Last week I learned that Ann Coulter would be speaking at St. Olaf college, a small Lutheran liberal arts school in Northfield, MN. My 18-year-old brother, who thinks he's a Republican, goes to school there, so I wanted to keep tabs on the event to find out if he went and what he thought of being a Republican after hearing the lovely Ann suggest that people like his sister (me) and his mother should be beaten to death with baseball bats.
I haven't yet gotten in touch with my brother to find out what he thought of the event, but I did find a hilarious article in the Minneapolis StarTribune about what went down during the talk.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/5353479.html
Some of the highlights:
One student meandered in asking a question about Coulter's assertion that Muslims should be converted to Christianity. "What is your name?" she asked. "I'm sending it to John Ashcroft."
The crowd booed.
He continued, "Hatred, is that your message?" She said, "No. I've answered your question, now go away."
A Carleton College student asked the unmarried Coulter whether she was a virgin and whether she endorsed abstinence-only sex education.
She responded that the Democratic concept is, "You're going to use drugs anyway, so use a clean needle."
The crowd yelled for an answer to the virginity question. She responded: "You're right. That's a very good question. You liberals are getting smarter by the minute."
Ah, Ann. Grand Marshal of the hypocrite parade. It never fails to amuse me when members of the American Taliban object to people trying to intrude on their personal lives. I can't wait to talk to my brother and see what he thinks of the princess of his party now.
[Update]: He did go to the talk and he says "basically she is a huge rookie biatch," whatever that means. I'm supposed to IM him tonight to find out more.