David Horowitz gets booed off the stage at Emory
By John Amato Thursday Oct 25, 2007 4:10pm
I have a message for our college campuses: People like Horowitz and Malkin speak at colleges because they WANT to be booed. Then FOX can run the video over and over all day to play the poor little Conservative victim card.
The idiotic "Islamo-fasicsts" week is pure lunacy, but David craves your disapproval. He uses the canard that he's trying to also make people aware that women are being oppressed in the Middle East too. I'm sure he's a big Feminist...
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A former marine points out Horowitz' racism associated with this venture:
"There's an inhernet racism behind this that I experienced first hand through my service with the Marine Corps in Iraq."
David even tries to compare himself to the President of Iran. Listen David, stop trying to spread fear and hatred in our country. Even the wild dude Jimbo, from the right wing site Black Five called the event "lame" and the College Republicans were mad at him:
He was so uninspiring a speaker they didn't even really heckle him. I will give credit to the Muslim Student Association and the other groups who were there in opposition, they maintained more decorum than Mr. Horowitz. By the end he was saying "Well I guess you just aren't able to read" and "I don't know what to do if you can't add two and two and get four"
We held out 'til the end and the Q&A had Horowitz launching the testy ad hominems I noted and complaining that the questions were too long in comparison to his epic length musings on how dumb his audience was. I heard the College Republicans, who sponsored him, were wicked pissed.
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Yeah, other than the fact Ahmadinijad represents 30 million people and a potentially hostile country we have to deal with, and Horowitz represents his talking asshole, they're exactly the same.
Well it may be true that they do it intentionally and expect to get booed, but still, it makes me happy inside to know they are booed! These kind of people are hurting this country in a way it will take decades to overcome. I am proud of our young people for booing them.
..and I think we can thank Jon Stewart for turning them on to politics, reading important books, and paying attention and caring!
"Police unable to subdue Leftist Protesters"
The Fox Nazi Hydra
so much for free speech
What a horse's ass.
He ought to be ashamed.
Booing is what you get when you fucking suck.
Well it may be true that they do it intentionally and expect to get booed, . . . .
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Anyone who would set themselves up to be booed is a glutton for punishment with something missing between the ears.
It's also an insult to anyone's intelligence that Fox viewers can't see through the "victim" spin.
On second thought, they are Fox viewers. That says a lot in itself.
But why Horowitz and others would masochistically do this circuit is beyond the pale of reason.
Scruzman:
"So much for free speech."
Apparently you have a comprehension problem. The guy GOT free speech. He was allowed to speak. But "free speech" doesn't mean that people are forbidden to protest, boo or otherwise reject what he has to say. Suppression of disagreement isn't "free speech," it's fascism.
You're absolutely right. Now the GOP can whine about all those evil, liberal universities that won't allow for conservative opinions. Boo-fucking-hoo.
Get ready for our pals Falafel Boy, Rush Limpballs, and Sean Insanity to run this video endlessly. Then they'll invite some poor dumb Dem on their shows....ask if they support this "barbaric" action...then get the Dem to immeditately apologize.
I didn't police trying to subdue enraged ( toss that in for Fox) Leftist Protesters.
Any else?
The idiotic “Islamo-fasicsts” week is pure lunacy. I am glad the kids "Booed" this Neocon, "Fascist", wing-nut. So, the kids at Emory did the right thing; let's see what happens on other campuses, i.e., like Columbia?
So this week's reason for our being in Iraq is women's rights in the ME?!
jharp @ 5:
No, he should be tarred, feathered and super-glued to the bed of a Ford pickup for his ceremonial running out of town.
Sorry site monitor. Hope that's not too violent an image....
Right Wing Neocons, Bushlickers, whatever they call themselves, should be booed off the stage every time. They have had 7 years to do something right and they only have failure, death and destruction to show with no end in sight.
Their failures have a made a fortune for the war and oil industries. Their base is happy, so to them, their mistakes are a huge success, and they are upset that you won't hear them out as they seek to justify it.
Typical liberal closed minded junk. [Deleted. Typical close-minded right wing lies-Got it? Sitemonitor]
sueinNM @ 8:
My comprehension problem...right. How do you hear someone's free speech if you're yelling while they're talking? Juvenile.
This is almost too ridiculous to comment on. Almost.
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Don't you just love the way Faux News said free speech was denied? What about the students right to make their statement. If Horowitz was paid for his performance then the students have the right to cheer, boo and/or throw vegetables at a Fraud-ville Phony (hint, hint Columbia).
They also show the marine's comment as if he was supporting Horowitz.
Of course
But you realize that the second an accomplished progressive voice goes on a campus tour for "Christian fundamentalism awareness week" that Hannity, O'Reilly and the other Fox blowhards will whine and cry bigotry.
When is FOX PRAVDA going to spot light Christo-fascist week? Let's fight the enemy at home first.
The New York Yankees take it like men when they get booed, which is often.
Horowitz, not so much.
ConservativeNIck @ 15:
Yes I got it - you're either a moron or a troll. I just can't decide if there's a difference.
The very term "Islamo-fascism" is a meaningless term.I`ve always thought it was funny that our beloved MSM even took the BS term seriously.Now maybe they`ll see how stupid it is.
The so called "Islamo-fascists" are less fascist than our own government which seems to slip that way with each new outrage against our Constitution.
Doublespeak is also another of the assaults wrought by our fearful leader.Someone is using semantics against us.In that respect,even though I love words,I am politically anti-semantic
ConservativeNIck @ 15:
Yes, I got it. You watch FOX Noise religiously, are a xenophobic racist who has no problem with those brown people in Iraq being killed by the score over the neoclowns lies we were threatened with non-existent WMD.
You and the other 24%'er's all suffer varying forms of mental illness. Got it?
Trekkie @ 23:
A troll is a moron who flaunts it on message boards.
David Horowitz has nothing but hatred and contempt for people who are Muslim and believe and live their lives according to Islam. There are many credible critics of Islam and of the repressive regimes who do not allow democracy to occur in their nations. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan are all repressive governments that do not allow democratic reform movements but suppresses them using the military and other police measures to do so. Saudi Arabia a key ally to America for oil resources, kills religious clerics opposed to democratic reforms as well as imprisoning those who speak out against the monarchy's hypocrisy. Egypt and Jordan have been used by the United States for extrairdinary rendition purposes. All three of the nations I mentioned are allies of the United States whom have awful human rights records and of which religion is suppressed by the state.
When these right-wingers talk about Islam, and countries in the Middle East, they make no sense at all. I do not know what these right-wingers are even trying to say, when many of the states in the Middle East-allied with the United States--suppress religious beliefs and repress political expression are fueling the hatred of America. I guess nations that are allied with the United States are seen as the "moderate states" even when their policies are of the extreme variety, while those who are "radical" are not allied with America. I guess being seen as a "moderate state" as long as a nation does what America wants it to do, can escape its own human rights violations. When the Shah of Iran was in power from 1953 to 1979, Iran never had to worry about the United States calling it on their awful human rights abuses, but the second it was not an ally of the United States, religion and human rights became major issues.
No, I do not need to be lectured about the Middle East from idiots like David Horowitz who in his earlier years was a thug himself.
Aslajemidad...or however you spell his name...was allowed to speak at Columbia, was protested by students and was booed. David Horowitz was allowed to speak, was protested and booed. What's the difference that Horowitz is crying like a little girl about?
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We can't try to manage progressive efforts in reaction to what the Propaganda Media might or will do. There will be no positive outcome from any tactic. Boo Horowitz and he's a victim: listen politely, and he's the victorious purveyor of the compelling message.
Working from a reactionary (reacting-to-the-worst-Fox-News-can-invent) posture is a losing situation. And if we can't get the media back anytime soon (got a trillion dollars anyone?) then we have to find other tactics for getting the message out.
It doesn't help that the Democratic party has be infiltrated and crippled by agents provocateur such as Rahm and Leibermann, but despite that we need to find proactive, positive means of getting the progressive message out. Part of that is clearly discrediting what comes from the mainstream media as being pure propaganda so that such Fox News attacks lose their edge. And THAT ought to be doable, since it is completely true.
ConservativeNIck @ 15:
You won't put down your keyboard and go to the front lines and fight your president's war. I got all I need to get with that.
Couldn't happen to a nicer moron.
sully18 @ 24:
We need holidays like this to remind us of unpopular viewpoints.
Every day is born-again-fascist day.
ConservativeNIck @ 15:
David and Dennis will go back to being Liberals when Hillary and Bill take back the White House in 09.
"We we used to be liberals, then we went wing nut, then decided that wasn't good, and now were liberals again!"
(15)
"You BELIEVE this is the greatest country that ever graced the planet. Got it?"
Are you the thought sheriff? And what's that part about learning to wipe behind our ears? No wonder you're a bit misguided, that's not the orifice where wiping is needed.
Wow.......
Q: What do you get when you show a propagandist like David Horowitz on the propaganda network?
A: straight Bulls**t
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ConservativeNIck @ 15:
Meet my old friend, "irony".
You claim liberals don't discuss the issues and drips with animosity. You then proceed to froth on about your perceived characteristics of liberals and liberalism.
"Face it" - you can't adhere to the tenets of discourse that you claim liberals break.
You mean, like..............um, the Iraq conflict? That war we waged on a country that had nothing to do with 9/11?
Or are you just referring to Blackwater?
"Face it" - your bile and straw men aren't equipped to handle political debate.
Dismissed.
(btw, according to Al Franken, Dennis Miller always had a libertarian/conservative streak, even when both were on SNL.)
DAMN .. I AM DISAPPOINTED !!
I wanted to SEE him "boo-ed off stage" ..
I wanted to SEE "police unable to control LEFTIST protestors" ..
what a letdown .. after ALL THE HYPE ..
ConservativeNIck @ 15:
That's typical liberal, is it? Of course. Conservative douchebags never do that.
Let's discuss, shall we? Islamofascism. The term itself is ridiculous. Any high school student with a mild understanding of the word Fascism can tell you that Islamic terrorists aren't fascist. They're fanatical, maniacal, and desperate. They are not countries with leaders that are trying to take over other nations. That's what we are. They might be nuts to hate Israel, but it's not really fascism, though historically both did have a hatred of Jews. If that alone is what makes them fascist to you, I suggest you look at your own Christian, Jew-Hating past and ask yourself some hard questions.
Next let's look at the threat of Iran, which is what this college tour was really about. Their leader might be nuts, but the country as a whole is not a threat, and couldn't be for many years, until they got a nuke. Even if that day ever comes, the vast majority of the country not only hates Ahmadinejad, but are more pro-America than most Saudi's. None of the 9/11 hijackers even came from Iran. We've had problems with them in the past, but that was also due to the ineffective diplomatic skills of our leaders, the same problems we face now and then some.
And lastly, what is the whole goal of raising this "awareness?" To get Americans onboard for another war, that's what. But even if Bush and congress do eventually slide towards that, the polls have easily shown that for quite some time we aren't for it. So even if they were a threat, which luckily they aren't, you aren't going to get 70% of the suckers in the country to fall for it again.
Douchebag.
ConservativeNIck @ 29:
Just because you say something (e.g., "You grow up, you become responsible, you DON"T want your tax dollars going to some failed hand-out policy. You WANT a strong military.") doesn't make it so. You haven't got an argument, because you have no premises.
You simply have a contradiction (many, actually), but unlike Whitman, you don't contain mutltitudes. You contain simplistic, essentialist dichotomies built on fear and ignorance.
Saint Augustine @ 19:
The "students" could rent their own hall, yell and throw things to make their point. If your god Soros spoke and was disrespected in the same manner by conservatives you'd be howlin' at the moon for expulsion, except that conservatives don't do this. How does shutting up speech support free speech again?
Is this horrorwitz guy slated to spew, er I mean speak at any Chicago area universities? I'd like to be there.
Horowitz could have kept talking. He stopped because, apparently, he's a crybaby.
Conservatives, fascists that they are, want to crush those students' right to free speech.
"mutltitudes?"
multitudes
RancidVenison @ 40:
Actually I think Nick was trying to say, "you grow up, you get a job, you realize your being screwed, and you don't want your tax dollars paying for someones else beer."
L.A. Confidential @ 45:
But I do want them paying for someone else's education.
ConservativeNIck @ 36:
Do you support a trillion dollar war paid with your tax dollars so Halliburton can get no bid government contracts? So the Bush Crime Family of Texas Oil can get even richer than they already are at our expense? Do you realize roughly half our budget goes to the "defense" do defense contractors can get rich while we foot the bill? How many times over do we need to be able to destroy the world financed with my tax dollars so bedwetting conservatives like you will feel safe an not shit in you pants every time FOX Pravda shouts "terrorist"!
Like most conservatives you're an idiot and a coward. Just like your preznit.
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Why do Red Sox fans hate J.D. Drew's free speech rights?
Army of idiots awareness week, that's every week by the way! Simply turn on Fox Noise! We're fucked as a country and for that matter as a species. Is there no integrity left?
Poise? Valor? Humility?
I mean look at all the problems Clinton left Bush. The USA had more allies and friends then it ever had in History, the economy was sky high, we had peacetime, a surplus, low crime, opportunity for all.
How the hell can a person screw that up?
Christ, it seems like every lib blog is infected with douchebag trolls today.
ConservativeNIck @ 48:
Paid handsomely, eh? You get tips at the drive-through?
jharp @ 5:
Sir and/or Madam, I demand you take that back! You are insulting horses, asses, & horses' asses worldwide.
Besides, when a horse has an ass it results in a mule. Are you also against horse/ass love and their innocent offspring? Are you against mulecegenation?
Seriously. I'd prefer a horse's ass over Horowitz any day.
Listen-- my final bit of advice today-- get a life, [If you took your own advice, you wouldn't be trolling progressive websites with moronic flamebait-Sitemonitor]
On the one hand, booing someone on the stage for what he says appears to be a rail against free speech and seems disrespectful, on the other hand, if people like David Duke and other KKK members and David Horowitz are not booed for spewing racist remarks, then those dangerous ideas tend to get a foothold...and sunlight is the only thing that keeps these demons at bay.
But like others have pointed out... the students also have the right to question what others are saying and they also have a right to free speech to disapprove of those ideas that they do not approve of..and if that takes the form of booing, then so be it.
Gus @ 53:
It's a Full Moon
ConservativeNIck @ 56:
I knew it! ConNick was satire all along!
Uh, conservative nick? Not to be all pot calling the kettle black-esque, but when you start a post with something akin to "typical liberal closed-minded junk," essentially slamming anyone who considers themselves liberal (or who prefers friendly debate) you look really REALLY foolish when you subsequently complain that people are calling you names. If you can't see that...well, that puts you on par with the average brain dead fox news loyalist.
Typical "debate" with a fox news viewer:
Fox News Viewer: "You're an a-hole! You're everything that's wrong with America! Leave! DIE! HELL'S TOO GOOD FOR YOU, YOU ISLAMOFASCIST SUPPORTER!"
Rational human: "Shut up, Dopey."
Fox News Viewer: "You hear that? He's stifling my free speech! Impugning my honor! Wishing me mute & brain damaged! HATE CRIME! MOMMY! I...I pooped a little..."
Thanks for the laugh, here's hoping you don't have kids.
ConservativeNIck @ 48:
I hope you're not paid to write. It's obvious you're not paid to think.
[I thought you were leaving-Sitemonitor. PS as proof of your mega earnings, how about a .jpg of your latest W-4. No? I thought not]
ConservativeNIck @ 62:
Hahahahaha... if you only knew...
ConservativeNIck @ 56:
Do we get free OxyContin and a Prayer Cloth with that deal?
ConservativeNIck @ 15:
You'll get it in November 2008, troll. And you can have your delusional friends Miller and Horowitz. Like you, they are little more than a virulent mutation of respectable conservatives like Barry Goldwater. You people abandoned all sensibility and conscience long ago.
Have fun being the permanent minority, schmucko.
....police were unable to subdue...
That might be one of the most cynical phrases ever crafted for propaganda. Maybe because they were lawful, and the campus police respect the rule of law, unlike the federal government and faux news. While all the bobbleheads on the right are grifters, Horowitz is probably the least artful. Hey Horowitz...you're a fucking disgrace!
Here, just replace the image of Paris Hilton with Horowitz...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0HZMXxfLM
What a spin! Horowitz EXPRESSED his free speech. The students did not have to listen to him. The students expressed their free speech. He could have kept speaking over the views, but chose not to. That's it. But leave it to Fixed Noise to spin this as a poor, censored right-winger being prevented from expressing his first amendment right. He got his say and, just as the system is meant to act, he was shown how idiotic his opinions are. Plain and simple.
As far as I'm concerned, nobody interfered with Horowitz's free speech. He went to Emory, got up on stage, acted like the first rate asshole everyone (except our MSM apparently)knows he is, and the student's then exercised their free speech by booing his pathetic ass off the stage. More of this please! And I hope Coulter and the rest of these reichwing freaks start getting more of the same treatment.
ConservativeNIck @ 56:
Rush Limbaugh? Oh dear.
Yeah Nick-I'll try to "get a life".
Jesus wept...
ConservativeNIck @ 62:
Six figures? What's that to you---1000.00? Decimals are tricky business to troglodites you know.
Nicks got a real popular website.
http://www.xanga.com/ConservativeNick
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ConservativeNIck @ 48:
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IOW, I got my bling, and I can afford gas, so fuck everybody else.
Typical.
ConservativeNIck @ 48:
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Let me guess. Graveyard shift assistant manager at White Castle, right??
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ConservativeNIck @ 76:
Sure sounds like you.
;-)
yes, booing is wrong. these guys need RIDICULE. start with reading a book during his lecture. then do neocon bullsh*t bingo. in Q & A try to get him to agree to quotes of "Mein Kampf". etc ...
"Leftist fascists?!?" Count me in!
scruzman @ 41:
You don't seem to remember when the Hindu cleric gave an invocation in the Senate last month. The Conservative Christians on hand booed, heckled and screamed until the man couldn't give his prayer. The Hindu had spoke propaganda... just prayer.
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Nick has to be pulling our leg. He leaves too many gaps in his argument to be serious.
Tonight on Hardball, Matthews is doing all Hillary all the time. He's worried what part Bill will play if Hillary is president. I swear he is totally jealous of everything about Bill Clinton. If I were Chris, I would probably be jealous of Bill too. Bill Clinton is everything that Matthews will never be but wants to be.
I'd love to see how one of these arsholes like Horowitz would react if his speech was greeted by almost total silence, with an occasional chuckle thrown in.....and of course no applause, just a few more chuckles in a silent lecture hall. Then one student walks up and tosses a single penny to him.
I'd love to see that video!
Rusty Shackleford @ 54:
Larry Craig must be a big tipper.
ConservativeNIck @ 73:
Fast forward yourself to the present pal, which will be very unpleasant for you. And Tammany Hall was nothing compared to the assholes you pray to in the White House. And Hillary as 50 times better than any of the fascist slime that your party calls candidates.
ConservativeNIck @ 15:
Hum... "Projecting" much are you?
LOL!
ConservativeNIck @ 81: