Syracuse, NY - When Ann Coulter took the stage at Syracuse    University Wednesday night, her friends and enemies visibly    split into the people who jumped to their feet in applause and    those who sat quietly in their seats.  
    The author and conservative commentator addressed a crowd of    about 400 people in the HBC Buildings Gifford Auditorium.  
    Coulter delivered some of the familiar one-liners that keep her    in the headlines with some backstory from her eight books,    which many snatched up for an autograph at the end of the    lecture.  
    Earlier this week, on the show Hannity, she said the wife of    suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsnarnaev     should go to jail for wearing a hijab.    Wednesday in Syracuse, she said the quote has not been taken    out of context.  
    But it was a joke, she said.  
    Coulter said Hannity asked whether she thought anyone else in    the family was involved or knew about the bombing. The real    answer, she said, is that she didnt know. So she transitioned    Hannitys question into the issue she wanted to discuss:    immigration.    Still, she made no apologies.  
    On immigration, she says the U.S. policy of allowing new    citizens to bring family members to join them is at the expense    of allowing other new citizens who have more education and job    skills. This is how she puts it: Family reunification means a    guy who is illiterate in the language of his own country, never    mind ours, beats out a Danish surgeon.  
    People came to the lecture ready for some verbal sparring and    many giggled at the door when the College Republicans announced    that there would be no recording devices and no glass bottles    allowed inside.  
    Bob Murfitt, an East Syracuse resident who worked on former    Rep. Ann Marie Buerkles campaign, said Coulter delivered the    kind of blunt, sometimes caustic talk he expected and likes to    hear.  
    I wish more students who didnt like her had asked her    questions, he said after the talk. You dont want to hear    people just preaching to the choir. I dont disagree with    anything she said.  
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Ann Coulter says 'hijab' statement on Hannity was meant to be a joke