Ann Coulter comes to Ontario to tell us gay men throw like girls, can’t marry
We were wondering why the weather in Toronto suddenly turned chilly, but then we read this. That’s right, Ann Coulter is in our midst, and she is getting quite a cool reception. The hotheaded conservative pundit is in Ottawa today for her second stop in a three-city university tour, but before she even stepped on Canadian soil, she received a letter from the University of Ottawa provost, Francois Houle, reminding her of Canada’s freedom of speech laws, which prohibit hate speech toward identifiable groups. The letter was immediately leaked to selected outlets: the National Post and Newsmax, a conservative news provider in the U.S. Unsurprisingly, Coulter failed to take Houle’s caution to heart and attacked gays, Muslims, feminists and immigrants.
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]
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We were wondering why the weather in Toronto suddenly turned chilly, but then we read this. That’s right, Ann Coulter is in our midst, and she is getting quite a cool reception. The hotheaded conservative pundit is in Ottawa today for her second stop in a three-city university tour, but before she even stepped on Canadian soil, she received a letter from the University of Ottawa provost, Francois Houle, reminding her of Canada’s freedom of speech laws, which prohibit hate speech toward identifiable groups. The letter was immediately leaked to selected outlets: the National Post and Newsmax, a conservative news provider in the U.S. Unsurprisingly, Coulter failed to take Houle’s caution to heart and attacked gays, Muslims, feminists and immigrants.
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]){kind=link}
Ann Coulter? Yawn.
Are gay men supposed to feel badly that they aren’t highly skilled at the moronic heterosexual ecstasy-inducing activity of chasing a ball out in a field?
Indeed.
Heterosexuals are a silly bunch, eh?
International free press sponsoring hate mongors … anything to revive daily print sales. Another example of tasteless narrow minded profiteering. Ann Coulter … declasse and passe. Do not pass go, go directly to your cave.
There, you’ve been given attention. Feel better now?
I cannot understand how a racist, homophobic bigot like this was let into the country. I, for one, would turn this bitch back at the border, and send her back to the racist, facist state she came from!!
Unfortunately stupidity was here long before we were, and will continue long after we are gone. Stupidity is eternal. Ann Coulter and her kind are stupidity personified. Is it any wonder the world will never truly be a good place??
Well, once again I had to pop an extra blood pressure pill!!
Thanks, Anne! When I hear her name (and worse…her comments…) along with those of “Dubya”, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush “Oxy” Limbaugh the old B/P goes through the roof!!! The toxic sludge spewing forth from these peoples mouths has no place in Canada…period. I’m all for free speech and lively discourse in our fair nation but Coulter and her ilk are purely hate-mongers with the combined IQ of someone who has had the terrible misfortune of having had a lobotomy. Must stop writing now……don’t want to stroke out……….
I played with a couple of lesbians on my ball team- Trust me if all the gay boys could have thrown like those girls we could have turned pro.
Ann Coulter has every right to be angry- look at her. I’d also be pissed off and hate the world if I woke up every morning and stared at that in the mirror.
Ann Coulter is like a bad US TV show that comes to Canada 3-5 years late. At first, it’s a big deal and then everyone realizes it’s just another piece of American trash and people just ignore it.
look at the publicity this nothing woman is getting…she opens her mouth and you need a poop and scoop to clean up after…stop kissing her but by dignifying her remarks…we all know her stand on gay men…she can’t stand the competition….most straight guys would rather switch than spend a night with her.