Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Not fit to print

Michael Bloomberg's commencement address at Harvard:
Campus liberals are "trying to repress conservative ideas,'' particularly in the Ivy League, he said. Shifting from gently reproving to openly caustic, he noted that 96 percent of Ivy League faculty and campus employee donations in the 2012 presidential election had gone to President Obama, adding that "there was more disagreement in the old Soviet Politburo than among Ivy league donors." This was surely the first time a commencement speaker had unfavorably compared faculty of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, et al. to old-time Communist hacks.

On the pressuring of commencement speakers to withdraw at Brandeis, Haverford, Rutgers and Smith, and last year at Johns Hopkins and Swarthmore, Bloomberg said, "in each case, liberals silenced a voice...That is an outrage and we must not let it continue."
Speaking of silence, the New York Times printed not one word of Bloomberg's address, even though he also criticized liberals. Read more here.

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