Recruiting Righties on Campus – Jon Stewart/Christopher Hitchens – Coulter: New Yorkers are Cowards
First link is to a video shot by a student attempting to gain entry to a campus Republican meeting to distribute flyers that urged members to join the military. He was taken aside and told that he wasn’t being ‘sensitive’ to those people who would ‘like to serve’, but for one reason or another can’t. Yes, the feelings of our college students must be considered first and foremost. Our next generation of chickenhawks shouldn’t have to be reminded of their cowardice…God forbid reality were to seep into the meeting agenda for that day.
Quicktime – A Gathering of Campus Chickenhawks
In the following clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair) has apparantly booked the wrong appearance to plug his new book on Thomas Jefferson. I enjoy reading his stuff…one piece from a while back I was able to dig up was his take on Ronald Reagan. I think this interview marks perfectly what’s happened this summer. The protest down in Texas has done wonders for maintaining the Iraq War’s status in terms of what the establishment deems ‘news worthy’. Stewart has always had a knack for blasting the absurdities that surround most issues and how they’re covered by our media, but on this night he was on another planet!
And finally we have Ann “plagarist” Coulter proclaiming that New Yorkers are cowardly. Alongside Pat Robertson, she’s unfortunately made the mistake of not retiring two weeks ago.
Coulter on the Cowardice of New Yorkers