Posted on 06/14/2004 5:02:51 PM PDT by ChristianJim
This is the first time I have posted a thread and I suppose it could be called a vanity post. I just wanted to share with FR my experience at my son's college graduation yesterday. To say that the speaker had a liberal political agenda would be an understatement. In any case I tracked down his web site and sent him an email. It occurred to me that the good people on FR might like to read what I had to say, and if you agree with my comments, you might like to take a few minutes to send an email with your comments. The email address is Paul@paulloeb.org Please let me know if I have violated any FR rules with this post. This is my first one. The email I sent follows.
To Paul Loeb,
Yesterday, June 13, 2004, I had the pleasure of attending my son’s graduation at the University of Washington. He worked very hard to accomplish this and I was pleased that I could be there to see him receive his degree. Unfortunately, I was unable to enjoy the complete event because of your address to the graduating class.
To say that you are a name dropping, professional student who has not contributed a useful thing to this country would be an understatement. You have spent your total existence in academia and have no idea what the real world is all about. It is individuals like you, who use the graduation exercises for the young people who represent our country’s future to advance your socialist agenda, that is contributing to the decline of our nation. Most of what you said in your so called speech was directly out of the liberal playbook and it was all a distortion of the facts to suit your own goal of advancing your socialist agenda. To stand in front of those young impressionable people and attempt to brain wash them with your propaganda was unconscionable.
Our country is at war against an evil that will destroy us if we do not stop them. Your distorted attack on our Commander-In-Chief during this war on terrorism further illustrates that you are also an enemy to this nation. People like you, and the liberal media, represent the enemy within and are as great a threat to the United States as the terrorists we are now fighting. You preach appeasement to our enemies in the mid east instead of confronting them and defending ourselves. I don’t see how someone, who claims to be as educated as you, can take that stand. Perhaps you should go back and review history. Did you ever hear of a man called Nevil Chamberland, or the evil represented by Adolph Hitler? Chamberland’s appeasement resulted in a little thing called the blitzkrieg of England and the deaths of hundreds of thousands innocent people. You can expect more 9/11s within our shores if we take the appeasement path. Have you ever heard it said that “if you don’t learn from your mistakes you are doomed to repeat them”? But then people like you don’t care about that, as long as you are in no danger. Well, you can rest assured that is not going to happen to this country. Not as long as I, and people like me, represent the majority.
You also took a shoot at President Reagan. Probably the best president of the 20th century. You complained about him signing a bill that would no longer give grants for higher education but would instead offer government loans that would be paid back after graduation. Most citizens, me among them, believe this is fair. Why should an individuals college education be funded by the tax payer. The last time I looked, this was not a socialist society, even though individuals like you want it to be and are doing everything they can to steer the country in that direction. My son, who was one of the graduates subjected to your liberal speech, worked his way through college with absolutely no government aid and managed to graduate cum laude. He also did it while holding down a full time job and supporting his own family. He did it on his own and I am very proud of his accomplishments and the fact he is a conservative, just as all of my children are. He is worth 10 of you and as far as I am concerned you are not fit to shine his shoes, let alone preach your socialist agenda to him.
Furthermore, its very possible there wouldn’t be an Iraq war for you to misrepresent in your disgusting speeches if John Kerry and his liberal cohorts hadn’t blocked President Bush’s energy bill. Do you realize that if the energy bill had been passed when it was proposed, Anwar could be producing 1,000,000 barrels of oil per day? That’s 1,000,000 barrels of US oil for US consumption per day. That’s revenue for 1,000,000 barrels of oil per day not going to help fund terrorism. That’s 1,000,000 barrels of oil per day we are not dependent on a foreign country for. I can’t say for sure we would not have been attacked on 9/11, no one can. But it only makes sense to believe that the chances of not being attacked would have been better. In any case we WERE attacked and it is in our best interests to take the fight to them and not have the fight within our boarders. You should sleep better at night knowing that our brave young men and women are out there fighting for your right to undermine them and our country.
I have one final point to set forth that I would like to hear from you on. Your list of accomplishments in the U of W graduation exercises program mentioned that you helped end the Viet Nam war. By doing a little math I would estimate you to would have been 23 years of age when the Viet Nam war ended. I would like to hear how an inexperienced 23 year old still wet behind the ears, and no doubt contaminated with socialist ideas, helped end the Viet Nam war. Other than participating in left wing demonstrations against the war that only served to cause an upheaval in this country and the mistreatment of our returning soldiers what could you have contributed that was worth anything?
The Viet Nam war was politicized to serve the liberal agenda of what is bad for the country is good for the advance of the liberals. And all the while playing down the fact that our involvement in the first place occurred when a Democrat was in the white house. It is all about power with the left and you are one of their highly educated, but ignorant, hand puppets that helps to keep them in power. If you and others like you would have just stayed out of the way, we could have ended the Viet Nam war in short order with a victory that would have helped to stop the spread of communism. Not to mention, thousands of lives would have been spared. But in the name of political correctness our military’s hands were tied and they couldn’t do their jobs. So, the war was ended in such a manner that it only served to embolden the communists. It took the policies of Ronald Reagan, while he was in office, to end the cold war and bring down communism. Make no mistake, you and people like you aren’t going to do the same thing with the war on terrorism.
I would like to read what you have to say in response to this, but I don’t expect there will be a reply. I should tell you that I intend to copy many people on this letter and I will also distribute any reply you might make. I did not try to hide my email address, so feel free to drop me a line.
Way to wordy ... although I agree with the content.
"Way to wordy"
These 'professors' don't know any other way.
ChristianJim, great letter. Don't expect anything.
Well met.
Want another liberal commencement speaker story?
My commencement speaker was former NOW president Patricia Ireland. For some background, I attended a private woman's college that did not pay its commencement speakers.
All the hag did was drone on about herself. She never mentioned the graduates, who happened to be the reason everybody, including herself, was present.
She had the poor taste to talk about the first time she attempted to obtain birth control, as if I wanted to know it. Needless to say, the overt pot-shots at conservatives were also made.
Even the crazy butch feminists in the class wanted her to shut up.
You are correct -- you will get the standard Liberal response: Run away run away!
I have a Liberal sister that keeps saying to me "you just have facts -- I have a PHILOSOPHY!"
Keep fighting the good fight. Way to go!
""Learning inflicted on weak minds does not improve them, and frequently is ruinous" (Guicciardini)."
Love it.
Google search on "Nevil-Chamberland" returns two hits. Google search on "Neville-Chamberlain" returns 75,000. I have a sneaky feeling the latter spelling may be more correct than the former.
Actually, Neville Chamberlain (note spelling) is more honorable than our modern day appeasers. He finally learned his lesson when Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and declared war. He then graciously exited the political stage never to be heard from again when the Brits found a real leader in Sir Winston Churchill.
He had far more gumption, common sense and class than any of our modern day appeasers, going to his grave a few short months later as a fully-repentant man.
Hey Jim, you whacked him good, however I suspect it was unnecessary. From your description of your son, this last desperate attempt at indoctrination only confirmed his awareness of the lunacy and danger the lazy socialist left presents.
Well done and well stated from your heart. Good for you. If more of us took the time it might make a small difference. FWIW a friend in Seattle also attended and was telling me a similar story about this guy. Unfortunately, with three girls in college, one at UNC in the Journalism School, I am all too familiar with the liberal influence in our institutions of higher learning these days. Thankfully two of mine chose decent, fairly conservative schools ... USC (South Carolina) and The Collge of Charleston.
Russ
Great e-mail, I doubt if you'll be hearing from him. My only other comment is that Millions of lives would have been saved. I'm think about Cambodia.
Nice letter. It's about what I'd expect out of yoo-dub, though, where the academics tend to be legends in their own minds. There were cloistered nuns in medieval times who knew more of the world than these pampered darlings, and at least they attempted humility, an attitude on campus that is relegated to the "mere" business majors who pay the taxes to keep the kept.
That's a good one LOL!
To Vigalanteman OOOPs I blew the spelling, shame on me. Actually I did that on purpose, I wanted to see if I got a reply from Paul Loeb and whether or not he would focus on that spelling to support a personal attack. Or, if he would address the issues. I don't mean to imply that is what you were doing.
"Closely allied to the intellectual's attitude toward the masses is his incompatibility with America. The Americanization of a country amounts to giving it a classless aspect, a sameness that suggests equality. It is this that the foreign intellectual fears and resents. He feels the loss of an aristocratic climate as a private hurt. It is a drab, uninspiring world where every mother's son thinks himself as good as anyone else, and the capacity for reverence and worship becomes atrophied. This to the intellectual is a truly "godless" world, and this the "vulgarity" and the "debasement" against which he rails."
"When you try to find out what it is in this country that stifles the American Intellectual, you make a surprising discovery. It is not the landscape, though he is poignantly aware of its historical meagerness, and it is not the social system, particularly when it is headed by aristocrats like Roosevelt and Kennedy. What he cannot stomach is the mass of the American people--a mindless monstrosity devoid of spiritual, moral, and intellectual capacities. Like the aging Henry Adams, the contemporary American intellectuals scans the daily newspaper for evidence of the depravity and perversity of American life, and arms himself with a battery of clippings to fortify his loathing and revulsion. When you listen to him or read what he writes about America you begin to suspect that what the American intellectuals know about the American people is actually what they know about each other: that they project upon America the infighting, mistrust, envy, malice, conformity, meagerness, and staleness of their cliques and sects. Imagine an American writing about America and not mentioning the boundless capacity for working together, not mentioning the unprecedented diffusion of social, political, as well as technological skills, not mentioning American's ability to do the world's work with minimum of supervision and leadership, not mentioning the breathtaking potentialities which lurk in the commonest American."
Liberals don't know how to shine shoes. Just look at their shoes!
TRANSLATION: "I feel, therefore I don't need to think"
- the Liberal Credo
When I studied Latin, there were translations of the Latin classics, and they were called the "Loeb Classics."
At that time (back in the day), the scholars referred to them as the "Low Ebb Classics".
Let's call him Paul Low Ebb.
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