CBS This Morning Blames Cancellation of Muslim Prayer Event at Duke on Franklin Graham

CBS ^ | January 16, 2015 | Curtis Houck

[Pollster1]

Reverend Graham is a man of God.

[rrrod]

well then...thanks Frank!

[null and void]

Or that.

Or even better, go to a country where they can’t escape the call to prayer.

[Mark17]

Or even better, go to a country where they can’t escape the call to prayer.

I like that better.

[Biggirl]

God Bless Rev. Franklin Graham and thank-you!

[mulligan]

God bless Franklin Graham.

[Albion Wilde]

The tagline of another freeper whose name I don’t recall quotes Greg Gutfeld: “If America were a house, the left would root for the termites.”

[odawg]

If Franklin Graham pulled it off, then that is another reason for me to like him.

[golf lover]

700 Muslims at Duke is 700 too much!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good for Franklin...

[archy]

In an alternate universe, or the USA before 1960, they would have been awarding him the Charles Martel Gold Prize for Defending Western Civilization.

I'd have made it the Prix Jan III Sobieski but I take your point.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Duke suggested that there were “several factors” that led to the decision

Of course, the only factor that matters to a university was never discussed: High-dollar donors calling up the university president direct on his cell phone, chewing his @$$, and saying they'll pull every nickel they invested out of that place and encourage their rich golf-buddies to do the same.

[eyedigress]

Exactly. CBS can blame Billy Graham Ministries all they want.

They don’t have the balls to attack the Duke Foundation or the rest of the Alumni.

[Toespi]

I’m sure Franklin Graham will gladly own it.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yep, no doubt. They can tell Billy Graham to put it to music. The alumni association(s), not so much. I’ve seen what happens to a u president that tries that.

At my small university in a western state, we had a football team that just sucked. Totally worthless. The u prez decided to survey the faculty on whether they think the football team should stay or go. They voted overwhelmingly that it should go. The alumni found about it and unloaded on him asking, “How the hell could you even go there?!?!” They hated him ever after. The prez rationalizes that it’s the faculty’s fault for their (in his view) disloyalty to him and the school and he starts doing all kinds of assinine things to take revenge (like making the school be in session on state holidays so that everybody is screwed out of 3-day weekends, making spring break a 4-day weekend Thursday-Sunday instead of 9 days, administrative things like that). Now the students and faculty are pissed. Result: open warfare with the students, faculty, and alumni all wanting the president’s head. Faculty are talking openly in front of students about what an @$$#01E the president is and refusing to attend social functions. Somebody flattened his car tires. Talk about a three-ring circus. When that president left town, there were people standing at the edge of town with profane signs telling him what they thought of him.