Strib's Coleman reviews the "Coultergeists" visit to Minnesoooootah!

[katinmn]

Nick Coleman: In the Coultergeist's wake, a teachable moment http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5371175.html

Nick Coleman, Star Tribune
April 27, 2005 NICK0427

Ann Coulter is gone, but now we're having fun. Because listening to her is like hitting your head with a hammer: It's fun when she stops.

The conservative pundit on spiked heels came to town last week, and they are still picking up the pieces at two citadels of saintly scholarship in Minnesota -- St. Olaf College in Northfield and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. I have already written about the miniskirted screechfest at St. Thomas, and I'd be glad to never mention it again. Except for the fact that left behind her, amid the wreckage of civil discourse, is that useful flotsam often found in the wake of a disaster: A teachable moment.

What have we learned, class, about free speech after listening to Coulter call Democrats traitors to the country, threaten to give a Muslim student's name to homeland security and toss insults faster than a kid with a Dixie cup full of fish parts can toss herrings at a seal exhibit?

Her herrings are all red.

--snip--

[Montauk6]

1. COULTERGEIST!!! THAT'S PERFECT!!!!

[katinmn]

3. I like it, too :-)

Man Coulter

now playing in

"Coultergeist!"

[ewagner]

2. Did you see this????

Actually, I'm shocked about this....need to do some googling here...

"...And why any college would let some off-campus group underwrite the fireworks is truly a mystery. At St. Olaf, a student speakers' committee booked Coulter, but at St. Thomas, the bloviator's big bucks were paid for by the Young America's Foundation, a Virginia-based conservative group that reveres Reagan."

on edit: here's some info on YAF

<http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=16236>

[riverwalker]

4. Young America Foundation

paid the $25,000 fee. In your Googling, you will find many ties to YAF including Eberle of Guckert fame.

[katinmn]

5. Yes, there's some info on another thread...

...That was covered by the Young America's Foundation, a Herndon, Va., organization that bills itself as an outreach program for conservative youth...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=160&topic_id=9499&mesg_id=9694&page=

So, wealthy Republicans are buying her books and fascist youth groups are paying her speaking fees.

What IS authentic about Coulter, um Coultergeist?

[ewagner]

6. Here's a link to

the bio of Ron Robertson, the exec director.....

He's also linked to Citizen's United which sounds familiar but I haven't googled it yet....

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Okay.......

here's where we've heard of them before...


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