Yesterday I wrote about former Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card getting booed at UMass where he was receiving an honorary degree. However, I didn't realize how little justice the print news reporting did to the situation.
You have to see this video to understand exactly how overwhelming this protest was. We're talking possibly more than 50% of the students wearing Ghostbuster-style anti-Card stickers, then the overwhelming two minute-long booing when his name is announced, accompanied by a massive number of yellow anti-Card signs being held up and, most damning of all, a huge anti-Card protest on the very stage where he is sitting.
I mean, protesters with the yellow cards on that stage behind him, and a long "CARD, NO HONOR, NO DEGREE" banner unfurled behind the dais speaker, right in front of the Bushman himself.
Wow.
No wonder they're banning commencement protests now.
5 comments:
F*ck Andy Card. If he wants an honorary degree, let him get one at Regent Univ.
-m
The shunning continues with Bush himself -- check out the look on the faces of the family of a soldier getting an El Presidente Purple Heart visit here.
Yow! Good catch. This is a remarkable picture -- he looks demented and they look like they're thinking about taking a bath in clorox the minute he leaves.
-m
Anonymous: yes, we were! But it's worth noting that as soon as he sat down, everyone calmed down and we went on with the ceremony.
I think it was actually pretty cool of the protesters to be so disciplined. Very principled and powerful the way they did it.
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