FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR WHERE ARE THE RIOT BATONS WHEN YOU NEED ‘EM?

You may fight to protect the civil rights of Americans, but when it comes to practicing exercising those rights apparently it is a one-way street. Here’s an example.

Anne Coulter was booed so vehemently (by a 100-or-so students) during a speech at the University of Connecticut that she stopped trying to speak and held a Q&A session instead.

Prior to stopping she noted former president Bill Clinton was an “executive buffoon” who was elected only because Ross Perot grabbed 19 percent of the vote, and called California ‘s screaming liberal senator Barbara Boxer, a good candidate for the Democrats because she’s, “…a woman and she’s learning disabled …”

Eric Knudsen, a 19-year-old sophomore journalism (ya think?) and social welfare major at UConn, didn't attend the speech. But in the tradition of all great liberals noted: "We encourage diverse opinion at UConn, but this is blatant hate speech." Knudsen is head of Students Against Hate and, apparently, an oracle.

Coulter has been through this many times and handles idiocy and one-sidedness well. “I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," she said.

I thank media e-news compiler mediabistro.com for the heads up on this. They titled their blurb “SOMETIMES THE VAST LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY WINS A BATTLE.”

Of course the Fourth Estate is unbiased … EVEN when it’s reporting on itself.