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‘Amazing how that works': Katie Pavlich banned from speaking to Oxford debate society
twitchy.com ^ | february 9, 2015

Posted on 02/09/2015 1:10:55 PM PST by lowbridge

Author and Townhall columnist Katie Pavlich was all set to speak before Oxford’s famed debating society. The society’s president apparently had other plans:

Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich

Was scheduled to speak 2day at 'last bastion of free speech' @OxfordUnion but after committee voted to have me the president vetoed & banned

She’s not making that “last bastion” line up, by the way:

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: katiepavlich; oxford
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1 posted on 02/09/2015 1:10:55 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
Godspeed Katie Pavlich! Keep fighting the good fight!



2 posted on 02/09/2015 1:14:48 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: lowbridge

pretty soon you won’t get a job if you oppose homos and/or Islam


3 posted on 02/09/2015 1:15:52 PM PST by GeronL
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To: lowbridge

It’s their loss, the fools.


4 posted on 02/09/2015 1:16:33 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: lowbridge
Not.

Guilty.

5 posted on 02/09/2015 1:16:56 PM PST by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: lowbridge

Well hell, she’s White and good looking, that alone should disqualify her.

Badge of honor (IMO)...


6 posted on 02/09/2015 1:17:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: lowbridge

She is a FREAKING GENIUS...!

Wunderkind, and not cuz I agree with her reporting.


7 posted on 02/09/2015 1:17:58 PM PST by gaijin
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To: mykroar

I.

Agree.


8 posted on 02/09/2015 1:18:06 PM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: lowbridge

Obviously, they’re not about “debating.” Apparently, they’re not about “pulchritude,” either.

What they’re about, then, ... ? Whatever. Drugs?


9 posted on 02/09/2015 1:19:13 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Where's Dark Betrayal when you really need it?!?" ~James)
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To: lowbridge

Can’t upset delicate liberals and their echo chamber...Bunch of cowards.


10 posted on 02/09/2015 1:19:14 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: lowbridge

You might be a liberal if you ban people from a free speech seminar.


11 posted on 02/09/2015 1:23:04 PM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: lowbridge

Does anyone know what the topic was supposed to be, and why her invitation was revoked?


12 posted on 02/09/2015 1:28:23 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: lowbridge

Liberalism IS a mental disorder.


13 posted on 02/09/2015 1:30:15 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: mykroar

So incredibly NOT GUILTY...I am willing to be her attorney...pro bono....:)


14 posted on 02/09/2015 1:40:19 PM PST by Crapgame (What should be taught in our schools? American Exceptionalism, not cultural Marxism...)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Not guilty of anything.


15 posted on 02/09/2015 1:43:01 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: lowbridge

Go to Twitter and send them your views (@OxfordUnion).


16 posted on 02/09/2015 1:43:52 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Ryan Ruck

p i n g


17 posted on 02/09/2015 1:44:12 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: lowbridge
"this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country"

Resolution adopted by the Oxford Union, February 9, 1933.

18 posted on 02/09/2015 1:47:56 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Servant of the Cross

A fighter for Conservatism and darned cute too!


19 posted on 02/09/2015 1:56:18 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lowbridge
A shame Oxford isn't as open-minded as Cambridge.

Sarah Palin Accepts Invitation to Speak at Cambridge


20 posted on 02/09/2015 2:02:20 PM PST by Bratch
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