In the Coultergeist's wake, a teachable moment

Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | April 27, 2005 | Nick Coleman

[jdege]

Nick Coleman: In the Coultergeist's wake, a teachable moment

Ann Coulter is gone, but now we're having fun. Because listening to her is like hitting your head with a hammer: It's fun when she stops.

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What have we learned, class, about free speech after listening to Coulter call Democrats traitors to the country, threaten to give a Muslim student's name to homeland security and toss insults faster than a kid with a Dixie cup full of fish parts can toss herrings at a seal exhibit?

Her herrings are all red.

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At St. Olaf, Coulter's ugliest comments were returned in kind with ugly taunts from some of the students who packed a chapel to see if anyone got hurt. But since then, a discussion has taken place about the hurricane that hit the campus to give a speech in which liberalism and terrorism were argued to be different variations of the same disease. Another variation might be irresponsible speech intended to incite controversy, but Coulter prefers to aim her brickbats at liberals and any of that breed remaining on campus who have not yet bent to their knees to utter, "Ronald Reagan was a great man, yes, ma'am, and he ate liberals for lunch."

If fistfights and a general brawl had broken out amongst the Lutheran learners, Coulter would have considered the bloody noses proof of her cleverness. She could get her wish some day. Even at St. Olaf among the phlegmatic Oles, heated verbal volleys were exchanged to the extent that the dean of students pleaded for civility and recalled the traditions of a place that has always found its "way through controversies like this much better than the rest of the world."

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[Yo-Yo]

Rules.....

[The_Victor]

I suppose the Red Star Tribune should suffice as it's own Barf Alert.

Coulter Thread: Pics please.

[The_Victor]

Yer fast. I like that.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If fistfights and a general brawl had broken out amongst the Lutheran learners, Coulter would have considered the bloody noses proof of her cleverness.

More hate speech from the violence-mongering left. These people can incite a riot faster than a police union strike.

[Carry_Okie]

Has this idiot ever contemplated the thought that, among the media and academe, vitriol such as Coulter's is an unremitting din?

/rhetorical question

[veronica]

Oh please. All these wussies so scared by one little Conservative gal who hardly weighs anything. Quit yer bitchin', clowns...

Go Ann. :)

[Izzy Dunne]

Coulter's ugliest comments were returned in kind with ugly taunts from some of the students who packed a chapel to see if anyone got hurt.

My Gibberish-to-English translator is apparently on the fritz, because I can't make any sense out of this statement.

[Tuba Guy]

[bray]

When the Braindead Liberal Stoneage Press cannot call someone fat or dumb, their toolkit is pretty much empty!!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[thag]

"Even if you agreed with her political views -- and she has an absolute right to express them -- her manner of speech was so inflammatory and her derogatory ripostes so intimidating that both campuses she plucked last week (a total take of $50,000 or more) are still reverberating. That's not a good thing, but it has the potential to have good consequences."

I wonder if the columnist said the same thing when Michael Moore spoke???

[Rakkasan1]

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[untenured]

One lesson from Coulter's hit-and-run assaults, however, is that the time when the groves of the academy seemed above the battle are coming to an end.

So this guy slept through the whole second half of the 1960s?

[Eva]

This article is an example of what makes Ann Coulter so entertaining. The leftists take themselves far too seriously. She sends them into hissy fits.

[etcetera]

"The conservative pundit on spiked heels came to town last week..."

She can walk on me with those spiked heels anytime...

[Slings and Arrows]

If Michael Moore spoke, the only reverberations would be from him walking, and would be measured on the Richter scale.

[Americanexpat]

Well,you can't say Ann doesn't stir controversy where ever she goes. I love it, she is just giving the liberals a taste of their own medicine and they find it bitter.

[newcthem]

As usual.........when it comes down to a battle of wits, Comrade Nick of the Red Star is utterly defenseless!!! Only in the liberal bastion of Minnesota could this moron make a living writing this dribble.

[RippleFire]

If Nick Coleman's panties ever got unknotted, he wouldn't know what to do with himself.

[rockthecasbah]

I wonder if Nick Coleman feels emasculated by the Coulterculture.