Posted on 04/27/2010 10:43:51 AM PDT by WilliamHouston
YWC president Kevin DeAnna has summed up pretty much everything I had to say about Tom Tancredo's appearance at UNC Chapel Hill. The media exaggerated the number of walkouts, Tancredo's speech was well received by the audience, and the action taken by SDS didn't live up to the hype. When the event was over, I was amazed that it had went off without incident. I hadn't expected such a cakewalk.
A few dirty leftists showed up to protest our event. These crazy people exist on every college campus. According to Wikipedia, UNC Chapel Hill has 28,135 active students. I saw anywhere from 14 to 20 communist agitators outside the Student Union and maybe 100 gathered around in a semi-circle watching their little circus. The vast majority of students - in particular, natives of North Carolina - could not be persuaded to support their sanctimonious grandstanding.
YWC received messages of support from across the Tar Heel state. Locals repeatedly called to thank us for standing up to the Left's radical agenda on North Carolina campuses. Lots of good folks from North Carolina sent us inquiries asking what they could do to help. Like Virginia and Florida, North Carolina is another Southern state that trended blue in 2008, but has since dramatically reversed course in 2010. President Obama and the Democratic Party have lost a lot of their credibility there....
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From the video I saw last night on WRAL, it looked like the interlopers hogged the tickets so that those who would really have liked to have seen and heard Sen Tancredo were crowded out.
Typcial brown-shirt behavior (not that one could really tell the colors of their shirts).
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