Video: Moron regrets “F*** Bush” editorial after advertisers flee
posted at 10:02 pm on September 22, 2007 by Allahpundit
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“[W]e have found the unintended consequences of such a bold statement to be extremely disheartening,” our newest hero of the Resistance wrote in a letter to Colorado State’s students and faculty. He didn’t specify what those consequences are; watch the video for that. For a self-styled free-speech martyr, he comes awfully cheap.
Exit question: How long before he starts his own nutroots blog? He’s already mastered the idiom. Click the image to watch.
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I dont think I’ve heard the “F* Bush” level of discourse before. Is this new? Up until now, the level of anti-bush talk has been remarkably intelligent.
lorien1973 on September 22, 2007 at 10:08 PM
Note at the end there is a vote if he should keep his editors job. Wacky martyrism is in his future
William Amos on September 22, 2007 at 10:10 PM
His disent has been crushed.
VolMagic on September 22, 2007 at 10:10 PM
They say “brevity is the soul of wit.” But, this is a pretty witless thing to do.
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GT on September 22, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Help, I’m being repressed! :D
austinnelly on September 22, 2007 at 10:12 PM
So a leftist student on a leftist campus freaks out in a talk with a leftist politician and the security of the leftist campus administration shuts him down… no republican was involved anywhere in the process at all…
And this paper’s response is F* Bush?
This must be something only super intelligent leftists can understand, my weak conservative brain can’t make sense of it.
Etain P on September 22, 2007 at 10:13 PM
I like that he admited also “I wouldnt do the same thing now knowing what I know can happen”
William Amos on September 22, 2007 at 10:13 PM
BTW I wish I could reward the advertizers for pulling their ads. They also excersized their free speech.
William Amos on September 22, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Funny thing about free speech and other rights, just because you have the right to do something doesn’t always make it a good idea.
imshocked on September 22, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Yeah the best is they now have learned what? To do the same exact thing only disguise it better.
He calls it “being professional”. Classic.
I love that the ads were pulled.
Dash on September 22, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Wait a minute! The bro tased him for free speechin’ to Kerry and now their mad a Bush? Not Kerry…go figure.
ronsfi on September 22, 2007 at 10:20 PM
fake but accurate
William Amos on September 22, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Exactly. I had to watch the whole clip again thinking I failed to see the connection.
mojowire on September 22, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Put on tin foil and think like a moonbat.
Its ALL Bush’s fault
William Amos on September 22, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Maybe the Dixie Chicks can do a benefit concert for the paper.
MamaAJ on September 22, 2007 at 10:29 PM
Put that to the tune of “nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I’ll go eat worms.”
Perfect match.
CrimsonFisted on September 22, 2007 at 10:29 PM
Calling the President of the united States,
leader of the Free World,the F-word,then
having a two hour debate which results in a tie
decision.
Well,look at the bright side of this,MOONBATS,
made moonbat history,ha ha they debated!
canopfor on September 22, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Such original, eloquent arguments these student ‘journalists.’
First, Mr. “Don’t Tase Me, Bro,” and now this.
Look out, New York Times! You’ve got some wily ones to choose from!
Good Lt on September 22, 2007 at 10:37 PM
The guy got tased at Kerrys speech and blame Bush,
might go all the way back to Hillarys crazy loon talk
of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Whats really even crazier is that later we find out
Hillarys running the Whole media defence strategy show.
canopfor on September 22, 2007 at 10:41 PM
What an idiot.
nailinmyeye on September 22, 2007 at 10:48 PM
Bawawawawawawawawawawawawawaw!
Thanks for the laugh!
I think I might still have one unbroken Dixie Chicks CD around here somewhere……… I can donate that!
Mcguyver on September 22, 2007 at 10:52 PM
You just insulted a whole lot of idiots, and they are expecting an apology. They feel that calling this moonbat an idiot makes them look bad.
doriangrey on September 22, 2007 at 10:52 PM
Whatever you do, don’t tase him bro.
The Apologist on September 22, 2007 at 10:56 PM
I agree he had a right to say it and does not need “rehab” because he did. I also agree that he should be fired from his job. With freedom comes responsibility.
Maxx on September 22, 2007 at 11:02 PM
Assh*le… I must be getting old. The Hammer video had me laughing out loud!
His Mother must be proud. Yeah, $25,000/year and this is what my son learned…
Babs on September 22, 2007 at 11:05 PM
BTW, Fort Collins isn’t exactly “Ivy”.
Babs on September 22, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Liberals never seem to grasp the idea that the 1st Amendment applies to the rest of us too, and if we choose not to subsidize their infantile behavior there’s not a damn thing they can do to force us. Also, the right of advertisers to choose to run ads in that student rag includes the right not to. It’s pathetically hilarious that for all their rhetoric these morons can’t manage to understand the most basic principles of freedom and capitalism.
ReubenJCogburn on September 22, 2007 at 11:12 PM
And to think the staff debated it for two hours… and then made the decision to do it. How dumb can you be ?
Maxx on September 22, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Seems being an idiot cost $30,000.
Link to Article
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GT on September 23, 2007 at 12:01 AM
They said he had good intentions in doing that. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I hope he has a nice trip.
Tennessee Dave on September 23, 2007 at 12:11 AM
I would hope this was a life lesson learned for the pudgy geek soon to be out of a job but somehow I doubt it.
Buzzy on September 23, 2007 at 12:19 AM
isn’t that supposed to be power?
The backlash prompted the newsroom to slash student employee pay and other budgets by 10 percent, according to a confidential memo.
Slash?!?!? 10% is slashing?!?!?
urbancenturion on September 23, 2007 at 1:29 AM
What an idiot. He’s like, ‘What, you mean there are consequences for my actions?’
ThackerAgency on September 23, 2007 at 1:41 AM
I know that many people will disagree with me but I feel that the only way to stop the “hate America” ideology that the left is so obsessed with is to do one of two things.
1) Reinstate the draft and place the duty to defend the rights enjoyed in this country on all citizens.
2) Do what Robert Heinlein wrote about in Starship Troopers. The only people allowed to vote are those who served in the military.
dawgyear on September 23, 2007 at 1:43 AM
I guess the so-called “Editor” and staff missed any and all lectures regarding “Cause And Effect”.
I hope the pudge gut and his staff can quickly learn to ask, “Do you want fries with that?”
Jack.
Jack Deth on September 23, 2007 at 1:45 AM
Money, money, money. The bottom line here is money.
The left accuses us on the right of caring only about the bottom line, but this video shows the champion of ‘free speech’ second guessing his convictions because his decision has lost advertising dollars.
Yep. A proud day for the left, indeed.
madmonkphotog on September 23, 2007 at 2:05 AM
[paraphrase] If you can’t have free speech on a campus, where can you have free speech. [/paraphrase]
As long as it isn’t conservative speech, it’s free speech.
Looks like the dimbulb learned a lesson about capitalism the hard way. Unless turns out that President Bush or Karl Rove were behind the advertisers ad pull. Then the next editorial will be “No, Really. Fu*k Bush.”
Mallard T. Drake on September 23, 2007 at 2:05 AM
Intellectual and articulate. Editorial staff or dorm hall t-shirt designers?
geckomon on September 23, 2007 at 2:10 AM
This is from the guy who garnered all the attention when he went “undercover” and lied to recruiters saying he had drug issues and needed help getting a high school diploma. Made national news.
elpresidente on September 23, 2007 at 3:17 AM
He doesn’t care about free speech, just self-aggrandizement. Probably was envious of all the attention the UF kid received.
elpresidente on September 23, 2007 at 3:17 AM
Dawgyear, I think you are getting close. People who evade the need for self-defence often become pacifist and anti-American. I see it in my leftist friends to some extent, (though I’d have to write an entire essay to justify how the anarchists vandals fit into this claim).
The problem we face is that so much pacifist anti-Americanism is foreign and we can’t draft them. What type of conservative anti-revolutionary agit-prop can we do to help these foreigners see the light? What is helpful is that the left often gets its facts wrong. For instance, the inmates at Gitmo are fantasized as innocent victims. What we need is a work of art that shows the travel itinararies of the jihadists in Gitmo. It must be both logically crushing and appeal emotionally to the level of violence the jihadists cause. We’d also need a right-wing gallery to show it in. Perhaps, we can penetrate even French culture, though my hopes aren’t too high on that.
thuja on September 23, 2007 at 3:37 AM
Since more people voted in American Idol than the Presidential election, you’re probably on to something.
kiakjones on September 23, 2007 at 3:58 AM
Hooker reports on f*** Bush.
You just can’t even make up stuff like this.
deepdiver on September 23, 2007 at 5:34 AM
Does left X left = right? Then it must be Bush’s fault…
sabbott on September 23, 2007 at 6:00 AM
Actions have consequences…something Lefties don’t get because the thought process stops once they reach the point that suits their agenda.
Regney on September 23, 2007 at 6:37 AM
This is a goofy throwaway little story but I think it contains some important insights in just how deranged the average leftist has become.
It seems like the republicans are becoming modern day demons or evil spirits. This is helped along by the fact that the left is become more and more distant from what an actual conservative is. They’ve created their little straw man racist sexist bigot homophobe Mobile Oppression Factory character of a republican and argue with that instead of anything resembling reality. Something bad happened, a noble leftist getting tased, who is responsible? The monsters! The Right Wing. This despite the fact that no conservatives were involved anywhere in the process.
Doesn’t it start to resemble medieval peasants making wards against demons when someone got sick?
Etain P on September 23, 2007 at 6:40 AM
The McSwane character looks a lot like Rosie…
Zorro on September 23, 2007 at 7:02 AM
Good response. Spoken like a true Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
Only if Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Bob Seger are on the bill…
Captain Scarlet on September 23, 2007 at 7:15 AM
Fort Collins never did recover from Rush Limbaugh’s Dan’s Bake Sale.
Valiant on September 23, 2007 at 8:01 AM
College students these days are taught that if someone disagrees with you, you are to shoot the other person down because they are “lying”. Or at least with the most militant ones that I’ve seen, anyway.
My senior year of college was the 2004 election. I had joined the College Republicans on campus for the semester, but couldn’t find the time to do it the next semester, so I kind of dropped out of the scene.
Anyway, during the campaign I had been given a “Bush/Cheney” campaign sign, which I promptly hung in my dorm window. After the election, I just kept it up there because it was a good shade and interesting decoration for my room.
Well, in the Spring I started writing movie reviews and editorials for the school paper. I had written a couple of anti-feminist editorials (one a general one, one after an incident at UNH involving a feminist group there), which didn’t go without some notice. But otherwise relatively little notice.
I had gone back to my dorm room one day, and saw that someone left a note. I thought it was the RA or someone else. Nope — someone who had read the articles had “issues” the editorials, calling me a “liar”, and saying that I shouldn’t have the “Bush/Cheney” sign in my window, either, because they are “liars”.
I immediately reported it to the RD of my dorm. I told her the only thing I wanted done was to send out a mass e-mail and remind people that there was still freedom of speech. I also told her that I was 31 years old (at the time) and too old now to be changing my opinions.
I found out later that the person who possibly put it on my door didn’t even live in the dorm — and in fact was someone that a friend of mine knew. When I mentioned the note to him, he said that he “had a feeling” who it was, because this same person said something to him about tone of my editorials in front of him (in which when she got vicious he mentioned that he was friends with me) and he mentioned pointing out where my room was to her.
ScoopPC11 on September 23, 2007 at 8:24 AM
Some friend.
DannoJyd on September 23, 2007 at 8:32 AM
Puts real meaning to jobs that require a college education.
Wade on September 23, 2007 at 9:00 AM
It wasn’t “Here’s her room”, it was him pointing down the hall and saying, “Oh, she lives down that way.” Then she found it on her own. I don’t think he thought that she would do that, honestly, when she found out he was friends with me. Especially since visitors are to be escorted.
ScoopPC11 on September 23, 2007 at 9:11 AM
Is this our best and brightest? For a liberal it is… The college paper will now pay the price, no advertising,no paper. Seems fitting.
build the wall on September 23, 2007 at 9:15 AM
This is a great country. Those students did excercise their freedom of speech, and in the process received a lesson in capitalism. All they need to do is find other advertisers who agree with them. Or donors.
Remember when the Dixies experienced this they cried censorship, which was ridiculous.
Dork B. on September 23, 2007 at 9:43 AM
As a member of the military I have to disagree for one big reason: Do you realize how much paperwork is involved when you beat someone up or shoot them for disobeying orders?
I wouldn’t have time to do my job.
Tennessee Dave on September 23, 2007 at 9:54 AM
They said he had good intentions in doing that. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I hope he has a nice trip.
Tennessee Dave on September 23, 2007 at 12:11 AM
And may it begin immediatly.
leanright on September 23, 2007 at 10:20 AM
My thoughts, too. Was this supposed to be “blame Bush” satire or is this that “cognitive dissonance” I always hear those lefties talkin’ about?
Moreover, now that the kid’s gonna lose his job he says he wouldn’t do this again. I say: When you’re only willing to exercise controversial free speech if you know what will happen as a result of it — that you won’t have to pay a personal price — you’re engaging in child’s play. What this boy could use is a genuine education. I guess he’s getting one now.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes…” This kid thought he was playing in the wet marshes, but found his youthful exuberance slammed against the hard rocks. Hope he learns from it.
Rational Thought on September 23, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Finally, a loony lefty grasping the concept that there are consequences and accountability that come with free speech. Free speech isn’t free.
Must not be much of a college if a vulgar curse word is the best way these students can find to express themselves. Maybe they ought to require English Vocabulary 101 for their left of center students.
katieanne on September 23, 2007 at 10:24 AM
No one who was older than a small kid during the 60s would want to reinstate the draft. Vietnam-era America is what we’d have to live with permanently if we had a draft.
We have a great military now with people who believe in their mission. (Thank you for your service.)
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on September 23, 2007 at 10:30 AM
“Everything is permissible”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.”
1 Corinthians 10:23-24
Freedom of speech is a double edged sword that can lead to ones own destruction if used incorrectly.
Zaire67 on September 23, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Why is this pervert interested in having relations with the president?
Is his name fart collins?
saved on September 23, 2007 at 10:51 AM
I guess the so-called “Editor” and staff missed any and all lectures regarding “Cause And Effect”.
In this case, you can be pretty sure that the value of “any and all” is exactly zero. Cause and effect has been dropped from the curriculum because there is only one cause behind everything. Read the headline again to see who it is.
As for the draft, please think of the safety of the brave men and women who actually want to serve their country and do not make them rely on an idiot like this “editor” as a teammate.
Only veterans could vote? I don’t know if that would lead to good government, but the millions of lefty heads exploding would be cool.
drunyan8315 on September 23, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Yup, I was thinking the same thing, and the loony left keeps forgetting we don’t live in a socialist country yet… Capitalism rules!!!
4shoes on September 23, 2007 at 11:26 AM
‘Some say it’s offensive’? Why don’t they ALL say it’s offensive. That’s the problem, isn’t it. The people involved ARE offensive.
countywolf on September 23, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Hey, at least he seems to have learned something through his college education – he learned that actions have consequences!
That’s a lesson not often taught in what passes for higher education these days.
psrch on September 23, 2007 at 11:56 AM
Consequences are a bitch, bro.
Welcome to AdultLand.
saint kansas on September 23, 2007 at 11:56 AM
I’m all for free speech – as well as the consequences of said speech. People ignoring you, criticizing you, and pulling advertisement deals are also free speech.
spec_ops_mateo on September 23, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Anyone got a link to a list of who pulled their ads? …and who didn’t?
drunyan8315 on September 23, 2007 at 2:24 PM
If it hasd been “F*** ISLAM” they’d be up in court trying to dodge a jail sentence.
aengus on September 23, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Good luck establishing an oligarchical military dictatorship. Be sure to let me know who that works out for you.
aengus on September 23, 2007 at 2:38 PM
who=how
aengus on September 23, 2007 at 2:40 PM
This dickhead has just learned that “freedom of speech” does not insulate one from it’s consequences.
georgej on September 23, 2007 at 2:58 PM
To end such imprudent discourse, reestablish dueling.
T J Green on September 23, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Exactly
trigon on September 23, 2007 at 4:06 PM
Feh, they think publishing ‘F-BUSH’ is brave…in a college paper? I’m surprised it got as much negative reaction as it did.
If they wanted to make a point about free speech, it should’ve said ‘F-CLINTON’ or ‘F-KERRY’ and then they could’ve dared the masses to say something about it.
James on September 23, 2007 at 10:00 PM
This really does reflect the shallowness of the looney liberal left. In the fact of a serious disagreement, all they can come up with is tasteless name calling.
And at CSU? Don’t they know that CU in Boulder is where the majority of liberals go? Considering most top colleges Colorado State is pretty conservative, and the editorial staff had to know this would cause a stir. Unfortunatley, they didn’t get the sympathy they thought they would get.
Lawrence on September 23, 2007 at 11:00 PM
Indeed!
Lawrence on September 23, 2007 at 11:05 PM
The original video is unavailable as of now. Of course the Ad preceding it is 100% available…
Sinner on September 24, 2007 at 9:07 AM
The editorial board debated for 2 hours?
Am I the only one cynical enough to think most of that time was spent debating how big they could make the font?
taznar on September 24, 2007 at 10:28 AM
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