Ann Coulter jeered at book signing.

[Cleita]

Ann Coulter Book Signing Chaos: Author Slams Immigration Activists After Book Promo Mess

July 3, 2015 | By Garrett Montgomery

An Ann Coulter book signing event went terribly wrong after undocumented immigrants created chaos. Over 100 people carrying signs disrupted Coulter as she attempted to promote her new book, “¡Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole,” which focuses on immigration.

On Wednesday, the conservative and controversial commentator, who is currently promoting her new book, Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third-World Hellhole, was at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Costa Mesa for a signing event.

In the book, Coulter, like Donald Trump explains that undocumented immigrants are the ones destroying America.

“She touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants’ crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their “charity,” and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants—all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that’s tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy, Coulter proves that immigration is the most important issue facing America today.”

More than 100 activists, some with banners and one with the Mexican flag hijacked Coulter’s book signing. One protester said that Coulter is making all immigrants look like criminals and added that the writer needs to be reminded that we are all immigrants because this land originally belonged to Native Americans, not Europeans, not Latin Americans. Sharon Tipton said:

“There’s been a lot of anti-Latino, racist remarks coming from (Coulter).She shows some major problems in our society.”

more at link:http://www.thespreadit.com/ann-coulter-book-signing-chaos-author-slams-immigration-activists-after-book-promo-mess-60518/

[csziggy]

1. "after undocumented immigrants created chaos"

How does the author of this article know the immigration status of the people protesting? Did someone go around at the protest and check the documents of the people there?

From the article:

One protester said that Coulter is making all immigrants look like criminals and added that the writer needs to be reminded that we are all immigrants because this land originally belonged to Native Americans, not Europeans, not Latin Americans. Sharon Tipton said:

“There’s been a lot of anti-Latino, racist remarks coming from (Coulter).She shows some major problems in our society.”

I didn't know Tipton was a Latino surname!

This is a pretty complementary article about Coulter and the trash she's pushing.

[Cleita]

2. Yeah, but it's still funny. Maybe another source will show up. Costa Mesa is a

right wing haven. So it's pretty cool she's been protested in a place she probably felt comfortable in. I notice there was no book signing in Santa Monica which is very liberal.

[csziggy]

3. True - though I was disappointed

I was expecting to read about who Coulter jeered at not that she was jeered. Turn about is fair play, I guess!

[OldEurope]

66. Costa Mesa

is a right wing haven for white folks? Where does this name come from?
Surely not English.

[libdem4life]

78. Half the names of towns and cities in California are Spanish. Well, not Orange County exactly.

All the way down the coast, leaving out Eureka...we all know where that came from. Even the name of the state. Boggles the mind.

[Initech]

81. The Trinity Broadcast Network is right down the street.

And yes I live here, there's lots of right wing nuts and Fox News bots here.

[BuddhaGirl]

72. It's really not so "right wing" any more, though

The O.C. - where I grew up - is slowly changing.

So glad to hear that Coulter's event was disrupted!!

[tblue37]

33. She could have an Anglo surname yet still be Latina.Some Latinos even have Asian names.

Remember Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru?

Or she could be a married woman who took her husband's name.

[csziggy]

38. That's possible - and it shows the folly in making assumptions

Which I should know! At least my assumptions are not insulting or hateful.

[Lucky Luciano]

50. Fujimori us if Japanese descent. He is Peruvian though. nt

[tblue37]

56. My point precisely. He is of Japanese descent (I.e., Asian), but he was born n Peru and is,

therefore, a Latino. My father's parents came here from Sicily, but Dad was born in the US. He was, therefore, an American, despite having Sicilian parents who became US citizens through naturalization.

Although he Americanized his nme when he joined the Airforce, his birth name was Salvatore Giovanni.if someone remarked that it didn't sound like an American name, I would point out that many Americans have names that are not whitebread American, just as many Latinos have non-Hispanic European--or even Asian--names.

[JHB]

79. It does, however, cut down on the odds that...

...she's an "undocumented immigrant".

[MrScorpio]

4. "...a media determined to cover up immigrants’ crimes"

WTF?

[Cleita]

5. That's what coulter said, not the writer of the piece. Look at the quotation marks. eom

[lpbk2713]

6. Coultergeist probably likes demonstrations like this.

Her niche is small but well defined. Something like this will probably
boost her book sales among her mouth breathing fans.

[Cleita]

7. She can play the martyr, which she has done in the past.

"Those awful people are picking on me." type of defense.

[virgogal]

32. Well some idiot DID throw a pie at her.

Pie throwing is so juvenile.

[Cleita]

35. Maybe he wanted her to eat something. eom

[jtuck004]

48. Unlike nuclear war, or immigrant bashing, or many other things we do which are so

much more mature.

I like a good pie in the face. I think it is wasted on Coulter.

[lunatica]

61. you gotta admit though, she's as good at dodging pies and Dubya is at dodging shoes

Gotta be because they expect it, unlike most people. No catching them off guard.

[7962]

77. I agree, but I think we're in the minority here unfortunately.

All that type stuff is just stupid

[tblue37]

40. She has been complaining that people have not been rising to the bait this time,

so I am sure the troll is thrilled at the protest.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/why-isnt-anyone-outraged-by-ann-coulter-anymore.html

Ann Coulter Wants to Know Why She Doesn’t Make You Mad Anymore
Annie Lowrey

Nobody is paying attention to Ann Coulter, and she does not like it.

“They’re ignoring me now!” Coulter wails, sitting in a conference room at the National Press Club in Washington as a large crowd filters in to hear her promote her new book, ¡Adios, America!.

“I haven’t been on CNN yet, because I was made up, my hair was done, I was mic’ed up, I was walking to the set,” where Don Lemon was anchoring, she said. “He was doing a full hour on the Doogans or whatever their name is,” she said, referring to the Duggars. Given the interest in one Duggar son's confession of molestation, the network ended up bumping her segment. “The next night, ‘We’re going to do all Doogans again.’ And then the next week, it’s the cop who yelled at a girl in a bikini! And then it’s Bruce Jenner!”

This is the lament of a woman who became a national political celebrity by stoking outrage — who rose up alongside the cable-television networks and conservative talk-radio, needling liberals and flattering conservatives with a potent mix of hilarity, bombast, and the occasional dash of racism. This is the lament of a woman who has written an outrageous book, one immaculately designed to piss off half of America, or more. This is the lament of a woman living in a time of outrage, outrage that spreads viruslike on Twitter, television, and Facebook. This is the lament of a woman who has found herself unable to capitalize on that outrage.

{SNIP}

[Cleita]

8. Here's another report.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2222638/ann-coulter-book-signing-chaos-protesters-disrupt-california-event-for-adios-america/

An Ann Coulter book signing in Costa Mesa, California, this week got chaotic when protesters stopped by with some chants directed at the author. In true Coulter style, though, she battled back with a response that naturally her supporters loved and critics hated.

As Mediaite shared, the Ann Coulter book signing that raised a ruckus was held at a Barnes & Noble for her book Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third-World Hellhole. Reports indicate that a group of protesters chanted throughout the signing and had banners as well. Gabriel San Roman, a reporter for the OC Weekly, says that when it became clear during the signing that he wasn’t a fan of Coulter’s, he was shooed out of the way by security.

The OC Register details that about 100 people gathered at the bookstore for the signing on Wednesday night, and that protesters and Coulter fans clashed heavily. The protesters apparently grew to be about 50 people strong, and about 20 security guards attempted to keep the peace both inside and in front of the store. A number of protesters were asked by security to leave, and reports indicate that at one point the police were called.

During the heat of the protests, private visits with Coulter were halted and the media was reportedly asked to leave the store. There were some arguments between the Coulter fans and protesters, and some heckling, but it doesn’t seem that things escalated to the point of there being any violence, injuries, or arrests.


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[lpbk2713]

12. I went to the link.

Does she ever launder that black dress? She always seems to be wearing it.

[yuiyoshida]

31. Maybe she is afraid that god forbid

it will be done by Asian launderers!

[davidpdx]

34. Owch, that hurt!

Poor poor Annie!

[jmowreader]

82. She's just following Obama's lead

The president wears the same color suit every day. Ann Coulter realized her meal ticket had a great idea and replaced all her clothes with $19.95 black dresses.

[etherealtruth]

9. I rarely hate anyone ....

...but, I really despise that ghoulish creature

[tularetom]

10. There's no such thing as bad publicity for a POS like coulter

Now she can use the incident to portray herself as the victim.

The ideal outcome would have been to goad her into making a complete ass of herself, a total loss of dignity, like maybe physically assaulting a protester, but she apparently didn't take the bait, unfortunately.

I even wonder if she didn't stage the whole thing. Notice she wasn't appearing at a Barnes & Noble in East LA, but instead at one in a Anglo enclave on the Orange County coast.

[Cleita]

13. Yes, she didn't even do the west side, like Santa Monica or Westwood, even though they

are pretty Anglo, but very liberal. She would have been jeered there too. She picked a right wing, white place that was in her comfort zone, but anywhere in LA is no place to pick on Hispanics and get away with it. I think she knows that now.

[calimary]

80. Well, Costa Mesa is Orange County. I haven't been around that part of SoCal since college, so

I don't know the political temperature in all those enclaves down there. But Orange County is pretty CONservative. Got Newport Beach and Fascist Island (Fashion Island) where there are lots of really ritzy stores and tall slick office buildings that look like they're full of lawyers and banksters. The rare times I'm on the freeway passing through there, I'm always amazed at how built-up it is. SHEESH. Wasn't like that in the 70s.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. The book's already a bestseller, so I'm sure she doesn't care

It may well be that lots of copies have been bought the rightwing organizations in order to push it to bestseller status. Doesn't matter to her. She still gets the money.

I'll cheer when such books by big rightwing names are flops from the day of publication. If that ever happens.

[Cleita]

15. It could if the NYT changed the way they compile the best seller lists.

They count the books sold by the publishers to the retail book outlets. The rightwing organizations buy directly from them I believe or the tally would be different.They should count what is sold from the outlets instead. It would show a different story. When I worked in a bookstore, we often sent back books that didn't sell, but there was no reverse count either. So those returned books were still counted as sales to the NYT.

[DavidDvorkin]

39. It's also ranked well on Amazon

Amazon ranks show "sales velocity" -- a combination of number of sales and the time span during which the sales were made. So if a lot of her fans bought her book right away, that would drive up the Amazon sales rank. If that's the case, the sales rank will then decline quickly.

[emulatorloo]

54. Wonder if Right Wing Organizations are messing with Amazon data

Similar to what Cleita describes?

[DavidDvorkin]

55. I described how they could do that

And how we would be able to tell.

[marble falls]

30. Its not only about hitting her bottom line, its also about the "photographics"......

and the laughs and punchlines that'll follow. Can't imagine the talk shows won't go over it.

[Fred Sanders]

14. I think a better take on the subject of immigration and racist Coulter is available than this rather mild rebuke.

[Cleita]

16. Remember these news sources are in RW territory and will try to be favorable. It's still news.

Hopefully, one of the more unbiased news sources will report it.

[riversedge]

17. Good for them.

[hifiguy]

18. Excellent.

Show up slime mold for what it is.

[SoapBox]

19. Excellent.

She's a racist pig.

I loved it when Canada wouldn't allow here in.

[global1]

20. Maybe She Or Her Publisher Paid The Protesters...

Nothing like generating some controversy to sell some books.

[Cleita]

21. Really?

These protestors were real and very offended by her very racist book. Latinos are more vulnerable to these types of racist attacks, even more so than blacks because of the fact they might be undocumented and can't come out of the shadows yet.

[red dog 1]

64. Doubtful but possible.

Ann Coulter has a large, right-wing conservative fan base who will buy any book she writes.

IMO, she doesn't need "controversy" to sell her stupid, racist books.

[Initech]

22. Sorry Ann, turning America into a third world hell hole is the Koch Bros.' job.

[Cleita]

24. Your words are sadly true. eom

[hifiguy]

27. Bull's eye.

The Kochtopus and the banksters have that job well taken care of.

[LuvNewcastle]

43. Yep, people are skimping by on starvation wages,

but it's the left that's turning America into a third-world hellhole.

[olegramps]

60. She is the living, breathing prime example that what she says is true.

[marble falls]

23. It'd have been funnier if the signing had taken place at Borders.

[Cleita]

25. Mubwah!

Too bad Borders is no more.

[marble falls]

29. Its the thought that counts! Either way its pretty cherry!

[Initech]

41. Rimshot!

[UTUSN]

26. R#31 & K!1 n/t

[asturias31]

28. Protesting: good. Jeering: bad.

[Cleita]

36. Headlines were by the person who reported.

It was a protest.

[gregcrawford]

37. The woman is half snake, half harpy...

... and a whole seething furnace of malice. She hasn't got molecule of decency. If jeering is the worst thing she's suffered, she got off much easier than she deserved.

[red dog 1]

65. Well stated!

[mountain grammy]

42. Ann Coulter is a horror show.

Hooray for the protesters.

[Thespian2]

44. Unfortunately, this Pus-Pocket

has made a good living by pissing off most of humanity, but especially liberals...be aware that this harridan knows exactly what she is doing...

[davidpdx]

45. I'm sure she snuck out a backdoor afraid of all those "criminals" out front

[Cleita]

46. I worked at a bookstore and we had book signings.

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We never needed security guards, even for some of the more controversial authors. I think the guards are hers not the bookstore's or maybe provided by one of the conservative think tanks or even the KKK for all we know. B&N is too cheap to pay for that.

[davidpdx]

53. I would go a bit further and guess she probably had the guards contracted from a local

security company that doesn't pay them shit. The fact that she had to have security to protect her tell you something.

I've only been to one book signing in my life and that was actually for a soap star (the guy who plays Max Scorpio on General Hospital. He was a really nice friendly guy. I went since I had purchased the 30th anniversary book in the early 90's).

[progressiveinnarb]

47. A Big Fat K&R

I cant fucking stand Ann Coulter

[Elwood P Dowd]

49. Anyone remember what David Brock said about Coulter in his book

'Blinded By The Right'? Its been about 12 years since I read it, but there were some choice bits in there. He worked with her (American Spectator maybe?) in Washington before turning on the repukes and exposing them as the utter trash they are. What's sad is they are much worse now than back then.

[OldEurope]

69. On the other hand:

Those listening to them get fewer.
So be hopefull. The young ones are laughing at persons like Coulter.

[postatomic]

51. Barnes and Noble is still in business??!!

I got a chuckle when Kullter said "Mexicans were litter bugs". On Bill Maher.

Others have eluded to it but Kullter loves this kind of shit. She probably had a wonderful 'self-worship' experience later that day.

[Liberal_in_LA]

52. lol

[geek tragedy]

58. Ann-thrax is a very successful troll--the violentacrenz of politics. nt

[lark]

59. Hate begets hate.

Coulter is a paid hater so is getting a taste of what she deserves. Luckily for her, the protesters are far nicer and better examples of Americans than she is.

[qazplm]

62. ignoring her would be better

she loves stuff like this, just makes her mildly relevant.

[treestar]

63. Funny how the immigrants who

Were the Coultergeist's forebears didn't "tear the country apart"

[kelliekat44]

67. What, she's stopped blaming blacks? nt

[red dog 1]

68. K&R...Thanks for posting

Coulter is a mean-spirited, hateful douchebag!

[dpatbrown]

70. what she wanted

Coulter got exactly what she wanted, attention. As a matter of fact, she prizes the negative attention the most. She makes lots of money, and laughs all the way to the bank.

[JohnnyRingo]

71. Selling books for Ann Coulter.

There is no such thing as bad press for Coulter when she has a new book out. That's why she puts on a little black dress and goes on the air to spout something willfully ignorant. Ann Coulter does these signings- not to placate her fans- but as free publicity to get the word out that she's peddling another hate filled screed.

I'm not picking on you for posting this, but if the media could see fit to ignore her and her purposely outrageous statements she'd be marginalized as a footnote of American journalism. As it is, she thrives on this sort of attention to the point that she could just as well hire these protesters herself. As it is, these people are probably helping her for free.

Unlike others such as Donald Trump, she can't be boycotted. Her fans will buy her book regardless, and that's all she's selling. It's impossible anymore to tell when the difference between her pandering and sincerity.

[Cleita]

74. But the booksellers can boycott her. I think incidents like this would make a book store think

twice about inviting her for book signing. I know I would. Most retailers would rather not have angry crowds around their places of business. How to keep her off TV and the internet is another problem.

[A Simple Game]

73. Costa Mesa, such a nice American name for Ann to do a book signing. n/t

[Cleita]

75. Actually, California once was part of Mexico before the gold miners took it away, which makes

the irony even greater. She's bad mouthing and trashing the very people who helped build it into the golden state. She really needs to go back to Florida and stay there. I can smell her all the way up the coast to my very "English" named town of San Luis Obispo.

[A Simple Game]

76. Just what I was hinting at, actually much of the west coast and the southwest

were under Mexican control, even the once great state of Texas. Close to a quarter of the US was acquired from Mexico, all of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and about half of Colorado.

Do we want to talk about Louisiana Purchase we got from those surrender monkey croissant eating French people? Baton Rouge? Another good American name.

I would tell Ann to go where she is wanted but I doubt they want her in hell either.