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I had to spend last night at the kick-off campaign for the California College Republicans. Keep an open mind...I was covering the event. The big opening was a live broadcast, from UCLA, of Al Rantel's radio show. I was fine untilDr. Laura compared being a conservative on any college campus to her mother's stories of living in Mussolini's Italy! What would her mother have said about that comparison?

Ann Coulter merely called liberals (read: anyone not on her wavelength or to the right) "idiots" and didn't really make any sort of point.

Not to mention that the College Republicans running the event were dicks to me. They would hand out materials and then SKIP over me as a member of the media. Some kid actually grabbed a magazine out of my hand and said, "oh, you're the press." I've covered all sorts of events and situations objectively, and my coverage of their event will be the same. But, did they think they were helping themselves by being pricks?

Furthermore, by reading the publication Moxie, which covers conservative happenings on California campuses, I learned California College Republicans were responsible for those weird "guerilla art" posters that peppered Hollywood utility boxes around the time of the Oscars. You saw them. Moby: Dick! and President of Nothing (with a stencil of Martin Sheen). So, it turns out they were a conservative commentary on Hollywood "anti-Americanism." I had no idea. I just thought they were weird, because I didn't get the message. For a while I even thought they were ultra-leftist commentaries on the consumption of Hollywoodism by the rest of the world. Turns out, I was thinking so far to the LEFT, I was almost RIGHT.