My Australian friend James presented me a last minute invite to the Bill Maher/Ann Coulter political debate that took place last night at Radio City Music Hall in NYC, part of the touring 2009 Speaker Series taking place over the next few months. As they mentioned themselves, shockingly nobody had ever thought about positioning the two against each other in an all out verbal brawl before, so it was nice seeing 'history' made.
The two each had and initial fifteen minutes to give a speech to the liberal-leaning audience, and while I'm blue myself and perhaps a bit biased, it was clear that Ann was losing this one. Bill is just a flat out funny, intelligent and witty man who doesn't make up bullshit on the fly to cover his ass if he finds himself in over his head. Ann continuously drops her silly one off nonsensical comments without any regard for fact-checking or logic. Sure what she says can be shocking, but as Bill pointed out, nearly everything out of her mouth is just flat out factually wrong.
Still it made for an exciting and unique night, and if you have a chance to catch her or any of the following headliners (Alberto Gonzales vs. Janet Reno should be good), I'd advise you do it.
1 comment:
I Like your blog. Jealous you got to see that debate go down, sounds like it was good though!
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