Ann Coulter Taunts Liberals At Stony Brook
By Michael Kelly and Rohma Abbas “Looks like the five dollar cover charge kept the liberals away,” joked Ann Coulter at the College Republican-sponsored event in the SAC Auditorium Monday night, to a crowd of students and members of the community. The audience laughed as she began her jarring string of comedic political witticisms on liberals, the ’08 campaign, terrorism and 9/11. “Liberals doing nothing led to 9/11,” she said. “In wartime, their instinctive idiocy is threatening.” She decried liberal diplomatic tactics, calling them “all synonyms for doing nothing.” Mocking prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay, Coulter referenced guards handling the Koran with plastic gloves, “so as not to upset the little darlings.” She cited the required eight hours of sleep and three meals a day and remarked, “I’ve been fed worse at a Holiday Inn Express. To get a good meal, you have to go to Guantanamo.” Coulter said that on average, prisoners gain twenty pounds in their first year. “Sounds more like a freshman dorm at a state university,” she said. The crowd laughed again. She prefers Hillary Clinton over John McCain. “McCain, unfortunately, is a fragile vessel for very important ideas,” with a glass jaw “about to be exposed.” Already thinking ahead to 2012, she said she would only vote for McCain if Mitt Romney was his running mate. "We have to think beyond this election," she said. Throughout the night, Coulter referred to presidential-hopeful Barack Obama as “B. Hussein Obama.” She called Obama a “weasily survivor” for his ability to get past the Rev. Wright controversy with little political damage and compared it to Bill Clinton still being elected in 1992 following the Gennifer Flowers scandal. She said the United States was “damned if the voters didn’t care” about such scandals. Her lecture had a stark emphasis on the the McCain-Feingold Act. She dichotomized present-day candidates into two categories: the rich, and the “fat kids in high school who couldn’t get a girl to kiss them,” like Guliani, Clinton and Newt Gingrich. She said that because of the restrictions placed on how candidates can now raise money—in smaller donations, no more than $2,500 each—the only candidates who can afford to run now are the rich—like Romney—and candidates who have nothing better to do but attend fund raising dinners. The event, which was publicized months in advance, has been a point of controversy on Facebook, where it was officially marketed five weeks prior to Monday by the College Republicans. Groups like “ANN COULTER DOESN’T BELONG AT SBU!!” and “Ann Coulter is NOT WELCOME in Seawolves Country” sprouted up before the event. The College Republicans created its own event page: “Ann Coulter is coming to Stony Brook!” Christine Mindicino, a sophomore and a registered Republican, said she heard of the event on Facebook from one of the pro-Coulter groups. But another student, Jesse Brasco, a sophomore and a moderate conservative waiting on the book signing line after the event, said he heard about the event from an anti-Coulter group. Coulter was generally well-received at the event, drawing laughs and applause throughout her lecture. “You find her portrayal in the media as more extreme than it was tonight,” said Brasco. Sam Tata, a freshman, said that she did not know much about Coulter before coming to the event. She said Coulter was extreme in her views and thought her to be “really polarizing.” Tata said that Coulter’s view of “them versus us," pinning liberals against conservatives, was “not really a positive thing.” |
