TIMES DOVE: I'M VICTIM OF 'TYRANNY' (booed anti-war NYT reporter claims victimhood, hypes book)

NY POST ^ | May 23, 2003

[Liz]

A New York Times reporter who was booed off the stage for giving an antiwar address at an Illinois college graduation ceremony said he would expect that to happen in a tyrannical society - not the United States.

"I was hurt by it. I was sad. I've been to wartime societies where shouting down speakers is the norm. They are called tyrannies. To have it happen in my own country is depressing," Chris Hedges said at the New School last night.

[Liz]

Sickening liberal modus operandi: When in trouble, assume the position of "victim." But this guy needs to be taken with a grain of salt....the "victim" is hyping a book.

[Carolinamom]

That freedom of speech he's so fond of works two ways. I for one am not hurt that he was hurt.

[jagrmeister]

This man is a political extremist masquerading as a journalist. He has no business doing straight news given his inability to refrain from editorializing in his articles. He had no business speaking at the commencement and if the college administrators weren't going to make the responsible decision, the students showed their backbone by vetoing the inappropriate choice.

[goldstategop]

Liberals love playing the victim. What's changed is people aren't willing to take their garbage sitting down any more. Yeah Chris Hedges finds the university a hostile place for free speech. Well we have news for him. Its the way conservatives have been greeted on our nation's campuses for decades. Without so much as a peep of protest from the Left. I'd say turnabout is fair play.

[putupon]

I've been to wartime societies where shouting down speakers is the norm. They are called tyrannies.

Hey Chrissy, you think you were a victim of tyranny @ the graduation in Illinois? Wait untill the nukes come raining in on the missiles the Klintoons sold the Chicoms.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

So when the liberals booed Santorum at St. Joe's, was that tyranny as well?
This dude needs to get over it.
You take an unpopular position, you get booed. Grow a set and move on.

[F-117A]

Hedges, author of a new book calling war an addiction...

So, he's hoping this boost sales of his book!

[Liz]

You got it.

[Liz]

(Sniffle)....it's so hard to be a sickening liberal nowadays....(sob).

[Liz]

A set? This pea-brain'd be lucky to find even one.

[Liz]

The liberals (and their own Democrat Party's) dominant ideology is victimhood: It is the party of those who, feeling put-upon, nurse political identities, defined by membership in grievance groups.

The victimized groups are easily perceived b/c they usually have a hyphen attached to their separate identity.

Demoocrat liberals simply cannot feel good about themselves unless they have victims......hyphenated-victims. Feel-good liberal types have an utter contempt for the rest of humanity

The problem, like so many other of society's self-described "tolerant and compassionate types," is that their ego-driven "sense of entitlement" is so outsized and demanding that they cannot stand to have a discouraging word spoken about themselves.....thus they engage in the political correctness atrocity which abhors criticism.

Liberals revive the spectre of a despised monarchy (that a Revolutionary War displaced), by setting themselves apart from the commoners, and demanding to be coddled and cosseted at every moment.

Marie Antoinette's infamous, "Let 'em eat cake," is the moral equivalent of contemporary liberals' sense of entitlement which thay extort by political correctness and victimology.

Victimology is defined as the art of blaming and finding others responsible for your own personal failures, then looking and expecting the Federal government to make it all better. It is sometimes referred to as the "whining of America".

Liberals have indeed become a worthless class of whiners. These self-absorbed liberal humanoids, like the conniving Clintons, with their exaggerated sense of entitlement, demand the common folk kneel in obeisance and comply whenever they indicate their wishes.

We will never forget that when commoners dared speak up about the Clintons, Marie-Antoinette-Hitlery demonized them, and publicly labeled them a VRWC.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Thirty years ago, my university's campus newspaper printed a liberal editorial promoting the boycott of lettuce. My roommate and I wrote a sarcastic, conservative reply to the nonsense and asked to have it printed. The campus newspaper refused saying our letter was too "incendiary."

These damn liberals ought to be run out of town - all of them. Do away with tenure at colleges. American parents, for decades, have been spending their life savings to hire communists to teach their children at college. Let's put an end to the crap. Cut off the funding of universities until they hire professors and administrators who do believe in listening to AND teaching more than one viewpoint. They don't believe in free speech. They never have and never will.

[LanPB01]

Yeah, it must have been terrible for this arrogant SOB to be booed off the stage by people that were there to celebrate the end of four years of struggle for a degree. These speakers that can't seem to understand that graduation ceremonies are not the place to spout their idiotic views make me sick.

[mewzilla]

Asked how the Times was reacting to his book, he said, "They are not thrilled by it . . . but I'm not in trouble."

Says it all, doesn't it?

[fporretto]

The Left continues to believe that, as it is morally superior to the rest of us, it can choose whatever tactics it likes to advance its views, but ought to be indemnified against any negative consequences.

Had a right-wing speaker been booed off the stage for criticizing, say, Social Security, Hedges would have written approvingly of the way the students had exercised their freedom of speech and expressed their "social consciences."

Actually, this is a very good thing for the Right, in more ways than one. Double standards don't go down well with the American people. They never have.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Right_in_Virginia]

I was hurt by it. I was sad. I've been to wartime societies where shouting down speakers is the norm. They are called tyrannies

How many tyrannies pay people to speak against the leadership's decisions?

I'm hurt and sad that this man is so stupid.

[nuconvert]

poor baby. And how many conservatives does he think have been shouted down on college campuses over the past 30 yrs? Any tyranny there? No? Just free speach? That's what I thought.

[nuconvert]

Ought to be a victim of a "pink slip."

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!