Author: Ruby Sinreich

Confront one of the worst offenders.. Ann Coulter unfortunately needs
no introduction, but you can read all about her at these links.

Please forward widely!

As you may know, Ann “Dick Cheney is sexy” Coulter will be visiting our
fair campus on October 1. I’d like to organize a group to attend her
lecture and ask some tough questions during the Q&A session. For
example, we could read a quote of hers such as this one:

“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that
John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute
people like John Walker in order to physically indimidate liberals, by
making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will
turn out to be outright traitors.” – January 2002

and then ask her how she can square the murder of opposition voices
with American ideals of democracy and freedom of speech. Does she ever
feel a bit anti-American? etc.

If you’re interested in being part of this group, please contact Sara
Peach.

Details of the Coulter event:

Time: 6 to 9 PM; Ann Coulter will make a speech to be followed by a
Q&A session. Date: Wednesday, October 1 Place: Rotunda, School of Law

“Ann Coulter is a renowned political pundit. She graduated form the
University of Michigan School of Law and has been recognized as among
the “top 100 public intellectuals” by federal judge Richard Posner. She
has written three best selling books: Slander: Liberal Lies About the
American Right; High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
Clinton; and most recently Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War
to the War on Terrorism.” – from the UNC Calendar

Bush said he insulates himself from the ‘opinions’ that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories.

‘I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news,’ the president said. ‘And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.’

President Bush’s speech last Sunday was just the latest example of the administration’s concerted efforts to misrepresent reality — and rewrite history — to mask its mistakes. The president said Iraq is now the center of our battle against terrorism. But we did not go to Iraq to fight Al-Qaida, which remains perhaps our deadliest foe, and we will not defeat it there.

By trying to justify the current fight in Iraq as a fight against terrorism, the administration has done two frightening things. It has tried to divert attention from Osama bin Laden, the man responsible for the wave of terrorist attacks against American interests from New York and Washington to Yemen, and who reappeared in rugged terrain in a video broadcast last week. And the policy advanced by the speech is a major step toward creating a dangerous, self-fulfilling prophecy and reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts on the ground.

“Franken’s book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, is the best-selling book in the country — and it’s making conservatives apoplectic. Howard Dean has brought more passion to the Democratic primary than all of his opponents combined. So it’s no surprise that liberals are buying Franken’s book and driving up Dean’s poll numbers. After years of feeling cheated and attacked, liberals are mad as hell and don’t want to take it anymore. There is, however, one significant exception: the liberal punditocracy. ”