finally replied, “What mode of transportation? Take a camel.”
Best line of the evening in my opinion. Unfortunately the London Free Press was unable to confirm whether or not this girl was able to take her camel home, or whether or not she checked into airport security before she was placed on the ‘DO NOT FLY’ list.
“Are you going to convert her now?” another student shouted out.
“No, there are some people I just as soon not convert,” Coulter retorted. Al-Dhaher, who left the session soon after, said she came to the speech because it’s important to hear all sides of the political spectrum.
But Coulter disappointed.
“She just spewed all this nonsense, it was a comedic act.”
I definitely found it to be a comedic act. It was some of the funniest political satire I’ve seen in a while. To put this into perspective, the girl arrived and sat at the very back, and left seconds after Ann answered her question. Therefore, I find it quite hard to believe that this girl (who was reading her question from a cue-card) came to hear varying viewpoints as opposed to just to ask that question and fail in an attempt of embarrassing Ann.
Coulter did not disappoint her many fans in the crowd of 800 with either her politics or her humour. Her 45-minute speech was loosely focused on political correctness, which allowed her to attack liberals of all stripes.
It was actually an hour and 15 minutes, Randy. But, I suppose that’s the least of the things you got wrong here.
Liberals constantly complain their rights are being attacked in the same way blacks’ rights once were, she said.
“In America everybody wants to be black. The feminists want to be black, the illegal aliens want to be black, the gays want to be black,” she said.
Yet none of the complainers have anything serious to complain about, Coulter said.
“There are only two things gay men can’t do. Number one, get married to each other. Number two, throw a baseball without looking like a girl.”
Gold star Randy, you managed to write more than two words without misquoting somebody.
But her jokes often had a serious point as well. “Every Democrat in the past several election cycles that has run for president has sworn to attack gay marriage, but only Republicans get attacked for gay marriage.”
Backed by the mainstream media, liberals have turned political correctness into a weapon that tries to silence people with opposing views, Coulter said.
Liberal pundits suggest Obama’s race helped him win the election, but conservatives cannot do the same, she said.
Feminists blame the Conservatives for an array of ills, but turned suddenly silent when former U.S. president Bill Clinton had sex with an intern, she said.
“Political correctness has nothing to do with offending people or not offending people. It is purely about power,” she said.
I find it interesting that he lists five “quotes” here from Ann, but only cites two of them as things she’s actually said. Now, she implied those things throughout her speech, but they were for illustrative purposes, not the “point” of her speech.
On the upside, at least we didn’t expect anything better than a man who launched a personal campaign against Kathy Shaidle last year.
