Palin Derangement Syndrome Prevents Bristol’s Appearance at University

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Palin Derangement Syndrome Prevents Bristol’s Appearance at University

Written By : Robert Stacy McCain

Nothing says “academic freedom” like kowtowing to a few hundred students who signed up for an anti-Palin Facebook page:

Anger over a decision to pay Bristol Palin several thousand dollars in student fees to talk to Washington University students about abstinence led to a decision Thursday night to nix Palin’s appearance on a panel here next month.
Washington University’s Student Health Advisory Committee had extended an invitation to Palin, a spokeswoman to prevent teen pregnancy, to speak on abstinence as part of the university’s Student Sexual Responsibility Week. . . .
A Facebook petition to compel the school to nix Palin’s appearance had hundreds of signatures Thursday evening. “It’s not necessarily in opposition to the ideas that are being presented,” explained Philip Thomas, the Washington U. student who initiated the petition. “People are getting so angry because of the opposition to Palin’s lack of expertise and the high cost she is charging,” especially in light of budget cuts that have adversely affected other student activities, he said.

Let us stipulate that, at any university in America, there are hundreds of students who would sign an anti-Palin petition. Washington University has 13,000 undergraduates. The student who organized the anti-Palin petition posted this last month at his blog:

The Economist on Dec. 9 2010 quotes Gallup polls that state that only 6% of scientists self-identify as Republican. It tickles me that, among those pursuing the systematic search for truth, so few align with Republican beliefs. Politically, the irrational actions of the GOP reinforce this poll quite clearly.

So a Democratic student organizes an anti-Palin petition and the university administration caves. What if there were “hundreds of signatures” on a student petition against a campus appearance by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Al Gore or Barack Obama?

Why is it always Republican speakers whose speaking appearances are the objects of these hateful efforts to silence them?

So much for the “systematic search for truth,” eh?

(Via Memeorandum. Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

Anonymous

So much for liberal intellectual rigor.

I have never seen a group so close-minded and completely insular.

D-Vega

Telling young people to not have children while they are still children is neither close-minded, nor is it liberal or conservative. It’s just common sense.

Anonymous

But it’s not the subject matter, Vega. It’s the reaction to the person. Apparently, you missed the part where they specifically targeted Bristol. Liberals don’t care about message when they hate the messenger.

D-Vega

And the students at WU have that right to protest someone specifically.

StanW

So much for the free and open exchange of ideas, huh Vega.
D-Vega

There’s no point that won’t be missed by not having her there. No idea has been oppressed.
StanW

So you admit it IS personal and it IS all about her last name.

Thanks Vega!

Anonymous

Last time I checked in America people are free to react to the person if they want to. None of you were up in arms when students at Notre Dame were protesting the President coming to speak, and they were targeting him personally.

StanW

No, they were a Catholic Universiry targeting a Pro-Abortion, Pro-Child Murder President!

In other words, they attacked HIS POSITION, not him personally!
Anonymous

NO, the “Catholic University” wasnt targeting anyone, it was specific students at this University. And yes they were targeting Obama personally Stanley.
Anonymous

Actually, Nixon supported not having a pro death POTUS at a religious school. You know, abortion supporters are not Christian regardless how loudly they say they are.

Anonymous

And yet, liberals inevitably oppose attempts to do just that. I guess common sense really is a conservative trait.

D-Vega

Liberals don’t oppose that, they just think it’s unrealistic to promote abstinence-only as the education.

It should be comprehensive.

Anonymous

Don’t give me that bullshit. Liberals have opposed even the mention of abstinence in sex-ed classes. “Comprehensive” sex-ed to you means putting condoms on bananas and nothing else.

Anonymous

It was cancelled because Bristol was charging $20,000 dollars to show up. What exactly has she done to warrant $20,000 as a speaking fee?

Anonymous

She never claimed David Duke voted for Bush in 2004 as you did.
Anonymous

$20,000 is not that much for a public speaking gig at a university.

D-Vega

It is for a young girl who has not a shred of experience besides getting pregnant as a teen.

I am sure you could find another one for less money.

StanW

Bristol Palin has been a target of Liberal hate and bile ever since her mother became a VP candidate. She has a very unique experience of being able to battle through those vicious and thoughless attacks by people like you and still be able to function with grace. Something the morons at that college could learn!
StanW

Bristol Palin has been a target of Liberal hate and bile ever since her mother became a VP candidate. She has a very unique experience of being able to battle through those vicious and thoughless attacks by people like you and still be able to function with grace. Something the morons at that college could learn!

Anonymous

Except that is not what they are talking about at the college now are they. If it was a board about how to overcome vicious attacks by the media, she might be an expert, otherwise why is she there?
StanW

Because she has experience with what happens when you ignore abstinence and the consequences of being a single-mother.

Yeah, guess you are that stupid!
D-Vega

Then you invite her to speak at your house and pay her the $20K.
StanW

Ms. Palin is welcome in my home anytime she chooses, Vega. But this is a speech to a group. A speaking fee is usual in these instances. If the amount was an issue, that should have been decided BEFORE the invitation was made.

AF_Vet

“I am sure you could find another one for less money”

Yet they don’t, do they? People want to show up to listen to her.

Funny that.
Anonymous

Of course you could. However, there is a lot that is unique about her situation. She was pushed into the national spotlight during her pregnancy. She received all kinds of negative and positive feedback from strangers about her condition. She has been mocked on national TV. She has been publically humilated by the father, whom she planned to marry, twice. She has also been in the natinoal spotlight in her own right doing DWTS, where she was again mocked. All of these things would likely generate more interest than your average pregnant teen.

She was obviously brought up to have a different set of values, but she didn’t abide by them, and her pregnancy became an issue not just for her family, but for her mom’s career. She had to deal with both telling her parents and watch how her pregnancy affected her mom’s chances to be Veep.

These things all make her a unique person who has the guts to stand up and talk to large groups of people about a very personal thing. She is trying to make a life for herself (so she doesn’t have to depend on Mommy’s millions). Depending on Mommy’s millions means a loss of independence and she knows that. She wants her own life and her perspective on all of these things would be well worth the $20,000 for the University, that is if her last name were Clinton, Obama or something other than Palin.
Anonymous

So even though she has the ultimate personal experience with the issue, she is somehow less qualified than a bunch of over-educated academics?

Anonymous

It is for someone that is not an expert in the field being talked about.

StanW

You are really working hard to be an idiot today, crthns. More than usual!
Wiff O’Grapeshot

So what makes YOU an expert on being an single mom?
Anonymous

How is she not an expert? Has she not had the ultimate personal experience with what it’s like to be a single teenage mother? What makes an overeducated academic who’s probably never stepped out of the ivory tower in his life more qualified than her?

StanW

There is no end to the list of Liberals who claim credibility for having “been there and done that”. Whether it is the mother of a soldier killed in action, a 9/11 widow, a former Klansman, a drug abuser, or an alcoholic; all are considered propoer speakers because they have “absolute moral authority”.

That same credibility is never offered to a Conservaitve. If they have not experienced a subject, then they can’t talk because they haven’t had the experience. But if they have had the experience, they are not allowed to talk about it because they are hypocrites.

Bristol Palin has been uninvited from this university for two reasons:
1) She is a Conservative.
2) The way her last name is spelled.

Anonymous

3) She didn’t have an abortion. That’s what really makes the left insane with hate and rage.

According to Planned Parenthood and Barack Obama, having a baby ruins your life and sentences you to perpetual misery. Palin denied the abortionists and is leading a happy successful life. That’s the greatest crime of all.

D-Vega

According to Planned Parenthood and Barack Obama, having a baby ruins your life and sentences you to perpetual misery. Palin denied the abortionists and is leading a happy successful life. That’s the greatest crime of all. – baoxian

She is leading a happy and successful life and yet she is making a living off of telling other young people to not make the same mistake. That mistake being becoming a pregnant teen.

1) She is a Conservative., 2) The way her last name is spelled. – StanW

I don’t know if she’s conservative or not, but I do know the only reason why she’s commanding $15-20K a speech is because of the way her last name is spelled.

If she cares so much for the cause, then why not do it pro bono?

Anonymous

Actually, she commands $15-20K because the left’s obsession with her has made her a national celebrity and opinion leader. You think Geraldine Ferraro’s kids get paid $20,000 in speaking fees? Sarah Palin’s mere act of standing up to the left has made her and her family more rich and famous than her governorship ever would have.

And why do you have such a problem with a single mother trying to earn a living?

D-Vega

She commands that fee because people are willing to pay her that fee to speak on teen sex.

If they wanted to spend $20K to help stop teen pregnancy, they should invest that $20K in education for teens.

Or does she command that much simply because she didn’t get an abortion?
Jkbridk

perhaps with the fees she will finance herself to be the next octomom, any donors out there?
Anonymous

She commands that fee because people are willing to pay her that fee to speak on teen sex.

…Because the left’s obsession with her has made her a national celebrity and opinion leader.

Thank you for repeating what Baoxian said like the pathetic parrot you are.
Having Brain

She gets paid 20k because conservatives have a national brain drain. There is really no one is left that can get you guys going. So you are stuck with a child of a moron to get you off.

http://i51.tinypic.com/5b4f2d.jpg
AF_Vet

flagged for being a spam-bot troll
Anonymous

beats worshiping a false failed POTUS there obot boy.
Anonymous

While you flog yourself to images of a failed POTUS, your “messiah” and “Lightbringer”.

Anonymous

So you are saying its okay to get pregnant when you are a teenager, thanks for sharing that. You need to stay away from children.

StanW

Two different subjects, crthns. She made a mistake and got pregnant. It happens.

But the child did nothing to deserve to be killed over it, so she had the baby.

The Left has no problem holding up people that have made a mistake as role models. Bristol palin is the perfect spokesperson for the fight against teen pregnancy. You and your ilk just can’t get past her last name.

Anonymous

Keep telling yourself that STanley, truth be told no one cares about the Palin’s except her worshipers on the right. Other than the stupid comments she makes, like Sputnik bankrupting the Soviet Union.
StanW

OH, so it was the Right that blamed her for the Tucson shootings. It is the Right that slams her for correctly pointing out the Death Panels in Obamacare.

and I suppose it was the Right making Rape jokes about her children and stalking her.
Anonymous

like your comment that David Duke voted for Bush in 2004?
Anonymous

like your comment that David Duke voted for Bush in 2004?
AF_Vet

“ truth be told no one cares about the Palin’s except her worshipers on the right.”

Tell that to Obama and the rest of the morons on the left who can’t quit talking about or attacking her.

Anonymous

No Stanley, as was presented in the article it was for monetary reasons. Perhaps you should actually read the article before you comment, it would help you not look like a dumbass.

StanW

They knew the monetary requirments when the invitation was sent you, you moron. People protested her appearance, not because of money or message, BUT BECAUSE OF HER NAME!

This is no different that Ann Coulter or Pamela Geller of David horowizt being uninvited because of “security concerns” which is always whiney Leftists saying “We worship Freedom of Speech, so we are going to riot and act like petulant children to prevent you from speaking.”

What is it that makes Liberals so afraid to even allow a Conservative to speak? The answer is clear, their thoguht and ideals are so vapid and impotent that they cannot stand-up to debate and criticism. The only way a Liberal wins an argument is if no one is allowed to counter them.

All Hail the Liberal version of Free Speech!

Anonymous

Actually you are incorrect imagine my surprise, again had you actually read the article you would have found this:

People are getting so angry because of the opposition to Palin’s lack of expertise and the high cost she is charging,” especially in light of budget cuts that have adversely affected other student activities, he said.

Notice it specifically says “the high cost she is charging”. Nothing about not liking her personally, you can read cant you Stan?

StanW

Don;t be such a simpering fool, crthns. Did you see the FaceBook page? Have you read their rhetoric? If this were some Hollywood bimbo or the daughter of a Liberal politician, there woudl be no uproar, even it they were charging DOUBLE the price.

This is about Palin-Hatred, nothing else.

AND YOU KNOW IT!
Anonymous

You can lie, can’t you crthns? Duke. Bush. 2004.
Anonymous

Again, they knew what the cost would be when they invited her to speak. If they were so concerned about cutting costs they wouldn’t have invited her at all, or better yet, not hosted this panel in the first place.

Notice it specifically says “the high cost she is charging”.

Notice it specifically says “her lack of expertise”. This is clearly a lie since she DOES have expertise with teen pregnancy. She has the ultimate expertise.

Ergo, the only reason she is facing this opposition is because of her last name.
Martha

No, the decision was made by a small committee, and the vast majority of the student body protested it. It seems like Roseanne Barr lecturing on weight loss.

Urillysabbittu

the 20K was for a four person panel, BP’s role as keynote speaker was primarily to be a lure. The 20K was approved by the Student Union Treasury which is funded in part by 1% of student body tuition. It seems that the undergrads didn’t want to fund BP.

Anonymous

coming from someone who stated David Duke voted for Bush in 2004, that is rich.

flagged for personal attack.
Anonymous

coming from someone who stated David Duke voted for Bush in 2004, that is rich.

flagged for personal attack.

Anonymous

3) She’s got mom’s millions to count on to raise her child. How many single unwed teenage mothers have millions of dollar to fall back on when making a decision to keep her child?

For most poor unwed teenage mothers, having the child assures them of a life of poverty.

4) She’s an example of abstinence only sex education failure.

StanW

3) Of course, better to kill the child than take the that it may not have a perfect life.
4) Bristol Palin did not practice abstinence-only… SHE HAD SEX! Abstinence works, every time it is tried. She thought she could have sex and avoid pregnancy. Her’s is a failure of the type of sex education that says that kids will have sex anyway, so let’s show them how to do it right.

Guest

Tell that to a victim of Rape Stanley.

StanW

And what did the child do to deserve to be killed, GUEST?
Martha

Child? That’s YOUR definition stanley.
Martha

Child? That’s YOUR definition stanley.
StanW

If not a child, then what, RealPolitik?

A fish? A rock? Tell us all what?
Anonymous

according to liberal Tom Wark, only 2% of abortions are for rape, incest, and moms health. 98% of them are birth control only.
D-Vega

100% of them are no one’s business but the woman’s.
StanW

When a woman can get pregnant on her on, and that pregnancy does not involve another unique life, THEN it can be 100% her decision, Vega!
AF_Vet

@Vega:
100% of them are no one’s business but the woman’s.”

Well, the woman’s and the child being snuffed out of existence. I’m sure you simply forgot to add the last part.
Anonymous

according to liberal Tom Wark, only 2% of abortions are for rape, incest, and moms health. 98% of them are birth control only.

D-Vega

She also could have made that tube-steak of a boyfriend wear a rubber. Or her herself practice contraception.

StanW

But she didn’t. She made a mistake. And she is paying for it.

So what’s you insipid point, Vega?
Martha

And she is paying for it Getting paid for it. There- fixed it for ya stanley.
Martha

And she is paying for it Getting paid for it. There- fixed it for ya stanley.

Anonymous

3) She’s got mom’s millions to count on to raise her child. How many single unwed teenage mothers have millions of dollar to fall back on when making a decision to keep her child?

For most poor unwed teenage mothers, having the child assures them of a life of poverty.

4) She’s an example of abstinence only sex education failure.

conservativeminority

It is unfortunate. Even they engage in character assassination. I hear it on FB(Facebook) or blogs: Glenn Beck is a “drunk”, Ann Coulter is stupid, S.E Cupp(my love) is a fake, Sarah Palin is dumb, Rush Limbaugh is a “racist”, etc. Is everywhere you see or hear.

But when Chris Mathews or Ed Shultz or Stephanie Miller engage in that same tone, somehow it is a different standard. All in the name of public civility because Libs no best or are “smarter.” And for the record, I never hear my fellow conserves use character assassination. Never. The only thing we attack is your stupidity or your lack of neurons. We attack dispositions rather than personifications. Big difference.

But once a lib always one.
Anonymous

Scientists are democrats because they depend on democrat money to fund their research. If we think being a scientist makes for a great political vision, than maybe we should have one of the guys from “the Big Bang Theory” run for President (if one of them is over 35).
Anonymous

If there was a contract wouldn’t Bristol have to be paid anyways? Hope so.
Friggin’ leftists are such tools.
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

Why is it always Republican speakers whose speaking appearances are the objects of these hateful efforts to silence them?

My guess would be that this is because progressives rely on organised pressure tactics more frequently than do conservatives.
Anonymous

Bristol Palin’s claim to fame is abstinence only sex education FAIL.

How the heck can she be a role-model for abstinence only sex ed???

Anonymous

Bristol Palin wasn’t taught abstinence-only sex-ed. Looks like the FAIL is yours.

D-Vega

Seems to me she wasn’t taught any sex-ed.

Anonymous

Actually she was taught all about condoms and birth control. Not that I expected you to know that, considering you swallow any left-wing lie about Sarah Palin and her family whole without bothering to check it out.
Anonymous

Actually she was taught all about condoms and birth control. Not that I expected you to know that, considering you swallow any left-wing lie about Sarah Palin and her family whole without bothering to check it out.
Anonymous

Perhaps you should leave the thinking to your betters Vega. Like Nixon. Your better.

Anonymous

If Bristol Palin didn’t have mom’s millions of dollars to fall back on she’d be on WELFARE like all the other unwed single teenage mothers.

Anonymous

Her baby daddy is a deadbeat father. He has also been the darling of the left since he dumped her. Any condemnation?
Anonymous

Her baby daddy is a deadbeat father. He has also been the darling of the left since he dumped her. Any condemnation?
AF_Vet

Yeah dipshit, you’ve already posted that once on this thread.

Can’t come up with anything else?
aegean

Yeah, better to just kill the baby than to risk not owning a big screen tv, right?
Anonymous

Perhaps the mothers of those unwed single mothers should work hard like Sarah and Todd Palin to ensure they could take care of their families.
Wiff O’Grapeshot

Let me see if I’ve got this stright.

You hate Bristol Palin because she has “mom’s millions of dollars to fall back on”.

And you’d deny her the opportunity to earn her own money through speaking fees, like a certain horndog ex-President.

Why do you hate single moms trying to pay their own way?

Anonymous

So basically they’re straight-up admitting that they are specifically opposed to her. Where I come from we call that “hate”.

Anonymous

That what you want to think, how about they are opposed to her hypocrisy?

Do you think her life as a unwed teenage single mom is hard for her having mom’s millions to fall back on?

Anonymous

So money can buy you happiness? Maybe you should talk about her deadbeat baby dayy, who is rather popular on the left for some reason.
Anonymous

That’s what you want to think, how about they are opposed to her hypocrisy?

What hypocrisy? How is it hypocritical for her to go around telling people not to make the same mistake she did by not waiting until marriage to have sex? Do you just not know what hypocrisy is or something?
Anonymous

That’s what you want to think, how about they are opposed to her hypocrisy?

What hypocrisy? How is it hypocritical for her to go around telling people not to make the same mistake she did by not waiting until marriage to have sex? Do you just not know what hypocrisy is or something?

Anonymous

So basically they’re straight-up admitting that they are specifically opposed to her. Where I come from we call that “hate”.
D-Vega

Are you saying a baby is a mistake?!?!?!?

Seriously, you just said:

Her’s is a failure of the type of sex education that says that kids will have sex anyway, so let’s show them how to do it right.

That is incorrect. Her’s is a failure that tells kids not to have sex, when in reality they will (or some of them will).

If she was taught how to “do it right” as you say, she wouldn’t have become pregnant. That’s called conprehensive sex-ed. And it works.

Worked for me at least.

StanW

That’s idiocy, Vega. They are kids, they act irresponsibility. Do you think kids that want to have sex will stop if there is no condom available? Do you think they practice ‘safe sex’?

Sex education tells you to have sex, just do it this way or that way. Abstinance says don’t have sex and you won’t get pregnant. Ms. Palin had sexc and got pregnant. That is a failure of your beloved “conprehensive sex-ed”.
Anonymous

Obama said he didn’t want his children burdened with “misstakes”. That ok w you?

Anonymous

Abortion is a sin against God. There are no Christians that support the murder of the unborn, only pagans and Christians in Name Only.

Easy to talk the talk, harder to walk the walk.

Abortion is murder of a human being.
Martha

It’s their school. It was their student fees. Y’all can just bugger off. Ain’t any of your beeswax.

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