I can't imagine how, but evidently you missed it: this inarguably offensive Westboro protesting group is not a 'Liberal' group. Indeed not- their extreme messaging revolves around their anti-homosexual views. By definition, that makes them NOT Liberals or Left.

Interestingly, O'Reilly's compassion is serving as a unifying event between Left and Right. Very. Cool.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/289589

Early news reports are often incomplete and contain inaccuracies. You provided no link so who knows, but perhaps your HuffPo reference was an early report. The link above is a report of recent statements coming directly from the Ottawa Police.

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Despite media reports and angry words from Coulter, Ottawa police say they did not shut down the event. DigitalJournal.com spoke directly with Alain Boucher, Ottawa Police Services media relations officer, who said, "It was a decision by organizers and her own security."
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In addition, there was no mob nor riot. "We had no fears that anything would occur," Boucher said. "When asked to leave, [the crowd] all...

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AC knows her audience: she panders to the xenophobes, but she's equally successful in baiting her detractors.

Look. Name-calling and lame insults might provide a few chuckles and fist bumps among one's devotees, but never does it a credible argument make once you've outgrown the local playground. Which is precisely why few people in positions of power or influence take AC's schtick seriously. She's hardly a voice of authority on any level- policy or otherwise. Intelligent and well educated, to be sure, but she's chosen to ply her talented acerbic nature as a media celebrity. (I use the term 'celebrity' relative to her clear intent to favor shock entertainment value over substantive, topical insights.)

And so what?...

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AC's scheduled appearance at University of Ottawa followed closely on the heels of her controversial discourse at another Canadian college, University of Western Ontario, where she sophomorically insulted an otherwise respectful student who called AC on the carpet* on one of her more infamously offensive statements.

*Click the link and read the piece, and you'll get my intended pun.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/03/22/13322641-q mi.html

And the Provost's letter that AC's got her legal panties all in a twist over?
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2710037

Get a grip. While the...

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Links provided, but I'll paraphrase:

Contrary to AC's account, neither the police (nor UofO security as has also been suggested) canceled AC's speech. Her own people did. Purportedly because they deemed the parts of the crowd that were opposed to her presence (exercising their free speech rights, I believe) too 'rowdy'. But it's important to note that her organizers were advised, according to official accounts, that the venue's inadequate seating facilities would likely prove logistically problematic: 400 seats, with attendance accounts varying from 1500 to 2000. Too many people, too few seats. Doesn't take a brain trust to figure that one out.

“We were called to ensure the crowd left in an orderly fashion,' said...

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Gee. Protesters at a Coulter booking. Imagine that.

Surprising, I know, but evidently this is not a phenomenon exclusive to those vicious backwater Canucks. Here's AC's student reception, last year at TCNJ, complete with rather vocal protesters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubOudRMMcWw

No doubt there was a hate-inciting letter from the Provost that fed their protesting frenzy.

C'mon. Fanning the flames of ideological conflict is AC's schtick. A lucrative schtick that relies heavily upon her mindfully provocative and often offensive statements.

So it's no surprise that AC's spin on this particular incident is also intended to provoke. Not surprisingly, there are very few tidbits of fact to be...

Uh-huh. Debate Team was, no doubt, beyond your wherewithal, so I'll share a remedial tip: Pejoratives and offensive rhetoric meant for nothing other than to insult do not a valid argument make. I'm hopeful you know this and just forgot, or else I am genuinely embarrassed for you.

Nevertheless, I am indeed interested in where, precisely, you gleaned that JC '...demand[s] that the "little people" abandon their modern conveniences and revert to hunter-gatherer status ...'

Huh? This movie suggests no such reversion of human civilization, just that we respect and leave alone other civilizations, their culture and their resources.

Dude. Dial back on the Beck already.

The level of rabidness on this thread is astounding. 'An Inconvenient Truth' or other controversial documentary I can understand.

But Avatar? Look. It's fiction. Classic good-guy vs. bad-guy story. Not by a long-shot is it the first movie (or novel) to depict corporations and/or the military as antagonists.

Nick, your contention that "Cameron’s ideals are embodied by the blue skinned alien race, the Na’vi." as compared to "Rand's protagonists find their virtue in their individuality. Galt, Taggart, and Reardon ..." is a faulty comparison.

Avatar's protagonists--individualists by any measure--are Sully and Alice, Trudy, Parker & Max.

The Na'vi and their moon--personalized by central character Neytiri et al and...

"Not everyone on this site is a real-life rocket scientist. I would guess that most people outside the fields of metallurgy and aerospace engineering, for example, are not familiar with the history of the term unobtainium. Maybe you could cut those of us who are not members of the club a little slack. "

The term's use began in the aerospace industry, yes, but I also clearly mentioned that the term was eventually co-opted for all good reasons by the sci-fi community many years ago. Most sci-fi fans older than 20 are familiar with the term. I'd wager that Cameron used the term purposely *because* his audience of sci-fi fans would recognize it.

All but Rock Strongo though, as we now know.

My point, of course, was to...

Wow. You have friends who are okee-dokee with your reference to shutting 'her stupid yap.'? With friends like you, she hardly needs enemies.

But speaking of stupid ... your, uh, clever little wash-your-clothes-with-a-rock comeback is the most absurd kind of underinformed, banal argument in defense of the benefits of a responsibly conducted free-market system.

Become better informed. A start:

http://www.amazon.com/Capitalisms-Achilles-Heel-Free-Market -System/dp/0471644889/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12620 62947&sr=1-19