{"id":684,"date":"2005-12-10T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=684"},"modified":"2006-10-08T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T16:05:51","slug":"682-of-when-a-conservative-comes-to-a-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"[682] Of when a conservative comes to a university&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ll get booed. Well, maybe not all but Ann Coulter sure had earful. She also brilliantly called her audience stupid. No. She actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/12\/08\/coulter.row.ap\/index.html\">called her audience <em>stupider<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ann Coulter to hecklers: You&#8217;re stupider than I am<\/p>\n<p>STORRS, Connecticut (AP) &#8212; Conservative columnist Ann Coulter cut short a speech at the University of Connecticut amid boos and jeers, and decided to hold a question-and-answer session instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am,&#8221; Coulter told the crowd of 2,600 Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boo!<\/p>\n<p>Somebody at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwichbulletin.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051210\/OPINION01\/512100329\/1014\/OPINION\">Norwich Bulletin<\/a> wrote something marvelous about the uber-polemicist&#8217;s speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UConn College Republicans&#8217; stated reason for inviting Coulter to speak, for $16,000, was to promote conservative thought on campus. In actuality, they paid for a circus, and they got one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right on.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad she graduated from Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ll get booed. Well, maybe not all but Ann Coulter sure had earful. She also brilliantly called her audience stupid. No. She actually called her audience stupider. Ann Coulter to hecklers: You&#8217;re stupider than I am STORRS, Connecticut (AP) &#8212; Conservative columnist Ann Coulter cut short a speech at the University of Connecticut amid boos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}