Ohio State students upset Chris Matthews tapped as commencement speaker

Columbus Dispatch ^ | March 28, 2014 | Collin Binkley

[don-o]

‘We don’t know who this guy is,’ some complain of MSNBC talk-show host

[exit82]

Hope they provide a drool bucket for him.

[Farmer Dean]

Others do know who he is,and that’s a problem too.

[Westbrook]

> Hope they provide a drool bucket for him.

LOL!!

I was JUST thinking the SAME thing!

Hope their mics are waterproof.

[ken5050]

“Graduates, when you take that first STEP towards the next phase of your life, I hope you feel a tingle in your leg.”

[basil]

If this were my graduation ceremony, I simply would not attend……...

[Olog-hai]

He might also need a ground wire for his tingly leg.

[dowcaet]

What? Ed Schultz wasn’t available? Rachel Maddow? Yeah, if I’m a president at a major university MSNBC is the last place I’d be looking for a commencement speaker.

[Junk Silver]

If Matthews does end up speaking at the commencement it will be the largest viewing audience he’s had in years.

[CodeToad]

That’ll end up being an hour and a half of Hissy Chrissy talking about the love of his life Zero. *PAIN*

[shove_it]

What a great opportunity for a FReep.

[albie]

Must be an open bar promised.

[GBA]

I didn't attend my commencement due to the choice of speaker and don't regret it, but I still regret their choice of speaker.

[Cyber Liberty]

Amid the search for a new president and other shuffles in top jobs, [Provost Joseph] Steinmetz and his office made the final decision, Lewis said.

It would appear "Provost" needs to be one of the "shuffles."

[Sooth2222]

With a reported total of 63,964 students, I doubt all or even most OSU graduates attend graduations. If they all walked at graduation, the ceremony would probably take days if not weeks.

[EDINVA]

“This year, there wasn’t time,..”

What? They have all new students in their graduating class?

[jeffc]

This year, there wasn’t time.

That's one of the lamest excuses I've heard. "no time", uh-huh....

[Sivad]

“.........I simply would not attend.......”

Me too......BUT my dramatic side tells me that a mass grad walk-out
on video would be a great keepsake and fun, too.

[Ohioan]

One of the mass media's most notorious crack-pot airheads--the male Nancy Pelosi.

It is not only students who will be upset about this choice. Ohio State, after all, is a major Ohio institution.

Now just what could this babbling head have to offer the student body?

William Flax

[LucianOfSamasota]

Castro wasn’t feeling well, the Communist-in-Chief had a golf date, and Chavez is dead...

Matthews is the best they could do!