Tase him, Bro, Blog Stage #3

In the article, “Tase him, Bro” conservative author Ann Coulter takes shots at liberals in this country by stating that “Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question -- unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel.” Coulter seems to take delight in turning the recent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking event at Columbia University into a “free speech” fiasco between liberals and conservatives.
Coulter displays her displeasure with Columbia president Lee Bollinger’s statement of “Columbia's [has a] long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate” defense of having President Ahmadinejad speak at the University. In this article Coulter attacks Bollinger numerous times. Coulter uses some examples of universities “selective” free speech by stating, “At Syracuse University last year, when liberal hecklers tried to shut down a speech by a popular conservative author of (almost!) six books, College Republicans began to remove the hecklers. But Dean of Students Roy Baker blocked them from removing students disrupting the speech on the grounds that removing students screaming during a speech would violate the hecklers' "free speech." They had a "free speech" right to prevent anyone from hearing a conservative's free speech” and “When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.” Coulter fells that liberal universities only want to have speakers who share their liberal point of view. This in her opinion is dangerous and UnAmerican. Coulter feels that every speaker should be given a forum like President Ahmadinejad received.
In conclusion, Ann Coulter is very passionate and upset on the way liberals treat opposing view points. At the end of the article, Coulter uses the following quote: “Tolerance of opposing views means we have to listen to their anti-American views, but they don't have to hear our pro-American views.” Coulter thinks that liberals will not listen to any “free speech” they feel doesn’t agrees with their liberal views.

http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi

Antiwar activists tatics backfired

"Who bears blame for anti-war failures?," by Dan Gerstein outlines the failing tactics of the antiwar movement. In this article, Dan Gerstein argues that the attempting bullying of the antiwar activists to "turn up the heat on moderate Republicans and separate them from the president" has failed. According to Mr. Gerstein the tactic of separating moderate Republicans from Bush by running more hostile ads against Republicans up for reelection in 2008 failed and alienate the moderate Republicans and pushed them closer to the president. I found this article interesting because it shows that both sides of the war (anti and pro) need to come to a sensible solution to the war and bullying tactics never work.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899106/posts