Posted on 05/24/2004 8:20:27 PM PDT by jmstein7
Left-wing literary darling E.L. Doctorow was nearly booed off the stage at Long Island's Hofstra University yesterday when the commencement address he'd been invited to give turned into an anti-Bush tirade that excoriated the president as a liar.
The celebrated author spent virtually all of his 20-minute address lambasting Bush as "a storyteller," according to Newsday - saying, but "sadly they are not good stories this president tells."
"They are not good stories because they are not true," Doctorow contended, in a line that prompted the first boos.
As Doctorow continued, the booing grew so loud at one point that Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz interrupted him in a bid to calm the crowd of relatives of graduating seniors, many of whom were livid at the attempt to politicize the ceremony.
"To ruin my daughter's graduation with politics is pathetic," retired New York Police Department captain Bill Schmidt told Newsday.
"If this would have happened in Florida, we would have taken him out" of the stadium, complained Frank Mallafre, who traveled from Miami for his granddaughter's graduation.
Even some students called Doctorow's speech inappropriate.
"He's a bit like Michael Moore," graduating senior Peter Hulse told the paper.
Now don't you wish you hung around to watch that?
Yep
Bush's speech at LSU was GREAT.
Young Americans, fighting back against PC!
Hofstra - I am surprised, Nassau County tilts Dem now.
My niece graduated from Hofstra yesterday, my sister said he was booed non-stop for 20 minutes. The parents were furious and filed several complaints this morning.
Pray for W and Our Honored Troops
In other words, after the speech, he spilled the punchbowl over himself while drinking from it, decimated the hors d'oeuvres trays and made off with over three pounds of potato salad in plastic bags that lined his coat pockets.
I'll bet they don't invite him back anytime soon.
Doctorow should have been pelted with cans, bottles and food. Bastard.
How'd LSU do in football last year?
What would you expect if you invite E.L. Doctorow to give a speech? He uses hatred of America to make up for lack of talent and skill. He's sort of the Michael Moore of the printed page.
Yeah, gotta expect lefties to act like this the same way you'd expect dogs to bark and cats to meow.
They can't help being idiots.
I'm more interested in who invited this flaming liberal to the commencement in the first place.
To do this at this kind of function shows how low class the left has become. The most pathetic thing is that our President is NOT the one in the group who is lying. The darlings of the left, the Clinton's were caught in lie after lie, yet NEVER called liars by mainstream media who covered for them right and left. Kerry has told some real whoppers, as did Al Gore, yet you never hear them called liars.
The conservatives are blasted to this day for daring to say that Clinton lied under oath, even though a court of law said he did, as did Hillary! Yet they to this day deny this, and the media lets them have a pass. Disgusting!
I do so love this story bump!
The commencement address at my college graduation was given by Barry Goldwater. He gave a very uplifting speech that didn't delve into politics at all.
Mister Hulse. You have graduated from college. Surely you can elaborate more concisely than this? Try using something other than "pop" references to describe someone. Very few folks in the world know who your reference is, much less give a ****.
Cool, maybe people are starting to wake up. It is terrible to ruin a graduation with this BS. Glad they booed the idiot, about time liberals get a taste of their own medicine.
Just one of many lib scribes I wish I could buy for what he's worth and sell for what he thinks he's worth. Pompous and tendentious with his best years (never very good) well behind him. Another ideological Quisling who will never leap the 9/11 barrier. Onto the trash heap of history fella!! Way to go kids!!
"What would you expect if you invite E.L. Doctorow to give a speech?"
I would expect the men in the little white coats to come scoop me up with a butterfly net, because I would have to be well and truly deranged to do such a thing.
The cobra spits; Doctorow speaks. Who grows fat on the difference?
Ancient Afghan proverb (updated).
Weren't those 3 bolded words left out of a previous report on this while quoting the same?
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