Nope. We don’t like this, even though we are not fans of Ann Coulter:
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.
So she only debates corpses?
But this is why so many people love Ann and have made her so rich. And the real issue here is: if someone is speaking who you don’t agree with (on the right or left) how do those words coming out of his/her mouth end the universe? What’s the big threat in letting them continue? Not that Coulter — who is to thoughtful debate what professional wrestling is to spontaneous sports — offered many constructive ideas to enrich the national intellect:
In her speech at UConn, Coulter called Bill Clinton an “executive buffoon” who won the presidency only because Ross Perot took 19 percent of the vote. She called California Sen. Barbara Boxer a good candidate for the Democrats because “she is a woman and she’s learning disabled.”
UPDATE: Be sure to click on COMMENTS underneath and read the impression of what happened from someone who apparently was there. (FOOTNOTE: Like Ann Coulter and our reader from UConn TMV is originally from the great state of Connecticut).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.