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Graduates at New School Heckle Speech by McCain
NY imes ^ | May 20, 2006 | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

Posted on 05/20/2006 3:27:36 AM PDT by Pharmboy


Librado Romero/The New York Times
Senator John McCain delivers commencement speech during The New Schools ceremony at Madison
Square Garden. Students holding leaflets and turning backs during McCain's address.


Librado Romero/The New York Times
Senator John McCain, the keynote
speaker at the New School University
graduation, was received with jeers,
boos and insults.

The jeers, boos and insults flew, as caustic as any that angry New Yorkers have hurled inside Madison Square Garden. The objects of derision yesterday, however, were not the hapless New York Knicks, but Senator John McCain, the keynote speaker at the New School graduation, and his host, Bob Kerrey, the university president.

No sooner had Mr. Kerrey welcomed the audience to the university's 70th commencement than the hoots began to rise through the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Several graduates held up a banner aimed at Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican and likely 2008 presidential candidate, declaring: "Our commencement is not your platform." Other students and faculty members waved orange fliers with the same message.

Mr. Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska, was unapologetic yesterday about inviting Mr. McCain, his friend and fellow Vietnam War veteran, to speak. He noted early in his welcoming remarks that there had been intense media coverage of Mr. McCain's graduation speech last week at Liberty University, headed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, in which Mr. McCain strongly defended the Iraq war.

"Many predicted that his speech today would not receive as friendly a reception," Mr. Kerrey said. "The expectation is that — and that expectation has already been realized — that some of you in this audience will act up to protest the senator's appearance."

The first student speaker, Jean Sara Rohe, 21, said she had discarded her original remarks to talk about Mr. McCain.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bobkerry; commencement; mccain; mediadarling; newschool; rino; rudedems; students
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...and we feel the same way about McCain for different reasons.
1 posted on 05/20/2006 3:27:37 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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Oh, great, now he'll want McCain-Feingold to apply 30 days before and after a graduation.


2 posted on 05/20/2006 3:32:49 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Kowtowing to the Bush haters ends now)
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HA! My first thought--no heckling and jeering of politicans.


3 posted on 05/20/2006 3:39:26 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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The harshness in these student's actions makes me thing they don't appreciate diversity of opinions, that sacred cow of the Left.


4 posted on 05/20/2006 3:39:32 AM PDT by ThirstyMan (hysteria: the elixir of the Left that trumps all reason)
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The left does not believe in diversity of opinions- they believe in coerced implementation of their opinions.


5 posted on 05/20/2006 3:41:04 AM PDT by oblomov (Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
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To: Pharmboy

You have to remember, to these nutbars Hillary is a conservative and Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Nazi.


6 posted on 05/20/2006 3:43:29 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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"...and we feel the same way about McCain for different reasons."


Ain't that the truth.

I suppose I will have bathe more frequently, as I get a sadistic delight in seeing McCain pillaried by my enemies, which gives off a bad odor.

I'm off to the showers ... Bwahahahahaha



7 posted on 05/20/2006 3:44:02 AM PDT by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of outthinking our adversaries?)
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...and we feel the same way about McCain for different reasons.

Yes, but I'd like to think that at least conservatives would have the decency not to protest during what (should be) a dignified ceremony for (supposedly) educated people. And the professors were even involved in this? Disgraceful.

8 posted on 05/20/2006 3:45:00 AM PDT by Zero Sum (Marxism is the opiate of the masses.)
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Quick John!!! Suck more Libs!!!


9 posted on 05/20/2006 3:45:28 AM PDT by Waco
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Uh, he speaks at Liberty University and then shows up at the New School? What did he expect?


10 posted on 05/20/2006 3:45:57 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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It would seem that despite a supposed good education , that ignorance is rife in new York.


11 posted on 05/20/2006 3:48:42 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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Indeed. That's why I said "feel" the same way, not "act." They cannot have a reasoned discourse, so they scream and stamp their feet. The left has always done that.


12 posted on 05/20/2006 3:49:46 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must)
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"Our commencement is not your platform."

I must have missed the part where McCain barged into the room and forced them to listen.

13 posted on 05/20/2006 3:55:22 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Derision by those who have Mommy and Daddy picking up their tabs, the vast majority of whom will be living at home with M & D for the next 5 years.


14 posted on 05/20/2006 3:57:39 AM PDT by GungaLaGunga
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Derision by those who have Mommy and Daddy picking up their tabs, the vast majority of whom will be living at home with M & D for the next 5 years.




The New School? Afraid not. Mom and dad have already plunked down the $600k for a "starter condo" on the upper west side.


15 posted on 05/20/2006 4:00:01 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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Thanks for clarifying. Seriously though, look at that top picture. These graduates are taking part in a ceremony that is supposed to dignify them and their accomplishments, and instead they make themselves look like complete asses. And the professors encourage this! This just gives me another reason to be glad that I've decided not to attend my commencement.


16 posted on 05/20/2006 4:00:48 AM PDT by Zero Sum (Marxism is the opiate of the masses.)
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Uh, he speaks at Liberty University and then shows up at the New School? What did he expect?

New School? I'm strictly Old School!

17 posted on 05/20/2006 4:01:32 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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The left does not believe in diversity of opinions-

Did any of you see the girl from the New School on the John Gibson show? She actually said that hearing a different opinion would spoil their day. Gibson couldn't believe she said that and kept asking her if that would really hurt her to hear a different opinion and she said yes.

18 posted on 05/20/2006 4:03:05 AM PDT by patj
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To: 6SJ7

New School for Social Research in the West Village. One of its founders, Thorstein Veblen, is actually one of my heroes.


19 posted on 05/20/2006 4:03:26 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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Not true, the left welcomes all opinions, as long as they are the same as theirs.
Isnt it Ironic, doncha think?


20 posted on 05/20/2006 4:12:57 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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