Posted on 05/22/2009 11:36:35 AM PDT by Big_Monkey
(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will give the commencement speech at Johns Hopkins University on Thursday. That Pelosi, a liberal Democrat, is speaking at the school should come as no surprise as a new report shows that liberals dominate as speakers at the top colleges and universities in America while only five recognizable conservatives have been chosen as commencement speakers this year.
One conservative was even dis-invited as a commencement speaker after his invitation to speak became public, according to the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), which released its report on Wednesday.
“For the past 16 years--the time period Young America’s Foundation has been keeping tabs--a disproportionate number of commencement speakers at our nation’s top colleges and universities have been liberal ideologues, big donors to liberal causes, and members of the ‘drive-by’ media," YAF said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Some of the recognizably liberal luminaries and where they are speaking include the following:
President Barack Obama, Notre Dame
Vice President Joe Biden, Wake Forest University
Hillary Clinton, New York University
Rahm Emanuel, George Washington University
Matt Lauer, Harvard University
Katie Couric, Princeton University
Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane University
Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, MIT
Steven Chu, secretary of Energy Department, California Institute of Technology
Oprah Winfrey, Duke University
Wynton Marsalis, Northwestern University
Vicente Fox, Emory University
Gwen Ifill, Georgetown University
Suze Orman, University of Illinois
Tom Brokaw, Fordham University
“Not really a surprise, just a validation of the expected.”
And a failure of the conservative movement to assert itself in American universities.
Wynton Marsalis is openly political?
There article describes where Ben Stein's invitation to speak at Vermont University was rescinded because the faculty wasn't comfortable with Stein's support of Intelligent Design. It's tough to assert yourself when the libs control the invitation process.
Very vocal supporter of Obama. Played for him I believe the first week of his presidency at the White House.
Where’s Larry the Cable Guy speaking?
Waffle House.
Howard Dean spoke at my daughter’s graduation at UVM.
The theme of his speech was “We won! We won! We won!”
If I had my suicide bomber vest with me, I would have taken him out.
This will be the most brainwashed generation since graduation in Germany in 1939.
MIT will have Patrick Duval as their speaker. However, given that he’s Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts it’s perhaps understandable. However, he won’t be getting an honorary degree. MIT does not award them.
Instead, we need more speakers like this.
Bob Basso author of “Common Sense” plays the role of Thomas Paine to ignite the fire of change in America. Patriotism and Pride for America lead Thomas Paine to help take back America!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA&feature=channel_page
The folks who make these decisions and extend these invitations are the same folks who determine criminal liability by skin color, economic class, and sports team affiliation rather than evidence.
“There article describes where Ben Stein’s invitation to speak at Vermont University was rescinded because the faculty wasn’t comfortable with Stein’s support of Intelligent Design. It’s tough to assert yourself when the libs control the invitation process.”
Well, yes, but it’s deeper than that. This is a failure that really began gaining steam in the 1950s and has only gotten worse. I say that as a 20-something who went to one of the universities on this list.
Liberals initially began this infiltration in relative silence, hiding their most extreme views, until they gained enough power to overthrow the base. Until conservatives begin infiltrating academia, we’re going to be stuck in this rut. It’s tough to break in, though. You will have difficulty getting your thesis to be accepted if it’s too conservative in ideological stance. As someone who nearly went into academics, I dealt with that discrimination first-hand in applying to grad schools.
Former religious schools like Emory, Duke, Northwestern....they all tanked in the 50s. Sadly, this has been something that has gone so far that it’s hard to see how it turns around without a concentrated effort by future generations to break into the establishment. The willingness is there—a certain number of us began rebelling at my school—but the money is also better elsewhere.
Bad time to be under-dressed.
Nancy Pelosi and John Hopkins. ROTFLOL
She can’t find her butt with her own hands.
Wynton Marsalis (Northwestern U) is a jazz musician ... is he that political? I hadn’t heard. just curious.
There may be SOME logic to Pelosi at Hopkins. Her father and brother were both Mayor of Baltimore. Hometown girl and all that.
A vest with exploding tomato soup cans would’ve been a nice intermediate response...
I know most of these kids would not want to miss their graduation even though they probably missed a ton of classes for partying too hard etc...
but I did not attend my commencement because the speaker was a well known prominent businessman in our area that shafted so many small businesses by not paying them and eventually some of them had to close their doors because of serious cash flow problems.
My father paid for my education and explained this to me when I was graduating. As an educated graduate it didn’t take much for me to read between the lines and my Dad was rather pleased I opted out of that pomp and circumstance and so was I.
If it were any of these yahoos you listed I would not attend either.
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