Ann Coulter to Speak at USC for Islamo-Fascism Wingnut Awareness Week

[Purveyor]

Gearing up for another War on Christmas, combative conservative columnist David Horowitz and the College Republicans are calling out to their hate squad and killing Halloween (not to mention a week of breast cancer awareness month) with what they've dubbed "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week." Ann Coulter, recently listed as charging a $25,000 speaker fee by the Premiere Speakers Bureau (and now "call for fee") will speak in the name of Islamo-Fascism Awareness tomorrow night at USC.

Fascism (Webster: "a movement that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader...) seems an apropos label for aspects of BushCo and especially for the racist, sexist, fear-mongering idio(t)logues like Horowitz, Podhoretz, Malkin, Coulter, et al.

Free speech is just fine but baseless and inflammatory bigotry -- at a cost -- is unacceptable. And while Ann Coulter has the right to speak at USC just like anybody else, it's ridiculous and insulting -- not to mention embarrassing to America's image in the world -- to speak under the pretense of Islamo-fascism Awareness Week.

Nonetheless, the 220-seat Annenberg Auditorium sold out in a mere six hours for the event, sponsored by the USC College Republicans, the USC Objectivist Club, Young America's Foundation and the Horowitz Freedom Center. USC Department of Public Safety (no, they don't carry Tasers) will be on alert as classes will continue at the Annenberg School for Communication during the event -- in other words, tomorrow's journalists will be incubating in so-called "liberally-biased" classrooms while the devil herself holds court in the basement.

Before you go crying out that this is typical, private school, USC-style pandering, realize that similar IFAW events are being staged at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSB, among other places.

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http://laist.com/2007/10/23/ann_coulter_to.php

[acmavm]

1. College republicans are really a worthless lot.

[MADem]

2. Ewww....the 220-seat Annenberg Auditorium sold out in a mere six hours for the event

That's pretty disgusting. It doesn't give me much hope for the future, if that many students want to waste time listening to that shit. Unless there are a few piemen in the crowd....

See what happens when college becomes unaffordable for American youth? Only asswipe Republicans end up in college!!!

[wtmusic]

5. 220 seats is one tiny auditorium

at a university with 30K students.

[MADem]

6. I wonder how much a ticket costs, and how much comes out of every kid's tuition to pay that skank?nt

[BootinUp]

3. I would guess there will be some dissenters in the audience

I hope.

[4dsc]

4. Don't forget to bring cream pies

I believe cream pies are appropriate for this event..

[litlady]

7. Speakers at USC when I went there included...

RFK Jr., Jared Diamond, Newt Gingrich and Colin Powell as well as a controversial speaker from the JDL. Powell drew so many people that they had to use the Shrine.

[abq e streeter]

8. Hopefully some prgressive students will be there and...

will have recently dined on a nice big BEAN burrito.