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Bookworm pointed out the latest article by Ann Coulter on the liberal blather about free speech as it pertains to academia and Columbia University’s episodes with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Contrary to all the blather about “free speech” surrounding Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia, universities in America do not invite speakers who do not perfectly mirror the political views of their America-hating faculties. Rather, they aggressively censor differing viewpoints and permit only a narrow category of speech on their campuses. Ask Larry Summers.

If a university invites someone to speak, you know the faculty agrees with the speaker. Maybe not the entire faculty. Some Columbia professors probably consider Ahmadinejad too moderate on Israel.

Columbia president Lee Bollinger claimed the Ahmadinejad invitation is in keeping with “Columbia’s long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate.”

Except Columbia doesn’t have that tradition. This is worse than saying “the dog ate my homework.” It’s like saying “the dog ate my homework” when you’re Michael Vick and everyone knows you’ve killed your dog.

Columbia’s “tradition” is to shut down any speakers who fall outside the teeny, tiny seditious perspective of its professors. – Ann Coulter, Tase Him Bro!

This is why liberals hate Ann Coulter. She exposes their hypocrisy with ease, thus making them uncomfortable at having been outed. Democrats invent controversy and she points it out, plain and simple.

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.

That’s what colleges mean by “free speech.” (And by the way, my fingers are getting exhausted from making air quotes every time I use the expression “free speech” in relation to a college campus.)

“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. (In Washington, they call this “the Fairness Doctrine.”)

Give Coulter credit. She is usually spot on with her insights and has a knack for getting under the skin of people who don’t like the way she exercises her right to freedom of speech. Thus modern day liberalism takes another blow as Americans speak truth to power and expose the hypocrisy that is inherent in the rank and file of the Democrat Party base.

Trackposted to Pirate’s Cove, Outside the Beltway, Leaning Straight Up, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, Big Dog’s Weblog, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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