Gotta love Ben Stein. He didn’t hold back on the all too common calls to deny the opposing views of someone they don’t agree with to be aired in a University setting. Always the same with this crowd:
Ben Stein described the brouhaha over his selection as commencement speaker at the University of Vermont as “laughable” on Tuesday called the whole episode “pathetic.”…
“I am far more pro-science than the Darwinists,” Stein said later in an e-mail. “I want all scientific inquiry to happen — not just what the ruling clique calls science.”
Stein’s comments came a day after UVM President Dan Fogel announced that Stein, whom Fogel had invited to address UVM’s commencement in May, would not be coming after all. Fogel said that his selection of Stein generated an intense protest, that he received hundreds of angry e-mails over the weekend, and that after he shared these “profound concerns” with Stein, Stein “immediately and most graciously declined our commencement invitation.”…
Stein called the university’s response to the furor “chicken sh**, and you can quote me on that.”
“I like Dr. Fogel,” Stein wrote, “and feel sorry he is caught in the meat grinder of political correctness. My heart goes out to him. He’s a great guy trying to do his best in difficult circumstances.”
Don’t you love the free exchange of ideas in a country run by liberals? Oh, wait a second. They didn’t let it happen when conservatives ran it either. You don’t agree with them, it’s time to get pies thrown at you, shouted down, or have the stage where your speaking bullrushed by idiots…..
But that isn’t censorship eh?
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