Most folks by now are certainly aware of the infamous taser incident that happened Monday at the University of Florida.
In a somewhat stunning aftershock (pun intended!), the editorial board of Colorado State University's student-run paper has offered possibly the finest example of Bush Derangement Syndrome to date by actually blaming this incident on - wait for it! - the current President of the United States.
Isn't that special?
Yet, even better was the simplicity of their statement, and the vulgarity included which will follow after the break so that only those who choose to be offended will be (h/t NBer wiwf):
TASER THISFUCK BUSH This is the view of the Collegian editorial board.
Apparently, this caused a bit of an uproar forcing the Collegian's editorial board to post an explanation (emphasis added):
On Friday, September 21, the The Rocky Mountain Collegian editorial board printed a statement bashing President Bush in its Opinion section in an effort to highlight the importance of free speech on a college campus. In doing so, the editorial board and I realized the statement was controversial and unpopular among some students and community members.
[...]
As local and national media will inevitably jump on this controversy, I strongly urge the university community to try and understand that the intentions of the students on staff, including me, were not to cause harm, but rather to reinforce the importance of free speech at our great institution. My staff and I are extremely proud to be CSU students and members of this amazing community, and it is my sincere hope that our readers understand our intentions were not malicious.
Fascinating, wouldn't you agree? After all, whose free speech were they fighting for: theirs or the person that was tased?
If they were standing up for the tased man's right to speak, what did President Bush have to with that event Monday? Was the Collegian suggesting that he was so treated because of security edicts set forth by the White House?
On the other hand, if this is just their desire to besmirch the president while flexing their first amendment rights, why not come out and say so?
In the end, this explanation was a non-explanation, and students and alumni should ask for a far greater clarification than this piece of detritus.
*****Update: NBer JannyMae posted a truly delicious comment concerning this issue --
Am I the only one who has noticed that the most vocal anti-Bush freaks are the same ones who are claiming that he is, "stifling their dissent?"
Bush surely is doing a poor job of stifling, isn't he?
Yep. With stifled dissent like this, who needs freedom of speech? :-)
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Higher Learning
September 22, 2007 - 10:39 ET by ThisnThatCollege - Institution of Higher Learning.
Higher than what? Worms?
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THANKS
September 22, 2007 - 10:49 ET by wiwfTHANKS NOEL!!!!!!!
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested,
exiled, or hanged." -Abraham Lincoln
wiwf
September 22, 2007 - 11:14 ET bysince they are so interested in 'free speech' would they print an editorial on the top ten reasons liberals are morons? (i would guess no since liberalism and hypocrasy go foot in mouth)
Top Ten
September 22, 2007 - 14:22 ET by DontFeedTheTrollssince they are so interested in 'free speech' would they print an editorial on the top ten reasons liberals are morons?
Top ten? I'll give you a top ten:
Top Ten reasons Clinton (either one) should be run out of this country on a rail (tar and feathers optional).
Top Ten reasons Gore should be run out of this country on a rail (tar and feathers optional).
Top Ten reasons Obama should be run out of this country on a rail (tar and feathers optional).
Top Ten reasons Kerry should be run out of this country on a rail (tar and feathers optional).
I could go on.
Let's hear it for freedom of speech, professors, and give us the Top Tens listed above.
D
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TASER THIS
September 22, 2007 - 20:10 ET by TruthMongerHomosexuality is a perversion!
Sorry to offend so many college students, that was not my intention. Just wanted to remind everyone about the imporatance of free speech on a college campus:)!
(...and then he was arrested for hate speech:)
I'd post a few Bible verses on the collegian web site myself - but I'm afraid it's banned...
Truth, It isn't, but
September 22, 2007 - 22:03 ET by wiwfTruth,
It isn't, but there's a reason why most of my most politically motivated blogs stay online and not in the massively publicized newspaper ;)
For the most part, the paper is really good in gett equal viewpoints out when they present themselves. Unfortunately, they don't occur often enough, and the liberals take over the page.
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested,
exiled, or hanged." -Abraham Lincoln
pretty good at getting equal
September 24, 2007 - 13:09 ET by TruthMongerpretty good at getting equal viewpionts? Ummmmmmmm....
Invitations
September 22, 2007 - 10:58 ET by JDWSend them to Columbia U to say the same first hand to the very welcomed Ahmadinejad.
JDW
CFR: Chung, Riady, Hsia, Trie, Huang, Hsu, Paw... Who's looking?
Poison
September 22, 2007 - 11:22 ET by iveseenitallPoison like this is being fed to our kids every day of the week in most universities around the country. Most "students" haven't ever read the Constitution of the United States-- not in high schools, not in colleges. Our educational system, dominated by so-called "liberals", is destroying true "free" speech and replacing it with emotional, ignorant hate speech. Our "professors" should be hanging their heads in shame for their assult on our once great nation. Don't send your kids away to school; keep them home to commute to "schools". They and you will be much better off.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal ".
I agree
September 22, 2007 - 11:33 ET by Cape Conservativeno child of mine would see the inside of one of these "top-of-the-list"????? universities. A community college education, while holding a part-time job, would allow students to experience just what life is all about. Which, to me, is a DARNED PRETTY GOOD IDEA! Our most recent Boston fiasco is just one more example of the fine products coming from "top" institutions of higher learning.
Can anyone say ME ME ME ME ME ME????
Cursing
September 22, 2007 - 11:47 ET by iveseenitallDon't be shocked at these college "journalists". A young college woman I know tells me that she has a class in which the teacher curses like you wouldn't believe in all his "lectures". Yet he is a valued member of the faculty. The question to ask is why we are tolerating this in the name of "free speech". It's disgusting and irresponsible. Look what so-called "liberalism" has wrought. Sickening and dangerous to our society!
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
ive
September 22, 2007 - 11:55 ET byjust another case of sybolism over substance
instead of acting mature and thinking maturely they use the words only the grown-ups can use
it really reveals how juvenile they truly are
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
Public bias
September 22, 2007 - 11:57 ET by JDWP/CC,
My son is an athletic genius, he does not learn, he absorbs. We sent him to a private school through fifth grade whereupon he was let loose in the public jungle. In order to avoid slacking we enrolled him in what they refer to as honors classes, a year ahead with all of the slide rule pocket monkeys. He is getting the education yet these Pirus educators are pushing lib playbook policies and they are confusing for the students. Yesterday my child told me his business teacher hates Reagan and thinks capitalism sucks.
JDW
CFR: Chung, Riady, Hsia, Trie, Huang, Hsu, Paw... Who's looking?
JDW, you should arm your
September 22, 2007 - 12:23 ET by NofJDW, you should arm your son with tape recorder or MP3 recorder. So you can listen to what kind of filth is being spewed at your kid. I remember many of my "friends" coming out of college with "new" prespective's, and they haven't grown up yet. Nice jobs sure...but no kids..the usual I wanna enjoy life to its fullest..drinking..whoreing..etc.... whatever makes me feel good...
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat" R. Reagan
Colorado State University newspaper editorial
September 22, 2007 - 16:02 ET by merlin61Real brains at this college!!! What in the world did George Bush have to do with John Kerry's appearance and the tasering incident? Their mush brains can only spout obscenities and call it free speech. I hope they lose all contributions to this institution.
UPDATE
September 22, 2007 - 17:28 ET by JDWThis BS has caused advertisers to pull $30,000 in ads. Time to write the NYT and bi-itch.
JDW
CFR: Chung, Riady, Hsia, Trie, Huang, Hsu, Paw... Who's looking?
Jay Leno's comments
September 23, 2007 - 07:46 ET by goldenthroatJDW,
I don't know if you were watching Jay Leno earlier this week but he made two comments worth thinking about:
1) He referred to the Iranian president as "Imanutjob".
2) He asks "why isn't this guy on the 'no fly' list?"
It is nothing short of disgraceful that this man is even being allowed to step foot on American soil.
Hear any opposition from the left?
Not much!
Never dance on an empty stomach unless it's a liberal.
(sigh) College
September 22, 2007 - 13:22 ET by SMGalbraith(sigh) College students.
Journalism college students at that.
Lefty journalism college students above all.
Like the commercial goes, they're three, three, three dopes in one.
This is why, among other reasons, I'm reluctant to allow Ahmadinejad to appear at Columbia University. Dopey lefty students will question him.
SMG
we can change the world (if
September 22, 2007 - 13:37 ET bywe can change the world (if you believe justice)
re-arrange the world (and if you believe in freedom)
let a man live his own life, rules and regulations who needs them? throws em on out the door
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
"As local and national
September 22, 2007 - 19:14 ET by Conservative_in_mass."As local and national media will inevitably jump on this controversy"
From the belly of the beast that coddles the likes of Ward Churchill.
Exactly what these "young adults" were looking for. Shock value. Like the moron up here yesterday at Logan Airport.
When a conservative tries to "reinforce the importance of free speech", they are usually turned into a target for a vegetable meledy.
Hit these phonies where it counts, in the wallet. If you are an alumnus of C.U., write the association stating your disgust and refuse to donate anymore funds (freedom of expression, libs).
I just did that with my Alma Mater after the University paper published a cartoon mocking Christ. Enough is enough.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~ Unknown
BDS crazies
September 22, 2007 - 12:03 ET by JannyMaeAm I the only one who has noticed that the most vocal anti-Bush freaks are the same ones who are claiming that he is, "stifling their dissent?"
Bush surely is doing a poor job of stifling, isn't he?
their logic
September 22, 2007 - 12:11 ET byis stifling
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
Stifling
September 22, 2007 - 12:11 ET by saw the lightGood point, Janny. I am guessing that the whining liberals on the paper will soon bemoan the loss of their First Amendment right when the paper goes under because their ad revenue dries up. What so many do not realize is that while there is free speech, there is also freedom of choice.
Just because they have the right to say what they want, others have the same right to spend their money they way they choose.
Of course, it will just be censorship to them.
"There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out." - Tony Blair
What so many do not realize
September 22, 2007 - 12:16 ET by ThreePuttinDudeWhat so many do not realize is that while there is free speech, there is also freedom of choice.
HA HA HA, and these are the Pro-Choice looneytics
JM
September 22, 2007 - 12:23 ET by Noel SheppardJM,
Really marvelous observation that I am going to promote as an update for those who don't venture into the comments section. Bravo!!! ns
They're borrowing....
September 22, 2007 - 14:07 ET by Winger55from that Hansen character over at NASA, who is one the bigger Whining Weenies of Warming. His doomsayings are plastered all over the media, yet he claims he's being stifled.
truly “The way to
September 22, 2007 - 14:13 ET bytruly
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
I'm going to spend a lot of
September 22, 2007 - 12:28 ET by CortillaenI'm going to spend a lot of my life being annoyed by people who think the 1st Ammendment exists to alleviate their responsibility for the trash they spew, aren't I? Oh well... I can always have fun by poking logic into their statements until they implode.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And
you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things
happening near
What Would Grandma Do?
September 22, 2007 - 12:58 ET by Junk Science SkepticIf the grandmothers of those on the Collegian's so called editorial board were still around, there would be several backsides spanked raw right about now (clearly the mothers never did it enough).
Same goes for Taser Boy.
These squalling brats need to get past the "terrible two" stage and start acting with the level of maturity that used to be expected of those entering kindergarten.
(P.S. Don't waste any electrons whining about child abuse. Child abuse is raising your kid in a manner that he/she will never be able to capably function outside of academia, government, or the activist community.)
Thompson/Giuliani 2008
If my Mother was still
September 22, 2007 - 16:01 ET by Clear thinkerIf my Mother was still alive she would have set those kids straight!
About 10 years ago my family and I visited my Mom in Florida. One night around the dinner table I was telling a story. I made the mistake of using the word "shi*" and before I could react, my Mom had smacked me in the head with her aluminum cane. I had forgotten one of her rules "no cussing in her house". And this happened to a 40 year old man, me! Imagine what she would have done with all these brats?
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Sure looks to me....
September 22, 2007 - 13:59 ET by Winger55like these kids did this for the same reason a thirteen-year-old starts smoking....to look grown up and cool....when, in both cases, they only end up looking stupid and not to be taken seriously.
Grandma's values
September 22, 2007 - 14:44 ET by iveseenitallI agree with you, Junk Science Skeptic. The grandmas of old would have slapped them silly. To grdandma, men should act like men, not wimps, and women should act and dress like ladies, not whores. What happened? --Modern "liberals" poisoned America with their "no judgement" crapola. ( among other things). Sad.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
our readers understand our
September 22, 2007 - 14:25 ET by gueinour readers understand our intentions were not malicious
LMAO...not THAT is comedy!!!
These aren't college students, they're cocker spaniels
September 22, 2007 - 15:05 ET by Not AmusedThey can't think. They can't reason. They can't speak. And they can't write. These aren't college students, they're cocker spaniels. The first rule of editorial writing is to…well, besides to actually WRITE the editorial, is to produce a cohesive, convincing argument. The use of profanity suggests you have no such argument; therefore, choose another topic upon which to write. You know, a topic where you can actually argue something in a logically connected way. Temper tantrums from alleged adults are always so unattractive. Woof, woof.
Now that I'm through
September 23, 2007 - 11:09 ET by CortillaenNow that I'm through choking on my laughter, I need to remember not to eat while reading these. Anyhow, I think my spaniel would be insulted being compared to these imbeciles.
http://www.rhjunior.... Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things
happening near to you.”
- Miyamoto Musashi
Free Speech this
September 22, 2007 - 15:38 ET by CiampinoImagine that they wanted to express an opinion of the goings on in Jena and said:
Taser This:
F…. Sharpton
Would that have been excused by the University on Free Speech grounds?
These college "students"
September 22, 2007 - 15:54 ET by chessplayerThese college "students" will be our "leaders" in the future. Be very afraid.
Bigger question is: How
September 22, 2007 - 16:17 ET by Conservative in the ArtsBigger question is:
How is this Bush's fault? Wasn't the big wig speaker.....um.....um....John Kerry?
I bet if we look at the video we'll see JK up there on stage give a slight nod and slight point to some guys in dark glasses just moments before all hell broke loose.
Not to mention . . .
September 22, 2007 - 16:59 ET by Junk Science SkepticNot to mention the fact that Taser Boy had already made his non-point several times, so it's not as if there's a valid claim of censorship here. Heck, even congresscritters are limited to how long they can jabber.
I can't help but imagine that Taser Mom and Taser Dad spent 18 years saying "Oh gee, little Taser Boy said ________, isn't that cute. You're such a smart little Taser Boy."
Thompson/Giuliani 2008
Let me guess the same moron
September 22, 2007 - 16:33 ET by jcrapes4Let me guess the same moron who stuck the rattlesnake in his mouth thinking it would not bite him was the author of the article.
@#$&%
September 23, 2007 - 01:26 ET by BritcomEven when quoting, it is still ill mannered not to * the first vowel in an obscene word. We know what the word is without having to spell it out. We should not reduce ourselves to their vulgar level.
College Newspapers
September 23, 2007 - 20:38 ET by pbthinkerApparently, fostering intelligent discussion and showing a command of the English language, are no longer a requirement for being on the editorial board of a college newspaper.
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.