Fascinating fascism in the society of the spectacle … as of yesterday Coultergeist claimed she would go to Berkeley on Thursday and attempt to speak on Sproul Plaza, time to be determined. From Twitter, it seems that she could have had in attendance some of the same RWNJ thugs from the recent confrontations in Berkeley.
Her absence is not because of university police concern about a repeat of the Milo Yiannopolos incident. She wanted to appear because it manipulates the image of “Free Speech” and reinforces stereotypes about colleges with the possibility of confrontations and violence. She won’t appear because she won’t get paid to speak about “immigration”, although she gets “press”, regardless.
She wasn’t being paid $20,000 to speak in the public space of Sproul Plaza, but rather for the offer of a rescheduled speaking engagement in a “safe” UC Berkeley venue. When YAF pulled its sponsorship, presumably it pulled its money as well. Darn those speech rights funded by the Koch Brothers and the DeVos family.
Pseudo-events and alternative facts will continue as she planned to appear Wednesday on Hannity’s program to perhaps offset the continuing saga of sexual misconduct at Fox News.
in other irony...
and in other thuggery...
UCB police, aside from mutual aid by city police, maintains its own SWAT team and bomb squad.
"UC Berkeley has been working to accommodate a mutually agreeable time for Ms. Coulter's visit -- which has not yet been scheduled -- and remains committed to doing so. The campus seeks to ensure that all members of the Berkeley and larger community -- including Ms. Coulter herself -- remain safe during such an event."
Citing safety concerns, administrators called off Coulter's Thursday appearance, saying the university needed more time to find a "suitable venue." UCPD said it had credible, specific intelligence of threats to Coulter, attendees and protesters that could lead to a repeat of violence that preempted former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos' February appearance.
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"Call it a victory for the Sharia snowflakes on campus." (Fox News’s Greg Gutfield)
Thursday, Apr 27, 2017 · 5:00:34 AM +00:00 · annieli
Coulter’s Hannity appearance claiming censorship still devolved to the withdrawal of the YAF’s funding her speaking fees. Perhaps she should have offered to do a golf clinic to get some government subsidy.
The controversial author first replied with her “how radical” answer, and then addressed the host’s point: “Yes, they want to destroy and squelch conservative speech, but there is a separate issue with the universities right now.”
Coulter pointed out how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Bill Maher, and Joy Behar came to her defense over her right to speak at the liberal university. She then emphasized, “They are really outside the mainstream. They are publicly funded. Forget that this is where the free speech movement started — the amount of money they get from the state and federal government.”
The guest closed by returning to something she had complained about earlier in the segment — that the conservative Young America’s Foundation had apparently abandoned her.
“All of the people who should have been standing up for the First Amendment here all ran away with their tails between their legs,” Coulter contended.
Or their hands on their wallets