The Cornell University College Republicans have announced that they will be bringing former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to Call Auditorium on Wednesday, April 13. Rove, known for his political prowess as the “architect” of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 victories, will be discussing, among other things, the 2012 presidential race.
As soon as the CRs put the announcement up on Facebook, campus liberals sprang into full freakout mode. If there was any doubt that Bush Derangement Syndrome, as Charles Krauthammer so poignantly dubbed the phenomenon, would be in full force at the event, one only had to visit the comments section on the event’s page. While one student asked why Rove “wasn’t under arrest for war crimes yet,” another took a more balanced approach, saying, “I hate this man with a passion, which is exactly why I’m going to see this.”
If Rove’s engagement elicits a response at Cornell similar to that of his appearance last October at Oberlin, where liberal students attempted a “people’s arrest,” it’s sure to be a can’t miss event.
Tickets will be available at the Willard Straight Box Office starting Wednesday, March 16. They are free of charge. Additionally, there will be access at the door assuming undistributed tickets and no-shows.
Good work, gentlemen. Your tiny sample size from the Facebook event wall is a firm basis for your yellow journalism headline. I want to play this exaggeration game too:
“Students Express Opinions, Campus Wingnuts Go Into Full Defensive Mode.”
Or maybe I’ll tone it down.
“Students Write on Facebook Wall, Blog Draws Generalizing Opinion.”
Not exactly a “tiny” sample size, there “Student.” It’s about half the comments. Besides, what fun would it be to not poke at the Lefties a little bit? Why so serious?
oh hold on, we’ll just conduct a multivariate regression study for you
…or we can just bet you $100 that hateful people across campus will continue to make baseless accusations against the man, insult his appearance, etc.
Mr. Devine,
Take a statistics course (any of them should do), and when the professor mentions “self-selectivity” please pay careful attention as to why this creates a fallible sample (even if it’s huge…)
Congratulations Cornell Review, you’ve determined that a lot of people hate Karl Rove, potentially even more than hate Keith Olbermann. What do you want, the Pulitzer? Get over yourselves.
no, YOU get over YOURSELF!
I don’t think this was meant as a groundbreaking study.
Let the freak-outs continue!!
If this is the kind of reaction a joke about kids taking themselves too seriously on the Facebook page for a campus event featuring Mr. Rove gets (fyi, another student has posted on the wall since this post went up with a rant about the political strategist is a “WAR CRIMINAL” in, fittingly, all caps), I can only imagine how the small, but very vocal, subset of the progressive community on campus that isn’t willing to listen to the other side or try to get something out of a speaker with a pretty impressive background simply because he played for the other team is going to act when he’s actually here speaking. I, for one, don’t “hate” people whose political beliefs I don’t share. That includes Keith Olbermann. In fact, I think he’s pretty funny (albeit most of the time unintentionally) and beneath the pretentious grandstanding is probably a good guy who cares about this country. For goodness sake, weren’t you guys the ones giving us the lecture about “toning down” political rhetoric for the last three months?
You pinkos really need to take the proverbial “chill pill.” I said I was poking some fun at the original commentator, Other Student. As for our aforementioned Pulitzer Prize, they gave one to Roger Ebert for watching movies and one to Upton Sinclair for spewing commie drivel err…. “journalism on the meat industry,” so why shouldn’t we get one? 😉
You guys are a class act. Keep it up.
So we’ll see you on the 13th with all the other lovely and deeply respectful members of the Cornell community?
You take us, and yourself, far too seriously.
Rave to the Rove!