The Attack on McCain Explained
You ought to hear a this moonbat in action. A few days ago, on Friday May 19th, John McCain was heckled as he spoke at the commencement ceremony at New School in New York. The liberal school’s students could not be polite and act like adults and listen to a different point of view. Instead, the faculty and graduating seniors acted like spoiled little children who place their fingers in their ears and make weird noises when someone says something they don’t like. I can see it now, “I can’t hear you!”
Now Jean Rohe, the student speaker who ridiculed McCain in front of the student body comes forward with why she did what she did.
“I’m sorry, man,” I told him [McCain], “I just had to do it.” He mumbled something about it being alright, but I think he probably would’ve rather not had me there. It really wasn’t his fault that he got invited into a pit of very well-educated vipers, and it really wasn’t my fault that I did what I had to do in the situation. Had he been speaking at something other than our graduation, or had he spoken about almost anything other than his life and his position on the Iraq War and Darfur it might have been OK. But what did he expect? Campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination at the New School is like trying to catch fish in a swimming pool. It was just totally out of place. Many thanks go to the people in the audience who managed to capture with a few yelled and widely-quoted phrases, just exactly what was going on there.
So the fact that you attacked John McCain was actually his fault because he accepted the invitation to speak at your commencement ceremony. O-kay?!
And then listen to this. And I thought she said she was well educated.
I say we need some “extremist liberals” if we’re ever going to get our democracy back.
Eh? And this.
More importantly, I feel obligated to respond to one thing that McCain told the New York Times. “I feel sorry for people living in a dull world where they can’t listen to the views of others,” he said. This is just preposterous. Yes, McCain was undoubtedly shouted-out and heckled by people who were not politely absorbing his words so as to consider them fully from every angle. But what did he expect? We could’ve all printed out his speech and chanted it with him in chorus. Did he think that no one knew exactly what he was about to say? And it was precisely because we listen to the views of others, and because, as I said in my speech, we don’t fear them, that we as a school were able to mount such a thorough and intelligent opposition to his presence. Ignorant, closed-minded people would not have been able to do what we did. We chose to be in New York for our years of higher education for the very reason that we would be challenged to listen to opposing viewpoints each and every day and to deal with that challenge in a nonviolent manner. We’ve gotten very good at listening to the views of others and learning how to also make our views heard, even when we don’t have the power of national political office and the media on our side.
I think we must remember that as big as this moment may seem to me today and perhaps to other supporters who are reading this article, this is a very small victory in a time when democracy is swiftly eroding under the pressure of the right wing in this country. We all have much work to do, and for the most part the media do not represent us, the small people who don’t hold any special titles but who feel the weight of our government’s actions on our backs each and every day. I never expected to get the opportunity to speak the way I did yesterday, but I’m so glad that I did. I hope that other people found strength in my act of protest and will one day find themselves in my position, drawing out their own bravery to speak truth.
I guess an opposing point of view to them would be someone who wants the US to withdraw from Iraq in forty-six days rather than forty-five. And liberals say conservatives are close-minded. These people are can not tolerate anyone who has a real opposing view. They are like little children who say, “Mine!” and cry when someone says, “That’s Johnny’s toy.”
What is really galling is the way she almost breaks her arm patting herself on the back for acting like a spoiled brat. Yep, you are right. Acting like a spoiled brat is what a real grownups do. If these kids are the future of our country, we are in trouble.
Hat tip: Daily Kos
Update: Power Pundit has a reply to Jean Rohe’s unmerited attack on John McCain.
Evidently, the Senator’s regard for his audience was misplaced. Ms. Rohe and those of her fellow graduates who hailed their school’s President as a war criminal and who greeted the Senator’s reference to a friend’s death with laughter proved only one thing, one sad thing, that they could learn a thing or two about tolerance and respect from the students of Liberty University.
Read the whole thing.
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