The Heckler Heckled

TAS ^ | 5/26/2004 | George Neumayr

[Klaus D. Deore]

"Do you know who I am?!"

[martin_fierro]

When E.L. Doctorow urged graduates at Hofstra University to question authority, he didn't expect them to question his.

Line of the week!

[bitt]

'If a liberal commencement speaker calls the president of the United States a liar, that's civility; if the crowd boos the speaker calling their president a liar, that's incivility'

another sweet line!

[Poohbah]

"Do you know who I am?!"

(Keys ear-splitting PA system) "MANAGER ASSIST REGISTER THREE, WE HAVE A CUSTOMER WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHO HE IS..."

[Paul Atreides]

I love the sound of liberal whining, when their own tactics are used against them. I just hope that we don't have to hear some conservative tsk-tsking the crowd. It is long past time that those socialists got what they deserved.

[Dog Gone]

Thanks for posting this.

[driftless]

Personally I don't believe in heckling even a stupid, leftist assw... like Doctorow. Silence would be a better weapon. Shouting down even obnoxious creeps like him will only lead to retaliation. Action should be taken to get conservative speakers on campus and scolding college admin for letting such useless jerks speak.

[trebb]

And don't let it hit you on the way out...

[swilhelm73]

I'll be honest with you. I'm sick and tired of conservatives playing by the rules while the Left breaks them with impunity.

The Left isn't going to play nice no matter how much we do, and our principles may well lead to us losing the culture war.

Doctorow violated the unwritten code about using such a speech as a narrow, partisan weapon. As such, there was little reason for those in attendance to respect the similar unwritten code of politely listening. Booing him was the right thing to do. Perhaps the next time a Leftist considers givign such a speech he will thing twice...

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Let me guess.

You're a troll?

[Klaus D. Deore]

What are you blabbing about?

I'm simply pointing out that this dude is as red as they come.

Take a chill, Cracker

[Klaus D. Deore]

"Do you know who I am?"

Is the Leftist Elitist lament when us regular folks question their 'holier than thou' crappola.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Whenever you show up in a thread it's always accompanied by the stench of troll flesh, that's all.

[Klaus D. Deore]

Whenever you show up in a thread it's always accompanied by the stench of troll flesh, that's all.

I think perhaps you just need to change your underwear... Cracky.

[BushisTheMan]

The Nation magazine....

Where are good Commies go to work.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Liberals aren't supposed to be heckled at commencement ceremonies; they are supposed to do the heckling.

OK. We're sorry. We left the rulebook at home.

No! Wait!! Our dog ate the rulebook!!

[aculeus]

Personally I don't believe in heckling even a stupid, leftist assw... like Doctorow. Silence would be a better weapon. Shouting down even obnoxious creeps like him will only lead to retaliation. Action should be taken to get conservative speakers on campus and scolding college admin for letting such useless jerks speak.

Baloney. He wasn't invited to give a political speech, one that students had the freedom to ignore by not attending. He was invited to a commencement and decided to make a political speech. As Peggy Noonan wrote yesterday: "Go, Hofstra!"

[Fintan]

"...And so we now have hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of our citizens lying around in the streets of our cities, sleeping in doorways, begging with styrofoam cups. We didn't have a class of permanent beggars in this country -- in the United States of America -- fifteen or twenty years ago. We didn't have kids selling crack in their grade schools, or businessmen magnifying their fortunes into megafortunes by stock manipulation and thievery -- I don't remember such epidemics of major corporate fraud. A decade ago you did not have college students scrawling racial epithets or anti-Semitic graffiti on the room doors of their fellow students. You did not have cops strangling teen-age boys to death or shooting elderly deranged women in their own homes. You did not have scientists falsifying the results of experiments, or preachers committing the sins against which they so thunderously preached. A generation or so back, you didn't have every class of society, and every occupation, widely, ruggedly practicing its own characteristic form of crime."
 

 

Of course, all of these horrors magically disappeared between 1992-2000.

 

 

[JimSEA]

Trying to read his speech above is kind of like trying to read "Ragtime", his novel. The brain disolves in rage.