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May 8, 2006
John McCain, Conservative, and Moonbat Inclusiveness
It looks like years of pandering to the left-wing media hasn't fooled everyone; students of New York City's "New School" are seeking to revoke John McCain's invitation to deliver this year's commencement address on the grounds that he secretly practices conservatism.
McCain's cardinal sin is that he is suspected of not being on board with the gay agenda, as evidenced by having spoken at Liberty University, whose founder Jerry Falwell has notably failed to endorse the homosexual lifestyle.
"I think the thing that bothers me the most is him speaking at Jerry Falwell's school," says Anthony Szczurek, a New School freshman who doesn't want McCain coming around.
Sophomore Harper Keenan helped organize the protest against McCain's invitation. He explains why the Senator must not be allowed to speak at their school:
In all of our classes we're taught the value of inclusion of all people.
Apparently they are also taught that you display your devotion to inclusion by excluding anyone you suspect of not sharing it.
Too bad McCain didn't speak at the New School first. What are the chances anyone at Liberty University would protest? The students there probably aren't inclusive enough to be that intolerant.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 8, 2006 6:52 AM
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Regardless which faction of the Democrat Party is involved, this tactic of trying to shut down speech considered impure to the tenets of political correctness is nothing new.
When I was at Columbia University in New York in the mid 1980's Jeanne Kirkpatrick, then Ambassador to the UN and a brilliant woman who was a graduate of affiliated Barnard College was invited to speak to the students.
Well of course the "students" wanted no part of it and demanded she not come. The students missed an opportunity to hear firsthand from one of the architects of the policies that brought about an end to the Cold War and the spread of democracy that overtook the world in that period.
And don't you love how the lefties, led most recently in statements by John Kerry, claim that the RIGHT is the one trying to stifle dissent and debate?
Posted by: Mike's America at May 8, 2006 12:04 PM
