University Uninvites Bristol Palin Over Too Much ‘Controversy’
- Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:29am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Washington University in St. Louis, MO has uninvited Bristol Palin to speak at its annual “Sex Week” because it deemed her appearance had become, and would be, too controversial. But that’s not the decision the university came to when it hosted former green jobs czar Van Jones in November.
Palin was originally invited to talk about the importance of abstinence and, as the student newspaper Student Life says, counteract the liberal bent of the annual event. She was supposed to appear on a panel alongside, among others, a representative from Planned Parenthood.
But some at the university — specifically students — went berserk because Palin is considered too controversial, saying that her presence would overshadow the event itself. They also took umbrage with the approximately $20,000 speaking fee Palin was set to be paid — money that would have been drawn from a student fee fund:
In an op-ed in the Student Life on Friday, one student laid out his reason for opposing Palin:
First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not bring a unique and engaging perspective to this issue. There are presumably thousands of individuals just in the St. Louis area that went through teenage pregnancies that have the exact same perspective that Ms. Palin does. … Moreover, Ms. Palin is simply not qualified to speak about the challenges facing individuals who wish to remain abstinent in college. … Furthermore, Ms. Palin is far too polarizing for this particular situation. First, as I’ve already mentioned, the choice of Ms. Palin has already shifted the discourse surrounding this panel from issues regarding abstinence to issues regarding Ms. Palin.
The student also objected to the money that would have been spent on the appearance.
When the decision was made public last night, students responded with glee.
“I am glad that in the aftermath of [Wednesday] night’s Senate meeting, SHAC was able to take a moment to listen to what all the students had to say, and to think about it critically,” Junior Ryan McCombe told the Student Life.
“We are happy that SHAC, and Bristol Palin herself, responded to the student body’s concerns,” added sophomore Sherveen Mashayekhi, president of the College Democrats. “It’s a sad state of politics at Wash. U. when Bristol Palin is what required us to get politically active.”
But Scott Elman, president of Washington University’s Student Health Advisory Committee, which had extended the invitation to Palin, thinks students may have overreacted. He told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he was very disappointed that students weren’t more open to having Palin speak.
“The decision was 100 percent mutual,” Elman told Student Life about the decision to uninvite Palin. “SHAC stands by our decision to extend an invitation to Bristol, but we understand that a lot of our original intentions for discussing abstinence on campus, as well as sexual responsibility, were going to be lost.”
Palin’s ousting is confusing considering the University had no problem hosting controversial leftist, and former green jobs czar Van Jones, in November. The school allocated $5,000 for that appearance, and the student paper didn’t report any controversy during his speech.
Readers might remember, however, that Jones equated Fox News with Satan while speaking at that event:
Additionally, the blogger who took the above video was initially kicked out of the event.
No controversy there.
(H/T: Gateway Pundit)
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Comments (574)
UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:58am“First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not bring a unique and engaging perspective to this issue. There are presumably thousands of individuals just in the St. Louis area that went through teenage pregnancies that have the exact same perspective that Ms. Palin does…”
And a rep of Planned Parenthood WILL have a fresh perspective somewhere?
” … Moreover, Ms. Palin is simply not qualified to speak about the challenges facing individuals who wish to remain abstinent in college. …”
And on what is this assertion based? How about reversing that statement: What college kid choosing to remain abstinent has been bashed more than once on national television for her stance? Talk about ‘challenges’.
“…Furthermore, Ms. Palin is far too polarizing for this particular situation. First, as I’ve already mentioned, the choice of Ms. Palin has already shifted the discourse surrounding this panel from issues regarding abstinence to issues regarding Ms. Palin…”
And who made her polarizing–those who asked her to speak or those going positively bats*it crazy over the invitation?
I see an up-side to this, really. At least Bristol won’t have to worry about liberals trying to storm the stage to attack her. And we know they might do it. At the very least, they’d shout her down to prevent her from speaking.
All in the name of fairness and free speech, of course.
Report Post »abseas
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:31am100% agree Upstate . . .!
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:22pm“And a rep of Planned Parenthood WILL have a fresh perspective somewhere?”
Considering most of these kids came from schools that only recieved funding for sex ed by ONLY teaching abstinence, yeah it would be a unique perspective that birth control and condoms work when used right.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:49pmmoriarty70
Report Post »Good grief man, what year are you living in?? Birth control is being taught in grade school now. Sometimes teachers use cucumbers or bananas to show how to prpoerly put on a condom. Absitnence is rarely taught as agressively as birth control. There is nothing wrong in teaching kids that they are not animals who need to start breeding as soon as they’re able. These are college aged kids who probably have had the notion that teen sex is absolutely necessary beaten into their brains by TV and movies. Have you ever seen the shows on TeenNick?
UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:58pm@Untameable-kate
Thanks for covering that, because I was so shocked I couldn’t find it fruitful to respond.
I think, too, there have been threats to de-fund in a handful of places if abstinence is taught at all, because the notion is ‘religious’ and therefore violates blah blah blah.
Liberals are the ones who are cavemen–dinosaurs, even.
Report Post »sawhite
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:58amLiberals believe that we have an unalienable right to irresponsible sex. That philosophy applies not only to the act itself but to their commitment to abortion. They do not want to be held responsible for the outcome of their behavior in any area but the environment. In that area they go into overkill mode. Maybe that is to mask their irresponsibility in other areas. In all areas they want mother government to take care of them.
Report Post »retriever
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:57amI think that this university is just a stop on the communist speaker tour. No wonder they seem to hate the Palins!
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:44pmNext week: Snooki lectures on the value of proper etiquette.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:55amMs. Palin was invited to create controversy, interest in the topic – mission accomplished!
Ms. Palin was going to be paid $20,000 for her services, but that seems excessive to me…
I wonder what would have happened if Ms. Palin had agreed to waive her fees and speak for free?
OK, actually I don’t wonder…
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:35pmBut it would have been fun to watch them stumbling around for another excuse.
Report Post »jdawg
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:54amThe Palins are the modern day Emmanuel Goldsteins (read 1984). This is what Political correctness gets you.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/political-correctness-is-destroying-america
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:54amWe should raise the voting age to 35.
Report Post »DJM319
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:21amGood Idea, but a little excessive… voting age is good @ 18, if your old enough to die for this country then you need to be able to vote for its representatives at home. Age isn’t the problem, its criteria. Maybe only contributors to the country should be given the power to vote, if you have a job, are retired, or unable to work because of disablility should be our voting pool… is it a coincidence that work experience is a major factor in the switch of young liberals to mature conservatives? People will always vote to protect there individual freedoms. Unfortunately, people who do not contribute rely on their ‘individual’ freedom to be given to them by the government… so by them voting for a bigger government, they are in actuality voting for ‘individual’ freedom – as it applies to them.
As for Bristol Palin ‘controversy’ – the wrong debate is taking place… it isn‘t an issue about whether she is ’too controversial‘ the question that should be asked by the students that invited her is ’Who is going to be there now to do the counterpoint?’ Was she really the best person to do a pro-abstinence side of a debate, if she was (especially at $20,000) the best representative, then that is more of an issue than her being uninvited….
Report Post »B4B
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:51amI understand if they don’t want to pony up a speaking fee, but did the student body put up this kind of fuss about Jones?
Now, I wonder, what IS IT about Bristol that makes her “too controversial”? Could it possibly be that she speaks of abstinence instead of abortion? Could it be because she DIDN’T do the “easy” thing and abort her pregnancy when she failed to practice abstinence?
She’s unafraid to put herself out there, with her choices both good and bad. She‘s living with the choices she’s made.
The liberals all call for “choice” as long as it’s a choice that fits THEIR agenda.
The liberals scream and call her a hypocrite, and that she’s proof that abstinence fails. It wasn’t abstinence that failed. It was Bristol’s adherence to abstinence that failed. If she was “pro-choice” she could have killed the baby and pretended that the whole thing never happened. Ahhhh, in a liberal world, there are no consequences to one’s actions.
Report Post »Now I get it.
TombstoneJim
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:01pmExcellent comment – She failed to live up to the expectation that sex is between a married woman and her husband…then failing that – she chose wisely and is raising the innocent child – and hopefully teaching the same message of abstaining from sex until marriage to him/her…and maybe that person will be faithful to that message and not have to chose the wiser path in the aftermath of failure.
I don’t get the 25k spekaing fee thing myself…but I guess if you’re going to give Bill Clinton 100k to talk about morality and honor – what the heck….
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:47pmit’s all about the palin name.
btw, a name i would love to have as family members, neighbors, etc.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:50amWell as a recent report showed, college students don’t learn any skills the first two years but they certainly learn a lot about hate and the communist way. I guess the first two years is for brainwashing.
Report Post »German Dude
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:50amCan’t we just all get along? Where is the hate speech coming from? I am sure that George Washington is proud of this university. Please give George his name back.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:40pmIt’s called freedom of choice and freedom of speech. Both are at play here. George Washington is actually proud that those 2 freedoms worked pretty well without anyone getting hurt…except Mama Grizzlies’ ego, maybe.
Report Post »Smiling Bob
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:48amI believe Washington U. is a private school ….but if they are recieving any public monies those monies should be stopped ASAP.
Report Post »PatriotDaze
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:56amSmiling Bob,
Yes they are private…but why should funding be stopped ASAP? Is there some inherent need for the state and federal funding to support Bristol Palin? After all, they aren’t objecting to the message, they are objecting to the messenger…..and the $25K she‘s charging to spread the ’word’.
Report Post »Shane the Golden
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:08pmDazed Patriot, check the facts as quoted in the article, it shouldn’t be hard, it only at the top of this page….
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:24pmBullcrap
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:43pmWhy? Because they decided not to fork out 20 grand to have someone speak about something that each and every student already knows? I thought you GOPer’s were big fans of the free market, free choice and free speech? She was invited by one group of students and uninvited by several other groups of students.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:37pmSHANE, “the article” is a chopped up opinion piece by Jim Hoft, a repeatedly-proven “pants on fire” blogger. If you don’t look further, and read THE WHOLE article, in addition to the posts by students, alum and parents, you end up woefully misinformed.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:45amIf Bristol Palin were a black democrat, there would be no “controversy”. Of course, finding a black democrat to discuss abstinence might be difficult.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:22amTrue, maybe after their done getting their abortions, maybe abstinence could be discussed….. Nah, it’ll never happen.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:39pmI guess eating a lot of bacon means you eventually become pig headed, huh?
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:08pmYeah, it sounds like he deserved that one.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 10:22pm@EATMOREBACON
Report Post »If she were a black democrat her mother would already be President.
RightUnite
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:45amWell come on!! Consider the source!! It’s Washington University for crying out loud! What does anyone truly expect?? This doesn’t surprise me in the least! Anyone who doesn‘t agree with their looney left leaning ideologies certainly won’t fit in their little mold!
Report Post »royalstar
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:13pmI’m shocked that they even invited her originally and were willing to pay a fee. From every angle Bristol represents everything they despise. The liberal left hates anything or anyone that doesn’t fit into their narrative. They are as staunch about the religion of liberalism as followers of any other religion. It doesn’t matter that it is steeped in deceit, hatred, and misinformation. They are midguided and say the same of conservatives. It is sad and scary that they are running every important institution in this country and have been doing so for a 100 yrs. at least. Also the fact that they are not even close to the majority; “or are they?”
Report Post »SND97
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:44amI will let my youngest Daughter only attend a Christian College. Our Universities have turned into a progressive propaganda machine.
Report Post »Seven Tigers
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:58amUnfortunately, we have to be very discerning even when it comes to Christian Colleges. Many of them have become havens of liberalism sprinkled with eastern mysticism. Be very discerning my Sister.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:37pmBlame it on the schools…classic.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:08amOkay, then we should blame it on tools like you? I think you have something there (and because you have so little else, it sticks out). Yep, don’t blame the schools, blame the lefties. Good point.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:55pmSparky101, I blame lefties for almost all the problems we have in America today. How this country has evolved over the last 40 years is proof enough.
Report Post »crcitizen
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:43amPlanned parenthood spoke,,,, Their plan is pills, contraceptives and abortion, it does not include abstinence as a choice. So you only get their choices
Report Post »TRUTHSEEKINGAL
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:30amThere is no profit motive for PP to promote abstinence . Just think if abstinence became the norm, there would be no need for them to hang their tile on the wall.
Report Post »123abc
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:41amLiberal dominated universities, filled with pansies who cave to libeal demands are RUINING our country! Geeze, let the girl speak. Tell anyone who complains about her coming to shove it and don‘t come listen to her if they don’t like it. Unbelievable. Can we return to the late 1800′s please? I’d pay $100,000 to go back in time.
Report Post »RdsknsFtbll
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:41amI wish there was a way to “home School” for a college degree. It truly ****** me off to no end to know that I send my child away to college just to find that their world views are being twisted by the likes of progressive professors like a William Ayers or a Frances Fox Piven…
Report Post »PatriotDaze
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:53amRdsknsftbll,
Isn‘t it a shame that so many children’s view of the world is so easily twisted by strangers.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:12amIt is such a sad social commentary that this young woman is being force-fed as a the face of sexual responsibility when she is the exact opposite. She is the poster child for all that is wrong with faux religiosity, bad parenting, self-righteous lawmaking and willful ignorance. Let her speak about THAT.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:31ammiddleclassprophet
Report Post »There is no forgiveness in you is there?
You and all like you who will never understand that Bristol is just a kid who made a mistake are as unkind are you are repugnant.
There are alot of people in the world that have done things in their life that were not the best choice. You probably wouldn’t object to a counselor who was an ex drug addict. The only reason you object to this young woman is because of your rabid hatred for the Palin family.
I think she is absolutely doing the right thing, caring for her baby and trying to counsil others about the repercussions regarding the decisions they make.
I think if Chelsea Clinton were in Bristop Palins shoes you would have a completely different viewpoint.
middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:46am-untameable-
“I think if Chelsea Clinton were in Bristop Palins shoes you would have a completely different viewpoint.’
But she isn‘t and that’s the point. She does not speak for single parents and teenage moms everywhere because she is your “atypical” example. She’s a reality tv star, she appeared on DWTS, she does NOT have to juggle parenting and work because she can afford to but a 200,000 home with cash. I’m not trying to be mean, I just think she is the last speaker a university would want to preach to their students.
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:09pm@Untameable-kate
You’re right, she did make a mistake and I commend her for standing by it and taking responsibility. At the same time, that mistake could have been mitigated with COMPREHENSIVE sex ed, not the “Just don’t it” that they fund in the States.
That is why I can see the students take on it. If this were my school I’d be thinking “20 grand for a reality star to tell me the crap I’ve heard for how many years?”
As for the family connection, I look to Bristol as her own woman and has been since she decided to cultivate her own image in the public. I look at her as trying to be a rising celebrity.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:18pmUntameable-kate..you said it, Bristol son was a “ Mistake ” and she has no problem going around the country saying so …. the poor kid is growing up and he will soon find out he was a Mistake
My Daughter was not planned either but i would Never Ever Call her a MISTAKE !!!! and I always tell her that she is the Best Thing that ever happened to me. also i raised her as a single dad
( don’t worry, i did this without any Gov’t help )… and i put my social life on hold for many years.
here’s a little story for ya .. one day when my Daughter was about 7 years old she asked me … ” Dad do you love my Mommy ? ” … and without a pause i said ” Why Yes but not the kind of love to get Married. … well let me tell you , the next time she went to visit her mother, i got a phone call from her Mom and she yelled at me , saying….WHY THE **** DID YOU TELL HER THAT !!!!
Report Post »O and BTW this was back in the 90ts and i got a whole $12.50 in Child Support. but i did have to take her to court to enforce it when she refused to pay
LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:21pmUntameable-kate..you said it, Bristol son was a “ Mistake ” and she has no problem going around the country saying so …. the poor kid is growing up and he will soon find out he was a Mistake
My Daughter was not planned either but i would Never Ever Call her a MISTAKE !!!! and I always tell her that she is the Best Thing that ever happened to me. also i raised her as a single dad
( don’t worry, i did this without any Gov’t help )… and i put my social life on hold for many years.
here’s a little story for ya .. one day when my Daughter was about 7 years old she asked me … ” Dad do you love my Mommy ? ” … and without a pause i said ” Why Yes but not the kind of love to get Married. … well let me tell you , the next time she went to visit her mother, i got a phone call from her Mom and she yelled at me , saying….WHY THE **** DID YOU TELL HER THAT !!!!
Report Post »O and BTW this was back in the 90ts and i got a whole $12.50 in Child Support. but i did have to take her to court to enforce it when she refused to pay
LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:27pmsorry for the double post
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:13pmLOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
“ Bristol is just a kid who made a mistake” is what I said, and I stand by the assumption that she probably did not get pregnant on purpose.
Report Post »She will handle future questions by her child in a way that she feels fit.
I am also a single parent, so I really don’t need any lectures on the subject. My son asked me if he was a mistake and I told him he was a surprise. I have been honest about why he doesn’t have a father in his life and now he is a well adjusted teen. You see, his dad ran when he found out that he was going to be a father, so I didn’t even get 12.50 a month and no, I never took gov assistance. I also did not chase his father down and and try to ‘make him pay’.
Unsure why you felt that you had to so ardently defend single parents but hopefully now you know I am not saying anything unkind about her child, just something that is probably true.
Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:34pmmoriarty70
Report Post »I agree that birth control should also be discussed. Why can’t the students hear from all sides of the issue? Why should abstinence be a topic that is not considered? Can’t the students be informed about the consequences of being a teen mother? True that while she is not the typical teen, in that she has it alot easier than alot of young women, since when do we not use celebrities to advance discussion. You see celebrities out there all of the time endorsing their pet projects, why is Bristol exempted from this tradition?
The fact that she wants to be some kind of star just makes her like a whole lot of young women in the country. She is certainly not alone in that. In fact if she were anyone other than Sarah Palins daughter the subject would probably never have been brought up.
LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:48pmkate………didn’t mean to make it sound like i was giving you a lecture… my point is aimed at Bristol
and the fact that she’s making money off her kid, and the history of the Blogg-Isphire is ( spelling ;-( )
turning him into a MISTAKE …something he may read sometime, …sorry if you felt that i offended you
btw…. cheers to you,me and others for taking on the job of being single parents. i know you know the struggle that we faced for being single parents …. and as for Bristol , well i think she has it easy ( well with money and support anyway )
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:15pmLOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
If I developed a line of hiking boots for teenaged boys would I be making money off my kid?
She is speaking on a subject that is close to her heart. I find nothing wrong with her sharing her experience if she feels she can help others.
Yes, cheers to all single parents working to make our kids life as wonderful as possible. Married parents too.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:00pmkate..lets see…..hiking boots V. calling your kid a Mistake ( Bistol ) … hummm gotta think about that one
Report Post »gee Kate my main point is that i don’t like Kids being labeled as a Mistake.
and most of all i didn’t mean to strike such a nerve with you
and if only ONE girl or guy thinks about Bristol Palin and stops them self’s from pre marital S**
well i think that’s just great … O yes, Cheers to all good parents, I just thought i would compliment you for being there for your son( as a single parent )……….peace :-)
Sparky101
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:26pmAhhh Middleclass, you show your true bigotry and hatred (typical lefty progressive) when you say “She is the poster child for all that is wrong with faux religiosity, bad parenting, self-righteous lawmaking and willful ignorance.”
You are a pitiful troll, but a troll all the same. Your kind of hatred is what killed 6 people in Tucson, and wounded 13 others. Get a real life tool.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:35pmAhhh middleclass, here is yet another example of your bigotry slipping out: “would want to preach to their students.” It’s all tied up in your word selection “preach.” You appear to need anger management counseling to understand how to deal with your hatred and bigotry (and troll tendencies).
Report Post »101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:11am.
@ middleclassprophet @ moriarty70 @ LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS @ Untameable-kate
I disagree that a child is a mistake or an accident…if you don’t take precautions or refrain from abstinence no matter what your age, an unexpected gift from God may be bestowed upon you. How you perceive this gift will determine what kind of person you are, if you are a person of faith and love, then this will be the biggest blessing in your life, there’s no greater joy than raising a child. You will find no greater love than the love you share with your child.
What better person to speak of this than someone that’s experienced it?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:25pmGet it straight, Bristol doesn’t say Tripp was a mistake, she says that what she did to CREATE HIM was a mistake. You know, the kind of thing you do over, and over, and over, and over, until… oh you get it. I’m SURE Tripp will understand this concept. ;)
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:59pmRdsknsFtbll, as a parent, you do have some control over this. If you are paying for the school, you should be deciding the school, not the child. Just make sure you do your homework on the schools you consider acceptable.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:59pmmiddleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:46am
“I think if Chelsea Clinton was put in that position she would have done the responsible thing and had an abortion.”
——————-
That’s what you really want to say, right?
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:40amVan Jones does not speak Rhetoric,Only Patriots can do that.Ask Any Commie.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:40amIt’s not the students so much as the faculty that fear the controversy of having any other outside ideology influencing the student body. Colleges and school use to be a place where ideas where open and students were how to think and use their own judgement. Now they are taught what to think period. There is case after case of conservative students being berated by the professors for not stay in the collective. Truth is our colleges aren‘t educating they’re endoctrinating
Report Post »AZfreeman
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:10pm“..Truth is our colleges aren‘t educating they’re endoctrinating..”
That is true, however it doesn’t just all of a sudden start at the college level. I recently spent about six months trying to “give back” by offering to substitute teach in the elementary and middle school levels. I was amazed at the level of Progressive/Socialist indoctrination that exists in our public schools. In fact, I left in disgust! Please America don’t turn your children over to the public schools… seek other alternatives. Please !!! ….rf
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:40amDo they get State and Federal funding? Ask your Representatives, residents of MO.
Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:55amThis is a private – catholic university – that was once a courageous and impressive institution. But – this decision along with a series of missteps have hurt the reputation of the place. I am from St. Louis and am deeply dissappointed that the university didn’t make other arrangements to bring Miss Palin to the discussion under a different arrangement so that the “students funds” issue was trumped.
Report Post »Lack of creativity? No! Lack of courage? Yes.
PatriotDaze
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:06amDumbAsPelosi,
While Wash U is private, it is not a Catholic University. I agree, the U could have covered Palin’s fee………or Bristol could have dropped it to $5K + expenses. Seems more than sufficient for an hour long panel conversation discussing something she obviously cares so deeply about.
Report Post »catmandolin
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:49pm@DumbasPelosi; Perhaps Bristol could act like a “patriot” and agree to share her vast wealth of knowledge regarding abstinence for free. For a young single mother she‘s apparently already got plenty of money and she isn’t dancing anymore so she’s got plenty of time….
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:38amSo hatred replaces debate on this college campus. Avowed Communists are welcomed with open arms while a Conservative is dismissed as too “controversial”. Strange how tax-payer money that goes to finance these institutions and student loan financing is NEVER considered to be “controversial”. Just shut up and keep pouring in the money. That is Progressive ideaology in a nutshell.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:38amThe university slogan “We welcome all commies & reject all patriots”
Report Post »PatriotDaze
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:48amRobertCA
OK, I get the commie part….but patriot? Your standards are fairly low if being a teenage unwed mother who learned to dance and charges $25K to tell people not to sleep around constitutes a Patriot!
Report Post »JoeBtfsplk
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:07amDAZED PATRIOT – I’d wager Bristol Palin is more of a Patriot than anyone at that school.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:07amYeah, I am sure that “Planned parenthood” will bring much more than 25k in profit from the free advertisement they will get from such an event… Good try Patriot Dave
Report Post »MaybeTheDingoAteYourBaby
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:08am@PatriotDaze
And what exactly are you doing….commenting on a website. You go! At least Palin is trying to teach others to learn from her mistake. I know several drug counselors and ex-gang members that do that very same thing and I applaud them.
Report Post »butler180
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:41pmThe point is that the University invited a paid radical who wants to overthrow the American Constitution to speak. The higher education institutes are in-your-face anti-American
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:36pmNope. Their students feel that there are thousands of people more qualified to speak about abstinence and they can put that 20 grand to much better use. Pretty smart, actually.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:38pmWhatecr you think of his politics, Van Jones at least attended and graduated from a college. That automatically makes him more qualified to speak to college students than someone who hasn’t.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:26am@ PATRIOTDAZE & MIDDLECLASSPROPHET & CHET HEMPSTEAD
Report Post »The 3 of you go to RiteAid get your lips sterilized & kiss my ass .
Bristol Palin is a Patriot & you 3 are pinheads .
Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:03amRobertCA @ PATRIOTDAZE & MIDDLECLASSPROPHET & CHET HEMPSTEAD
The 3 of you go to RiteAid get your lips sterilized & kiss my ass .
Bristol Palin is a Patriot & you 3 are pinheads .
Too funny. But are you sure sterilized lips are good enough to protect you? What about them getting a lice and flea dip and perhaps some shots. At least give them gloves in case they touch you cheeks with their grimy little hands. Whoa, freaks me out just thinking about it.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:16pmMY recommendation to PATRIOTDAZE, MIDDLECLASSPROPHET & CHET HEMPSTEAD if you follow SPARKY’s advise, do the sterilization AFTER the kiss. (I’m not even getting into the obviously active fantasy life SPARKY101 has. :)
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:32pmTifosa, huh? Fail.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:09pmJoeBtfsplk, Bulls-eye!
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:54pmChet Hempstead
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:38pm
“Whatecr you think of his politics, Van Jones at least attended and graduated from a college. That automatically makes him more qualified to speak to college students than someone who hasn’t.”
Didn’t he graduate college while in PRISON?!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:18amUh, no, CLICK. Jones graduated University Tennessee @Martin with a Bachelor’s in Communication and Polisci then earned his Juris Dr @Yale. In fact, the whole “prison” thing is one of Beck’s lies. He was arrested for (peacefully) protesting the Rodney King trial, but the charges were dropped and the SanFran Attorney’s office financially compensated him for unlawful arrest.
Report Post »These are the kind of things that Beck listeners BELIEVE without checking FACTS. Aren’t you glad we “********” are here to correct the record?
RobertCA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:55pm@ TIFOSA
Don’t be jealous of PATRIOTDAZE & MIDDLECLASSPROPHET & CHET HEMPSTEAD you can include yourself too & I know that you will .
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:45amAwww, ROBERTCA, thanx for the props :)
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:37amIt would probably be a waste of Bristol’s time anyway. The abstinance ship sailed with most of these kids at about age 15.
Report Post »PatriotDaze
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:44amthat ship sailed at the Palin household as well.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:05amPD, care to clarify your insult?
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:45amThat ship sailed about the time man started walking upright granny. The Roman’s should have had more lions.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:01pm@PatriotDaze –
If Bristol is advocating abstinence now, how can you say that with a straight face?
It appears that the university speaks with forked tongue.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:21pmPATRIOTDAZE, one moment a lifetime doesn’t make, and good for Bristol for trying to let others know. She has taken responsibility for her actions and has a beautiful baby who reminds her daily. She is one of the lucky ones whose family supports her 100%, others are not that lucky, and children suffer.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:33pmI applaud the students at Washington University for standing against hypocrisy.
My family was instrumental in the formation of this institution and would be ashamed not only at the request of this speaker but also that this spectacle was afforded consideration.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:17pmSorry 13th, I’ve read, listened and then did it again. I can see no mention of these students standing up to the likes of you (hypocrite).
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 2:51am13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:33pm
“I applaud the students at Washington University… My family was instrumental in the formation of this institution and would be ashamed not only at the request of this speaker but also that this spectacle was afforded consideration.”
Wow, you sure can tell some whoppers. Thankfully I know there is a chance that you and a couple of the usual liars will be here so I always bring a large shovel and wear hip-boots. It’s amazing how deep the smelly stuff can get when you make comments.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:59amCLICK, might I remind you of your “whopper” on a different thread: “OMG, Libs over at hufpo are saying Obama made a miracle and Gabby opened her eyes tonight.” Throwing stones in a glass house much?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:08pmGood for you 13thGeneration! Actually, parents who posted on the on-line student life newsletter expressed those same emotions, and also addressed the issue of the exorbitant fee in light of programs for students having been cut last year.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:27pmHi Tifosa, which branch of the military did you join to serve your country?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 2:51pmBridge to nowhere SPARKY How many of your “heroes” served? Rush? George W Bush? Dick Cheney? Ted Nugent? Sarah Palin? Bill Bennet? Ronald Reagan? Megyn Kelley? Michele Bachmann? Sean Hannity? Alan Keyes? Bill Kristol? Newt Gingrich? Brian Kilmeade? Gretchen Carlson? Pat Buchanan? Bill O’Reilly? George Will? Neil Boortz? Jeb Bush? Bernie Goldberg? Michael Medved? Darrel Issa? Steve Doocy? Michelle Malkin? John Ashcroft? Jack Kemp? Ann Coulter? Pat Robertson? Glenn Beck? Jon Seidl? The Naked Emporer? Scott? Clarence Thomas? Antonin Scalia? Brit Hume? Ben Stein? John Boehner? Kevin McCarthy? Chris Wallace? Mitch McConnell? Dick Armey? Karl Rove? Frank Gaffney? Chris Christie? George Will? Steven Hayes?Rand Paul? Carl Cameron? Dinesh D’Souza? Michael Drudge? John Roberts (SCOTUS)? David Limbaugh? Roger Ailes? Haley Barbour? Michael “Savage” Weiner? Grover Norquist? John Bolton? Allen West? Mitt Romney? Rudy Giulianni? The Koch brothers (teaparty funders)? Mark Levin? Frank Luntz? Mike Huckabee? Rick Santorum? Marco Rubio? Sam Alito? Eric Cantor? Bob Barr?
Report Post »Some of them did, btw, but you get the point. TGFGoogle :0)
Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:28pmTifosa, I wasn’t talking to them, I was talking to you.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:36pmTifosa, my hero was my father who dropped out of college to serve his country in WWII, and Korea, and Vietnam. He fought so your freedoms could be exercised. Because of that, I also joined the military during wartime, to help preserve our freedoms. My secondary heros are the brave men and women who put themselves in harms way for their country, those willing to die so others might live in peace. That does not mean I don’t respect any others, I do. I respect honest, God-fearing men and women who love this country and care for their fellow man. I don’t respect trolls who simply try to stir up trouble with hateful remarks and put-downs.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:05pmtifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:59am
“CLICK, might I remind you of your “whopper” on a different thread: “OMG, Libs over at hufpo are saying Obama made a miracle and Gabby opened her eyes tonight.” Throwing stones in a glass house much?”
Might I remind YOU, that I read those words on the huffpo with my very own eyes, and then came here to tell people about it. Besides, I live in a log home. Jerk!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:16pmCLICK, YOU LIE! jk ;) I was on the site! ok, it will still be there…link?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 5:58pm“Besides, I live in a log home. Jerk!” is my favorite part of your post, justsoyaknow~~
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:50pmtifosa, if you hadn’t noticed I called you out first. Now it’s up to you to provide the link that proves me wrong.
Calling me a liar won’t work. I read those comments on the huffpo the night Obama made the assertion that Gabby opened her eyes because of him. Then his slobbering followers chimed in on the huffpo that Obama had performed a miracle. It was the night of the memorial service on 1/13/2011.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 9:45amhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/arizona-shooting-news-gif_n_808655.html If you consider anything on that thread to warrant “OMG, Libs over at hufpo are saying Obama made a miracle and Gabby opened her eyes tonight” you grossly overstated, took out of context, and yes, lied.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 9:52amAnd no CLICK, I “called you out” first (in fact on that thread I said: To click4cheapandeasyweb, “GIANT BS ON: “OMG, Libs over at hufpo are saying Obama made a miracle and Gabby opened her eyes tonight.” You are so used to making things up, swallowing whole as if it’s true. I’m not saying all of you, but the 21% of America that’s represented in here is so full of venom it causes blindness. Most of America WANTS MORE CIVILITY!!!! Our nation would be best served to have reasoned debates, about THE FACTS!!”) That was a 2-week-ago “call-out.” :)
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:35amI guess it takes a Satan to know a Satan.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:34amThis is where we’re headed, folks. The Iron fist of the Left is coming down hard on free speech.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:38amObama wants to see to it that more kids go to college, wonder why?
Report Post »My boy is going into the military, he can learn a skill there and stay away from the nuthouses that our universities have become.
PatriotDaze
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:40amNickDeringer,
Speech is hardly free at $25K a pop! This is actually the free market at work: Students directing how, and to whom, their fees are allocated. Note that they didn’t express a problem with the message…..just the messenger.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:41am@Untameable-kate
Your son a great American. If he decides to go to college checkout Hillsdale College. They are great.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:10amInstead of blowing 20k on her why not give it to someone that actually want to be educated.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:16amThis has nothing to do with free speech. Face the facts. Most of America wants nothing to do with the Palins.
Report Post »henryKnox
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:40amNo doubt that the left is trying to squelch any opposition. Reading ‘The Road to Serfdom’ I see that the way they overthrow capitalism and competition they have to silence the opposition. They create an environment by using class warfare where people would rather silence someone than to have an intelligent exchange of ideas. An intelligent exchange of ideas would destroy their idealistic Socialist Society.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:03pm@Patriotdaze –
Report Post »How are they going to hear the message when they uninvite the messenger? What you said didn’t make sense.
Showtime
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:39pmNick, I second what you said about Hillsdale College.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:10pmyeah kate, why let your kid go to school, have fun, and get a promising career. its much better that he gets no education and gets blown up in our war. i’ll tell you that in all companies in this country, military experience without a college education, will get you to the mail room, or the janitors closet. and thats about it. play the game kate,
Report Post »Billy12345
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:55pmclive, I was in the military, did not get blown up and am not making too bad of a living. I am using my military training and experience in my job that I like. You should not loop everyone in the military into one outcome. It’s very small minded thinking. Also, I didn‘t spend 50k’s like I would have at a “prestigious” college to edumaucate myself. I can take care of my own further learning.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:09pmClive, The military is his decision not mine. I am very proud of him for making the decision to serve his country.
Report Post »Not everyone thinks that if you don‘t have a college degree you won’t make it. I don’t have a degree and I do pretty well. See, here in America everyone has opportunity to succeed not just ivy league automatons.
Sparky101
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:09pmSo Clive, would it be safe to say you did not serve your country? Your attitude sounds so much like that of John Kerry when he insulted our brave men and women. My military years netted me a great paying job that has allowed me to raise and educate through college, three children. I also have the ultimate satisfaction that I honorably served my country in a dangerous job, maintaining your freedoms as well as those of Bristol Palin. You don’t get that ultimate satisfaction from college. What, are you afraid to put your life on the line for your country?
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:37pmHey Clive, I’m hearing crickets.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 8:47amStill just crickets Clive. Are you really just a coward, or did I read you wrong? Perhaps it’s just that being a coward one cannot understand a patriot. Do you love your country, or just what you can get out of it? Crickets. I expect I’d see Whiteteaparty, Middleclassprophet, and all our other trolls in this category also. Speak up trolls (you know who you are) and let us know what branch of the military you served in. I’m expecting an extended time of complete silence (but I know it won’t be because you are praying).
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:52pmDidn’t serve in the military. Work with their children (themselves and/or their parents diagnosed with emotional disturbance.) But good luck trying that card and making it stick Sparky. :)
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:25pmHmmm, you may be a better person than I’ve given you credit for. Go serve our country, then we can talk honestly about freedom of speech versus censorship.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:46pmOldphoto678
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:16am
“This has nothing to do with free speech. Face the facts. Most of PROGRESSIVE/LIBERAL/MARXIST America wants nothing to do with the Palins.”
Fixed it for you. You can thank me later.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:31pmk, Sparky, guess that makes you’re a “better man than I.” Go forth with that. :) Also, “you simply spew hate” ?? Yeah, could you post my best “hate spew?” Here’s the fact, I can disagree WITHOUT feeling “hate.” I can disagree without denigrating, name-calling (for the most part :). I’ve almost never posted in here without a smile in my heart. The exception was during the Arizona tragedy. I have no control over how somebody who reads a post feels. Why would anyone just reading feedback they disagree with feel “hate” or “anger?”
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:13pmTifosa, it just seems to me that those who have put their lives on the line to defend it, have a more visceral feeling about it. We tend to hate censorship in all its guises. And we feel for those at this so-called institution of higher learning, who may have wanted and may have benefitted from the message that Bristol Palin was not permitted to share. Censorship is ugly and is practiced more and more successfully by those on the left. This is simply another example of hatred winning, of power being inappropriately used against those with a smaller voice.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:51pmSeems you are very selective about what you consider “censorship.” Did you object when Olbermann was taken off the air? ((Sometime I’ll check what you posted on that thread.) You call differing points of view in here “trolling” and want expressing those views to go elsewhere. I could check your posts elsewhere, but my impression is that you would wish points of view differing from your own to be stifled. If you fought for freedom of speech, then WELCOME IT!
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:30pmtifosa, c’mon be serious. You should understand that the majority of people are here because we pretty much support Glenn Beck, and the America he’s trying to help save. Many of us share the same ideals, mostly Conservative ideals, so when you come here and talk against the things we hold dear, you had better expect to catch some flak. Unless of course you don’t understand reality.
You should thank Glenn for this forum because he’s not having you edited and banned like they do at liberal/progressive sites. If I go to those sites and post like you do, I would last about 5 minutes, then poof. This is standard practice at those sites and you know it, so please don’t come here and see just how far you can take your condescension and insulting remarks. Or you could just go back to where you would be more welcomed.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 9:18am“If I go to those sites and post like you do, I would last about 5 minutes, then poof.” CLICK, as I post at, or read, several other “liberal” sites as well, I’m curious where you have been that you have been censored-except for foul language?? I’d consider that site disreputable, and agree that you should have left. I HAVE been “censored” in a way, in here, by posts placed on the front page being put at the back (as I see other liberal posters have also.) I expect that people will disagree on the points I post, and look forward to reading such. Nothing wrong with reasoned dissent, is there?
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:59amtifosa
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 9:18am
“I HAVE been “censored” in a way, in here, by posts placed on the front page being put at the back (as I see other liberal posters have also.)”
Pay attention cause I’m only splainin to you once! Everybody has had their comments get shuffled to the back on this blog, it’s not done by any censorship cop, it’s done by the lousy system they use for this blog. If you don’t pay very close attention to what it says above the comment box each and every time, sooner or later your “reply” is going to end up in a “comment” que. It just happens! When they upgrade or fix this blog you will see it improve, until it does your just like the rest of us little people, so get over yourself.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:40amCoincidentally enough, yesterday there were two posts that were deleted from a different thread (they were there, then POOF-GONE. Language was appropriate, btw. Just dissenting information with links. I tweeted to the information to theblaze and glennbeck as I‘M SURE there’s NO INTENTIONAL censorship going on ;)
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:34amAh, behold the power of Marxists!
Report Post »NoMoreGray
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:47amI Bristol had chosen abortion over delivery I assure these excuses would not be their and they would be more than happy to pay her. When a University says it wants two different views, it means it wants two different approaches to the same conclusion (the left).
DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:49amThis is a good thing . . . it serves as another reminder that things are sick in this country and the time has come to stop funding public institutions that do not represent the foundations and traditions of our Country.
I will also send a condemnation in the form of an e-mail to the university president. Heck it only takes a minute and it will make them aware that we are out here.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:59amWhere are all the conservitive students? Do only lefties send their kids to school?
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:04amAs far as free speech goes, Bristol can speak for free anytime she wants. But if she wants to get paid for speaking she’ll be better off finding a topic she actually knows something about.
101
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:12amWashington University in St. Louis is a lost cause the indoctrination and dubbing down of the students runs to deep… Bristol Palin is better off and should be thankful not speaking at that University, instead she should use her time & talents where her views will be excepted and her personality admired by people who are open minded that can love & appreciate pro-life!
Report Post »neversaynever
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:16amMiddle Class…I have no problem with Bristol as a person, but it seems this may be the only topic that she can speak intellectually about. Now, if you had condemned her for speaking about politics I’d be with you.
Report Post »Working Poor
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:18am@GeauxAlready
They are too busy getting a REAL education…
Report Post »mill
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:37amIs this only a liberal school? Do the conservative students act like the rest of conservatives out her ein the real world and allow them selves to be run over and buried?????
Report Post »Ohio Biker
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:45amHow can this country stand if we allow the institutional bullying of an entire family for political purposes? The treatment of these people by the media and the political left should shake reasonable people to their core as it borders on terrorism by definition.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:48am-neversaynever-
I disagree. She may be able to discuss it and speak to girls in high school about it but not at the college level. She is your “atypical” example of a young single mother. Unless you knnow other single moms out there who appear on DWTS, have their own reality show and can pay for a house with cash. Sorry but it was a mistake from the university in the first place.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:48amyes,,,brainwashing them young makes them easier to control when,,,,well,,,,periods like today…
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:51amThis is what you get when colleges hire only progressive Professors, liberal administrators and only allow progressive discussion and progressive speakers. Its much easier to use and manipulate our young people to rise up and join in the Revolution when they have been fully indoctrinated against their “enemies”. And we all know the most powerful enemy of the liberals and progressives is Sarah Palin and her family. This University is so blind and ignorant they dont even comprehend that this makes them look bad not Bristol. Higher education that only allows one view of ideas to be exchanged is a death sentence to democracy and will usher in the communist takeover of America with ease.
Report Post »bboatmanable
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:53am@GEAUXALREADY
Report Post »The “conservative” students are few and far between, and/or scared to stand up. Most parents are raising their kids with the TV (liberal influence). Then they get to college and find a “role model” who happens to be filling their heads with nonsense, and because their parents weren’t there to emulate and teach them what real life is, they know no better.
silentwatcher
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:57amsorry ‘EXDEM’ …..I almost agree with you…only differing on “And we all know the most powerful enemy of the liberals and progressives is Sarah Palin and her family.”
The most powerful enemy of the libs are ‘the people whose eyes are open and see, the ones who know the difference between what they see and what they hear.’
ROCK ON….
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:06pmAnd also behold their decaying morals. If you’re a Communist, the university welcomes you with open arms. If you’re a conservative who will talk about decency, the university will cancel your speaking invitation. Oh, what a great education college provides.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:08pm@NEVERSAYNEVER —
Report Post »Amen to what you told MiddleClass!
Killa From Wasilla
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:08pmThis girl can‘t keep her legs closed and she’s allowed to speak on college campuses?
How about allowing girls who did keep their legs closed speak at college campuses???
Maji
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:21pmMCP
Do you think a crack mom in the (who has never appeared on DWTS) could speak on a college level! It’s sex week! It was (as far as she is concerned) about abstinence! Not politics.
AS far as faux religous, bad parenting etc. how you conduct yourself is maybe present in that last statement you made!
Report Post »OneFootRandy
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:23pmWay to encourage narrowmindedness in our youth!!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:28pm@Killa From Wasilla
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:08pm
“This girl can‘t keep her legs closed and she’s allowed to speak on college campuses?”
WATCH IT, Killa! “Freedom of Speech, remember?
As for the ones who HAVE “kept their legs together,” do you really think they want ot hear about that? That’s what Bristol was goinjg to say to them! Nooooo–they’d rather hear Van Jones, a self-admitted Communist, speak.
GET REAL, how about it?!
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:33pmhow tolerant of the college
Report Post »Clive
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:03pmthats preposterous… she’s as qualified as van jones… i mean, she was an environmental advocate, fought for civil rights, graduated yale glaw school, wait… oh no, she has no education, no work experience, she does have a GED and an illegitimate child… so yeah, thats about the same thing.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:04pmLOL .. what a bunch of cowards .. afraid of a little “free” speech … doesn’t fit with the Maxist programs of the university? What I don’t understand is WHY people are paying these “institutions” to educate their children .. they would be better off in some technical school .. that these indoctrination campuses.
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:40pmwhere are the parents footing these university bills? Dont they know or care what is going on there? Van Jones is a communist hand picked by the Obama administration. Come on people wake up!!!!
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:43pmMill…. so right, it is time to push back. This bully crap being taught in our schools, telling the kid that is getting bullied not to fight back. And this commie crap our elementary kids are being taught, that if one is bad they all have to put their heads on their desks. What is that teaching our kids for the real world?
Report Post »To shut up, put your heads down and take a beating. The communist way.
Sheepdog911
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:44pm“It’s a sad state of politics at Wash. U. when Bristol Palin is what required us to get politically active.”
Isn’t it amazing how scared these little rodents are of the Palin name. Hopefully she’ll sue for the speaking fee, follow kucinch’s lead – for breach of implied contract.
Report Post »blacksmith
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:55pm@ muddleclasslessprofit
Report Post »You vile little troll! Who better to talk about abstinence than someone that made the decision not to remain so and now bears the burden? As far as earning a speaking fee yes she can speak for free anytime she wants but she was invited to this event and the fee was agreed upon and negotiated. It is obvious to evryone on this site that the ignorant and vile have the right to free speech or your postings would be blocked from this site. Crawl back under your bridge troll!
mrsmileyface
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:03pmAwww you stole what i was gonna say Nomoregrey… but AMEN to that.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:32pm-blacksmith-
“You vile little troll! Who better to talk about abstinence than someone that made the decision not to remain so and now bears the burden?” You’re joking, right? You actually think she CHOSE to have the baby? Open your eyes. She did not practice safe sex and is now a mom. There was no “plan” to have a baby. And what plan did she have to pay for this child? What job was she going to get in order to provide for it? Or was that her plan? Get pregnant and become a teenage mom spokesperson for abstinence…brilliant.
And this is not even a free speech issue, so I’m not sure how or why you bring that up. There was no agreement met. The Student Health Advisory Committee invited her to speak for that ungodly fee and it was uninvited due to the mass protests with having someone speak who’s ONLY qualification is that she got pregnant at 18. She just paid cash for a new home without a job after spending 3 months dancing with the stars. And in the time in between, she was on a reality tv series. And to pay this girl twenty grand for her to tell college students to abstain? If you don‘t see the ignorance in that then I can’t help you.
Report Post »lylee
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:55pmAh yes, Washington University, the Harvard of the Midwest, is the place where the elites send their children to be enlightened, to hear all points of view, except of course if it is not their point of view.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:01pmdid you actually think that a lib progressive university wanted a real opinion? No, they just wanted propaganda from the left.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:01pmNotable: theblaze posts an opinion piece by Jim Hoft instead of the Student Life article about the occurrence. (Already questionable, likely slanted) How much were the others on the panel going to be paid? This sounds like many in the student body STOOD UP AGAINST A FEW PEOPLE on SHAC and the less-than 10 students on the treasury who made this decision to object based on the cost, (due to her celebrity status?) her qualifications to speak on abstinence, etc. Blazers should be celebrating this.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:17pmYes, at the universities anything to the right of socialism is extreme and dangerous. Brainwashing institutions for the young people. The intolerance is criminal.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:18pm@SILENTWATCHER
Report Post »You are so right. I stand corrected.
tifosa
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:41pm@BLACKSMITH Let‘s hope she wasn’t going to call Tripp a “burden.”
Report Post »It appears that everybody else on the panel were volunteers, with the possibility that endowments of $1-200 go to their organizations. Without Bristol, the whole event will cost <$1,000. You are certainly quick to judge on inadequate information. The decision also appears to be MUTUAL. Perhaps she saw that her fee just didn't fit this particular event?
ForeignWatcher
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:44pmWhat has Bristol to do with van Jones? What has one event to do with the other?
Students dont want to hear the daughter of Sarah Palin rant about abstinence. Collor me surprised!
Only the far right believes van Jones is dangerous to anything.
And did i read right, Bristol want 20k for speaking, her best qualification beeing sexual intercourse, van Jones 5k? Sounds…quite strange?
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:09pmI‘m impressed that Bristol didn’t ask the government for an “entitlement” to raise her child!!! Wonder if her speech would have included the idea of financial responsibility that goes along with having a child, especially out of wedlock.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:57pmHow much did they pay the Communist agitator Van Jones?…I guess that is appropriate. He must have been cleared by the ‘Sensitivity’ commission. LOL… The kid‘s have been ’brain-washed’ well….
Report Post »Sergio Q
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:14pmwell it seems who they welcome & who thet un-invite sezz it all !!!
Report Post »~so much for Washington University in St. Louis being a place for education , but we can be shure its a place for indocternation!~
ozz
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:21pm@middleclassprophet Go back to the huffingpaint post! Trolls not wanted here.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:00pmI see that two of our constant trolls are out on this one (but these same hypocrites have been silent on any stories that show the debauchery of the left).
These whining bunch of university students, who censor speech of those they don‘t like or who’s message they disagree with, are a bunch of total losers with respect to freedoms of others. This is why they graduate and can’t find jobs – they only qualify for something with french fries.
The issue, besides censoring speech is the speech they do allow – communists. What the H are today’s students being taught anyway, socialism? You bet. There are tons of pinko professors out there (them that can’t, teach). Losers being taught by losers. What else can we expect except failures as citizens of the “free” world.
Report Post »ronaldg261
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:02pmThank God for Hillsdale College. As soon as Glenn Beck and other conservatives open other colleges like Hillsdale, there will be a very long waiting list to get in.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:13pmIT WASN’T ANYTHING BRISTOL SAID, ITS TO GET AT HER MOTHER.
We are all assured that the German Nazis in the 1930s un-invited alot of Jewish lectures at German Universities so its no surprise that Blood Libeling Democrats would not do the same to a GOP lecturer. America is not waking up fast enough to what the Blood Libelers are doing to the structures of our nation. Too many of our American institutions are being toppled or weakened.
If these comments are un-civil, its because its intentional.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:29pmThere were parents who posted who were glad that their tuition dollars weren’t going to pay $20,000 for Bristol to come at all, much less to speak on abstinence. One referred to programs for the students that had been cut last year for financial reasons. This does not appear a “freedom of speech” issue, but rather an “expense of speech” issue. Bristol, reportedly getting $15-30,000/speech, sounds more agreeable about the cancellation than theblazers are.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:10pmUnbelievable they would allow a Marxist deliver his message and un-invite a young woman to talk about teenage pregnancy. Simply unbelievable. Who the hell are these people anyway? From movies, TV and other PG friends, they have glamorized having a baby. Ha ha ha ha! How many of you grandma’s out there are raising your children;s children? I vote for the marxist as being more dangerous to our young people.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:00am“But Scott Elman, president of Washington University’s Student Health Advisory Committee, which had extended the invitation to Palin, thinks students may have overreacted.”
Gee ya think???
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:04ammiddleclassprophet, you need to shorten your name for this blog. You have proven time and time again that you have no “class”.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:08amKilla From Wasilla, your hatred for the Palins is obvious. But I am curious about one thing… Do you have any sensible/logical clue as to why you hate them?
Report Post »teapartjohn
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:56amGlad to see diverse opinions are welcomed @ Wash U. Ha Ha This a typical usual suspect for opposing diverse conservative opinions. The Palins are considered part of the unenlightened class. Wash U are typical liberal snobs. Our universities are devoid of any thing out side liberal group speak. We should raise our voices and expose Wash. U censorship.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 2:24amI hate to be contrary, but how precisely is she empowered to talk about abstinence?
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:56amSTL resident.
A. WashU is an expensive, private university. The only people who go there are either vying to become career academics, or their parents are so loaded that they never had to learn anything about the real world and can afford to wallow around in a fantastic liberal dreamworld where taxes don’t kill jobs and global warming can be solved with welfare.
B. The conservative students are off working jobs while they go to school, or being productive in other more useful ways. These student organizations and newspapers tend to be filled to the brim with useful idiots and militant leftists-in-training. When they agree ideologically with a speaker who’s coming to campus, they deem it a “blessing and an honor to host” them, but when its someone they’ve been trained to despise, they go straight to “I don’t think this is a wise use of student funds”.
I see it here all the time at my school. Only its toned down a bit, because most people here are first-generation college attendees.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 8:56amGhost, you say “I hate to be contrary, but how precisely is she empowered to talk about abstinence?” And I’m thinking “No you don’t.” She is precisely empowered because she can speak to the shame, taunting and name-calling, loss of innocence, the burden of a great responsibility too early in life, the pain of a father that runs away from his child, and many other facets that for some reason an intelligent person like you are not able to imagine. While abstinence is what she was taught, her choice not to honor her mother and father has shown her all the pain that the obverse can bring. And that’s not something of value? No, it has little to do with the students actually having something worthwhile to listen to, and everything to do with censoring an opposite opinion, no doubt stirred by that kind of hatred and incivility that seeths just beneath the surface on the left.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:17amVan Jones over a young women like Bristol?
Tells ME everything I wanted to know about this University… what a disgraceful choice they have made!
You can be a self avowed COMMUNIST as in Van Jones yet you cannot have a baby without being married? Great choice in role models?
I’m sure they would have loved Bristol had her choice been to have had an abortion?
Maybe if she was there to speak about an abortion experience she would have been accepted?
If the worst thing Bristol ever does in her life time is to have a baby …
I say God Bless HER!!! What a wonderful gift she has received!
I hope the parents of the students are aware of the Communists speaking “at” their children and how THAT WILL AFFECT their lives.
Disgraceful choice by Washington University in St. Louis MO!
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:38amI wonder if Harvard, Georgetown, Yale and the University of North Carolina are going to uninvite the Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Rauf when he soons goes to those colleges to promote the Ground Zero Mosque! How about we spread the word to DEMAND he is uninvited for being too divisive!
Report Post »NE Cowboy
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:53amLets see……..Lets have a COMMUNIST speak and NOBODY COMPLAINES. But invite someone named PALIN and it’s a huge “Controversy”???? Oh wait, it’s at a University. Makes since. And these idiots are our ‘future leaders’?? God help us………
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:49amCLICK4CHEAPANDEASYWEB, before you attack anyone else’s nick, be aware that with a few letters taken off, you’d be “LICK4CHEAP” or “CHEAPANDEASY” not that I expect anyone on the left would go that low ;)
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:11pmWow, there is an interesting article about Muslims stoning an adulterer. There are eleven pages of comments, but nary a one by our pinko trolls Killa, MCP, Encinom, Patriotdaze, and Tifosa. This is because an issue of censored speech is much more important for them to denigrate than Muslim laws. After all, these trolls have a reputation to uphold. Can’t be seen posting against any lefty loonie PC talking points. Trolls.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:46pmSPARKY, will you like us better if we post where YOU WANT US to post? Because, after all, that IS what’s important, being liked by you. btw, where did you learn to hate, send away, want to ignore and vilify people who disagree with you? It’s a big world, you should WELCOME diversity of information. You don’t learn anything new by just hearing the same “talking points” repeated over and over. Maybe instead of cloaking yourself in the constitution, you should pay attention to what it meant. Happy day :)
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:10pmtifosa, of course I’d like it, because then you wouldn’t be a lefty troll, just coming here to raise the ire of honest people. If you want to be liked by anyone, you must first be likeable. I learned to hate from lefty loonys. I learned love from people on the right. You may disgree with me all you like, with civility. But you don’t do that, you simply spew hate. Yes, it’s a big world, and I’ve lived all over it, not in a particular town like you. I always welcome diversity, just not hatred dressed up as diversity. I don’t cloak myself in the constitution, but I did serve to defend it (did you?).
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:22pmtifosa, I wasn’t talking to you, but since you stuck your nose in here… the point I was making obviously went over your head.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:24pmtifosa
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:46pm
“SPARKY, will you like us better if we post where YOU WANT US to post?”
Sparky, I have a suggestion… tell the jerk to post at huffpo. That should end our problem.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:44pmOK, here’s how Obama would fix this problem… We raise and/or lower all speaking fees to 20 grand, no matter your experience or knowledge on any particular issue. (in fine print… Considering X-President Clinton makes over $100,000 per speech, all ex-presidents will be excluded from this rule)
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:08amblacksmith
Report Post »Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:55pm
@ muddleclasslessprofit
You vile little troll! Who better to talk about abstinence than someone that made the decision not to remain so and now bears the burden?—————————————————————————————————–
How about a self made woman with an education and an IQ above 85? Poor Bristol is so burdened by instant unearned celebrity that gets her 20Gs for speaking with a junior high education. I can’t see how any college student would find her enlightening and not see that she is just cashing in on her notoriety as her mother does.