Your taxes and tuition dollars may go to a lunatic.
Ann Coulter, famed lawyer and political pundit, is known for her insatiable outbursts and insults. Ann Coulter would probably go so far as to call her mother a coward.
Recently I have gotten word that the College Republicans want bring Coulter to this University. If they do, they will pay her a whopping $20,000 of your tuition and tax money.
According to Julie Mack of the Kalamazoo Gazette, the Western Michigan University College Republicans shelled out $20,000 to have Ann Coulter appear a few weeks ago, Wednesday February 22, at WMU.
Have a seat kids. Bring your blankets; I’m going to tell you a little story now.
A graduate of Cornell and the University of Michigan, Coulter’s most notable crack at the courtroom was a seat on Paula Jones’ advisory council in the case against Bill Clinton. Coulter publicly referred to Paula as “the good Christian girl” only to later refer to her as “trailer park trash.”
Now children, don’t get too excited, it only gets better.
After having authored the book, “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton,” Coulter was accused of plagiarizing a work by Michael Chapman, a co-worker whom she claims she never met.
In 2004, Coulter spoke about former Senator Max Cleland’s service in Vietnam. He received a Purple Heart, having lost an arm and both legs from a grenade explosion. Coulter stated that because this incident was an accident, Cleland “didn’t give his limbs for his country.”
She even hates Republicans.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, Coulter is a regular every year. According to CampusProgress.org, during one of the conferences a student from Muslims for America stood up and pleaded with Coulter to stop using ethnic slurs such as “ragheads.” “”I mean it kind of turns Muslims off and it’s hard to recruit them to support your cause ” please, please, please, please don’t say raghead.” Coulter stated, “You know, OK. I make a few jokes at Muslims and they killed 3000 Americans – I think we’re even.”
During her speech at WMU she treated conservatives and liberals with extreme disrespect. According to Julie Mack, “[Coulter] pronounced one question to be so silly that she hooted the questioner must be majoring in engineering rather than history – and the question was from a fellow Republican.”
I will share my personal favorite quote from Ann Coulter:
From The Guardian May 13, 2003, “It would be a much better country if women did not vote.”
Ann Coulter is a blowhard. She makes a living yelling out rude comments that show signs of racism, sexism (of her own sex), disrespect and accusations that are completely uneducated.
We as politically minded individuals, and specifically students, are fueling her fire. I understand that I am adding to this by writing a column about her, but it has to be stopped and the reader deserves to know what kind of a person she really is.
There is no justifiable reason why she would be brought to this campus or any other for that matter. I’m certain it would be simply for shock value. Her presence and speech would fill our minds with conservative backwash instead of providing us with any real education. I’m certainly not OK with that, and I’m sure that the majority of students on this campus aren’t either. We pay to be educated, not to be lied to.
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