California State Stanislaus Students Want to Ban Sarah Palin from Campus Speech Due to Ideological Reasons

At California State University Stanislaus, a movement is building to ban Sarah Palin from speaking at the June 2550^th anniversary of the Stanislaus campus. This movement includes not only a sizeable chunk of the student body, but also heavily ideological and biased professors, one of whom has actually started a Facebook page to consolidate opposition to Palin's June 25^th event! What makes their opposition so objectionable is it flies in the face of everything a university's supposed to stand for-like challenging students to hear speakers who hold opposing viewpoints. To that end, two, little female Stanislaus students appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on Friday to try and make even a half-coherent argument as to why they want Palin banned. Like with all ideological and proselytized students, they utterly failed. Alicia Lewis and Ashli Briggs struck out, plain and simple, offering everything from flip-flops to repetitive mantras to meaningless absurdities in their failed attempt.

Insofar, the appearance by Lewis, a senior, and Briggs, a junior, was extremely invaluable in proving yet again that many of the so-called "students" at universities and colleges in the US are ideology-driven, cannot formulate an independent or reasonable thought to save their lives, and blurt mindless slogans that are quickly discredited by a more seasoned debater.

According to ideological student number one, Lewis, the student body's rejection of Palin as a speaker for the university's 50^th anniversary has apparently nothing to do with her conservative ideology, but is based on the students' supposed desire to have a speaker who would "embrace" the community and reflect the 50^th anniversary better. O'Reilly quickly reminded the little gals that Palin would actually be bringing money into the campus, so her appearance would be in fact beneficial, at least financially, to a campus that's already struggling with having to increase fees and cut certain classes. Lewis then, instead of addressing O'Reilly's very valid point head-on, strayed by bringing up an argument against the Palin appearance that was not hers to begin with, but was an old argument made by state senator Leland Yee, that Palin's speaking fee be disclosed.

O'Reilly wanted to see if the gals' opposition to Palin was rooted in ideology, so he asked, hypothetically, if a Howard Dean appearance at Stanislaus would garner as much protest from them as the upcoming Palin one has. After first ducking the question, on the second attempt, a reluctant Lewis answered that they would be protesting also. Hmmmm...that sounds almost fair and non-ideological, but are the girls telling the truth???

Batter up! Briggs, the junior, was up next, and she failed immediately when she blurted the meaningless slogan that she wanted someone who could bring their little, wittle community at Stanislaus "together," thereby directly implying that Palin would be divisive. Ahhh, but only a liberal ideologue would think a conservative speaker would be "divisive," so I think O'Reilly was right in not trusting the reasons these gals were giving. Finally, Briggs ended her first time speaking by trying to make a stupid joke-you know, to supposedly "smooth over" her unconvincing answer-by saying O'Reilly should be the speaker instead. But O'Reilly's maybe more divisive than Palin, so that would directly contradict her claim of wanting to have a speaker who would "bring together" the community. Ahahahaha...no, not funny Ashli!

Driving his argument that their rejection of Palin is heavily based in liberal ideology, O'Reilly delivered his best evidence yet: that the Facebook page set up by the protesting students and faculty at Stanislaus was attracting hate-filled, fanatically partisan comments that were actually making fun of Palin's Down Syndrome baby! If that doesn't say their movement of opposing Palin is based on ideology, you can't be helped. To their small credit, however, the little gals did say that they did try to delete the hate-filled comments on their Facebook page, but they had to balance that with all their obligations as college students, obligations which I will guess include dating, going to "partays," and...you know...protesting all the fee hikes in tuition instead of getting a job to help themselves.

As the interview was drawing to a close, O'Reilly (God bless the man for his tenacity) tried one, last time to pin down the little gals and extract the truth from them, alleging again that ideology was behind their rejection of Palin as a speaker on their campus. More frustratingly, Lewis again resorted to their first argument-discredited at this point for lack of corroboration-that they didn't want Palin because they wanted to focus on the anniversary itself and on "embracing" the college environment. But that immediately begs the question, Why doesn't Sarah Palin do all those things for Stanislaus? They didn't say...couldn't say, so left with that, it was looking like a case of two proselytized, liberal college girls who were unconvincingly covering up what their true motive really was. Briggs herself tried to again flip-flop into changing the subject, saying that their opposition was based on lack of transparency with regards to Palin's speaking fee, but that was just a rehash at that point.

Apparently, a couple of years back, Harry Belafonte, who regularly met with Hugo Chavez and called Bush the world's biggest terrorist (clearly making him a lefty/socialist), spoke at one of the California State University campuses, but there was nary a protest by students or faculty. All told, the interview served a great service to society by proving again that ideology-stubborn and illogical, left-wing ideology-rules the impressionable minds at college campuses. But when debated on it and called out on it, these proselytized, little students cannot independently or logically defend their arguments.

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Sources:

Daniel B. Wood, Planned Sarah Palin CSU speech stirs California protest, CS Monitor

Daniel B. Wood, "Day of action" highlights education woes, CS Monitor

Leland Yee wants to know Palin's fee, KCBS.com

Dan Weil, Liberals Protest Palin California University Speech, Newsmax

Harry Belafonte, Wikipedia