New York Times Reporter Booed Off the Stage

Seamax ^ | 5/29/2003 | Fr. Michael Reilly

[Hugenot]

The New York Times scandal seems to be deepening on a daily basis as the Rockford Register Star reports that a Times reporter was booed off the stage during a commencement address.

This past Saturday, New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was literally unable to finish his speech at Rockford College's graduation, because the graduates and their families were unwilling to sit through an antiwar diatribe.

His 18 minute speech denouncing the United States as a tyranny over the weak ended after only three minutes as his microphone was unplugged.

Meanwhile, the audience reacted with loud boos and blaring foghorns. Some stood and turned their backs on the speakers, while others rushed up the aisle to protest the remarks. One student hurled his cap and gown on to the stage before leaving.

Kevin O'Neill, who attended his wife's graduation, lamented “This is a ceremony. ... The day belongs to the students. It doesn't belong to a political view.”

As more reporters are swept into the maelstrom of scandal at the New York Times, it's time for the leadership to begin answering some questions.

Are we really to believe that they are unaware of the problems? More important, are we really to believe anything we read in the Times?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

reporter booed

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Maybe this will help the liberal scumrats get the message. They perform real well when they surround themselves with a bunch of their little pinko minions, but they get their asses handed to them when they have to face a representative sample of the public.

[Billy_bob_bob]

You can believe what you read in the New York Times. If you're an idiot, that is. Otherwise that paper is only fit to line the bottom of birdcages.

[cubreporter]

Or wrap fish!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

What's really sad is that there is a large block of the population that doesn't realize that CNN, NBC, ABC, the other alphabet networks, and the rest of the lib media carries the same level of integrity and fair reporting (that is, ZERO) as the NYT fishwrap.

[ladyinred]

I agree! I read it in the paper is like the Gospel to so many, too many!

[Hootch]

Your assesment is not acurate. If you want to see the entire thing go here...

http://www.rrstar.com/localnews/your_community/rockford/20030521-4971.shtml

Video Links can be found here...

http://www.rrstar.com/localnews/your_community/rockford/rcvideo.shtml

I have just had the equivilant of a 2-3 hour debate in one of my classes about this. The guy spoke, through heckles and boos, for about 18 minutes.

Let's try to be more accurate than the Times...

[The Great Satan]

It must really suck to be a New York Times reporter right now.

[backhoe]

What's really sad is that there is a large block of the population that doesn't realize that CNN, NBC, ABC, the other alphabet networks, and the rest of the lib media carries the same level of integrity and fair reporting (that is, ZERO) as the NYT fishwrap.

Precisely--

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The Politics of Hollywood
Uncommon Knowledge ^ | July 20, 2001 | Peter Robinson

A poll by the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change in 1992, eighty-three percent of film and television writers, directors and producers voted for Bill Clinton. Eighty-three percent. The vote that Clinton received in the country at large, forty-three percent.

[vpintheak]

Tis Hedges guy is an a-hole fro speakign about that at a college. No brained liberal!

[Imal]

One student hurled his cap and gown on to the stage before leaving.

Now there is a student with potential!

[vikingcelt]

"Now there is a student with potential". Yup. It sounds like he has passion. Anger takes passion and anger can be such a good thing.