Ezra Levant Interviews Ann Coulter

Great clip. Ezra does a good job, but it is great to see Ann allowed to express her thoughts and answer questions fully.

To often when she is interviewed on US stations, it devolves into verbal sparring matches and talking over one another, in a 5 minute segment, which does not allow any detailed analysis of the issues.

Good job Ezra.

A mistake around 11:00, where Ezra more or less explicitly identifies "neo-Nazis" as "far right" conservatives. Very important not to do that: Nobody wants to be even one step along the road to skinheads or Hitler; nor are we. NSDAP stand for...

Ezra and Ann are both brilliant and Ann has really pretty hair.

Ezra's hair is nice enough.

I would agree with Coulter's assertion that 'mob think' uses peer pressure tactics to become one with the "BORG".

Riots, mobs and groupthink, to a lesser extent, use the pressure of 'become like one of us' to acheive their objective of 'showing up the man'.

Anyone who disagrees should be ignored, shouted down and otherwise actively harassed, for example by the ubiquitous methods of 'lawfare' suits, Criminal Code harassment. The last tactic of the mob is to beat the non-mob participant into submission.

Coulter zeros in on group think 'status angst' as a psychological marker for those susceptible to this behaviour pattern.

Mobs deserve a 'serious self defence'...

as Ezra mirthfully suggests this might be, heaven forbid, "un-Canadian"!!

Great grist for further discussion....

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Army Group "True North"
1st St. Nicolaas Army

Is Sun TV available over the air, or only on cable?

The Brain Police must have gotten to this clip, as all I get is an ad for the CRTC...

Shortly after 9/11, while living in the US, I saw a howling mob on C-Span. It was like watching a bunch of savages. Captivated, I continued to watch. This was taking place at the University of Berkeley. The young woman they shouted down spoke, made a TON of sense to me and handled herself so well. I became a staunch conservative after that. Thank you Michelle Malkin.

Not related to the mob violence Ann talks about but when teaching in South Korea, the topic was global warming. I was talking with the kids in my small class and was asking them what should be done with people that don't believe in 'global warming.' There was a knock at my door. My fellow, young liberal Canadian, said she heard me from the next room and was wondering if I should be talking like that.

I mentally thought about it, decided it wasn't worth it and dropped the entire topic, very pissed for the rest of the class, but was extra kind to the kids. Canada needs a very, long burning fire. Great video. Thanks.

"Is Sun TV available over the air, or only on cable?"
Vermont Tim

Unfortunately Tim, no...I believe it's only available on cable and not all providers (The Lib mob, free speech sensors again) carry it.
You are going to have to connect a wire to your closest Quebec neighbor I suspect...A pirate dish might do it too.

Ann must of liked speaking on SUN. She had pretty much free reign she would not even get at FOX News.
She`ll be back.

Mamba; Ezra is prone to running off with the wrong info some times, most of the time he is great, but, when he spouts the Jim England Keith Wilson garbage about Alberta land rights and govt. bills he loses cred. These two are zipping around to meetings, scaring Alberta land owners about power lines much like Suzuki and Gore did with their scam. Ezra needs to do more homework. Hutterites will own all of Alberta if Wilson has his way, then watche your food prices.

I concur with Coulter's hypothesis about the leftist mind being prone to group-think and herd response (mobbing). There is also a proponent of religiosity at these events. The dogmatic left consider leaders to be messianic and support demonstrations take on the trappings of faith affirmation.

At any rate, just another in a long list of personality failings which are sanitized under leftist amoralism. Left-wing(ism?) encompasses most of the world's worst ideas and as such attracts the pathological dregs of society.

The inversional ethics contained in Leftist dogma wins converts because of its essentially, wicked glamour which appeals to, and celebrates, all that is weak, venal and egocentric in mankind:

If you are a lazy covetous underachiever, it offers a handout at your boss’s expense.

If you are stupid, it dumbs down your competition.

If your lifestyle is a shameful, corrupt or degenerate mess, it offers (false) self-esteem.

If you are chronically confused, it says that reality and reason are the true confusion.

If you are evil, it offers a denial of guilt and scapegoats your parents and society.

If you are a pathological liar, it offers a denial of the existence of truth.

If you are a coward, it offers false security and a devolved notion of courage.
If you are a bigot it names your detractors as the bigots.

If you are a slave to your more base desires, it calls these shackles, FREEDOM.

"Modern liberalism's irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche. The madness of modern liberalism is a massive transference of neurosis acted out in the world's political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty.” – Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter from “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness - (Paperback, 2010)

RHTT: She'll be on Caldwell next week some time, supposedly.

tim in vt: If you can get a Canadian friend to hook you up with Shaw Direct satellite, that would work, but I'm not sure you'd want the rest of the channels. :-\

Me: I'm not sure I agree with her assertion that the right doesn't mythologise its leaders. We are, however, much more likely to be cynical about them and their words.

tim in vermont - Sun TV is also available in a live stream online at http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/watch-live.html .

In related free speech news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13883331

Geert Wilders cleared of hate charges by Dutch court

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, who described Islam as "fascist", has been acquitted of inciting hatred against Muslims.

Amsterdam judge Marcel van Oosten accepted the Freedom Party leader's statements were directed at Islam and not at Muslim believers.

They were, the judge ruled, "acceptable within the context of public debate".

Supporters of Geert Wilders erupted into applause in the public gallery of the court as presiding judge Marcel van Oosten acquitted the populist politician of all charges of hate speech and discrimination against Muslims.

Judges found that while some of his comments, especially his words about a "tsunami" of immigrants, had been "crude and denigrating", they were legal and a legitimate part of the country's ongoing debate over multi-culturalism.

Mr Wilders called the verdict a victory for free speech and many analysts agree that the scope of debate in this country's culture wars may have just been widened.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Army Group "True North"
1st St. Nicolaas Army

I bought “Demonic” last week at Indigo. There were only two copies: I got one of them.

I haven't read it yet. I think Ann’s great—love the hair too!—but her advice to “smash the mob” seems somewhat unrealistic. Consider, the 100 000 rampaging in Vancouver: those who tried to reason with the vandals were in real danger. A few were attacked and badly hurt. (Can anyone here tell me what happened to the young man who was jumped on and beaten?)

Then there are the police, the only ones, outside the army, who have both the authority and the physical power to subdue a mob: a lot of help they are! Their standing down, for fear of exciting the already excitable to criminal—or having criminal intent—barbarians has been witnessed at the G20, in Vancouver, and at countless university campuses, where the threat of mob violence either shuts everything down or the violence is allowed to proceed, unchallenged.

I’d love to take Ann’s advice and “smash the mob”, but the police seem unwilling to do it for fear of being taken to court—for doing their job!! It’s a totally ridiculous situation: ordinary citizens and private property are allowed to be threatened and actually attacked—while the police watch.

I wish Ezra had challenged Ann on this: HOW does the mob get smashed? I’m ALL for it, but, with our Charter, our PC public “servants” (sic), and judges, I just don’t see it about to happen. Our addle-brained, post-Christian society appears to care more about the safety and sensibilities of marauding vandals and henchpeople than the safety and security of law-abiding citizens and their property. This utter and cowardly abdication of the trust put in our extremely well paid public officials makes my blood boil. These idiots should be charged for dereliction of duty.

It was a fine interview and Ms. Coulter makes too much sense for the leftie mind. Rioters = Brigitte Depape = "Tollybon".

I really like listening to Ann's interviews.
She is correct. Too bad we don't have more women speak like her and Michelle Malkin.
The silent majority have o stand up against this evil that is growing every day.

I really like listening to Ann's interviews.
She is correct. Too bad we don't have more women speak like her and Michelle Malkin.
The silent majority have to stand up against this evil that is growing every day.

I am a lot like Ann in that I tend to be outspoken. My left leaning friends are afraid to debate me. When they try to argue with NDP talking points I fire back with the truth using facts and quotes that I can actually back up. And when they use the typical leftist tactic of making up facts or stats off the top of their heads I call BS on them. They know not to get into a debate or argument with me because I have done my homework and keep up on current events. I am still surprised however that my supposedly well educated leftie friends and aquaintances are so easily led and misinformed. When I call them sheeple they get very annoyed. But over the years I have managed to deprogram a few of them and now they vote conservative. It's incredible how a good dose of reality, and moving away from Toronto, can actually open a person's eyes and show them that the NDP and liberal group-think they were exposed to is nothing more than an illusion.

YES, to that Black Mamba.
I was startled by Levant's inclusion of neo-nazis in the "far right". I first became really aware of this via a thread at PowerLine wherein one of the principals discussed reassuring his daughter that his views, intensified, don't become fascist/nazi -- a concern for any child of conservative parents; that the further right you go, the more individualistic you become; that the far right is really anarchism, but let's not go there! (true anarchism does not entail aggressive violence).

Even on the right, Ann Coulter is often considered merely a lightweight political entertainer-clown. This continues to shock me. I NEVER fail to learn something new from her columns while laughing uproariously most of the time. My wife referred to her "aliveness" her "vibrancy" yesterday while watching Ezra. Not being a notably cheerful man myself, I'm am also greatly warmed by her constant cheerfulness even in the heat of battle. I need this!

Recently, for example, she did a column challenging Ron Paul's view that the state should butt out of marriage (a view that I generally share) with all kinds of legal concerns I hadn't fully considered. I suspect many people don't actually know that she's a lawyer (constitutional?).

As mentioned yesterday Mark Steyn and Ann Coulter always make me feel good no matter how dire the message. This takes genius.

I haven't read the book yet but it sounds like it deals mostly with the psychological aspect of the mob mentality. While the modern left is pathetically drawn towards conformity and groupthink, I am not sure that all mobs and riots in history were unwarranted and needed to be violently put down.

Specifically, the Regina and Estevan riots of the 30's addressed real concerns and grievances about working conditions and poverty. The RCMP "smashing" of the mobs, as directed by politicians, caused more damage and the deaths of protesters created martyrs (the coalminers headstones in Bienfait still read Murdered By The RCMP even after periodic attempts to remove the statement). Police action did not stop the labor movement or socialism in Saskatchewan, it helped along.

What is odd is how the entitled, pampered left sees themselves as inheritors of this legacy. They are not suffering in any real sense, just in their feeble and spoiled minds. Perhaps this issue is addresses in her book.

Re - the hair: I suspect it is a prop like those fashion glasses journalists/politicians wear to make them look smart and trendy. She probably takes it off every night and is, in reality, a mousy brunette.

MND, I concur with your thoughts on Ann: like Steyn, her "sunny side up" is usually on display.

I believe the fact that she’s a Christian—a “muscular” one at that!—has everything to do with this: note that she attributed much of conservatives’ levelheadedness and integrity in a group situation to the fact that we care less about the approval of the mob than that of God. She mentioned that conservatives have a vertical frame of reference, rather than one that’s simply a horizontal, peer related one. Conservatives and Christians also value tradition and authentic authority: we’ve seen that the mob does not.

It’s clear that the West isn’t going to become “Christian” again. However, we’d better take a good look at the Judeo-Christian dispensation—re how we treat others, the Golden Rule is at the heart—and consider honouring it once again, and not treating Christians like some multi-headed monsters. However, even with a belief in a higher being—I call Him God—it’s very difficult to be altruistic; without that belief, as we’re seeing, it seems to be almost impossible for a critical mass of sheeple.

Christianity is NOT a crutch: it’s a challenge—to be better and do better. Ann gets that and says it. God bless Ann Coulter!!

Compared to Coulter's appearance on O'Reilly, Ezra's interview was a love-in.

I believe Coulter is scheduled to appear on Hannity Thursday night.

lookout:

Most of us Christians are not ‘extremist.' I recently visited an extremist Christian enclave and found the nuns to be very at peace with themselves, much as an earlier group had been ... during my childhood.

That just reinforced my own desire to ‘seek peace and pursue it.' (Psalms 34:14).

At no time during my visit did I feel they were trying to control me, but I did appreciate their ability to self-control.

You know what I find amazing after having getting involved in the last election? Politicians pretty much get along with each other outside of the theatrical QP screaming matches. I guess it's kind of a club where everyone says well we all disagree with each other but we can still be polite and friendly etc. Anyway I wish that kind of decorum would rub off on "the mob". I don't agree with liberals but I think most of them mean well even though they are wrong.

I don't agree with liberals but I think most of them mean well even though they are wrong.
~James

Many conservatives agree with you, James.
That is why conservatives have been losing the battle for freedom and liberty to the socialists for nearly a century now.

http://tinyurl.com/3m3kobv

sample:
Over the last century, much of the enemy's success has been due to the partisans of individual liberty being unwilling to acknowledge that their opponents are implacable and ready to resort to any tactic that advances their cause. “I won't stoop to their level” is simultaneously staking out the high ground and then preemptively surrendering it to the enemy. Now, I am not suggesting that we do “stoop to their level”, but rather acknowledge that the enemy's tactics have been working, and that they must be countered head-on, not around the margins. We must do this in a manner consistent with our morality and respect for the truth, but keeping in mind that the enemy operates under no such constraints.

Support for the fact that the Vancouver riots were a Liberal Left group think mob action!

Nice thought of "making the 3 western Canadian provinces a part of the US". Much better that the 3 western Canadian provinces merge independently or at best merge with Idaho & Montana only.

The fact is that the left has been actively and aggressively populating the 3 western provinces with Eastern Liberal & Immigrant sympathizers at double speed over the last decade. This is not merely an economic mass migration as they claim, but a political one to dilute the conservative demographics of western Prairie Provinces.

It’s working for them, and we are gradually losing ground.

Knight:

Get rid of your defeatist attitude, would ya :)

U of zero

Passiveness, laziness, magical thinking, submission to group think, desperately wanting to belong, approval-seeking, having no real goals or purpose in life except to make others do whatever makes their own lives comfy, convincing themselves that they are good because they think right thoughts, not knowing how to fend for themselves (food, shelter, clothing), insular, seeking validation from Oprah and her many clones, blaming others for their unsatisfactory lives...have I missed anything?

I see the groups that Ms. Coulter refers to as perpetual children--no less dangerous for all that. A thwarted child would be very dangerous if it were bigger. The clamor from a hysterical mob is frightening. I admire her courage.

And yes. Pretty hair.

set you free: “lookout:

“Most of us Christians are not ‘extremist.'” I actually didn’t use that word, and I agree with you!

I did say “muscular”, which means what I think Oz means when he says that conservatives need to “acknowledge that the enemy's tactics have been working, and that they must be countered head-on, not around the margins”. Ann, Ezra, and Mark make no excuses for their point of view.
I do have my concerns, however, about how, as a society, we’re going to reclaim the idea of honour. The self-referential members of the mob have a horizontal—to other members of the mob—orientation, rather than a vertical one—to a higher Being, tradition, and legitimate authority. And our police, who seem to be part of the horizontal crowd, are quite unwilling to “smash the mob”.

Once the foundation of a house has been washed away, rebuilding it, so it won’t fall down again, becomes pretty well impossible, unless a new and sound foundation is reconstructed. How we, at this late point in time, with our post-Christian society full of mob-oriented “sow’s ears”, can build a solid foundation, beats me.

Me No Dhimmi - "Even on the right, Ann Coulter is often considered merely a lightweight political entertainer-clown. This continues to shock me."

Yes, it's not dissimilar to the way we all just know that Sarah Palin is - altogether now - so stooopid!!! "Oh, Ann Coulter!" - eye roll - knowing giggle.

I've read several of her books and her marshalling of arguments is very impressive (I would have guessed she was a lawyer if I hadn't known). I have yet to run across a single instance of some Jon Stewart clone catching her out on a factual inaccuracy.

Generally admirable guys like O'Rourke and Jim Treacher will feel the need to put up a disclaimer: They don't really like Coulter, she's nuts, she's so aggressive... (as if P.J. was all concilliation and sensitivity and sweetness and light).

(Her hair is actually hypnotic. It's like watching a field of wheat undulating gently in the sunlight. Or do I mean barley? Look, I'm not a farm girl. The shiney stuff.)

lookout:

One person at a time.

(set you free, you are right. And, of course, hope is a Christian virtue: I need to keep that in mind. Mea culpa!)

Ten percent of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish or in sales rooms everywhere, close to 90 % of sales are done by 10% of the sales force.

Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant locally, are the producers.

The leftards are so transparent and sick in the head, you can keep score at home just by following the death threats.

Would it kill SunTV to put the apostrophe in the right place in "New York Times' Best-Selling Author", if they're going to put one in at all?

You're brilliant Ezra. As the progressives would say "you're literally brilliant".

Keep up the good work and for God's sake, have lots of kids.

I enjoyed that, thanks for posting it. It was great to hear Ann, essentially uninterrupted, through two, long segments. About seven minutes each. I enjoy seeing her on Fox News, but those segments tend to wrap up in around five minutes with much more interruptions from the host.

"I wish Ezra had challenged Ann on this: HOW does the mob get smashed"

She DID explain that,lookout,but Coulter sometimes talks so fast it's hard to hear everything she sya.

She mentioned that "smashing the mob was essential,"even if it means only taking them to Court". That's not a verbatim quote,but close enough to be accurate.

The mob that formed up in Vancouver can be effectively "smashed" IF the Courts deal with the rioters in a harsh manner,make it tough enough that the next group of rowdies will stop and think about the consequences before they act.

The looters and the kid who torched the cop car should at the very least get probation,fines,restitution,and criminal records,and the thugs that beat people up should serve some hard time in a Federal Pen,where they'll find out exactly how tough they are.

I agree with Coulter this time, the mob has to be smashed,one way or another.

Ezra, don't have kids unless it is too late and Ann needs a pony tail to go with all that.

This "Blanks" guy seems weird. Here was his comment on the Mark Steyn thread: "Sry, But I think he could file a human rights complaint against me if I heckled him for being a Jewish complainer(whiner).

Not that he isn't accurate with much of his bla bla bla.

Posted by: Blanks at June 22, 2011 6:36 PM

Anti-semitic or just incoherent? And look, can anyone access his website (link on his name)? 'Cause I can't, not without enabling something which I fear will eat my computer.

(As I pointed out to Blanks at the other thread: Mark Steyn is not Jewish. I think he’s actually a Christian. Yes, this new poster seems strange.)

dmorris, I altogether agree with Ann Coulter re smashing the mob: I WISH.

I’d be quite happy if the riot police had been really tough with the mob. But they’re afraid of people getting mad at them. The police, who are often all we have between us and the mob, don’t get that “Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends”. But neither do our out-of-it, PC judges. So don’t count on the courts doing any “smashing” of any mobs.

Any other ideas about smashing the mob?

"So don’t count on the courts doing any “smashing” of any mobs.

Any other ideas about smashing the mob?
Posted by: lookout"

Nope,at least none I can think of that are lawful.

thanx; cheers;

Ezra get better every week. I hope he gets more quality interviews. He had her eating out of his hand lol.

Knight:

"Get rid of your defeatist attitude, would ya :)"

Yea, your right in one perspective.

Not sure what else to add. I'm doing the best my money and energy will do to secure my immediate families future.

I'm not surevwhat the rest of conservative Canada is doing, but by god I do know I'm better prepared than most to survive a plathera of challenges with our economy & immigration fiasco's ahead.

call that pessimistic all you wish , I call it hoping for thje best & planning for the worst.

My pessimistic opinion for "traditional" Canadians is:

Dig in friends, we have a hard/ long winter ahead! We may or may notvcome out of it, just look to your ancestors on how to get by.

Forgive the spelling & other errors above, it's all iPod and not an easy type..........

Whaaat?? What about the gentle tolerance of Canadian academia we've heard so much about?? LOL!

At about 13:00 - you don't want BC., Ann, they are clearly nuts! God put the rockies where they are for very good reason. For that matter we may have to extract some rather stiff promises from the Saskachewhatevers to the East - they seem to like their bread buttered on both sides. Other than that, hmmm, I'm good to go!

Ann was doing so well until she went into her "Godless" schtick. I know a lot of raving lunatics that believe in God, and I know a lot of civilized atheist rigth-wingers.

I hear you, Andrew, but the problem is far bigger than your tiny—if I might say, self-referential—sample.

From my earlier post: “. . . note that [Ann] attributed much of conservatives’ levelheadedness and integrity in a group situation to the fact that [Christians] care less about the approval of the mob than that of God. She mentioned that conservatives have a vertical frame of reference, rather than one that’s simply a horizontal, peer related one. Conservatives and Christians also value tradition and authentic authority: we’ve seen that the mob does not.”

I’ve been in the schools of this nation for four decades: the behaviour of the self-referential, entitled—a BAD combination—students continues to deteriorate, at an ever dizzying speed, to which anyone, who has the misfortune to use public transportation, can attest. (Hey, driving’s not so nice either with half the population, it seems, deciding to ignore the rules.) When whole civilizations give up on God—and God’s laws—the picture isn’t a pretty one.

Yes, some individuals are good without the idea of God. However, there aren’t a lot of them, and, these days, the ones that are, are benefiting from the moral capital—dwindling swiftly—left over from the Judeo-Christian West. (The exemplary behaviour of present day non-believers didn’t spring, fully formed, from their own brains: it was planted, watered, and nurtured for millennia, based on the ethic of the Old and New Testaments—via Athens and Rome—which built the freest, most civilized polities the earth has seen.) Once that capital’s all gone—when the mob is in complete control—and chaos, “might is right”, and maybe Sharia rule, the Ten Commandments will look pretty benign.

Facile denigration of the Judeo-Christian dispensation isn’t really very smart: but, hey, it’s “in”, everyone who counts agrees, so why not get with the groupthink?