And so was Kathy Shaidle. It would be a lot better if women didn’t vote…
Normally when it comes to videos documenting people’s stupidity I will draft up a brief transcript of my favorite line. With this video, I would end up having to write out the whole thing, so watch for yourself!
The Globe and Mail is the second most circulated newspaper in Canada. If you thought that such a paper would bother to research a hit piece before publishing it you’d be wrong. In an article entitled “The Canadians who embrace Ann Coulter” Gerald Caplan, a card carrying member of Canada’s communist party (NDP), takes aim at the organizers of the Coulter in Canada tour, including your humble correspondent. It would serve Mr. Caplan well to remember that everyone is entitled to their own opinions (although I’m not sure Caplan believes that), but they are not entitled to their own set of facts. Caplan’s article has all the hallmarks of the liberal media. He misquotes people, takes quotes out of context and invents “facts” from whole cloth, all woven together in the smuggest of fashions. While I assume the other people Caplan smeared in this piece were also wronged, I will focus on what I know for sure – the lies about me.
This paragraph literally offers a mistake a sentence:
Last week Mr. Fine called the daily Limbaugh radio show, and Mr. Limbaugh put him on to hear first-hand from someone who wasn’t there about the Coulter fiasco at University of Ottawa. Mr. Fine, who does not know Ms. Coulter personally, told the booming radio host she is “one of the most generally decent human beings you’ll ever meet.” Mr. Limbaugh could not agree more, then asked Mr. Fine how the health system in Canada was working. “Rush,” Mr. Fine told his old chum, “it’s just an unmitigated disaster.”
You got all of that? Now lets go through his claims:
Last week Mr. Fine called the daily Limbaugh radio show, and Mr. Limbaugh put him on to hear first-hand from someone who wasn’t there about the Coulter fiasco at University of Ottawa.
An interesting point, only, I was in Ottawa. I went to the reception before the event at the Rideau Club and sat in the front row, directly in front of the podium, of the auditorium where Ann Coulter was supposed to speak. In fact, I was one of the last people to leave.
Next there’s this gem:
Mr. Fine, who does not know Ms. Coulter personally, told the booming radio host she is “one of the most generally decent human beings you’ll ever meet.” Mr. Limbaugh could not agree more
The laziness in Caplan’s reporting boggles the mind. If Caplan so much as bothered to check this website he could have seen that Andrew and I have interviewed Ann Coulter 3 times. In addition, I had the privilege of spending time with Ms. Coulter when she came to Canada. You see Gerald, you look like a first-class ass when you make a factual error in a snide comment.
These are just the errors Caplan made in a three-sentence span. I imagine everyone else mentioned in this article has had a similar experience. While Gerald Caplan is in the business of writing fiction, what does this say about the journalistic integrity of the Globe and Mail? Is it standard practice there to invent “facts”? If they’ll publish a story with so many obvious lies about little ol’ me, what else do they let pass? To quote Sarah Palin’s remark to the media “how about you stop making things up?”
It’s about time. Students at Queens University in Canada have uncovered the truth about sumo suits:
Sumo suits are instruments of ‘racism and oppression’.
Brandon Sloan, the communications officer for the Alma Mater Society, stated the obvious: white privilege had blinded the student government.
Even better, in a report published by the Canadian Federation of Students (communist student union), a student intellectual reported that white privilege permeates the ’walls, books, classrooms and everything that makes Queen’s what it is.”
What idiots. The sumo suit has existed as an attraction at events for years. Yet these oversensitive liberals are insisting on banning these suits because they now deem them ‘oppressive’.
But there’s more.
Just last year Queen’s came up with a solution to prevent troublesome free speech: a speech police program.
The speech police consisted of a group of moral superiors who would walk through public areas and listen for unpopular/conservative speech. Upon identifying unpopular speech, they would work tirelessly to purge it from the school.
It looks like stupidity is a chronic condition at Queen’s.
Queen’s was forced to cancel the program after the school received national criticism for attacking free speech. Now they’re at it again by banning sumo suits.
With all of this, are you surprised Ann Coulter was forced to cancel her appearance at the University of Ottawa? The conclusion is obvious: free speech no longer exists in Canada.
In other news, Queen’s closed the nomination process for its ‘Anti-Oppression Award’ on Monday. I nominate the idiot that first revealed how oppressive sumo suits are.
You can read the official statement explaining the racist nature of sumo suits here.
I’ve copied a few comments left on the Facebook group ‘ANN Coulter should never be allowed in Canada’. I think these comments really capture the peace-loving, tolerant, and non-violent nature of her opponents.
First up, Jarrett Pautler calls out for Ann’s murder. For those who were wondering what the definition of hate speech is, just read Jarrett’s comment for yourself.
Okay, next up Mohamad Hayek complains that George Galloway was forbidden to enter Canada after donating £25,000 to Hamas.
Then, Aleem Ahmad Zia says that Ann will “get what she deserves” – just another death threat.
And it wouldn’t be right to skip of the unintelligible banter of a couple idiots who accuse all Americans of being terrorists – kind of curious considering the comments on this page.
The facebook group can be found here.
In 3 days you’ve managed to get how many members?
Andrew Lawton and Ari Fine welcome Ann Coulter back to the show yet again to set the record straight about her cancelled speech in Ottawa. As well, a rousing discussion on free speech, liberalism and healthcare.
You can listen online here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes
As I told Ann on Monday night, I await the release of her column on Wednesday nights each and every week. If I’m driving at 7:00pm — when I usually get a notification on my BlackBerry from Human Events — it’s not uncommon for me to pull over and read it right then and there. Ann’s response: “I love you, Andrew!” Aw, shucks. In any case, I don’t recall ever anticipating one of her columns as much as this one. You can read the full version here.
Since arriving in Canada I’ve been accused of thought crimes, threatened with criminal prosecution for speeches I hadn’t yet given, and denounced on the floor of the Parliament (which was nice because that one was on my “bucket list”).
Posters advertising my speech have been officially banned, while posters denouncing me are plastered all over the University of Ottawa campus. Elected officials have been prohibited from attending my speeches. Also, the local clothing stores are fresh out of brown shirts.
Welcome to Canada!
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What other speakers get a warning not to promote hatred? Did Francois A. Houle send a similarly worded letter to Israel-hater Omar Barghouti before he spoke last year at U of Ottawa? (“Ottawa”: Indian for “Land of the Bed-Wetters.”)
How about Angela Davis, Communist Party member and former Black Panther who spoke at the University of Zero just last month?
Or do only conservatives get letters admonishing them to be civil? Or — my suspicion — is it only conservative women who fuel Francois’ rage?
How about sending a letter to all Muslim speakers advising them to please bathe once a week while in Canada? Would that constitute a hate crime?
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Also following Francois’ letter, the Ottawa University Student Federation met for 7 1/2 hours to hammer out a series of resolutions denouncing me. The resolutions included:
“Whereas Ann Coulter is a hateful woman;
“Whereas she has made hateful comments against GLBTQ, Muslims, Jews and women;
“Whereas she violates an unwritten code of ‘positive-space’;
“Be it resolved that the SFUO express its disapproval of having Ann Coulter speak at the University of Ottawa.”
At least the students didn’t waste 7 1/2 hours on something silly, like their studies.
Well said, Ann!
Strictly Right’s own Ari Fine made it onto the Rush Limbaugh show today to chat about the Ann Coulter censorship fiasco at the University of Ottawa. The transcript is posted below if you were unable to play the audio.
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RUSH: We got a call here from London, Canada, from Ari. I’m glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.
ARI: Rush, mega 24/7 Limbaugh Letter dittos here.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
ARI: Well, I was at the Ottawa event last night and I can tell you that all the stories you’re hearing about the protesters is all true. It was impossible to walk through them. They tried to silence her. They did silence her. They wouldn’t let her speak. It’s really just a travesty that this happens on a university campus because usually purported homes of free speech, and they won’t let a contrary opinion be expressed there.
RUSH: But, no. Canada — confirm this for us — is not really the home of a First Amendment-type free speech that we in America think of free speech as?
ARI: Oh, absolutely not. You look at what’s happened. I’m sure your listeners saw what happened with Mark Steyn and his human rights tribunal case here where they tried to ban his book: America Alone.
RUSH: Yeah, I remember it well.
ARI: Yeah, it’s just not accepted here, and it’s really a shame. You know, it could be coming to you with the Fairness Doctrine or whatever. You have to watch out for it.
RUSH: Oh, it’s going to come to us along before the Fairness Doctrine. That’s what all this talk about all the criticism of Obama being racist is all about. They’re going to try to criminalize this kind of criticism. I predicted that, too, by the way, prior to his immaculation. Ari, how is the health care system up there working for you?
ARI: (laughs) Rush, it’s just an unmitigated disaster here. Our big question now is: What are we going to do now that you guys have our system? Where are we going to go? I guess I have to follow you to Costa Rica.
RUSH: Well, except I cannot go to Costa Rica because the plan was to be part of an insurance policy that was going to set up operations down there, but the insurance company says they’re going to be out of business in three years because of Obamacare and they won’t be able to do it. So I’m back looking to looking at New Zealand.
ARI: (laughs) I guess we’ll have to go there. But you wanted to know what happened with Coulter here and before she even set foot in Canada you had the academic president or some other from the University of Ottawa accusing her of spewing hatred and warning her that if she says anything they’re going to come after her. And instead, what he did was he was just fomented the attitude that you had there that ended up canceling her speech. And the other shame that Ann Coulter, as you know, is one of the most generally decent human beings you’ll ever meet.
RUSH: Well, I can say that’s true. I’ve met Ann Coulter a number of times. I can say that I know her, and she is decent, and she’s funny. Dirty little secret here, Ari: She actually doesn’t mind this at all. She’s in the front page, above-the-fold in the local newspaper. Everybody around the world is talking about this, and she has successfully illustrated just what a bunch of bigots there are at this university. So this is something that she’s out there laughing about. This hasn’t even happened at the stupidest American university, as she says. Ari, I’m glad you called. Thank you very much.
An intrepid reader e-mailed me this video today:
Canada has a history of idiocy – when Ronaldus Magnus spoke in front of the Canadian government in 1987 degenerate leftists in the government attempted to shout down the President. The left has a despicable history of trying to disallow contrary opinions. These idiots never miss an opportunity to embarrass the country.
As for Ann Coulter, sharing this distinction, of being so feared by the left, with the Gipper ought to be a badge of honor!
I have just arrived back home after attending what was supposed to be Ann Coulter’s second speech on her Canadian tour. As you know by now, the speech had to be canceled due to the threat posed by terrorists outside the event. Chants of “let us in” and “this is our school” were repeated by a group of troglodytes that hadn’t bothered to register in advance. 2,000 of these terrorists, and that is exactly what they are, surrounded the building with sticks and stones, clearly posing a risk to all inside. These reports have not been exaggerated, as I can tell you after navigating my way through a sea of people that smelled as though they were boycotting showers. As a result, all those that had registered in advance, in accordance with the rules, were denied the opportunity to hear Ann speak.
“It’s at the absolute bush league, bottom of the barrel schools that you get the worst treatment and yet and still I’ve never seen this before…I’m guessing the scores to get into the University of Ottawa are not very challenging.” -Ann Coulter
This didn’t happen in the Taliban’s Afghanistan, or in Iran, it wasn’t the Soviet Union or Mao’s China – it was Canada, at a university no less, the purported home of free speech. Moreover, it was in the nation’s capital. The actions of the University of Ottawa, and specifically those of Vice-President and Provost Francois Houle were shameful. The behavior of the students was an embarrassment. The result was a national disgrace. A Canadian university could not provide a safe location for someone to express a contrary opinion. We have come to a point where conservative speakers need round the clock security if they plan on speaking at institutions of higher education. That in and of itself is a sad reflection of the environment on college campuses.
Ezra Levant announcing the sad news that Ann would not be able to speak.
How does that make Canada look? Canadians ought to be ashamed – and mad as hell for how foolish a small number of emotionally disturbed brats made Canada look on the world stage. The University of Ottawa passed a resolution calling Ann Coulter “hateful,” the administration sent a threatening letter to her before she set foot in Canada, and the student body there would not even permit her the right to speak.
“Since I’ve arrived in Canada, I’ve been denounced on the floor of Parliament — which, by the way, is on my bucket list — my posters have been banned, I’ve been accused of committing a crime in a speech that I have not yet given, I was banned by the student council, so welcome to Canada!” – Ann Coulter
Are Canadians saying that the only type of “free-speech” allowed is speech that conforms to their preconceived notions? What are the chances that even 10% of those idiotic terrorists outside the event tonight have even read anything Ann has written? Tonight demonstrated who the real “hateful” and “intolerant” people were, and Canada is the worse for it following this pathetic display. Congratulations Ottawa students, you’ve defamed an entire country.