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1. #1
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:01 pm, John Ansell said:

   A conference representative confirmed off the record that thinkBIG was trying to avoid “controversy” by not inviting Hirsi Ali. On the record, thinkBIG denied that pressure from MSAN killed the idea.

   Let me get this straight, It’s a controversy to talk against the abuse of women? It’s attitudes like that that have O.J. walking our streets.

2. #2
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm, jukin said:

   Academics truly think they are smarter than the rest of us. Those people are the easiest to fool.

3. #3
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:07 pm, ajmontana said:

   Lets not let someone speak out against this scum just turn a blind eye, oh then be surprised when it happens in you’re neighborhood and scream foul.
   Woman are Gods greatest and most beautiful creation on earth and should be protected vigilantly.

4. #4
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, brooklyn red said:

   I wonder what Hillary would have to say about this…

5. #5
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, vickisoup said:

   “thinkSCARED”

6. #6
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pm, John Ansell said:

   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, brooklyn red said:
   I wonder what Hillary would have to say about this…

   Hillary, all those women are lying. My Husband didn’t sexually assault any of the accusers.”

7. #7
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:20 pm, ajmontana said:

   OT-
   OK, Enough, I sure wish it was Michelle going up against KP, the replacement may be a swell gal she’s cute, possibly smart but please we need you in there Michelle to put things right. I dont really mean this direspectful but a candy stripers view just doesnt cut the mustard. I’m sad the way all that BS turned out and am totally on you’re side but you are sorely missed on those segments.

8. #8
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:21 pm, brooklyn red said:

   Maybe Stanford should “put some ice on that”…

9. #9
   On February 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm, Gabe said:

   During 2000-01, the head of the Stanford Presidential Lectures on the Humanities and Arts suggested inviting Cardinal Ratzinger. Opposition arose from “liberal Catholic quarters,” according to one senior faculty member, and the idea was dropped.

   They should put “Catholic” in quotes because there is no such thing as a “liberal Catholic.” Liberal “Catholics” usually are those who have lost their faith but try to remain in the Church to change it. A true Catholic is always a conservative, in the sense that the term “conservative” has today.

10. #10
    On February 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pm, Blind_Mule said:

    The first time I saw Ayaan Hirsi Ali was on Fox she is a very intelligent women and I might add beautiful too. To bad for Stanford they missed out on a women that knows what shes talking about, she herself has been threatened with death for speaking out against Islam and has to travel with body guards and I am not Catholic but I’m sure they missed out on a very enlightening talk from the current Pope also. They obviously don’t fit in to the liberal frame work of Stanford. For a bunch of college edumecated folks they sure are maroons.

11. #11
    On February 4th, 2008 at 8:46 pm, Dimsdale said:

    The wind of freedom blows, our university motto declares, but perhaps only until someone gets offended.

    Methinks the “wind of freedom” at Stanford is, in actuality, no more than fart.

    Gutless pandering to the perpetually “offended” in the name of political “correctness” is no different Than Nazi book burning: it is cowardly, and demonstrates that the PC dhimmis have no defensible response to the speakers. Speech repression is the first act of tyrants, propagandists and bullies (we’ll discuss the NYTimes later!). How different is this than what China tries to do with the internet?

    Any student (or worse, professor, since they should know better) that goes along with this, and does not demand to hear opposing or “offensive” speech is a coward and wasting their mommy and daddy’s tuition money. They aren’t learning anything.

12. #12
    On February 4th, 2008 at 8:50 pm, zorro said:

    Stanford University’s loss, no doubt.

13. #13
    On February 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pm, englishqueen01 said:

    This is the standard MO for liberals. Say you’re offended, and silence those you disagree with.

    Repeat as necessary until “diversity” (of everything except though) is achieved.

    I am sick and tired of people who claim to be so “tolerant” and “progressive” reverting to the tactics my classmate and I used on the playground as kindergarteners.

    Didn’t someone write Michelle and claim the “adults” would soon be running the country? Funny - I don’t see any adults here. Just whiny, spoiled brats.

14. #14
    On February 4th, 2008 at 8:58 pm, Barry F. said:

    It’s academia. I can’t say I am surprised.

    Michelle, for what it’s worth, I agree with AJ. You are sorely missed as the conservative counter-voice going up against Kirsten Powers and others. I miss seeing you guest hosting too.

    I have watched some of the others and they just yell and argue with the guests, whereas you debated facts with them. *sigh*

    Any possibility of seeing you behind the anchor desk anytime soon?

15. #15
    On February 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm, UberInfidel67 said:

    #5 No…thinkS”CAIR”ED Just a minor adjustment.

16. #16
    On February 4th, 2008 at 9:16 pm, WarTip said:

    More outrageous proof of our Institutions of Higher Education Indoctrination in action. I sure am glad I never went to one of our “Prestigious” universities. I am not sure I could have retained any semblance of sanity among such people. Winds of change indeed.

17. #17
    On February 4th, 2008 at 9:51 pm, fred5676 said:

    As a Stanford alumnus, I’ve been pretty embarrassed since the school administration overruled a student vote against funding the racist and MEChA with mandatory student fees, and then hired Stanford Dean of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid Richard “Taliban” Shaw from Yale. I am no longer a contributor.

    And now this. Ah, for the good old days, before PC went amuck, when the football team was proudly called “Indians” and Prince Lightfoot did his victory dance at games.

    (Some progress on the MEChA issue.)

18. #18
    On February 4th, 2008 at 9:57 pm, Andy said:

    the professor said that these were examples “of a speaker who counts as ‘conservative’ whose invitation was aborted.”

    I’m sure that was no pun intended.

19. #19
    On February 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm, shooter said:

    Yup, Stanford running sCAIRed.
    dhimmi weenies.

20. #20
    On February 4th, 2008 at 10:16 pm, vickisoup said:

    Academic dhimmi weenies.
    *yawn*
    No wonder the online degree programs are surging the way they are.

21. #21
    On February 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm, Mimi1220 said:

    It’s amazing more he!! isn’t raised over this, especially with the presence of the Hoover Institution there. Guess they’re gonna roll over dead too.

22. #22
    On February 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pm, nbarry said:

    Although it’s been 40 years since I was a college student, I still remember the insular fantasyland of the campus walled off from the real world, and that was when academic standards were higher than they are now. Most graduates soon readjust to the real world of earning a living and put these shenanigans in their proper perspective.

23. #23
    On February 4th, 2008 at 10:47 pm, vickisoup said:

    College campuses have always been a bastion of social group think, disguised as exhortation to individual expression…so long as your individual expression conforms to the masses. This is just the newest wrapping paper on an age-old fallacy.

24. #24
    On February 4th, 2008 at 11:41 pm, CrazyFool said:

    Per Stanford:

    “In professing themselves wise, they become fools.”

    -Romans 1:22

    ’nuff siad.

25. #25
    On February 5th, 2008 at 12:57 am, Papa Louie said:

    A conference representative confirmed off the record that thinkBIG was trying to avoid “controversy” by not inviting Hirsi Ali.

    Since when does Stanford want to avoid controversy?
    It’s diversity of thought they want to avoid. Diversity in race, color and gender are all welcome as long as everyone thinks alike and differences are only skin deep. Conservative thought is in the minority on campus, so you would thing they would want to increase diversity by inviting more conservative speech. But that won’t happen because Conservatives are now the “target”.

    “No society ever becomes more tolerant. It just changes targets.”
    - Glenn Beck

26. #26
    On February 5th, 2008 at 5:43 am, graysonret said:

    For people who support “free speech” as long as it agrees with them, I wonder how they would fare under a government that really restricts free speech, like some of their friends do in their own countries. Maybe some of them should take a trip abroad, or continue to be like many people who think the world is exactly like the U.S., as portrayed by the MSM.

27. #27
    On February 5th, 2008 at 9:19 am, Regulus said:

    “When Fascism comes to America, it’ll call itself ‘anti-Fascism.’”

    Pre-emptively silencing speech at Stanford is another great example of how modern-day liberalism is a formula for turning formerly liberal values upside down and inside out.

    “Free speech” means speech that is either pre-approved by those in authority, or speech that doesn’t upset the sensibilities of liberals.

    The “open marketplace of ideas” means denying some the opportunity to participate in the guise of “avoiding controversy.”

    “Diversity” means pre-emptive and punitive efforts at pre-emptive thought-control.

    “Affirmative Action” means “two-wrongs-make-a-right” reverse racism.

    “National security” means treating implaccable ideological enemies like perfectly reasonable people, and letting them run wild.

    “Domestic tranquility” means disarming the citizenry.

    “The pursuit of happiness” means an “out of sight, out of mind” mentality toward anyone who challenges your point of view.

    You get the idea.

    Today’s liberals seem to think of freedom of expression like an onion: They want to peel away the parts of it that make “offend” them or force them to entertain unwanted thoughts; but instead of revealing itself, “Freedom of Speech and Assembly” simply vanishes.

    Our freedoms won’t die with a bang, but a whimper. It’s the Liberal Way.

28. #28
    On February 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

    regulus-
    you nailed higher public ed right on.

    Fortunately alot of vets are going back to school and we are doing our best to shake things up a little. Especially in the sociology, psychology and english departments!
    These departments would make marx proud to be red.

    GSP

29. #29
    On February 5th, 2008 at 12:22 pm, GaijinBob said:

    Ultimately, these institutions are subject to the laws of the free market beyond their ivory towers. So what is the value of a degree from Stanford on the open marketplace today? If I were a hiring manager and an applicant put on their résumé that they graduated from UC Berkley, I’d know that they have zero education in critical thinking and give it a pass. This nonsense at Stanford (et al) will continue until companies realize that graduates are as ignorant and unskilled coming out of Stanford as they were going in and quit hiring them. Only when Alumni Associations start to feel the pinch will pressure be brought to bear to shake things up.

30. #30
    On February 10th, 2008 at 10:23 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    Of course! The Pope stands against the core beliefs of selfish liberals, and as for the other Ms. Ali, well, Californians don’t like it when you cross Muslim men. We are supposed to fear them!

    Only problem is, I don’t.