Hecklers Stop Coulter From Speaking
Here's a story that is, sadly, becoming all too familiar.
Typical indeed. Time and again right-leaning celebrities and scholars are heckled by left-wing activists unwilling to let them talk. Even the President himself was heckled at his inauguration by activists from Code Pink after they were given tickets to the event by Congressional Democrats.
For a group of people who pride themselves on their dissent against the current administration, who stand on their first amendment rights to free speech any time somebody questions what they are saying, these leftist activists sure don't like to listen to thoughts contrary to their own. Remember those sheep from Orwell's Animal Farm who started bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" any time somebody tried to speak out against what the pigs where doing? That's what these protesters remind me of.
I'm not an Ann Coulter fan. I find her stances a bit contrived and her speeches come off more like comedy routines than any real sort of political discourse, but the woman has a right to speak and the people who invite her to these events should be able to hold them without interruption from obnoxious retards. By all means, protest outside her events. Send letters to the editor about them, but don't go in and start acting like a child while she's trying to speak. That doesn't do anyone any good.
Sadly, though, this is what passes for legitimate political dissent these days.
Update:
Video here.
The "Coulter = Hitler" sign is especially classy. And, of course, some in the media are spinning this to make it look as though Ann were at fault.
STORRS, Conn. - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter gave up trying to finish a speech at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday night when boos and jeers from the audience became overwhelming.
Coulter cut off the talk after 15 minutes and instead held a half-hour question-and-answer session.
"I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," Coulter told the 2,600 people at Jorgensen Auditorium.
Coulter's appearance prompted protests from several groups, including Students Against Hate and the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center. They criticized her for spreading a message of hate and intolerance.
Nearly 100 students gathered inside the Student Union for a rally against Coulter. About a half-dozen people held protest signs outside the auditorium.
After a book signing following her appearance, Coulter called the audience's reaction "typical."
Typical indeed. Time and again right-leaning celebrities and scholars are heckled by left-wing activists unwilling to let them talk. Even the President himself was heckled at his inauguration by activists from Code Pink after they were given tickets to the event by Congressional Democrats.
For a group of people who pride themselves on their dissent against the current administration, who stand on their first amendment rights to free speech any time somebody questions what they are saying, these leftist activists sure don't like to listen to thoughts contrary to their own. Remember those sheep from Orwell's Animal Farm who started bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" any time somebody tried to speak out against what the pigs where doing? That's what these protesters remind me of.
I'm not an Ann Coulter fan. I find her stances a bit contrived and her speeches come off more like comedy routines than any real sort of political discourse, but the woman has a right to speak and the people who invite her to these events should be able to hold them without interruption from obnoxious retards. By all means, protest outside her events. Send letters to the editor about them, but don't go in and start acting like a child while she's trying to speak. That doesn't do anyone any good.
Sadly, though, this is what passes for legitimate political dissent these days.
Update:
Video here.
The "Coulter = Hitler" sign is especially classy. And, of course, some in the media are spinning this to make it look as though Ann were at fault.
