U. of FL students paid $32,000 to hear stark raving madness from Coulter?

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor & Publisher: Coulter Is Paid $32,000 to Give 30-Minute Speech at College
By E&P Staff
Published: April 06, 2006

....The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, in a story about Coulter's Wednesday appearance at the University of Florida, noted that UF's student-run speaker's bureau shelled out $32,000 of its $370,000 annual budget to bring Coulter to campus. The $32,000 includes her speaking fee, travel, and lodging....

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Jeff Adelson's Thursday story added: "In response to a question about whether Islamic beliefs could be problematic in the creation of an Iraqi democracy, Coulter repeated what has become perhaps her most controversial comment. 'We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity,' she wrote shortly after Sept. 11."...

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And Coulter told the UF audience that "a college campus is the last place you should send someone to teach them American values."

In her latest column, posted Thursday on AnnCoulter.com, the commentator also questioned the patriotism of people who don't share her Republican views. "If only liberals were half as angry at the people who flew planes into our skyscrapers as they are with Tom DeLay, we might have two patriotic parties in this country," she wrote. Coulter added that she can't "figure out what crime against God and man Tom DeLay is even alleged to have committed."

Coulter also alleged that the highly profitable Halliburton "is currently losing money in Iraq in order to supply food to our troops."...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002313137

[Inland]

1. Fuck, I gotta get my hands on some of that looneytunes money!

How do you find lunatics with nothing but cash they want to hand out, now that Delay and Abramoff are gone?

I mean, do you walk up to somebody and ask, "Complete this sentence: a ____ and his money are soon parted" and if he can't answer, just fleece him?

[C_U_L8R]

3. Hate sells

at least to dumbshit freepers and batshit fundies. No shit

[billybob537]

2. American values

yeah right If Mars has an AMERICA!

[donsu]

4. does she hire body guards? does the S.S. protect her too?

nt

[fond DU]

5. Hot damn! Did they really???

[etherealtruth]

6. I can't fathom this ....

Why would anyone want to hear someone spewing the putrid and vile exudate that comes from Coulter's mouth?

In all honesty, I would want no part of someone from the left that was simply limited to hatred of the "right"

[SharonAnn]

8. I don't understand why she cant figure it out. Is she that stupid?

"she can't "figure out what crime against God and man Tom DeLay is even alleged to have committed.""

Hmm, a little bit of reading even biased newspapers and magazines would tell her what crimes he "alleged to have committed". A little bit of viewing even biased TV networks would tell her the same.

[ClintonTyree]

19. It's Florida.........

Jeb probably made it mandatory. Florida is full of freaking Reich-Wing nut-cases. A lot of good Dems as well, but the Reich-Wing loonies grab more attention.

[jsamuel]

7. U of Arkansas spent 25,000 dollars on her

shame shame shame

[Craig3410]

22. Hey, don't blame ME!

I didn't vote for the money; the UA senate did.

Don't hold it against all of us UAers, please; most of us think think she's just as crazy a bitch as you guys do. :)

[jsamuel]

41. I'm a U of Aer myself

[Initech]

9. Couldnt that money be better used for I dont know... academics?

Instead of hiring a hateful, spineless bitch like Ann Coulter to speak?

[shenmue]

12. Believe me...

I went there for grad school, and yes they could use that money for something better. Anything would be better. Eating it with mustard would be better.

[oldcoot]

39. What is the starting salary of a new faculty member?

Could they have hired a professor or a department secretary for that amount?

[shenmue]

10. A tenth of their budget for half an hour?

And she's insane. Coulter needs to walk down to the hospital and check herself in.

[northzax]

11. wait a minute...

we have crimes against God in this country now? what's up with that?

[OneBlueSky]

13. might just as well have flushed it down the loo . . . n/t

.

[Faygo Kid]

14. How much of that went for "substances"?

In case anyone hasn't noticed, Annie isn't looking too good these days. Big time.

[madrchsod]

15. a thousand and change per minute?

are the students that stupid? i guess i answered my own question

[Inland]

36. How would you like to be a grad stud. TA

working for your measely wage actually teaching while she struts in, knowing nothing, being responsible for nothing, and walking off with the bux?

[Missy M]

16. I question the intelligence of students who pay that kind...

of money to listen to Coulter and agree with her. It doesn't bode well for the future of this country.

[Hardrada]

17. And add the expense of the gallons of bleach and Lysol

needed to clean up after her act.

[Scurrilous]

18. UF's student-run speakers bureau:

http://www.sg.ufl.edu/accent/

Up Next: Tuesday, April 11th, Margaret Cho.

Contact info:

http://www.sg.ufl.edu/accent/contact.htm

[TallahasseeGrannie]

20. I don't have a problem with it

You go to college to learn. What better way to learn than to listen to extremists? College shouldn't be an echo chamber. Gives them something to talk about, discuss, argue over. Her fees don't seem out of whack with other lectures. And next week is Margaret Cho? I commend them for getting thought-provoking folks.

[monarch]

21. Try looking at it this way

She made almost $1,000 an hour to encourage people to support the soak the poor party.

[Lochloosa]

23. It's the University of Florida

What did you expect?

[Jack from Charlotte]

29. 250 SAT point higher student body than Semi-state, no Chiropractic school.

one of the top 50 schools in the country as decided by The Association of American Universities (AAU), No racist nicknames. No moron politico, uneducated, football players for presidents. No religion spouting football coaches quoted as "praying for a misdemeanor" for a player so he could remain elgible.... like me to go on....

Hey, Let's count National Merit Scholars, semi. Or basketball wins........

That's just some of what one can expect at Florida....in addition to campus being full of diverse ideas even if they're ideas of right wing, racist morons.

[Lochloosa]

31. Thought I would reel in someone....

:rofl:

[jsamuel]

42. And a completely built and sturdy bell tower with no missing bricks

hehehe


I am an alumni from UF.

[hedgehog]

24. I think student run speaker's bureaus make it a point to out shock

each other by booking controversial speakers for outrageous fees. It's the same with the student run newspapers. They get automatic funding from the student activity fee (which the students have no say in) and there really is no oversight. Any attempt at control is met by cries of free speech and censorship. On the other hand, if they don't raise controversy from time to time, they feel disappointed and ignored.(They were the same way thirty years ago. I can remember when the editors of University of Buffalo's Spectrum felt so very shocking and cool when one of their December issues features a front page picture of the Nativity with a Raggedy Ann doll substituted for the Christ Child.)

It's an excellent way for the school administrators to get the troublemakers out of their hair by giving them their own little kingdoms to run.

[Craig3410]

27. I honestly think it's just the College Republicans.

So far, this year, the hosted 1 democrat and 2 repubs.

The Democrat was James Carville.

The Re:puke:s were Mary Matlin and Annthrax.

Who's more "shocking"?

[hedgehog]

28. I really think you're giving the speaker's bureau too much credit.

I don't think they really know who these speakers are beyond the fact that they'll irritate people. If they could get Hannibal Lecter, they'd book him in a minute. (I'm not certain that some of these students would realize he's a fictional character.)

[Tactical Progressive]

25. Without the Republican Party of Traitors

there would have been no planes flying into our skyscrapers, Nasty Annie.

We know exactly who to be angry at.

[tsuki]

26. I'd be suing for a tuition rebate. nt

[hedgehog]

30. As someone who is working to pay to put six kids through college,

(I know, it's my own fault, but they were really cute when they were little) I have a personal grudge against student fees of any kind. It's a way of disguising tuition hikes, IMO. Where does all this money go anyways, and who decided that it was needed? Right now some of my kids are being charged a $200 a semester Athletic activity fee that goes mostly for a football team that most of the students aren't really interested in because someone decided that the school needed a football team to attract alumni donations.

I really shouldn't be so cranky- some of the speakers the kids have seen have been pretty decent. It's just that it's such a crap shoot year to year how the money gets spent.

[spanone]

32. Some people like to wallow in shit.

[0007]

38. ...and some like to swallow poop without chewing it up first.

[Mike Daniels]

33. The sad thing is, there are probably any number of learned conservatives

who could come to campus and give a speech that was entertaining and still be based around logic and respectful discourse.

The fact that they invite someone like Coulter indicates that it's more about hosting an event only slightly above a professional wrestling match vs. actually advancing any sense of learning and thought.

[Inland]

37. All true, agree completely.

Coulter's only value is that she'll be outrageous. That a student org. spent money on that sort of entertainment value...the lowest form of entertainment value at that...is a scandal.

[opihimoimoi]

34. Ann the MAN is Not the Problem...its those that believe her

Ignorance Rules and she is at the Fore Front of Madness in Action.... Damn, Only in a Brainwashed Society can she exist to the point of being PAID...

Think to the next Level guys...she is Level 23...not even close to 101.01... we need to look at the Level 200's and Level 300's

for our Society...thats where the sweet fruits are at...she and her thinking are giving us LEMONS

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[proud2BlibKansan]

40. When will she be arrested for voter fraud?