Which is why up to a/fourth of the over 4,000 BYU students & faculty present to hear Reid gave him a standing ovation, and the most of the rest a cheer.
No, not really. From the reports I heard, a small percentage stood up and gave him a standing ovation. There was polite applause from the rest. 4,000 people came to hear Harry, 30,000 people attend BYU. Harry crossed the line, bigtime, in his speech. I live in Provo, and I am an alumnus of BYU. The vast majority of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were appalled at his remarks.
And we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t. The students were polite to Harry Reid and didn’t demonstrate. The Republicans didn’t bus down any protestors from SLC, like the liberals did when Vice President Dick Cheney spoke last May at graduation. At liberal campuses, conservatives cannot speak without interruption or protests or having the invitations yanked. Even though I totally disagree with Harry Reid, BYU has the option to invite whomever they want to to speak at their forums.
Did you hear that Justice John Roberts of the US Supreme Court spoke last week at BYU? He drew about 8,000 listeners. I think that tells you something. BTW, great speech by Roberts.
You mean a whole 4,000 students and faculty from BYU with a full-time student enrollment of almost 30,000 and a faculty of approximately 1,600 actually attended the forum to hear Reid speak? Shocking, I tell you.
And of that whopping 4,000 a whole 1,000 of them gave him a standing ovation. What an indictment of how many students think so highly of Harry Reid I mean, that is like a whole 3 percent of the student body and faculty. Appalling, I tell you.
And since I’m sure you were in attendance, you certainly must know how many of the 1,000 “students” and “faculty” were actually from BYU rather than democratic activists who were asked by the Utah Democratic Party to attend the forum, right?
You really made a strong point with this post. NOT. If you weren’t such an anti-Mormon bigot, you would admit that BYU’s students and faculty are overwhelmingly conservative. But, clowns like you never let facts get in the way of your bigotry.