{"id":304869,"date":"2017-04-23T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-maher-goes-to-bat-for-ann-coulter-after-uc-berkeley-cancels-speech\/"},"modified":"2017-04-23T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T17:02:46","slug":"bill-maher-goes-to-bat-for-ann-coulter-after-uc-berkeley-cancels-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-maher-goes-to-bat-for-ann-coulter-after-uc-berkeley-cancels-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Goes To Bat For Ann Coulter After UC Berkeley Cancels Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily Caller<\/strong><\/a>
April 23, 2017<\/p>\n

It appears even the most liberal of Democrats are turning on their own as the virtue-signalling vacillations grow ever more mind-bending.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0University of California at Berkeley officials decision to rescind an invitation for conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter to speak on campus<\/strong>, only to restore the invitation for a later date\u2026<\/p>\n

HBO \u201cReal Time\u201d host Bill Maher exclaimed on his show Friday night that\u2026<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cBerkeley, you know, used to be the cradle of free speech, and now it\u2019s just the cradle for f\u2014king babies.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As The Hill reports,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Coulter\u2019s speech set for this Thursday was canceled due to anxiety by school officials that protests could spin out of control the same way they did in February when alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak. Riots resulted in more than $100,000 in damage to the campus and the speech was cancelled due to security concerns.<\/p>\n

But after scathing criticism, the school reversed its decision on Coulter on Thursday,<\/strong>\u00a0and will host the speech on May 2.<\/p>\n