Hecklers Cause Coulter to Cut UConn Speech
 

STORRS, Conn. - 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.

Coulter's appearance prompted protests from several groups, including Students Against Hate and the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center. They criticized her for spreading a message of hate and intolerance.

Nearly 100 students gathered inside the Student Union for a rally against Coulter. About a half-dozen people held protest signs outside the auditorium.

After a book signing following her appearance, Coulter called the audience's reaction "typical."

Coulter, originally from New Canaan, Conn., has a history of bashing Democrats in best-selling books, frequent television appearances and speeches. Harding University in Arkansas dropped her from its lecture series in September, citing her abrasive image.

Last April, the president of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota denounced a speech on the campus by Coulter, calling it hateful. In October 2004, University of Arizona police arrested two men who ran on stage and threw custard pies at Coulter; one of the pies glanced off her shoulder.

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 (news, bio, voting record) a good candidate for the Democrats because "she is a woman and she's learning disabled."

During the question-and-answer session, someone asked Coulter if she really was against a woman's right to vote.

"Not having women vote is a joke," she said, reversing comments she has previously made.

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It's not like this is a huge shock - UConn is a liberal campus, and it can be a rowdy one at that. I'm kind of surprised that the UConn people scheduled her, and that she agreed to speak there.

Maybe it's her kind of masochism.

Re: Hecklers Cause Coulter to Cut UConn Speech
 

Sounds like she isn't the only one who is intolerant in this story.

Why did she go there knowing she would get heckled?

Do you think it would have made the news cycle for the last two days if she had spoken at Bob Jones University and been applauded?

publicity.

Re: Hecklers Cause Coulter to Cut UConn Speech
 

That's the kind of snappy repartee that really advances an argument or debate.

On the other hand, heckling and booing an invited guest (or almost any speaker) is pretty juvenile, too.

Why didn't security remove the hateful hooligans?

-Rudey

From my experiences visiting UConn, and those I know who've attended the school (many people from my hometown), I don't think the security is all that vigilant in their positions. It can get pretty crazy there, and there's a high threshold before security or law enforcement steps into the situation.

"We encourage diverse opinion at UConn, but this is blatant hate speech," said Knudsen, head of Students Against Hate.

In case you don't speak Liberalese, here's Knudsen's comment translated into English: We encourage diverse opinion at UConn, as long as it is exactly the same as our own opinion. And by the way, what the heck is a "social welfare major"?

- OJ

Because instead of getting paid for a half an hour, she gets paid for 15 minutes of work and blames her departure on "hecklers".

She's a hateful twat, but shrewd.

Someone news posed this question:

Has there ever been a time when a liberal speaker has come to campus and a group of far-right chanted and clapped and yelled to keep him/her from speaking.

These people paid and came to hear her speak, not some kids cause a ruckus....

Has this ever happened to Michael Moore?

You think these kids could have intelligently outdebated her? Or maybe this was their only way of getting over on her?

Why should we care what OJ Simpson have to say about this?

It happened to Michael Moore at the University of Central Florida. The College Republicans group booed and heckled him. They brought signs as well.

Let's not get on our high horses and think that certain political groups are free of this type of behavior. There's ignorant people in every group.

Thank You.....that's all I needed to know.

Their YD's should have done the same. I don't care who you are, Moore is a jackass.