National Post: I'm the victim of a hate crime, Ann Coulter tells Canadian audience

[tuvor]

LONDON, Ont. -- Inflammatory right-wing pundit Ann Coulter took aim at a University of Ottawa administrator on Monday, saying an email from the school warning her to use "restraint, respect and consideration" when addressing Ontario students during a speaking tour this week made her a victim of a "hate crime."

Speaking to students and academics at the University of Western Ontario on Monday night, Ms. Coulter said the email sent to her on Friday by François Houle, vice-president academic and provost of the University of Ottawa, targeted her as a member of an identifiable group and as such, she will be filing a complaint with the Human Rights Commission alleging hate speech.

"I'm sure the Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of it," Ms. Coulter said to loud cheers from the 800-strong audience. "I think I'm the victim of a hate crime here. Either what (Mr. Houle) did was a hate crime, or the whole commission is B.S."

In Mr. Houle's email, a copy of which was obtained by the National Post, the administrator urges Ms. Coulter to weigh her words with "respect and civility in mind" when she speaks at the University of Ottawa campus on Tuesday.

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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2713909

[Writer]

1. Playing the victim is what a narcissist does best. n/t

[Ken Burch]

9. True. And that's the GOP heritage.

(warning: traumatic images)

[Posteritatis]

2. Room full of cheering fans; ahh, Western, how I very don't miss thee. (nt)

[sakabatou]

3. Bitch, please.

So... what do you do with all those ad hominems in your books?

[tuvor]

4. Have we an Ann-fan unreccing tonight?

[Quantess]

15. Sometimes someone unrecs something because they disapprove of what happened.

That could be what just happened.

[Political Heretic]

18. Or they just fat finger the wrong one.

[guitar man]

5. Words fail me now

All I can think of is this:



:rofl:

[nemo137]

6. Of course she is.

I, however, am more surprised that she got 800 people to come watch her rant.

[Posteritatis]

7. London's an extremely conservative city; Western's an extremely conservative campus

I'm surprised that few showed up, really. The university's absurd politically.

[nemo137]

8. Ah, thanks. I'm not up on my Canadian politics.

[murielm99]

20. My daughter went to see her a few years ago when she

spoke at Iowa State. The audience was small, but very pro-Coulter. Beefy, thuggish-looking frat boys acted as her bodyguards. They were numerous.

My kid was careful about her behavior. They were ejecting people.

My kid went out of curiosity. She had the impression, listening to other students and observing the audience, that even the republicans and conservatives stayed home. Coulter is just too crazy for them, and her fifteen minutes are over.

[Heywood J]

41. I graduated from it.

I wouldn't say it's absurd or that the city is extremely conservative, but that the majority of its institutions are. Keep in mind the city sent MPs from every party to Parliament and all Liberals to the provincial Parliament. I'm surprised more people didn't show up to protest.

[Posteritatis]

42. As did I, a couple of years ago

I'm pretty comfortable standing by my take on the place, especially given things like the Society of Graduate Students spending a year and a half trying to remove one of their own for being gay (to the point of being successfully sued over some of their actions at least once) and 2008's ban on Palestinian clubs on the grounds that they (and only they) were intrinsically bad.

(I also worked down the hall from a white supremacist in the psych department, but I won't hold that against city or school that much; risk of tenure at times and all.)

Even NDP voters I knew there felt comfortable saying things like "the residential school program was a good thing," I saw more Confederate flags than Canadian ones in my neighborhood and so on. I'm in a small-C conservative province these days, and it's UC Berkeley compared to what I tended to see in London. It was ... surprising to say the least.

[upi402]

10. i KNEW it! I posted this in another thread

these idiots starve for a chance to play the victim. and they HATE victims. Fony phuquers

[SpiralHawk]

21. Hypocrisy is the signature Republicon posture

depend upon it...

[dave29]

11. I'm sorry, was she chained to a fence and left for dead or chained to a car and dragged

to her death? Then maybe she was the victim of a hate crime.

Wait, I see she was asked to speak with civility in mind. How dare those Canadian bastards

[rocktivity]

12. DU: You ARE a Hate Crime, Rocktivity tells Coulter

at the the risk of being charged as an accessory.


rocktivity

[HeresyLives]

13. I had no idea she was a comedian.

[Lucy Goosey]

37. I think of her more as a performance artist.

An unintentional absurdist performance artist.

[Newest Reality]

14. I think she is setting a stage for a behavior pattern ...

that the sheepishly gullible will probably mimic consciously or unconsciously.

But then, my theory has always been that Coulter, Limbaugh, Beck, and the like are simply superb actors who are well compensated for their useful roles as minions of the ministers of agitprop. How deliciously paranoid of me to imagine such a thing.

The only danger or threat is when any camp takes the actor's and their shows seriously as if they were real commentary coming from people who are honestly expressing, with integrity and depth, what they truly think or believe.

These actors would portray any character for the right price and what they actually think and believe is, as for any thespian, not necessarily an issue or related. It's the performance that matters most and how convincingly and consistently they can follow the script and execute their roles for the targeted audience. They may or may not have some beliefs or opinions in common with there public persona's but that is, in this case, irrelevant.

They play characters that have two essential effects: They rouse an impressionable and easily excitable group of people who don't necessarily think critically about the emotive and opinionated rhetoric and spin spewed expertly whilst shocking and angering those who are more rationale, thoughtful and reasonable in their politics and reality.

These talking heads are functional tools when you put personality aside and see them for what they are. The more attention they get, be it pro or con, the better their jobs are accomplished.

[era veteran]

16. If she isn't she should be

Complete bitch

[Triana]

17. Ann Coulter IS a hate crime. n/t

[struggle4progress]

19. "... a 17-year-old Muslim student .. asked her a question. Coulter has suggested all Muslims be

be banned from airlines and use flying carpets. When the student said she didn't have flying carpet, Coulter told her to 'take a camel' ... Her tour is being organized by the International Free Press Society, a group whose website presents Islam as the pre-eminent threat to democracy and free speech across the western world ... "

U.S. right-wing darling rattles Ottawa free-speech chains without saying a word
By Bruce Cheadle (CP) – 2 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gnXDHkjgDCRsCmNAee5EYzCYXB4A

[frustrated_lefty]

22. Why pay attention to her?

It just feeds the illusion that she has anything worthwhile to say. Ignore her for a while and she will become totally irrelevant. Our children should be mildly puzzled ten years from now if asked what impact Anne-the-man had on modern American politics.

[NecklyTyler]

23. Ann Coulter = dish it out but can't take it

[gleaner]

24. Oh please ...

We are all the victims of a hate crime. It starts every time she opens her mouth.

[bobburgster]

25. Coulter is a walking hate crime all by herself.

:puke:

[saltpoint]

26. And do have some more sauerkraut with your onion souffle, Miss Coulter.

[xchrom]

27. When pigs fly out your ass, Ann were you a victim. Nt

[guitar man]

28. Wait a minute

I didn't think these neocons even belived in such a thing as "hate crime"? :shrug:

It just gets richer all the time :crazy:

[alfredo]

29. Throw her a pity party

:nopity:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

30. .

[Brewman_Jax]

31. It's a "hate crime"?

:rofl:

I thought that RW neocon scumbags liked accountability--but only for "those people", never for themselves. :eyes:

[NYC Liberal]

32. I hope everyone realizes she says what says to get attention.

Just like most of the right-wing pundits.

Remember when Bill O'Reilly went on Colbert and said something to the effect of, "I'm not a tough guy. It's all an act."? That's what all these rw pundits do...O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Coulter. It's entertainment...or supposed to be.

[SidDithers]

33. What identifiable group is she a part of?...

"Idiots" are not recognized as an identifiable group by Canada's Human Rights Commission.

Sid

[Echo In Light]

34. RWers can dutifully be counted upon to project

[hfojvt]

35. "jerks with big mouths and no class" IS an "identifiable group"

but I doubt if protecting them from the consequences of their words falls under the purview of the Human Rights Commission.

[DFW]

36. Typical Republican version of English

Just like Steele and Bonehead confusing "epitaph" with "epithet," Coulter now says "victim," when the correct word is "perpetrator."

[polly7]

38. I believe her engagement is being mainly sponsored by the

Claire Boothe(?) Society. I really know very little about it, but isn't it an American ultra-conservative org?

[eppur_se_muova]

39. Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute

Thanks for pointing that out.

"Ann Coulter Visit Sets Off Furor
LONDON, Ontario | American conservative firebrand Ann Coulter won't be in London until Monday but already the dust is flying... Ambrogio, whose group, the International Free Press Society, is paying $10,000 for the appearance, the balance of Coulter's fee coming from an American group that promotes conservatism in young women, the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute. Ambrogio said Coulter was chosen to test the tolerance of Londoners for free speech, a test she says Walker has flunked... "

front and center at http://www.cblpi.org/

Sounds like it was a chip-on-the-shoulder setup from the start.

[upi402]

40. flunked...

I've got a great big 'F' for Missed Coulter.


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