Coulter Coulter Coulter - Enough Already.....

Given the nuttery that broke out after the health care vote, I'd wager that our Yankee friends would be better served by not prohibiting free speech but by not being so lazily tolerant of reckless and dangerous speech. Cracking camel jokes at Muslims (Coulter) is one thing, calling your political enemies "viruses and diseases", and calling for their outright elimination (Glenn Beck) is objectively a entirely different level of crazy.

I wouldn't single out Coulter specifically on this one as she's mostly just a bizarre and non-serious joke act who's trying to sell her silly books. She's about as dangerous and offensive as Andrew Dice Clay. And, like I said before, Ezra's a real drama queen and trained political operative who really knows how to work a controversial situation to his advantage. But Beck and Limbaugh and the more hardcore Teabagggers? Nah. That's a different and much more dangerous animal altogether. There's no way anyone's going to convince me that they aren't doing this deliberately in order to make the Culture War (and thank you Pat Buchanan, you fucking Jew-hating asshole, for bringing that noxious terminology into American political discourse in the first place) rapidly change temperature from Cold to Hot. It's inevitable now that what's happened, and is still happening, in the United States has to end in some sort of bloodshed.

The best statement I've heard about Coulter's visit was this;

Actually I wish the students hadn't bothered protesting and the UofO prof had said nothing. It gave her exactly what she wanted, ammunition. It would have been far better for that Bwitch to have simply been ignored. That would have sent a far stronger message then placard waving protests.

Oh hell, you can see the kneejerk stupidity from obvious rightwing poster's reactions to Ann's Ottawa trip.
Checking some of the American sources for responses to the story, I find it amusing that those that seemed to support Ann the most and had ALL kinds of invective for Canada were from the more "intellectual" states like Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Idaho. While there we responses from other states that went along with that "Canada is communist" diatribe, I noticed that those other states also had a good number of posters that had nothing good to say about Ann. They actually understood the fact that other countries don't HAVE to define Freedom of Speech exactly the way the US Constitution has been interpreted to define it.

On a side note, isn't Alabama's state motto: 5 million people, 15 last names?

I actually have no clue as to who Ann Coulter is. Only heard about her yesterday when reading the paper about her attempting to speak at a Canadian university. Just who the heck is she and what has she said that riles people up?

Look, what is all the fuss about this anyways!

People that don't like it, ok fine, then don't go. There is no need to get a violent protest going. Simple as that.

Sure, we have a right to protest in this country, but some people abuse that right.