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2004-05-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-26 9:47:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't think that all of the folks in attendance will be voting Bush this November. Hell some of them won't vote at all.

They just didn't want politics mixed with their scene.

Al Gore was roundly booed in Houston back in 2000. Still and all, a good many of the booers voted for him.

It's just the way us normal folk say "I really don't want to hear about it HERE."

Posted by eLarson 2004-05-26 9:58:29 AM|| 2004-05-26 9:58:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 rerun - was under Peggy Noonans' take on the booing yesterday

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-26 10:05:05 AM|| 2004-05-26 10:05:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 i think there should be a middle eastern tv show called infidel pool boy!

Posted by REZANATOR 2004-05-26 10:49:02 AM|| 2004-05-26 10:49:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The audience came for another purpose and was captive until the end of the event. He exploited the situation in order to pronounce his own controversial political opinions. He deserved to be booed.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-26 11:00:29 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:00:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 sociology professor Cynthia Bogard. "I only wish their parents had provided them a better role model."

Translation: These parents aren't/weren't intelligent, nuanced or sophisticated enough to see how evil Mr. Bush really is.

Posted by Anonymous4021 2004-05-26 11:09:55 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:09:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Professor Bogard? : Been measured for your burka yet?

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-26 11:12:41 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:12:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 Mike S. - Well put.

Posted by Anonymous5007 2004-05-26 11:20:08 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:20:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 Mike S. - Well put.

Posted by eLarson 2004-05-26 11:20:27 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:20:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 But some defended Doctorowâs ~~Pro-Kerry Democratic nonsense masquerading as a commencement~~ speech. "I think heâs entitled to his ~~lies~~ opinion and heâs as much of a traitor ~~American~~ (oops) American as anyone else ~~among the liberal non-thinking left~~ ."

Posted by ex-lib 2004-05-26 11:34:01 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:34:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 A similar thing happened here in Illinois last year at Rockford College-one person threw their cap to the stage, people in the audience turned their backs and hissed. The speaker, a New York journalist with a book out, promoted his theory that American support for the Iraqi war is symptomatic of the dangerous kind of comraderie that develops in the support for wars generally- an expression of nationalistic frenzy. Didn't fly to well out here in the Midwest...

Posted by jules 187 2004-05-26 11:59:56 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:59:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I forgot to add that I'm not surprised--Doctorow's "Ragtime" was quite anti-American/ pro-socialism/communism.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-05-26 12:08:41 PM|| 2004-05-26 12:08:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "I thought this was a totally appropriate place to talk about politics because thatâs the world our students are entering," said sociology professor Cynthia Bogard.

He wasn't talking politics, he was spewing his own personal opinion.

People actually pay this alledged woman to teach their children?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-05-26 12:35:29 PM|| 2004-05-26 12:35:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The important point: graduating seniors don't give a damn about Mr. Doctorow's political viewpoint. It's a graduation, dummy. Talk about graduation and the future and stuff like that.

Keep the rants for your fellow moonbats.

Posted by mojo 2004-05-26 2:51:54 PM|| 2004-05-26 2:51:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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