Progressives on Parade

Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 24, 2016 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Academiadotorg]

Colleges and universities should consider inviting conservative commencement speakers if only to give overworked liberals a break.

For one thing, this administration is in danger of overexposure on Graduation Days in a way that no Republican government need ever fear. Here is a partial listing of peripatetic progressives doing the college commencement tour, culled from lists compiled by The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Graduation Week.com, the Young America's Foundation and Campus Reform.org, a project of The Leadership Institute:

• President Obama--Rutgers and Howard;

• Michael Bloomberg--University of Michigan, Scripps College;

• U. S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia--Washington University at St. Louis, Bates College;

• Former (Clinton Administration) U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--University of Denver, Scripps College;

• Michelle Obama--City University of New York;

• Jill Biden--Northern Virginia Community College;

• New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman--Ohio College of Engineering;

• Obama Administration alum Van Jones--Middlebury College;

• U. S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N. J.--George Washington University;

• UN Ambassador Samantha Power--Yale;

• Soledad O’Brien--Vanderbilt;

• General Martin Dempsey--Notre Dame;

• Eboo Patel, President Obama’s Interfaith Council--Wake Forest;

• Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz--Boston College;

• Anne Marie Slaughter, New America Foundation and Obama Administration alum--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;

• U. S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker--Georgia Institute of Technology;

• U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry--Northeastern;

• U. S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell--University of Washington;

• Former U. S. Attorney General (in the Obama Administration) Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder--Stony Brook University;

• Author Gail Sheehy--University of Vermont;

• Bill Moyers--also at Rutgers

• U. S. Supreme Court Justice (appointed by President Obama) Sonia Sotomayor--University of Rhode Island;

• Former (Obama Administration) U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan--City Colleges of Chicago;

• Obama campaign manager David 'the axe' Axelrod @ Ronald Reagan's alma mater, Eureka College (alumni may want donations back); and

• Arianna Huffington--Colby College.

Kallina Crompton and Alex Nitzberg provided the research for this report. They are interns in the American Journalism Center internship program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.

[Academiadotorg]

Call it the Magical Mystery Tour

[Lou L]

I’d want my money back if I was a graduate of any of those schools.

[Academiadotorg]

me too.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Scripps is having 2 speakers? (Bloomberg and Albright)

[Academiadotorg]

Apparently they could only make it to the second letter of the alphabet.

[pbear8]

The Magical Misery Tour

[equaviator]

Grads need a “safe space” away from all listed speakers.