Posted on 01/20/2006 5:58:42 PM PST by RonDog
The following "Letter from the Editors" (printed in the program for last night's event) set the tone for the entire evening:"...Many people say that this a politically apathetic campus.Well, they certainly got THAT part right!They say that LMU students don't care don't care about worldly issues. The critics believe that this evening will be a failure. They think that students won't show up for this once in a lifetime event. They think that we wont't be mature enough to allow the speakers to express their views. They don't think that this university is ready to join the elites.
But on Thursday night, we the student body of LMU will once again prove our critics wrong.
The university is having an awakening, and this event will be an indication of what's to come.
We will greet two of the biggest names in politics with dignity and respect
..."It must be a RELIGIOUS school thing. :o)If last night's event was a test, LMU passed with flying colors! Not only did they prove that they had good manners, they turned out in MUCH LARGER numbers than the nay-sayers had predicted, completely overwhelming the tiny venue chosen this FIRST of what now may be MANY similar events.
Both Ann and the Serpenthead seem to have been surprised by the very different (i.e., thoughtful, and RESPECTFUL) kind of audience that they encountered last night during their "back-to-back" appearances at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles last night, which were part of "First Ammendment Week," sponsored by the LMU student newspaper, the Loyolan.
Not sure about Carville, but I understand that Ann generally encounters a MUCH DIFFERENT reception on a OTHER college campi -- where she has had to deal with pie-throwing goons, and disruptors blasting loud music through the PA system during her speech, to drown out her voice.
Our small group of FReepers (and FRiends of Ann) who were able to get inside saw virtually NO protestors outside, and only TWO (rather lame) attempts to heckle her inside...More soon.
report:
HUNDREDS turned away as Ann Coulter ENERGIZES packed house at Loyola Marymount
- PHOTOS!
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 01/20/2006 5:58:42 PM PST · 60 replies · 3,625+ views
Voice of controversy [ANN COULTER begins YAF tour @ Loyola L.A.: Coming soon to a college near YOU!] ^ | January 20, 2006 | RonDog [and FRiends]
Voice of controversy
[ANN COULTER begins YAF tour @ Loyola L.A.: Coming soon to a college near YOU!]
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 01/18/2006 6:00:34 PM PST · 74 replies · 1,582+ views
Los Angeles LOYOLAN ^ | 11/30/05 | Rachel Jones
That last photo, of the audience...LOL!Q. "Why are these men smiling?"
That would be THESE lucky guys, who got in to see Ann - fourth row, center!
Jeffers did not get the "wear a BRIGHT RED shirt, so that Ann can see us" memo. :o)
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THANK YOU for that COMPREHENSIVE report, Steve!To: Republicus2001
During Carville’s opening statements he was explaining his credentials. Carville was bragging about his ‘4.0’ in school. Which we found out was his blood alcohol level during graduation. It didn’t seem to bother him that he always got D’s and F’s in college because in the end it really didn’t matter after what the demarcate party has done for him today. One student stood up and told him how she wanted to be just like him, there was a large applause in the audience. He explained how he was very disappointed that he didn’t take a masturbation class because he would have gotten an ‘A’ in that class.
Carville stated many times how corrupt the Bush administration is as though it ONLY happens in the Bush administration. One example of his many lies was when he stated that only one person from the Clinton administration went to prison.
To his credit Carville was straight forward and on point. In short much easier understood than Coulter. Coulter made dozens of good and interesting points but she said them in such a way you REALLY had to keep up with politics to know what she was saying. Even my wife had to ask me what she was talking about a couple times.
There was some heckling from the back against Coulter and a staged ‘walk out’ of about 10 people. Most of the people were respectful but there was some serious anger in the room.
I believe Ann Coulter is great, I never seen her live before tonight. I think she was distracted or tired. She did make a great comeback when one student said she was taking a critical thinking and rhetorical reading class and yet she was reading from a pamphlet and really knocking Coulter hard (the student took it to a personal level.) Ann simply asked her why are you reading from a pamphlet if you are taking that class?
Another comeback was when a student asked a long question part of it asking her, why she is trying to take women’s right of speech away? Coulter responded paraphrased, “why would I do that? That is how I earn my living and everything else you asked is simply moronic.”
Twice Ann didn’t answer the question that was given to her. This is why I think she was tired or distracted. For example one guy stood up and gave her a softball question, in my opinion. He said, ‘Carville and yourself show the extremes in both parties, what about people like me that are in the middle?’
Ann answered by saying how lunatic fringe the Demarcate party is today. A student stood up (out of order) and said, “You don’t listen, do you? Why don’t you answer his question?” Ann replied, “I did.”
The loudest response of the night came when a student asked Ann something like, ‘I respect the first amendment but don’t you feel anything when you use your rhetoric to hurt good people while you are making millions from what you say?’ (I don’t remember what Ann said but she did NOT answer the question.) Here is an article on this in the Laloyolan (school paper):
Students fill Burns Back Court for Carville and Coulter
70 posted on 01/20/2006 3:51:01 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
Looking gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!
I believe Ann Coulter is great, I never seen her live before tonight.Well, she has been rather busy putting the final touches on her NEW BOOK.I think she was distracted or tired...
The New Ann Coulter (Hardcover)
by Ann CoulterAvailability: This title will be released on June 6, 2006.
You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.Product Details
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Crown Forum (June 6, 2006)
- Language: English
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Looking gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!:o)
I was there at the Santa Monica event! Yip!
Another comeback was when a student asked a long question part of it asking her, why she is trying to take women’s right of speech away?The student was referring to some of the inflammatory quotes that had been printed in the program that was handed out as everyone arrived, like THIS one:
...On women's suffrageThe FIRST time that Ann replied to that question, she did not understand why it had been asked, as she had NOT made that particular statement in the speech she had just given, and she did not know about the quotes that had been printed in the program."It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact.
In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 -- except Goldwater in '64 -- the Republicans would have won, if only the men had voted."
Later, she came back to that question, providing a SHORT answer, and a LONGER answer.
SHORT answer:
I just gave a speech praising the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq -- where MILLIONS of women are now able to vote for the very first time.LONGER answer:
Regardless of what you think about allowing women to vote -- it is an irrefutable fact that if only MEN had voted, Republicans would have won every Presidential election in the last fifty years -- except LBJ -- so we only would have lost ONE war. :o)This is merely acknowledging the so-called "gender gap," and the fact that Democrats have consistently been weak on national defense.Divorce, she explained, and the dramatic increase in promiscuous premarital sex, are the primary causes of this "gender gap."If women cannot depend on MEN, then they have to depend on GOVERNMENT -- so as more single mothers vote for more social spending, to replace the support that they are NOT getting from the men in their lives, the Democrats win.
I was there at the Santa Monica event! Yip!I remember!
Sorry that we could not invite you to THIS event, as we had a DEVIL of a time just getting THREE of us (non-students) in. :(As I noted previously, THIS event was just a test. NOBODY (at the university) thought that so many people would show up for a POLITICAL event, particularly for a political event with a CONSERVATIVE speaker.
Now that they know that it will work, Natalie plans to have OTHER political events -- in a MUCH LARGER venue -- and to allow NON-students to attend.I told her that she could charge non-students $10 or $20 each, and make the next event a FUNDRAISER for the university, or for their college newspaper.
And, even if the Loyolan does not want to do this -- the newly-invigorated LMU CRs will! :o)
How is this?Yowsah!
Carville's 'lovely' choice of evening attire is possibly a throw back to his multiple years as an undergraduate student at LSU (Louisiana State University) and his proximity to what used to be New Orleans and Mardis Gras.
Ol' Serpenthead was just TARGET PRACTICE for Ann's NEXT appearance in Los Angeles: with Al FrankenFraud.
From www.uj.edu:
2006 Public Lecture Series
Monday, January 30
John Edwards & Newt Gingrich
Monday, February 27
Colin Powell
Monday, March 27
Al Franken & Ann Coulter
Monday, April 24
George Stephanopoulos interviews Wesley Clark, Tom Ridge & Natan SharanskyTickets go on sale, Monday September 19, 2005 • Series Subscription: $225 • 310 440-1246
7:30pm at the Gibson Amphitheatre
Ann is still a cutie, but in that pic she's showing her age a bit. Not saying she's old, not at all, but she is showing her age (44) moreso than she had even a couple years ago. Maybe it's just not a great picture. She also needs to dye her roots!!
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