Coulter Thanks Bill Maher, Chris Matthews for Opposing Censorship from ‘Thuggish Institution Like Berkeley’
Ann Coulter‘s speech at Berkeley has been cancelled, and Coulter took to Twitter to tear into the “thugs” who pressured the university to “snuff out the cherished American right to free speech.”
She confirmed earlier today that her speech has been canceled, lamenting what a sad day it is for free speech when people can make threats to silence voices of those they disagree with.
She expanded upon this on Twitter:
I’m so sorry Berkeley canceled my speech. I’m so sorry YAF acquiesced in the cancelation. And I'm so sorry for free speech crushed by thugs.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 26, 2017
I’m so sorry Berkeley had a different story every 20 minutes, which always was: No speech.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 26, 2017
If we had continued to fight we would have won.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 26, 2017
I’m very sad about Berkeley's cancelation, but my sadness is greater than that. It is a dark day for free speech in America.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 26, 2017
It’s sickening when a radical thuggish institution like Berkeley can so easily snuff out the cherished American right to free speech.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 26, 2017
But Coulter also thanked Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, and Margaret Carlson for speaking up in her defense:
I am so grateful to people like Bill Maher, Chris Matthews and Margaret Carlson for opposing Berkeley’s censorship.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 26, 2017
You’ve probably heard about what Maher and Matthews said in Coulter’s defense, but Carlson––a Bloomberg View columnist––was part of Matthews’ segment on Coulter and Berkeley last week, and not only did she say that Coulter is “no Milo Yiannopoulos,” but she also said “these kids today feel like they’re flowers who will wilt.”
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