Gotta Love Those Loud-Mouthed RightWingers

Like the old joke of going to a fight where a hockey game breaks out, Ann Coulter's recent speech at Indiana University sounds like quite the scrum:

Conservative author Ann Coulter drew a large crowd to the IU Auditorium Thursday night. More than 2,500 of the auditorium's 3,200 seats were full, but that number dwindled throughout her speech as many students were ejected for disruptions and others simply walked out after certain comments.
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When her speech could actually be heard over both cheers and boos, Coulter touched on a string of topics about her views of liberal inadequacies. She claimed liberals "hate God and hate America," and that there is no hope for the Democratic Party, citing a 25-year reign of Republican dominance.

"It's time for someone (in the Democratic Party) to say, let's start over," she said.
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Coulter raised some controversy in her speech when she said that Democrats don't want democracy to succeed in Iraq. She said, "They don't think the little brown boys could handle democracy," to which students responded, "We don't tolerate racism here. Go back to Germany."

That's freakin' hilarious, but nothing compared to this snap:

During her question-and-answer session, Coulter responded to both fans and protesters. One comment that drew strong audience reactions came from a young man who asked her if she didn't like Democrats, wouldn't it just be better to have a dictatorship? Coulter responded with a jab at the way the student talked.

"You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?" she said.

IU College Republicans President Shane Kennedy defended Coulter's comments by stressing that the speech was for entertainment and attendees should have expected Coulter to say controversial comments.

Well, as the Bruce Cockburn song goes, you pay your money and you take your chance. Then there's this little bit of wisdeom from Bill O'Really (via MediaMatters) in talking about the porous border between the US and Canada:

We don't have any Border Patrol up in Canada. I mean we have a few, but, you know, anybody can come down. I don't hear any big screaming about doing business with Canada. You know, if Al Qaeda wanted to get here, it's easy. They've got all kinds of Muslim crazies up in Canada running around.

Speaking of O'Really, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has really been getting under his ruddy, blotchy skin lately. So much so that he's written a petition letter to the chairman of NBC asking that Olbermann be replaced by the man who formerly had a show in that MSNBC time slot, Phil Donohue (whom O'Really surely feels he can smear more easily than Olbermann, who is relentless in simply tossing back what O'Really has actually said--which more than cements his image as a ranting idiot). Anyhoo, Olbermann bit back with humor, signing the petition on the air (and having other MSNBC employees line up to sign it as well) while replaying some of O'Really's greatest hits--check it out over at Crooks & Liars.

Finally, Fox had an interesting take on the FUBAR landscape of Iraq after the shrine bombing this week (from MediaMatters):