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Jewish World Review
March 26, 2010
/ 11 Nissan 5770
WHY CAN'T I GET BANNED? SHEESH!
By
Dave Weinbaum
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"Since arriving in Canada I've
been accused of thought
crimes, threatened with criminal
prosecution for speeches I
hadn't yet given and
denounced on the floor of
Parliament (which was nice
because that one was on my
"bucket list")." Ann Coulter
Ann is always at her best when she's dodging pies, attacking poor unsuspecting
"imperfect" Jewish interviewers or psychically breaking foreign laws with think-
speech. Like raunchy books banned in Boston in ancient days and today's
thought monsters who spread Muhammad Cartoons, the left wing speech
censors cooperate with "Progressive" Governments.
Wild men like Geert Wilders, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant have all had run-ins
with like-kind governments for the above alleged crimes.
Such is the fate of Ann Coulter. Unlike many, however, Coulter relishes the
controversy and knows how to string it along and profit from it.
Ann was banned from giving her contracted speech at the University of Ottawa
by its provost Frank A. Houle. (I'm NOT making up that name). His letter
threatening Ann was published and arguably ignited demonstrations of hate that
caused the cancellation of the speech for security reasons. Ann has complained
before the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Meanwhile, the perils of Pauline (Ann) are on the top of newspaper folds and
leadoff stories all over the world adding to Coulter's already profitable
enterprises.
Ironically, I read her columns on an "unperfected" website, the Jewish World
Review, where my missives have resided for the last five years drawing flattering
comparisons to Ann.
I was never banned.
I did stand-up comedy where I quickly found out that if I wanted to get laughs, I
had to write and perform material that was over-the-top. I did this just to get the
feel of what it was like to get laughter and applause.
I was never banned.
My writing has also got me the moniker of "The Rush Limbaugh of the Ozarks!"
This was before I had a talk radio show.
I was never banned.
I've hosted a weekly radio talk show for the last year and a half. On my second
show I said "heck" or "dang" or something that catalyzed a letter of complaint
from a listener. I was threatened, in writing, by the station owner with immediate
show cancellation if I ever said anything like that on the air again. I've been on
double-secret probation ever since. Keep in mind that at the time I was
sponsoring the show with two of my businesses. If they fired me they'd be
losing my business. Now I have five more sponsors with several more in the mill
in a lousy time slot. The show is profitable on its own.

I now address the station manager lovingly as "Pig Vomit" and:
I was never banned.
On the show last week, some putz said this country was founded on Christian
values and, BTW, what was I? I responded that I was Jewish, thanked him for
allowing me to live in his country and then I told him to say "Hi" to the rest of
his brown shirt friends.
Yet I was never banned.
Referring back to my weekly Internet/newspaper column, I upset people as
much as Coulter does but on a much smaller scale. Often my columns will get
50 to 100 comments in various outlets but in no way as widely spread as Ann's.
Many of the notes are nasty, insulting, threatening and anti-Semitic.
Yet I've never been banned.
The local chapter of the NAACP slandered me recently as being an anti-
Muslim. The instigator was a converted Muslim NAACP bored member who
oft disagrees with me and tries to get me purged from business and outlets that
publish me.
Yet I've never been banned.
Let's face it. When it comes to provoking people and profiting from it, Ann is all
pro and I'm a minor league slacker. That being said, I'm comfortable in that
role. I would rather have a dialogue with my political adversaries than die from a
log thrown by one.
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