Shortly following the announcement that Heroes star Hayden Panettiere was coming to speak at Georgetown, the GW Hatchet announced their own famous speaker: right-wing cheerleader Ann Coulter.  GW apparently hasn’t gotten the memo that, like a small cut on the inside of your mouth, the only way to make Coulter go away is to ignore her.  But at least one GW student thinks its a good idea.  From the Hatchet:

“We feel that GW is deprived from the conservative movement,” said GW YAF’s [Young American Foundation] President, Sergio Gor. “We feel that our students are lacking the substance of a pure education. We are exposed to bias and all these opinions that are very one-sided, and it really has to be our group that brings in the conservative cause and conservative movement to campus.”    

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“We encourage all our liberal friends to come out and learn,” Gor said. “It’s a huge thing for GW to be having Ann Coulter. She’s one of the biggest stars on the speaker circuit. For us to be having her is a good thing for us.”

For those who need a refresher course on some of the more horrific things Coulter has said, check out the Stephen Colbert-Ann Coulter Challenge, from New York Magazine, in which you try to pick which quotes Colbert said and which quotes Coulter said.  (Hint: Colbert didn’t say this: ”Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘Kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and answer to the name Muhammad.’”)

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