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  • The Forget Hell! crowd

    02/27/2006 6:14:47 AM PST · by SuzyQ2 · 220 replies · 4,418+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | February 27, 2006 | W. Thomas Smith, Jr.
    I love history. I’m proud of my Southern heritage. But for me to be angry to the point of protesting a moment in Southern history that happened nearly a century-and-a-half ago would be just, well, nonsensical. And would in some ways tarnish that heritage.
  • E.L. Doctorow Speaks

    09/26/2004 3:55:07 AM PDT · by Stirner · 42 replies · 1,274+ views
    East Hampton Star ^ | Week of 9/20 | E.L. Doctorow
    The Unfeeling President By E.L. Doctorow I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear. But this president does not know what death is. He hasn't...
  • Commencement speech impediment (navel gazing gag alert)

    05/30/2004 8:15:30 PM PDT · by Utah Girl · 7 replies · 178+ views
    Newsday ^ | 6/30/2004 | SAMUEL BRUCHEY
    When former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan talked about America's "loss of credibility" this month at Pennsylvania State University, he was booed vigorously. SUNY Oswego's president sent a letter of apology to its commencement speaker, Theodore C. Sorensen - a former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - after his criticism of President George W. Bush's handling of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 was jeered. And a week ago at Hofstra University, novelist E.L. Doctorow criticized Bush for misleading the country to justify war with Iraq, and couldn't get through his remarks when the catcalls became too loud. The war in...
  • Doctorow wrote himself off-Article and Action Item

    05/25/2004 6:29:31 AM PDT · by Mich0127 · 14 replies · 157+ views
    Newsday.com ^ | 5-25-04 | JOSEPH MONDELLO
    Hofstra University's commencement speaker, E.L. Doctorow, didn't break new ground when he used his time at the pulpit to launch a scathing attack on President George W. Bush over the weekend. In fact, many commencement speakers use this kind of forum to explore political issues that seek to poke, prod and reveal changes in society. But where Doctorow crossed the line was using a strident, personal and partisan attack in an environment where families gather to celebrate personal accomplishment and academic excellence. If they wanted to hear the author excoriate the president, they would have probably preferred a venue such...
  • Bush Critic Booed Off Stage at Commencement (Updated NewsMax Version)

    05/24/2004 8:20:27 PM PDT · by jmstein7 · 26 replies · 208+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 5-24-04
    Left-wing literary darling E.L. Doctorow was nearly booed off the stage at Long Island's Hofstra University yesterday when the commencement address he'd been invited to give turned into an anti-Bush tirade that excoriated the president as a liar. The celebrated author spent virtually all of his 20-minute address lambasting Bush as "a storyteller," according to Newsday - saying, but "sadly they are not good stories this president tells." "They are not good stories because they are not true," Doctorow contended, in a line that prompted the first boos. As Doctorow continued, the booing grew so loud at one point that...
  • Hofstra Graduation Author booed for anti-Bush remarks

    05/23/2004 6:31:27 PM PDT · by kiki04 · 31 replies · 112+ views
    Newsday ^ | May 24, 2004 | BART JONES
    <p>E.L. Doctorow, one of the most celebrated writers in America, was nearly booed off the stage at Hofstra University Sunday when he gave a commencement address lambasting President George W. Bush and effectively calling him a liar.</p> <p>Booing that came mainly from the crowd in the stands became so intense that Doctorow stopped speaking at one point, showing no emotion as he stood silently and listened to the jeers. Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz intervened, and called on the audience to allow him to finish. He did, although some booing persisted.</p>
  • The Heckler Heckled

    05/26/2004 3:09:57 PM PDT · by swilhelm73 · 50 replies · 499+ views
    TAS ^ | 5/26/2004 | George Neumayr
    When E.L. Doctorow urged graduates at Hofstra University to question authority, he didn't expect them to question his. The fiction writer accused George Bush of launching a fictitious war in Iraq and was heckled into silence. In a moment the liberal elite must regard as an alarming illustration of the Red-Blue divisions of America now even bleeding into academia, students and parents booed Doctorow while the liberal faculty stood to cheer at the end of his speech. Booing a speaker into silence wasn't the vigorous free speech and activism Doctorow had in mind when he extolled agitation earlier in his...
  • Doctorow's Malpractice (BAM! Peggy Noonan Nails It AGAIN -- !)

    05/25/2004 3:06:09 AM PDT · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 25 replies · 154+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/25/04 | Peggy Noonan
    Did you hear about the college commencement speaker who was almost booed off the stage Sunday because his commencement address was an anti-Bush rant? The speaker was E.L. Doctorow. The college, God bless it forever, was Hofstra University on New York's Long Island. Newsday reported that Mr. Doctorow--or, as Newsday put it in the first paragraph, "E.L. Doctorow, one of the most celebrated writers in America"--gave a 20-minute address "lambasting President George W. Bush and effectively calling him a liar." It didn't go over too well. Mr. Doctorow announced to the crowd that he himself is a storyteller. But the...
  • Speaker stopped speaking [Anti-Bush Commencement Rant Gets Author Booed Off Stage]

    05/23/2004 5:05:46 PM PDT · by 11th Earl of Mar · 161 replies · 296+ views
    Newsday ^ | 5/23/04
    BY BART JONES STAFF WRITER May 23, 2004, 7:17 PM EDT E.L. Doctorow, one of the most celebrated writers in America, was nearly booed off the stage at Hofstra University Sunday when he gave a commencement address lambasting President George W. Bush and effectively calling him a liar. Booing that came mainly from the crowd in the stands became so intense that Doctorow stopped speaking at one point... Doctorow, who spent virtually all of his 20-minute address in Hempstead criticizing Bush, told the crowd that like himself the president is a storyteller. But "sadly they are not good stories this...