It’s Payback Time

Mass. News Platoon ^ | 3/31/09 | D. R. Tucker

[MartinaMisc]

Boston Herald columnists and WTKK-FM talk radio stars Margery Eagan and Michael Graham have a slight disagreement today over Graham’s successful effort to get Boston College to reverse its decision to invite 1960s radical terrorist William Ayers to speak on-campus. Graham is under fire by Boston progressives for his anti-Ayers activism:

And that’s when the Angry Left turned their sights on me.

I attacked “free speech.” I was a talk radio hypocrite, only supporting controversial opinions from the right. My favorite is the blogger bemoaning “a verbal terrorist assault by right-wing yakker Michael Graham.”

That’s right - the guy who founded a terrorist group and said post-9/11 “I wish I’d done more” isn’t a terrorist. But the guy who reports his itinerary is.

Such is the intellectual rigor of the contemporary left.

Eagan is nowhere near as radical as the anti-Graham blogosphere bashers, but she isn’t exactly pleased by Graham’s initiative:

At BC the uproar was fueled Friday by WTKK-FM talk host and Herald opinion columnist Michael Graham, a conservative and, full disclosure, a friend and colleague. E-mails started streaming into BC. Bomb-makers have no free speech rights - that became the argument.

Too bad BC didn’t do what Columbia did in 2007 when that Israel-hating lunatic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, spoke at their New York campus. They let him speak - but not before he was brutally denounced, his sadistic atrocities detailed, for 15 minutes, as he sat on stage 20 feet from his denouncer, Columbia University’s president.

How instructive for BC students, and satisfying for Ayers’ foes, might that have been?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Ayers deserves no place in the public forum. All self respecting institutions should shun him. He is allowed to espouse whatever obnoxious ideas please him, short of direct incitements to crime. But we don't have to provide him a platform and alumni and students have a right to withhold contributions and applications from institutions that embrace him.

Noam Chomsky is a total fraud on so many levels and an embarrassment to MIT, btw.

[wolfcreek]

THERE’S NO FREE SPEECH IN TERRORISM.