From Coulter to Benedict

Okay, I've had it with this whole Coulter thing. You defend an asshole's right to speak and then get branded an asshole yourself. Listen sheep, if you develop the security to sit down and listen to someone with thoughts different than your own, give me a call.

I am a pro-choice, pro-same-sex-marriage atheist. I obviously think Ann Coulter's rhetoric is assenine. That is IF she actually believes the stuff she spews. However, a side of me wonders if she actually buys half of it herself and has just figured out a way to make $10000 every time she is scheduled to spout off. She reminds me of Howard Stern - I guarantee you off the air he is nothing like he is on it. Christ, Barbara Walters is one of his best friends (maybe she is a wild whore - who knows). Shock sells. I'll never know what goes through the mind of Coulter in private, but she has turned the radically right wing, offensive shit that comes out of her mouth into a nest egg, and for that I commend her. Simply put, defending free speech does not equate to agreeing with the contents of the speech.


Censorship is defined as "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable." For the head of a "respected" (and in the case of Ottawa U, I use that term loosely) university to write a letter to an invited speaker to inform her of what would be "tolerated" is, in fact, censorship. People are saying that because the government didn't stop her it isn't censorship. Censorship is not reserved for government use. The fact that her bodyguards made the decision to call it off may be true. However, had the provost of Ottawa U not sent the letter censoring her moronic speech, it would not have been made into such a big deal, and hence, there would likely not be a security threat. There were no issues at Western or Calgary. If you ask me, her subsequent comment that Ottawa U is "bush league" holds some merit. Once the head of university starts determining what speech will be tolerated in a bastion of "free thought", that university might as well close its doors.

As a person who enjoys to both read and (attempt to) write strong language, I will never agree with any form of censorship at any level. I have stated in writing many times my "hatred" for a variety of people, organizations, beliefs, and ideas. Once we start restricting this right in any way whatsoever we start a treck down a very slippery slope.

Thank you for your time and I hate the pope.