Ann Coulter to Speak at USC for Islamo-Fascism Wingnut Awareness Week

Gearing up for another War on Christmas, combative conservative columnist David Horowitz and the College Republicans are calling out to their hate squad and killing Halloween (not to mention a week of breast cancer awareness month) with what they've dubbed "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week." Ann Coulter, recently listed as charging a $25,000 speaker fee by the Premiere Speakers Bureau (and now "call for fee") will speak in the name of Islamo-Fascism Awareness tomorrow night at USC.

Fascism (Webster: "a movement that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader...) seems an apropos label for aspects of BushCo and especially for the racist, sexist, fear-mongering idio(t)logues like Horowitz, Podhoretz, Malkin, Coulter, et al.

Free speech is just fine but baseless and inflammatory bigotry -- at a cost -- is unacceptable. And while Ann Coulter has the right to speak at USC just like anybody else, it's ridiculous and insulting -- not to mention embarrassing to America's image in the world -- to speak under the pretense of Islamo-fascism Awareness Week.

Nonetheless, the 220-seat Annenberg Auditorium sold out in a mere six hours for the event, sponsored by the USC College Republicans, the USC Objectivist Club, Young America's Foundation and the Horowitz Freedom Center. USC Department of Public Safety (no, they don't carry Tasers) will be on alert as classes will continue at the Annenberg School for Communication during the event -- in other words, tomorrow's journalists will be incubating in so-called "liberally-biased" classrooms while the devil herself holds court in the basement.

Before you go crying out that this is typical, private school, USC-style pandering, realize that similar IFAW events are being staged at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSB, among other places.

An attempt to make sense of "Islamo-fascism," and a list of California events after the jump, plus a video-mockery by TalkingPointsMemo's Josh Marshall.