By Larry Elder, Apr. 13, 2014
Rutgers University invited
Condi Rice, the former Secretary of State, to deliver the commencement speech
and receive an honorary degree. But
faculty on the New Brunswick and Newark campuses demanded that Rutgers rescind Rice’s invitation.
If the school abruptly
disinvited a liberal black speaker, her defenders would shout “Racism!” quicker
than you could say voter ID. Rice
critics also want a web cloud company called Dropbox to rescind its invitation
to have Rice join its board. They claim
that Rice, whom her critics call a serial violator of the Fourth Amendment, is
a bad choice to sit on the board of a company that believes in protecting the
privacy rights of its customers. Fox News reports, “Internet activists are calling for the
boycott of popular cloud storage service Dropbox after it named former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to its board of directors earlier this
week.”
So using the following
headline, we posted this story: Dropbox Pressed To Ditch
Condoleezza Rice Board Appointment --More liberal fascism -- Condi being Mozilla-ed!!
Condi critic Peter responded
to me: she's a hawk like the rest of the
Bush admin.
Elder: So “hawks"
shouldn't sit on boards? Was she a "hawk" for supporting the now
unpopular Afghan War, too? Or does did she earn the label when she supported
the now unpopular Iraq War? Were 72% of Americans "hawks" when that percentage supported the Iraq War?
Now here's where you say,
"Bush lied us into the war by faking the case for WMD, thus duping the
American public, the sons and daughters of whom Bush wished to send to war on a
false pretext." Why would he do such a thing? Well, GWB is, of course, evil.
And Cheney, more evil.
How quickly we forget that
the decision to invade Iraq was a direct result of 9/11, after which 90 percent of Americans expected
another major attack within 6 months to a year. How many in the Clinton administration
assumed that Saddam possessed WMD? Practically everybody: Who Thought Iraq Had WMD? Most Everybody
Brian, another Condi critic,
wrote: How is it fascism to say I don't support torture wars for oil?
Elder: What about allowing
someone with a different pov -- at one time supported by 72% (Iraq war)--to
have an chance to share it?
Brian: What does she need to
share? Majority of Americans in the past have had all sorts of misguided and
ugly viewpoints. Iraq, too.
Elder: Thanks for deciding
what "need[s] to [be] share[d]" You've shown exactly what's meant by
"liberal fascism." You decide, we abide.
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