Original post HERE about last night’s events.

Now, Day Two begins…

First, to clarify early media reports: there were not “2000 protesters”, which, it seems to me, is the expression Ann Coulter used when contacting Drudge via cellphone.

It sounds like there were “2000 people” in the general vicinity, not protesters.

Since Coulter was in a holding room or somesuch before the speech, it is likely that she was getting this information from someone else, who was probably just as confused as everyone else. It’s hard to talk or hear over a fire alarm.

The “2000″ figure is going to be the Left’s talking point, as they try to paint this event as a publicity stunt or whathaveyou.

Anyhow: I explain to my American readers at NewsReal why this is a big deal, HERE.

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Report on the Ann Coulter riot from the National Post, with comments from both sides.

An eyewitness report from blogger Nick Milne, who isn’t a big fan of Ann Coulter but went to her talk anyhow:

I arrived at Marion Hall – or, more accurately, sort of near it – at about 6:30PM.  The line was already at least several hundred people long, and more were arriving every minute.  Police estimates (yes, the police were eventually involved; read on) put the final crowd size at about 2,000, but at that early stage there were still enough people to create a line that snaked the equivalent of several city blocks around another university building.  The front of the line – and the people in charge of everything – could not be seen.  This surely contributed to what ended up happening.  

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