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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Surprised she was able to speak on college campus at all...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:24 p.m. EST
Ann Coulter Draws Cheers, Jeers at KU
Ann Coulter fired blistering volleys against liberals and, on occasion, heard them fired back at her from the crowd of 1,800 people at the University of Kansas's Lied Center.
And though the overwhelming number of people who attended were fans of hers, the best-selling author, columnist, lawyer and sought-after political analyst also had to deal with small crowds of hecklers.
She handled it in her usual top-notch manner, with wit, humor and verve, suggesting they were simply misguided students who "meant to be at the sexual reorientation class down the hall."
Coulter even praised liberals, noting they are "kind of cute when they're cold, shivering and afraid." And, reported the Lawrence Journal-World, she even pledged to entertain questions from liberal attendees – or at least those who could "thrash their way to a coherent thought."
Still, Coulter at one point had to threaten to end the lecture due to continued heckling.
"Could ten of the largest College Republicans start walking up and down the aisles and start removing anyone shouting? Otherwise, this lecture is over," she said.
At that point, the paper reported, there was no shortage of people willing to help her out. One student – a freshman named Michael Conner – said of the verbal confrontations that began within moments, "All I did was say they shouldn't stop her from speaking."
The blonde bombshell also took jabs at all of liberalism's icons – Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., whom she said was the Democrats' "spiritual leader" and whom she described as a "human dirigible"; award-winning filmmaker and best-selling Bush critic Michael Moore; "and former presidential candidate John Kerry, who she said got away with telling 'big, fat, enormous lies,'" the paper reported.
Coulter, who was paid $25,000 to appear, said that although Democrats lost big in the 2004 elections, they are basically beholden to the same tired, worn liberal ideas that got them defeated. She said the party believes it only "needs new labels for their bottles."
The paper reported that Coulter spoke at the 37th J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series, an event sponsored by the Kansas University Endowment Association via financial backing from the Vickers family of Wichita. The series began in 1971.
3/31/2005 11:23:00 AM by Todd Bacon
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