Allan Rock pressed for gag on ‘foul-mouthed poltroon’ Ann Coulter

Tasha Kheiriddin, NP:

Conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter is certainly used to controversy, but even she must be shaking her head at the antics of University of Ottawa President and former Liberal Cabinet Minister Allan Rock.

Canadian Press has obtained excerpts from an email exchange between Mr. Rock and Francois Houle, the university’s provost. They make clear that Mr. Rock was the guiding force behind Mr Houle’s now-infamous letter to Ms. Coulter warning her not to run afoul of Canada’s hate laws when she was invited to speak at the campus last March.

“Ann Coulter is a mean-spirited, small-minded, foul-mouthed poltroon,” Rock wrote to Houle in a March 18 email. “She is ‘the loud mouth that bespeaks the vacant mind’.”

“She is an ill-informed and deeply offensive shill for a profoundly shallow and ignorant view of the world. She is a malignancy on the body politic. She is a disgrace to the broadcasting industry and a leading example of the dramatic decline in the quality of public discourse in recent times.”

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In view of the fact that I agree with most of Ann’s view of the world I take it Rock has a very low opinion of me too. What a relief!

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