Posted on 02/06/2009 11:58:23 AM PST by RonDog
Thursday, February 5, 2009 YORBA LINDA – Despite it being her first visit to the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum, Ann Coulter seemed right at home. Never being one to shy away from controversy, the conservative author and TV commentator thrilled the capacity crowd Thursday night with her hourlong speech of punchlines and jabs – all at the expense of the left. "This is more fun (than TV)," Coulter said before entering the library's East Room to a standing ovation. "Although, the hostile TV interviews are fun, too. This is like the cherry on top. Though, I do enjoy toying around with liberals." Coulter started off her appearance with a couple of minutes of one-liners in the overflow room, where 283 people paid $10 to $12 a person to watch her give her main speech on a closed-circuit broadcast. She then made her way to East Room, where 778 people laughed and applauded for nearly every joke, most of which were taken from her new book, "Guilty," which was released in December... -- snip --
...Some of her jokes were even a bit bold for her sympathetic crowd, including a jab at President Barack Obama's father's African heritage. "Obama may be not only our first black president, but our first son-of-a-slave-trader president..." -- snip --
...Coulter acknowledged her status as an instigator, concluding her speech with a wry smile and her last one-liner: "If any of my speech here today offends you, my work is done."Author Ann Coulter on O.C.: 'Insurgency in enemy territory'
Conservative commentator makes her first visit to Nixon library, birthplace of man whose legacy she often defends.By ERIC NEFF
The Orange County Register
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Q: How many Africans were saved from slavery by the U.S. Civil War?
A: Approximately zero. The U.S. abolished importation of slaves during Jefferson’s first term. Slave-trading in the U.S. after that time was of slaves already imported and their descendants.
It looks like a good time was had by all.
Posted from the overflow of the overflow room, Free Republic.
Great pictures from the OCR.
If you own a hundred cars, routinely buy them and sell them depending on how well you did financially in a particular year, you would indeed be a trader.
Andrew Jackson’s slave trade was indeed part and parcel of the land speculation which made his fortune.
So, not a slave trader by profession, but one definitely “in the market.”
Cool beans, RonDog!But, wait...It looks like a good time was had by all.
There's MORE! Ann will be BACK in southern California NEXT WEEK!Check out my NEW thread:
ANN COULTER in NEWPORT BEACH, CA (Barnes & Noble book signing) THURSDAY (2/12/09) 7 pm
barnesandnoble.com ^
Posted on Friday, February 06, 2009 1:36:43 PM by RonDog
I just confirmed this with the folks at Barnes & Noble:
Southern California FReepers! ANN COULTER
will be in
NEWPORT BEACH, CA
THURSDAY, February 12, 2009
7 pm
for her FIRST EVER "bookstore booksigning"
at the Barnes & Noble in the Fashion Island Mall.
Address
Fashion Island Mall
401 Newport Center Drive Suite A215
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-718-0109
Store Hours
9-11 Every Day
ANN COULTER in NEWPORT BEACH, CA (Barnes & Noble book signing) THURSDAY (2/12/09) 7 pm
I think that is just down the street (State?) from where I live!
I live about 2 miles from the Nixon library. This county is an island of sanity in the middle of an insane asylum!
H.L. Coulter
February 6, 2009
By John H. Taylor, The Episconixonian
"If I've offended anyone," Ann Coulter told an audience of 1,200 at the Nixon Library today, "my work is done." Charming and thoughtful in person -- a Connecticut Yankee who was graduated with honors from Cornell, studied law at Michigan, clerked for an appeals court judge, and litigated on behalf of individual freedom before becoming a commentator -- Coulter absolutely horrifies her critics. Strong, forbearing men shuddered with alarm on learning that the Nixon Foundation had invited her to speak, answer questions, and sign copies of her seventh book, Guilty.
For me, the key question came from a fan who wondered why she didn't have her own show on cable. She doesn't want one. "I'm a writer," she said. At that point I began to pay closer attention to the deftness of her wordplay, which she had been honing until five minutes before I had the pleasure of introducing her. Just think H. L. Mencken, who said, "I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty."
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H. L. CoulterFebruary 5, 2009 by John H. Taylor | Filed Under Nixon Library | 2 Comments
To read about commentator Ann Coulter’s sold-out appearance at the Nixon Library tonight, go here.
And, here is ANOTHER plus for that "after action" report ...H. L. CoulterHere is the FULL TEXT of that marvelous report, from episconixonian.blogspot.com:
Thursday, February 5, 2009
H. L. Coulter
"If I've offended anyone," Ann Coulter told an audience of 1,200 at the Nixon Library today, "my work is done." Charming and thoughtful in person -- a Connecticut Yankee who was graduated with honors from Cornell, studied law at Michigan, clerked for an appeals court judge, and litigated on behalf of individual freedom before becoming a commentator -- Coulter absolutely horrifies her critics. Strong, forbearing men shuddered with alarm on learning that the Nixon Foundation had invited her to speak, answer questions, and sign copies of her seventh book, Guilty.
For me, the key question came from a fan who wondered why she didn't have her own show on cable. She doesn't want one. "I'm a writer," she said. At that point I began to pay closer attention to the deftness of her wordplay, which she had been honing until five minutes before I had the pleasure of introducing her. Just think H. L. Mencken, who said, "I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty."
Coulter said, "Everything always changes except the avant-garde, which always stays the same." On the tax errors plaguing President Obama's appointees: "I guess that's what Obama means by transparency. We always suspected that Democrats were hypocritical crooks. Now we can see it clearly." She spoke in an affectionate if not necessarily an ideologically comradely way about Richard Nixon, liking the "red-baiting" of his early years best and the creation of the EPA least. She lambasted former White House counsel John Dean for alleging that RN had framed a notorious Soviet spy. "Alger Hiss was guilty," she said, "and John Dean is a liar." As for affirmation action, another Nixon policy, "it's like the stimulus bill: Exactly the wrong thing, and plenty of it."
Politics and culture offer plenty of material for her new book, which is about liberals' skill at playing the victim. "In American politics, he who is offended first, wins," she said. She began her talk by turning the tables on a prominent person of letters who had criticized GOP VP nominee J. Danforth Quayle in 1988 for having a name bespeaking noblesse oblige, as though he could've done anything about it. The writer in question was Calvin Marshall Trillin (Yale '57). Twenty years later, conservatives were called out of bounds for making hay over Barack Obama's middle name. Coulter said, "Liberals either are victims of a Republican's middle name or victims of Republicans' criticism of a Democrat's middle name. Either way, they're the victims."
Might Coulter be victimized by anything she said at the Nixon Library? I certainly hope not, but we'll see what the papers say in the morning. She doesn't mince words when talking about anything, including race. "The images of students at Howard University cheering the acquittal of O. J. Simpson finally ended the white infantalization of blacks, and it was the best thing that could've happened to them," she said, adding that Obama, son of a Kenyan father, isn't in the position play the victim even if he wanted to. If his forebears had any connection with slavery, she said, it would've been on the business side. If so, she said, he'd be Barack Obama, son of a slave trader. Discerning listeners knew exactly what she meant and also that she had meant "great-great-great-great grandson."
If people were looking to be offended, they were, thus missing the opportunity to be entertained and challenged by a brilliant political satirist. Someone might well have been angry that she called former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan a butterball. In this day and age, we don't talk about people by referring to their weight. On the other hand, it may be that the new junior senator from Minnesota will end up having been the author of a book called Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot. It is precisely Ann Coulter's point that it all depends on whose bird is being stuffed.
...Just think H. L. Mencken, who said, "I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty."That would be, from www.io.com:
Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956)
by Gibbons BurkeThe most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks, hygenists, "uplifters", social reformers of any stripe, boobs & quacks, and the insatiable American appetite for nonsense and gaudy sham. But his life was not defined by negativity. He was positively enthusiastic about to the writings of Twain and Conrad, the music of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach, and the victuals offered up by Chesapeake Bay.
Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it. The Introduction to The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Collection of His Best Newspaper Stories, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers which relates Mencken's manner while reporting on the presidential conventions:
No other entertainment gave him greater pleasure than reporting from the conventions; nor did anyone appreciate his efforts more than Mencken himself. One reporter, peering through Mencken's window late at night after one rally, recalled watching him at work alone in his hotel room, pounding out copy on a typewriter propped on a desk. He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article...
Meet Ann Coulter! (Theater Simulcast)Thursday, Feb 5 7:00pat Nixon Presidential Library & Museum, Yorba Linda, CAAnn Coulter comes to the Richard Nixon Library to lecture and sign her new book "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assult on America.
Price: Member Price: $10.00 Non-Member Price: $12.00Phone: (714) 993-5057
Age Suitability: All Ages
Events
Date: February 5, 2009
EAST ROOM SEATING IS SOLD OUT, BUT THEATER SIMULCAST SEATING IS AVAILABLE
If you'd like to order theater simulcast tickets and have a chance to meet Ann Coulter during her book signing, please click the link above.Attorney, commentator, and author of six New York Times bestsellers
Thursday
February 5, 2009
7:00pm Lecture
Ann Coulter is coming to the Richard Nixon Library to lecture and sign for her next big blockbuster book, GUILTY: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, to be released December 30th by Random House. Order tickets early, since this is her only Southern California appearance and will be a sell-out.
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Examples:
She lambasted former White House counsel John Dean for alleging that RN had framed a notorious Soviet spy. "Alger Hiss was guilty," she said, "and John Dean is a liar."George Gordon Battle Liddy (nice middle middle name!), who probably knows Dean better than anyone, has exposed his lies many times.
Of course that doesn't stop the MSM from using him as a "respected" leftist commentator.
Dean and McClellan are two weenies in a pod. (Pros at aPEAsment.)
She began her talk by turning the tables on a prominent person of letters who had criticized GOP VP nominee J. Danforth Quayle in 1988 for having a name bespeaking noblesse oblige, as though he could've done anything about it. The writer in question was Calvin Marshall Trillin (Yale '57). Twenty years later, conservatives were called out of bounds for making hay over Barack Obama's middle name. Coulter said, "Liberals either are victims of a Republican's middle name or victims of Republicans' criticism of a Democrat's middle name. Either way, they're the victims."No wonder pies do a boomerang and hit liberals in their hypocrisy when they hurl them at Coulter.
J. Danforth Quayle = Small potato(e)s
B. Hussein Obama = Racist!
"He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article..."He really appreciated the entertainment value of politics. I imagine that kept him sane.
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