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Never is heard a discouraging word...until now.
Michelle Malkin is hitting all of the really good schools on her Torch Taco Bell 2008 Tour:
I arrived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi over the weekend and will be speaking this morning at Jones County Junior College in Ellisville. The weather’s fab here and my gracious hosts took me to Angus Jack’s Steakhouse. Great ribeye. So far, though, nothing has topped the cheese curds the College Republicans in Madison introduced me to last week. Yum.
And we know how Michelle feels about "real food" so this should come as no surprise. Fortunately she was able to line up that Jones County JuCo visit after the Mississippi College Of Beauty Culture gig down on Sawmill Road fell through because everyone was pulling all-nighters cramming for perm week.
College is hell.
But, as Michelle mentions, it hasn't been all guns 'n roses when hitting every stop on the wingnut college circuit. Last Friday she meandered onto the Peoples Republic of UW-Madison campus and they didn't exactly roll out the "Welcome Anchor Baby!" banner:
UW-Madison rivals Berkeley as the moonbattiest of university campuses. It’s the home of notorious Truther Kevin Barrett, impeachment zealots, and anti-military recruiter thugs. No pies were thrown, but within 20 seconds of the start of my talk, an unhinged member shouted “Bullshit.” That was the response to my simple assertion that entry into this country is a privilege, not a right. After making the painstaking case for systemic reform and immigration enforcement, another student shouted out that I was “dumb fuck”–at which point I invited his fellow basket cases to go ahead and use the opportunity unleash any other epithets and ad hominem attacks they were dying to articulate. “RACIST!” they inveighed. Hope it provided some therapeutic benefits. My gracious CR hosts apologized profusely for their profane classmates. But the potty-mouthed fools only embarrassed themselves–and provided us with many comic moments. I really do feel very sorry for the parents paying for their “education.”
Ooooooo. Double snap! Because college education is supposed to wean young impressionable minds off of rough discourse and prepare them for the world of passionate yet elegant argumentation.
Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. "We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!" As a reporter, you get around—curse words, anger, passionate intensity are not notable events—but the ferocity, the bellicosity, the violent imputations were, well, shocking. This went on without a break for a minute or two. Then the aide slipped out looking a bit ashen, and Rove, his face ruddy from the exertions of the past few moments, looked at me and smiled a gentle, Clarence-the-Angel smile. "Come on in."
Fortunately for Michelle someone is sticking up for her:
Like most conservatives at Madison, one of my main gripes with this campus is that its liberalism only applies to Liberals. Nothing could have demonstrated this better than the events on Friday night when the College Republicans brought Michelle Malkin to campus to speak on immigration. In true democratic UW fashion, there was plenty of time for Q and A afterward. At this point things, as they normally do, got interesting. The lecture had been laden with rude remarks from the audience, but nothing was more offensive than when a student used his 15 seconds of fame to yell clarification of his sources to the invited lecturer: “A review of the book, you dumb fuck.”
I’ll give you a moment to let that sink in.
Ignoring the hostility that is normally evoked at conservative events, I find this event alarming for reasons beyond its political resonance. Sure, we’ve grown up in an age where profanity has become increasingly more commonplace. That an individual feels this is appropriate language for any instance is certainly a reflection on his own discretion; that it could enter the mind of a student of this supposedly acclaimed university that such prose should be invoked against an invited and distinguished lecturer should cause us all to balk.
...and move up a base.
[...] How can it be acceptable that there are those among us who blatantly disregard the liberal ideals that have secured this institution’s primacy? It should be of concern to us all that a student uses cheap, profane language when he is representing the university. What it certainly should do is cause reflection: What has happened to UW? The liberal exchange of ideas is something in which students have always taken great pride. Why then, at moments when these exchanges are possible, are they marked by enmity and ignorance?
Wait, aren't "enmity and ignorance" on the Malkin family crest? (note to self: have themanwhocreatedmoseswine research this).
[...] The national acclaim UW has garnered would suggest that the student population is a highly intelligent group.
Three words: Despite Ann Althouse.
Sorry, Carry on:
As the hallmark of political universities, the capacities for discourse should be widespread. However, if liberal tradition is going to dictate that this is the new lexicon of political discourse, I am deeply afraid for the progeny of this institution.
...and Mom and Dad Duppler thought that graduation thesaurus from Aunt Anges would never be used. Shame on them.
To be fair to Mattie I won't suggest that she might consider bringing civility and the "liberal tradition" to the world at large by giving yet another stern talking-to to some other people who could use her wise council or by signing up herself (It's like the Peace Corps... but with guns!). No, she must stay here and fight the culture war with Michelle Malkin, because theirs is a deeper bond than God and Country:
More than 1,000 cheerleaders, many wearing short, fitted skirts and broad, stiff smiles, descended Saturday on the Midwest Airlines Center to tumble, cheer and dance in one of the biggest cheerleading competitions in the state.
Cheerleading has grown increasingly competitive in recent years. Participation in the Milwaukee Spirit competition has doubled since the event began four years ago.
Judging from their routines and comments, the cheerleaders meant business.
"It's not Texas-serious," Lee Trudell of the Universal Cheerleaders Association said before the event began. "They won't kill each other. But it's what they've worked for all year."
[...]
Each girl wore her hair in Shirley Temple-tight curls that bounced as the girls scurried off the matt.
"You guys performed today!" the team's coach said as the girls squealed with delight.
Mattie Duppler, one of the team's members, had been nervous.
"We practice every day," Duppler said.
"There are nerves that go along with this."
Bet you didn't see that one coming....
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Now if she would have gotten the REAL UW-Madison welcome, she would have had to clean beer vomit off her shoes. Nice to see that she got all the respect that she deserves.
fixt.
…that such prose should be invoked against an invited and distinguished lecturer…
Invited, okay. Distinguished? No. Not ever. And it sounds as if the students were far kinder to the invited lecturer than she has ever been to anyone with whom her tiny little brain disagrees.
It’s the home of notorious Truther Kevin Barrett,
Wasn’t Barrett an adjunct who was basically fired for being a wacko? Fits the usual journalistic “standards” of Ms. Malkin.
Gol darnit Mr.
LamarrRove. You use your tongue prettier’n a twenty dollar whore.Sure, we’ve grown up in an age where profanity has become increasingly more commonplace. That an individual feels this is appropriate language for any instance is certainly a reflection on his own discretion;
You know, I really hate doing this.
No I don’t.
Hey, Salam? Fuck you.
And let’s not get into the subject of the Malkin and fine cuisine.
Hmmm. Do I see a second brigade preparing to join the 101st Fighting Keyboardists? Yes, indeed, charging into battle it is the 82nd Screaming Pigtails, tumbling into battle with their fearsome war cry upon their lips,
Hoo-rah, sis boom bah!
Spewing bullshit and then crying ”intolerance!!!11!!” when intelligent people respond appropriately has been Michelle’s and Jesse’s M.O. for several decades. No doubt they went back to their dorm room after provoking the masses and had whatever it is that passes for hot neocon sex to celebrate their triumph.
Malkin has lived off that act since Oberlin - say something so abjectly stupid that it makes your brain hurt, then get all indignant when you point out that she’s a moron.
“…within 20 seconds of the start of my talk, an unhinged member shouted “Bullshit.” That was the response to my simple assertion that entry into this country is a privilege, not a right.”
Huh? Oh…we never had slaves in this country. Michelle is going to try to tell us those UW students don’t know US history. No one ever came to this country against their will. We don’t torture…nope…none of that ever happened.
Sigh. Willful ignorance…and she gets paid for it!
Nobody expected that, tbogg. Nobody.
aimai
Well, to be fair, it’s pretty painful when your member becomes unhinged, let alone acquires the ability to speak.
Apparently, wingnuts really are against all forms of tax. Even syntax.
The key appetizer at Angus Jack’s is apparently brie in a pastry puff with caramel sauce on it. Who’s the chef, Zippy the Pinhead?
Oh, Jeebus on a stick, Absolut went and apologized for that ad that had Michelle in such a tizzy.
It’s not like any of her readers were going to drink Absolut anyway. I believe Sterno is their tipple of choice.
“…within 20 seconds of the start of my talk, an unhinged member shouted “Bullshit.”
“…another student shouted out that I was “dumb fuck”…”
Despite the pathetic showing by the weenie Dem congressional leadership since the 2006 elections; despite the Dem presidential primary from hell, there still comes an occasional moment when I’m proud to be a progressive Dem.
Thank you UW-Madison moonbats.
To have civil discourse, one needs to set standards, and Michelle falls way short, especially in that venue. She’s an ignorant bigot and should be shunned, not invited to a major university. If Louis Farrakhan tried to lecture at Yeshiva, what response would you expect?
See I was feeling sorry for Roger Simon, having sunk from glorious C-List Hollywood celebrity writer to miserable prick writing for an dead end website.
And then here comes the little “wish I was WASP” girl. Speaking at Jones County JrC in Miss. JC in Mississippi is the equivalent of pre-school in Manhattan. I never thought there was such a thing but Mailkin is a Z-list pseudo-celebrity! Congrats you adorable little shrew.
The stupidity in Malkin’s anti-immigration stance lays in the fact her family was a beneficiary of the very immigration laws she opposes.
I could be wrong, but I’m fairly confident that she isn’t exactly a descendant of the original colonists (nor a Native American, for that matter).
She should be thankful, not spiteful — without the laws she hates so much, she’d be a nickel hooker on some Filipino island, rather than a $2 whore for the GOP.
Now where was it that Macalangadingdong went to college? Certainly not to Berkeley. I’d sure like to see her get in, and graduate… I suppose I could Google and find out her dear alma mater, if any, but I’m feeling queasy as is. Anyone know the answer, Tboggians and firepups?
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel, I believe it was Oberlin College (in Ohio).
Hitting the reply button because maybe it notifies you of a response?? See my above comment :]
By the way, could anyone explain to me who/what Jesse Malkin is? What is his deal? What does he even look like? I’m sort of afraid to know the answers to these questions…
Jessie is Michelle’s other half. It is
documentedrumored that he ghost-writes many of her articles.ps: He’s also an ignorant butt-head.
If you’re really interested, and he’s not that interesting, try this:
http://liberalavenger.com/2005.....gging.html
I dunno Jesse’s story, but in Oberlin’s defense I can only note that Michelle was admitted through the conservatory.
I found and read this: http://michellemalkin.com/2005.....-mans-job/
and almost thought they were human, like I could relate.
…and then I read one of her their regular blog posts. Augh.
Strikethrough, why do you never work for me??
DING DING DING! How could I have forgotten? I guess because MMM seems to be the most unlikely Oberlin grad I’ve ever heard of. Now, me, you can tell I went to Berkeley, right?
Doctor Bloor, according to my oldest son, who attends another Major Public University, getting into competitive schools–Brown, Oberlin–through conservatory or some form of performing arts is the easiest way. I shudder to think what MMM was performing. It doesn’t seem to me that Oberlin has competitive cheerleading. Perhaps for Varsity Mime?