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June 1, 2007
Commencement Kookiness
The loony Left's grip on academia is nowhere near loosening, to judge by the speakers chosen for this year's commencement addresses. Young America's Foundation found that lefties outnumbered conservative speakers 8 to 1.
This year's speakers included:
- Impeached President B.J. Clinton at University of Michigan.
- Madeleine Halfbright, the toast of Pyongyang, at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Race-baiting demagogue and Fidel Castro bootlicker Charles Rangel at New York University.
- Gray Lady propagandist Thomas Friedman, who says oil at $100/barrel "would make my day," at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- The Communist News Network's Wolf Blitzer, who would like to know, "Why would it be so bad if this Iranian regime had a nuclear weapon?" at George Washington University.
- Physically violent, racist 9/11 conspiracy kook Cynthia McKinney at Antioch College.
As Jason Mattera of YAF notes,
[C]ollege administrators are using commencement ceremonies to send their students off with one more predictable leftist lecture.
At least liberal icon and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal isn't giving any recorded commencements from his prison cell this year — so far as I know. In the past he's provided them for UC Berkley, UC Santa Cruz, Antioch College, Occidental College, and Evergreen State College
Posted by Van Helsing at June 1, 2007 11:38 AM
Comments
I call on all free thinkers to support David Horowitz's campaign to re-establish academic freedom at U.S. universities by going to FrontPageMag.com and making a donation, however small.
Posted by: John the Libertarian at June 1, 2007 7:07 PM
Shows how higher education has the lowest of personal standards.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 2, 2007 8:00 AM
