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Karl Rove
LinkyWASHINGTON -- White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported.
Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students began throwing things at him and at his car, an American University spokesperson said.
The students then got on the ground and laid down in front of his car as a protest.
tudent Josh Goodman told The Washington Post other students kicked Rove's car, "and tried to stop it as best they could."
Goodman, an AU junior, said he and others wanted to make a "citizens arrest" of the presidential adviser.
This is exclusive eyewitness video of the incident.
Yeah, that's helpful.
Anything that makes Rove's life is good.
That had all the effectiveness of a traffic light.
On Karl Rove? Likely.
Liberal tolerance on display yet again.
Americans love radicals and hooligans. This will certainly help those kid's cause.
I certainly don't think it will lead to any new-found sympathy for Karl Rove, but nice try.
I couldn't think of a more deserving person to be pelted with rotten fruit.. I hope they hit him..
Not quite the reception you were looking for? Move this to the Club and add that Rove had previously mistreated a child.
There's talk at BYU of dis-inviting head as commencement speaker.
BYU Campus Protests Cheney Speech
By DEBBIE HUMMEL
The Associated Press
Monday, April 2, 2007; 2:49 PM
PROVO, Utah -- Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Cheney to speak at commencement later this month.
Critics at the school question whether Cheney sets a good example for graduates, citing his promotion of faulty intelligence before the Iraq war and his role in the CIA leak scandal.
The private university, which is owned by the Mormon church, has "a heavy emphasis on personal honesty and integrity in all we do," said Warner Woodworth, a professor at BYU's business school.
"Cheney just doesn't measure up," he said.
( OUCH!
Woodworth is helping organize an online pe ion asking that the school rescind its invitation to the vice president. In its first week, the pe ion collected more than 2,300 signatures, mostly from people describing themselves as students, alumni or members of the church.
The display of dissent is rare for a university that has been voted the nation's most "stone-cold sober" school nine years in a row in the annual Princeton Review of party schools.
Students at BYU adhere to a strict honor code that forbids everything from drinking coffee to wearing shorts or short skirts. The school's 30,000 students seldom even stray from campus sidewalks, leaving its lawns pristine.
"Cougars don't cut corners," is how one saying describes students, most of whom belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
But student Diane Bailey, who is leading a protest Wednesday against Cheney's visit, said students are not "robotic conservatives."
Bailey and others are upset by Cheney's role in promoting faulty intelligence that led the U.S. into the Iraq war. They also cite his proximity to the CIA leak scandal in which his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.
Cheney's BYU speech is the first of two commencement addresses he is scheduled to give this spring. The other will be May 26 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Both are ins utions where Cheney could have expected to receive a warm reception, Woodworth said.
Utah has consistently supported the administration, delivering President Bush his largest margin of victory in any state in 2000 and 2004. In Utah County, home to BYU, about 85 percent of voters chose the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2004.
Richard Davis, a political-science professor and adviser for the college Democrats, said the uproar over Cheney's visit is evidence of a rift within the school and church that belies the faith's larger claim of being politically neutral.
"He should be invited to come. He should speak. But let's not send the signal that we're abandoning our political neutrality," Davis said. "There is no political gospel in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
The church has a policy of political neutrality and issues an annual statement declaring that both major political parties include ideals that Mormons could embrace.
"It's one thing to invite some milquetoast Republican. But Cheney?" Davis said. The protest reflects lack of support for Cheney, as well as "the larger issue of diversity and more liberal people within the BYU community and within the LDS church."
Historically dissent has not been well received at the school. Last year, a BYU professor wrote a newspaper opinion piece opposing the church's call for a cons utional ban on gay marriage. In response, the school announced it would not renew Jeffrey Nielsen's contract.
Cheney's office said his commencement speech would not have a political theme.
The school approved a permit for the college Democrats' Wednesday protest and is working on finding a protest site for the day of Cheney's speech.
"We recognize that members of our campus community are en led to their opinions," said university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins. "Political neutrality does not mean there cannot be any political discussion."
Ah yes, the party of tolerance, the dimm-o-craps. The
party of hate: The Republicans.
Don't you just love it when the dimm-o-craps show their
true, most wonderful colors.
Think maybe I ought to bookmark this page so I can
bring it up the next time some of the twerps start chanting
in unison as they tend to do.
It was these types of kids that helped stopped the massacre in Vietnam
Ah, yes, another great reader of history. You obviously mean
started the massacre in Vietnam.
The protesters stopped Pol Pot?
Lib s are so smart.
Sincerely, Bush - 04
Ah, yes, another great reader of history. You obviously mean
started the massacre in Vietnam.
Ray your a hypocrite. Recently you posted that you don't care about other's dying in Iraq because you support America. You were concerned only with the USA .. as you pounded your chest..
Now you use the post-Vietnam war massacre as a defense towards someone stating Liberals saved American lives by getting out of Vietnam.
DO you care about American lives more than others? Yes or No? If so the get on your knees and thank your fellow libs for saving American lives in Vietnam..
GGa, do I detect a bit of intolerance in you response?
I thought you folks were just full of tolerance.
You better go back and check again. I support the same
premise. We get out of Iraq look for the same results.
And be careful, really careful, you are going to hurt my
feelings you keep calling me names.
I will give you one point. You do know what happen to
the folks in VN after we pulled out. And by the way do
you know what American citizens are made up of. Many
are of VN and Iraq background. Just like all of us, including the so called Native Americans are made up of
former citizens of other nations and civilizations.
Ah, yes, another great reader of history. You obviously mean
started the massacre in Vietnam.
I was talking about the massacre of american soldiers who had nothing to do and didn't even want to be in vietnam. genius
now this mofo is actually hintin that we should have stayed in Vietnam!this mofo is hardcore
"massacre of american indians"
let's call it, in modern terms, what it was: genocide and ethnic cleansing
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