Ann Coulter comes to Ontario to tell us gay men throw like girls, can’t marry

To say that Coulter brings controversy would be as redundant as saying Justin Timberlake brings sexy back or, perhaps more aptly, that salmonella brings severe discomfort. At the pundit’s first stop, at the University of Western Ontario in London, she and a Muslim student got into a heated exchange during a Q&A. The 17-year-old asked for clarification regarding Coulter’s statement, made soon after 9/11, that if Muslims were having difficulty flying, they should travel by magic carpets. In response, Coulter told Fatima Al-Dhaher, the student, who has no access to a flying carpet, that she should use a camel. Um, zing?

Coulter’s hallmark inability to get facts straight endeared her even further to the Canadian audience when she mocked gay men, noting, according to the Globe’s Jane Taber, that they cannot do two things: “get married to each other” and “throw a baseball without looking like a girl.” Taber also mentions that Coulter believes that feminists, gays and illegal aliens “all want to be black, as they complain their rights are being attacked in the same way the rights of African-Americans once were.” Um, shudder?

The last stop on Coulter’s tour, organized by the International Free Press Society and funded in part by the American Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute, is this Thursday in Calgary. We’re sure the weather will be lovely.

• Ann Coulter gets cold shoulder in Ottawa [Globe and Mail] • Coulter attacks gays and Muslims [Globe and Mail] • Firebrand Singes Muslim [London Free Press]