The Heckler's Veto Upheld in Canada

Michael Moynihan: The precious and impressionable dears at Ottawa University are saved from the horror that is Ann Coulter.

If you are Drudge reader, you have doubtless now heard that conservative firebrand Ann Coulter was greeted with a heckler’s veto yesterday at a speech in Canada. For reasons of "safety," the cowardly cops and spineless administrators at the University of Ottawa cancelled the lecture, sending a martyred Coulter to perform for CBC cameras instead of a hall full of impressionable students. I don’t suspect I agree with Coulter on much of anything (especially her hagiographic treatment of ol’ Tailgunner Joe), but that’s rather beside the point. It is, instead, about the role of the university in making sure people like Coulter, once invited, are permitted to present ideas without being mau-maued.

They may not be precious but they sure are impressionable. They are clay in the hands of left-wing university professors. At least some of them are.