{"id":1388,"date":"2015-10-05T21:14:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T01:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2015-10-05T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T01:14:52","slug":"transgender-comedian-ann-coulter-entertains-utc-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2015\/10\/05\/transgender-comedian-ann-coulter-entertains-utc-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender comedian Ann Coulter entertains UTC campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1387\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anncoulter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anncoulter-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Comedian Ann Coulter (Used under the CC-BY-SA-2.0 license. Source: flic.kr\/p\/9iTZXA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anncoulter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anncoulter.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comedian Ann Coulter (Used under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC-BY-SA-2.0<\/a> license. Source: flic.kr\/p\/9iTZXA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The popular transgender comedian Ann Coulter (born Andrew Hart Coulter in 1961) entertained the campus of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC) today, delivering her edgy stand-up act as a satirical ultra-conservative figure, in the same vein as Stephen Colbert of <i>The Colbert Report<\/i> television show and columnist Ed Anger of the <i>Weekly World News<\/i> tabloid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Originally slated to appear at the Comedy Catch, Coulter&#8217;s set was relocated to the UTC campus, and one day after the Tennessee Valley LGBT Pride march, her brave appearance served as a milestone in UTC&#8217;s history, marking the first time a transgender comedian has appeared at the university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>During her riotous stand-up set, Coulter addressed a heckler by saying, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/local\/story\/2015\/oct\/05\/ann-coulter-tells-chattanooga-student-grow-pair-baby-cakes\/328861\/\">Grow a pair, babycakes<\/a>,&#8221; while gesturing toward her own real testicles, which are purportedly the size of avocados.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Coulter frequently incorporates her transgender identity into her stand-up act, once saying, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/quotes\/0,26174,1639267,00.html\">I&#8217;m more of a man than any liberal<\/a>,&#8221; and her side-splitting caricature of a hardcore right-wing pundit caused the audience to erupt with laughter throughout the performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Coulter reprised some of her most beloved jokes, including <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2007\/10\/coulter-culture\/\">fantasizing about women losing the right to vote<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/press_box\/2007\/03\/our_ann_coulter_problem.html\">calling for a poll tax<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2011\/mar\/22\/ann-coulter\/ann-coulter-says-lexposure-low-levels-radiation-ar\/\">suggesting that radiation can reduce your risk of cancer<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular transgender comedian Ann Coulter (born Andrew Hart Coulter in 1961) entertained the campus of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC) today, delivering her edgy stand-up act as a satirical ultra-conservative figure, in the same vein as Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report television show and columnist Ed Anger of the Weekly World News tabloid. Originally slated to appear at the Comedy Catch, Coulter&#8217;s set was relocated to the UTC campus, and one day after the Tennessee Valley LGBT Pride march, her brave appearance served as a milestone in UTC&#8217;s history, marking the first time a transgender comedian has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}