Comedy gold: The end of the NYU occupation

posted at 7:50 pm on February 23, 2009 by Allahpundit

Don’t be daunted by the length. This is 24 karat. To set the scene: A student group holed up in the campus cafeteria last week for three days with a list of demands including, among various other items, scholarships for Palestinian students, greater budgetary transparency, and complete amnesty for themselves, of course. On day three, NYU got bored with taking them semi-seriously and moved to end it. This picks up, I believe, right around this point in the story…

The end became evident at 10 a.m. when four student negotiators went up to the sixth floor of the building to talk with NYU officials – and were ambushed by campus cops.

After that, cops tore down the barricades barring the entrance to the third-floor cafeteria and started evicting the Take Back NYU! Coalition protesters.

The offenders have been banned from all student buildings until their expulsion hearings, according to the Daily News. As for what you’re about to see, like Gutfeld, I’m almost speechless. To be this far over the line into self-parody and yet somehow oblivious to it is hard to fathom; it feels like satire, but it isn’t. I’ll leave you with Gut’s litmus test: “This footage should be mandatory viewing for every young person in America. If the person watching sympathizes with these students, then you know she or she is beyond hope.” Please observe your official content warning and click the image to watch.

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They all had macs. That figures.

KSgop on February 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM

i think the point i laughed out loud was about the eight minute mark when he says, “who wants to be a facilitator?”

eh on February 23, 2009 at 9:33 PM

Same here. Are there people who really think in such terms? I thought it was just a code.

Tzetzes on February 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM

It’s funny because the last time I heard a person talk like that was when I was sitting in a corporate board room having some stupid meeting about something I couldn’t care less about. Probably TPS reports.

The guy was crying for “consensus” and stressing the ID demand to his friend Ryan because he wasn’t even a NYU student. He was scared shitless because he knew he was busted and was trying to get everyone else to cover his ass by having a “consensus” to not show their ID’s.

These people make me ashamed to pull out my iPhone in mixed company.

Ampersand on February 23, 2009 at 10:16 PM

Ampersand on February 23, 2009 at 10:16 PM

Good catch. I didn’t pick up on why Alex was stalling on producing an NYU student ID.

Wethal on February 23, 2009 at 10:18 PM

That was an interesting study in group manipulation. I wonder how widespread it is in our colleges. A kid who isn’t even from that college is pulling the strings.

I wonder if that is what it feels like to be part of some of the unions we have today. Some outsider coming in, convincing you to do something you never would have thought of and then finding youself traped in a situation you never would have imagined.

Tim Pancoast on February 23, 2009 at 10:18 PM

Oh well it overall was a very doubleplusungood day for the dissenters at NYU.

Gulfcoastconservative on February 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM

These people make me ashamed to pull out my iPhone in mixed company.

Ampersand on February 23, 2009 at 10:16 PM

as well you should be.

eh on February 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM

Quote of the film: “They probably drink corporate water.” I spent the first seven minutes what it would take for the wanker behind the camera to shut his idiot mouth.

hicsuget on February 23, 2009 at 10:25 PM

They all had macs. That figures.

KSgop on February 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM
——–
OS bigot!

I have a Mac because unlike the piece of crap (expensive piece of crap) windows boxes that came before it (thru XP Pro) the Mac doesn’t crash, doesn’t blue-screen, doesn’t get viruses, and (most importantly) does a very good job of keeping user A’s crap separate from users B and C.

I would buy another Mac in a heartbeat.

Just because assholes like these use Macs doesn’t make all Mac users assholes.

Mew

acat on February 23, 2009 at 10:26 PM

Living in the SF Bay Area (close to Berkeley), I hear that word thrown around too much….
JoelD on February 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM

Bless you Joel, it warms me heart to realize a kindred in the land of Bezerk. Truly we writhe from the belly of the beast.

(everyone should do a google earth, street-level, tour of Berkeley and see what a third it actually is)

EZnSF on February 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM

Dang, that was hilarious!

aikidoka on February 23, 2009 at 10:28 PM

The only problem with the video (other than it eventually ending, I could have watch another 30mins of that easilly) was that I kept looking to see if Christopher Guest or Harry Shearer were going to make an appearence. I think he took consensus to 11.

DrAllecon on February 23, 2009 at 10:29 PM

What is an ‘affinity group’? In theory, it’s a small group of people, maybe ten to twenty, who decide to work together by consensus for a political action. In practice, it’s a ruthlessly effective way of manipulating the less extreme into greater acts of extremism, all coordinated by the group’s leaders,

…they work on the same ‘dictatorship of the most radical’ principle as most leftist front organizations, which consist of two groups – a small core clique of fanatics, and a slightly broader group of willing stooges, with varying degrees of commitment to the cause. The fanatics obtain and control their flock through the force of their personalities – they are admired for their experience, commitment, and knowledge of authoritative-sounding leftist dogma, and generally adopt a hip, trendy, and friendly demeanor. While the communist organization of the fanatics is run by majority vote, the front organizations and affinity groups are run by consensus. No action is taken unless all within the group concur.

On the surface, consensus sounds very open and democratic, but fans of the system fail to take into account the admiration the flock has for the fanatics, who pose as their friends. These elite members of the organization meet beforehand, in a secret and unpublicized gathering, where they make the actual decisions.

They are then presented to the group as ‘ideas’ or ‘suggestions’ – suggestions that quickly find seconders. People are asked if they concur, and they almost always do, for the social consequences of dissent are great. To dissent is to issue a ‘block,’ which prevents the group from acting until the action is resolved. It positions the odd man out in opposition to the entire group, which is often that person’s entire social network. A stubborn blocker condemns the meeting to a long, dry contest of wills, with them the twelfth man on the jury. And so the dissenter keeps quiet – or dissenters, since for every decision there are usually several people with misgivings, all unknown to each other. And therefore a radical proposition that would have been rejected by a large majority in a secret ballot will be accepted unanimously in a ‘consensus.’

eh on February 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM

acat on February 23, 2009 at 10:26 PM

takes one to know one

we all know this pro mac crap is just that

yes they can get viruses and the more they are purchased the more you will find them. while windows is far from perfect they are much better than many pretend. there is a kind of snobbery among mac people. look down your noses all you want by my windows machines work just fine. this machine i am on has never had a blue screen or crashed. your attempt to generalize is laughable. go ahead and overpay. lemming.

Jamson64 on February 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM

oops! that should have been quoted: from a passage starting in the last paragraph of page 15:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Peace%20Movement.pdf

eh on February 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM

“Do they have… TASERS?!?!?!”

roffle.

Reaps on February 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM

(everyone should do a google earth, street-level, tour of Berkeley and see what a third it actually is
EZnSF on February 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM

third,crap-hole

EZnSF on February 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM

If my wife and I wind up having a child or two, I will not pay for their college if it’s (a) an uber-lib school like Columbia or Berkley or (b) a college that’s on the at-the-time top 10 party schools.

With criteria like that, you might be in for a rude awakening. I went to both Stanford (known for Secretary Rice and the Hoover Institution) and Berkeley (known for washed-up liberals and the Free Speech Movement). For a variety of reasons, I was involved in more liberal-magnet social organizations in the former than at the latter, so this video reminds me of the folks at Stanford (whom I knew) more than those at Berkeley (whom I avoided). (By the way, they’re not so keen on consensus if they know there’s dissent in their midst. I know from personal experience.)

If you’re going to disqualify Stanford as being too liberal, good luck at keeping a top-level school on the not-too-liberal list. The only one that comes to mind is CalTech, and it’s not as though Berkeley engineering and hard science students are world renown for their liberalism. Plus, you know, it’s harder to get into than the rest. Honestly, I think sociology students at the most conservative of the top twenty universities get a lot more dogma thrown at them than engineering students at the most liberal. Don’t disqualify universities; just advise your (hypothetical) kid to avoid majors with a low earning-potential-to-BS ratio.

Loved the corporate-water-hating Mac-lover, though. It’s always funny to see a café full of free-thinkers, every last one on their MacBook. I think “corporate water” is going to be my new catch-phrase!

calbear on February 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM

A stubborn blocker condemns the meeting to a long, dry contest of wills, with them the twelfth man on the jury. And so the dissenter keeps quiet – or dissenters, since for every decision there are usually several people with misgivings, all unknown to each other. And therefore a radical proposition that would have been rejected by a large majority in a secret ballot will be accepted unanimously in a ‘consensus.’

eh on February 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM

So what you are saying is if we could get some people that could pass themselves off as ignorant lemmings and deal with the stink, we could stop all of their plans.

cobrakai99 on February 23, 2009 at 10:38 PM

That was funny…

Expel the NYU students participating (no refund of tuition and fees already paid), charge them/fine them for all financial losses and damage, charge the non-NYU students with criminal trespass…

“We need to talk to each other, we need facilitators…we need consensus…” If I heard “consensus” one more time…I’d have hurled. Annoying. Really annoying.

Yeah…break the law, get arrested and try to negotiate with the authorities in the process of carrying out a legal action…seems a lot of college tuition money paid by their parents was pretty much wasted. They never learned even the basics.

Loved the part when one unidentified “student” said, :”We have lawyers, we are going to sue!”

Nice to have the camera there…it can work both ways, but they seem to have not considered that.

Civil disobedience also means (if you read Thoreau) that you are willing to pay the consequences of your action, not that you get to mess things up and then walk away Scot free…

Putzes.

coldwarrior on February 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM

“We need room to consense!”

Ha Ha Ha

If this is the thinking man NYU produces every alumni should demand a refund. The left will ultimately lose because they have no brains which allows them to believe they have heart.

chicagojedi on February 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM

Best. Post. Ever.

Why did the security guards indulge these over-privileged douchebags with 10 minutes to decide whether they were going to show i.d.? The proper response when dealing with someone with the intelligence and maturity of a two year old is, “do it now. Because I said so.”

patriette on February 23, 2009 at 10:43 PM

Tazers! We needed tazers! I am sorely disappoitned they didn’t have tazers.

coldwarrior on February 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM

Somehow this really doesn’t quite conjure up an MLK or Rosa Parks type moment does it…

I was really hoping someone would look straight into the camera and tazer the dude.

Bunsin on February 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM

Rest assured, when these spoiled jackholes are in authority, they will have their security forces stop on your face with glee. Then it’s off to the gulag with you.

BDavis on February 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM

He must have just seen Al Gore’s movie, so “consensus” is like his long word of the day.

That’s some funny shit right there.

I enjoyed watching it while drinking my single malt scotch with a few drops of corporate water in it.

Bruce in NH on February 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM

Gotta love the comment section over there too

Your actions for “liberation” of NYU were about as well thought out and planned as Bush’s “liberation” of Iraq. Though to be fair, I think that what you did actually garnered lower approval ratings.

Even the libs hate this ‘guy’

Bunsin on February 23, 2009 at 10:50 PM

Too short!

Mason on February 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM

eh on February 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM

Thanks for the excerpt of an article about anti-war protesters at Stanford, illustrating my point. I believe the my consensus breakdown occurred when an organization I was with wanted to show solidarity with the (superficially laudable but irrelevant-to-our-organization) aims of one of the organizations the writer calls a Communist front. I argued against it, and no consensus was reached (they actually decided to go with supermajority rule, but that failed). So the group decided not to endorse, while I was pretty much shunned from the group. (The only other member I recall being on my side was a math grad student, reflecting the split between the logical and the leftist.) Then a week later, they decided that — even though they allowed voting in-person or over email — not all voices were heard and that they should re-vote (knowing full well that I’d left the organization). That experience ties in with the article rather nicely.

Again, this was at Stanford, which is probably to the right of your average university.

calbear on February 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM

bored rich kids…
hmmm who else gets the feeling they have never done a days worth of hard work…

alexraye on February 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM

This little twit with the camera is like a grade-schooler: “Uh…guys…guys…we have 10 minutes to democratically decide how the police are going to beat us and throw us down the stairs. Who wants to facilitate?”

LMAO.

Jaibones on February 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM

Reminds me of some words from an Austin Lounge Lizards song.
“All her friends were non-conformists so she became a non-conformist too.”

These people couldn’t think their way out of a wet paper sack.

gordo on February 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM

ACK!!

Not feeling especially proud of my alma mater right now! Hell, I remember hanging out with the kindred of these earnest imbeciles while I was there, and thinking even then (i.e., when I was still a liberal ninnyhammer, m’self) that they really needed to lay off the Victim Juice.

Elie Weisel spoke and was granted an honorary doctorate at my graduation. It was very moving. Today, he would probably get pelted with eggs for perpetuating a Zionist narrative that offends the “Palestinian People” and insults Islam.

Like so much of the best comedy, this is more than a little depressing.

Noocyte on February 23, 2009 at 11:14 PM

Just in case you thought no one could be dumber than a suicide bomber, along come these clowns.

HondaV65 on February 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM

gordo on February 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM

Toast them with a giant Dr. Pepper
Hoist your turkey leg into the air!

exlibris on February 23, 2009 at 11:21 PM

Kind of reminds me of these stooges!

Not Over.

1GooDDaDDy on February 23, 2009 at 11:25 PM

I see many comments wishing for tazer usage or something along that line. Personally, I wish the administration and security people would have given them what they truly deserved -laughter and ridicule.

Treating them with respect and dignity gives them the mistaken belief that what they are doing is dignified and they deserve to be treated with respect.

Sometimes the truth hurts, but someone should have simply told them they’re idiots and that a “consensus” among lawbreakers does not overrule the law. Too bad calling an idiot an idiot is deemed to politically incorrect by some.

taznar on February 23, 2009 at 11:27 PM

And the continued use of the term ” Collective “, tells me their political persuasion.

Johan Klaus on February 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM

Hilarious in the extreme… My generation cannot even mount a proper protest. At least the Boomers could do that.

As for the administration, snaps for giving the little brats consequences. When I was at UofI, the vapid anti-Chief protestors took over school buildings on a regular basis and the chancellor at the time (Nancy Cantor) let the li’l brats get away with it rather than throwing them in jail for the evening.

Illinidiva on February 23, 2009 at 11:40 PM

Bugs.

Yep, bugs.

Limerick on February 23, 2009 at 11:40 PM

I loved it when Dreadlocks stood up and was holding a skate board…

Kevroy on February 23, 2009 at 11:41 PM

OS bigot!

I have a Mac because unlike the piece of crap (expensive piece of crap) windows boxes that came before it (thru XP Pro) the Mac doesn’t crash, doesn’t blue-screen, doesn’t get viruses, and (most importantly) does a very good job of keeping user A’s crap separate from users B and C.

I would buy another Mac in a heartbeat.

Just because assholes like these use Macs doesn’t make all Mac users assholes.

Mew

acat on February 23, 2009 at 10:26 PM

I don’t think he was speaking to all Mac users. I have a Mac as well. Let’s use some basic logic here:

Not all Mac users are hipster liberal douchebags. But all hipster liberal douchebags use/want to use Macs.

Sir Corky on February 23, 2009 at 11:44 PM

These are tomorrows congressmen and women.

Limerick on February 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM

I’m past the half century mark and proudly out of touch with most things concerning pop culture. So was it just me, or were all these students seriously a bunch of p*ssies?

TugboatPhil on February 24, 2009 at 12:05 AM

Those kids obviously didn’t get beaten up enough in grade-school. But it’s really depressing to think that we’ve become a country of pussies like that. Darwin laughs at them…

bofh on February 24, 2009 at 12:12 AM

It looks like this was a put on of some sort.

Was it all staged or did the camera kid, Alex, punk some gullible NYU students?

This is one of several suspect quotes that seem mocking of the “protesters”.

“I guess what it really accomplished was to convince the proud vega, kaffiyeh wearing brothers from Muhlenberg that next time we storm NYU we do it with Robots. Robots that can shoot lasers from their chests. Free NYU, free Gaza and freeganism for all!”

Poke around the NYUlocal site at some of the posts from “Alex” to see what I mean.

Was this staged for NYUlocal benefit?

Bravo on the parody if so. Well done.

DWB on February 24, 2009 at 12:12 AM

TugboatPhil on February 24, 2009 at 12:05 AM

You mean the type who volunteer to give their lunch money to bullies? That is what I saw.

Limerick on February 24, 2009 at 12:13 AM

What a buncha pussified little test-tube babies. Yuck.

surrounded on February 24, 2009 at 12:19 AM

And the continued use of the term ” Collective “, tells me their political persuasion.

Johan Klaus on February 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM

They aren’t communists because they don’t have Kalashnikovs. So they must be socialists.

Shy Guy on February 24, 2009 at 12:25 AM

These are tomorrows congressmen and women.

Limerick on February 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM

You should have said “congresspersons.”

RACIST!

:)

Shy Guy on February 24, 2009 at 12:26 AM

It’s funny because the last time I heard a person talk like that was when I was sitting in a corporate board room having some stupid meeting about something I couldn’t care less about. Probably TPS reports.

Um, yeaaaaaaah. Did someone forget about the new cover sheets?

Kensington on February 24, 2009 at 12:30 AM

Arthur: “Old woman!”

Dennis: “Man.”

A: “Sorry. Old man! Whose castle is that?”

D: “I’m 37!”

A: “What?”

D: “I’m 37, I’m not old!”

A: “Well, I can’t just call you ‘man’.”

D: “Well, you could say ‘Dennis’.”

A: “I didn’t know you were called Dennis.”

D: “You never bothered to find out, did you?”

A: “I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind you looked–”

D: “Well, I object. You’re automatically treatin’ me like an inferior!”

A: “Well, I _am_ King.”

D: “Oh, King, eh, very nice. And how’d you get that, then? By exploitin’ the workers, by hangin’ on to our dated imperialist domga, which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there’s going to be any progress–”

Wife: “Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down here– Oh, how’d you do.”

A: “Hello, good woman. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?”

W: “King of the who?”

A: “The Britons.”

W: “Who are the Britons?”

A: “We are, we all are, and I am your King.”

W: “I didn’t know we had a King. I thought we were an autonomous collective.”

D: “You’re fooling yourself. We’re livin’ in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class–”

W: “Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again–”

D: “But that’s what it’s all about! If only people would listen–”

A: “Please, please, good people! I am in haste. Whose castle is that?”

W: “No one lives there.”

A: “Then who is your lord?”

W: “We don’t have a lord.”

A: “What?”

D: “I told you. We’re an narco-syndicous commune. We take it in turn, to act as sort of an officer for the week–”

A: Yes I see.”

D: “–but all the decisions of that officer hae to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting–”

A: “Yes, I see.”

D: “–by a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs–”

A: “Be quiet.”

D: “–or by a two-thirds majority, in the case of–”

A: “Be quiet, I order you, be quiet!”

W: “Order, eh? Who’s he think he is?”

A: “Why, I am your King!”

W: “I didn’t vote for you.”

A: “You don’t vote for Kings.”

W: “Well, how’d you become King, then?”

A: “The Lady of the Lake,… [angels sing] …her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] THAT is why I’m your king!”

D: “Listen, strange women, lyin’ in ponds, distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. SUPREME executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”

A: “Shut up!”

D: “You can’t expect to weild supreme executive power, just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!”

A: “Shut up!”

D: “Why, if I went around, sayin’ I was an emperor, just ’cause some moistened dink had lubbed a symitar at me, they’d put me away!”

A: “Shut up! Will you shut up!” (punch)

D: “Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system!”

A: “Shut up!” (punch)

D: “Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I’m bein’ repressed!”

A: “Bloody peasant!”

D: “Oh, what a giveaway! Did you see that? Did you see him repressin’ me? You saw it, didn’t you?…”

29Victor on February 24, 2009 at 12:31 AM

That was awesome!

29Victor on February 24, 2009 at 12:32 AM

29Victor on February 24, 2009 at 12:31 AM

Will be lining that one up to watch tomorrow…thanks!

coldwarrior on February 24, 2009 at 12:35 AM

Haha, ok, Jason Materra, that’s enough now, you made your point about our universities being full of spoiled clueless trust fund babies…

That’s gotta be Jason, right?

Right?

surrounded on February 24, 2009 at 12:38 AM

Forget tasers. If ever there was a case for the bean bag shotgun, this is it.

austinnelly on February 24, 2009 at 12:45 AM

These are tomorrows congressmen and women community organizers.

Limerick on February 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM

FIFY

UltimateBob on February 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM

Just one tear gas canister and the whole non-event would have been over in seconds.

UltimateBob on February 24, 2009 at 1:10 AM

This is interesting: a little profile of those involved.

Don’t be so hard on the kids. Some of the young ladies took their tops off in support of solidarity. Viva la revolucion!

Blake on February 24, 2009 at 1:16 AM

I have been exposed to idiots like these my whole life.

But shunning water because it’s “corporate” is a new one.

Chuck Schick on February 24, 2009 at 1:22 AM

This movie begs for a title. How about “Stallin’-Grad”?

Shy Guy on February 24, 2009 at 1:40 AM

I recognize the girl standing around holding up the peace sign from this video:

This is Your Brain on (D)
LIBERALS CRYING IN THE WOODS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaHyzbqTA VIDEO:
(via Confederate Yankee)

Baxter Greene on February 24, 2009 at 1:59 AM

“they probably drink corporate water…”

“here’s another MacBook….an iPod…an iPod charger….”

That made my day.

“who wants to be facilitator?”

Black Adam on February 24, 2009 at 2:31 AM

Opportunity lost. If ever there was a “teachable moment”, that was it.

Boys and girls, the word for today is “consequences”.

hillbillyjim on February 24, 2009 at 2:46 AM

Fight against the machine, fight corporate water!

Steve Jobs thanks you for your investment in his products.

BKennedy on February 24, 2009 at 2:59 AM

That was the most hilariously satirical unintentioned satire I’ve ever seen. These guys (protesters) have no idea how abjectly stupid they are. If it were intentional, it’d be comedic genius.

Oh yes!

Allah I was really irritated with you about 10 hours ago for wasting yet another 10 of my precious minutes.

And now…ha ha! That IS Comedy Gold! This is the BEST!

This was just one slam dunk after another. I wonder if any of today’s politicians recognised themselves in this farce.

fireweednectar on February 24, 2009 at 3:28 AM

“We’re using consensus on how to proceed”

Buddy, there was only one party making the decisions in this case.

I love it!

nemecizer on February 24, 2009 at 3:57 AM

As a NYC resident, what surprised me was the tone of the comments at the clip, a consensus of negativity toward the @sswipes who occupied a cafeteria.

After seeing these college protesters in action, does anyone wonder how a community organizer lied his way to the Presidency?

RickZ on February 24, 2009 at 5:29 AM

What I found most funny was the generation gap between the paleo-hippy and the neo-hippies. Can you imagine the dissappointment that guy must have felt?

“I don’t get it; we gave these guys everything we always wanted: that last tiny little bit of self-indulgent entitlement and freedom from responsibility our parents so brutally denied us. Yet SOMEHOW, these guys turned into even bigger snotty little twits than we were. What could we possibly have done wrong???”

The ironic thing is, these whiny imbeciles wouldn’t last twelve seconds outside the womb of corporations catering to their every desire, and establishments protecting them from the ass-beating they so desperately need. And the REALLY ironic thing is that if the government keeps going the way it’s going, they’re going to get everything they’re asking for.

logis on February 24, 2009 at 6:04 AM

What a bunch of tools

I’m seriously considering sending my kid to a military school in the hopes of avoiding the liberal brainwashing he’ll no doubt get at public educational facilities

And this is a much bigger problem than this one episode would indicate:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/60minutes/main3475200.shtml

Sugarbuzz on February 24, 2009 at 6:25 AM

I went to college with a similar trouble-maker. About 5 years after graduation he was protesting in South Carolina, I think, and failed to duck. Pushing up daisies is a lousy career choice.

This clown is lucky nobody took him seriously.

billypaintbrush on February 24, 2009 at 7:57 AM

It makes me happy to imagine this idealistic bonehead in five years. Working as a telemarketer, chained to a cubicle desk, and brown-nosing his suit-wearing boss endlessly.

They probably drink corporate water. Awesome.

Tanya on February 24, 2009 at 8:16 AM

KSgop on February 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM

Hey! I have a Mac!

Kafir on February 24, 2009 at 8:38 AM

The douche with the camera reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgUktfdDy4&feature=related

snickelfritz on February 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Probably a future Rachel Corrie (aka, St. Pancake) in that crowd of filth.

PimFortuynsGhost on February 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM

Just one tear gas canister and the whole non-event would have been over in seconds.

UltimateBob on February 24, 2009 at 1:10 AM

Cafeteria, then they have to close it down for days or weeks to “clean it”. Health dept. gets involved.
I think just walking in, putting a box with wires and a count down timer on top…then vacating the building quickly, moving everyone back from the building with barricades…and watch the idiots look at the box trying to come to a consensus of what was going to happen as the timer counts down.

right2bright on February 24, 2009 at 8:50 AM

I would be so happy if these were my kids. Just think, they just saved their parents the $50k a year it costs to go to NYU.

The saddest moment was when the NYU-PD lady refused to grant them a cone of silence so that they could arrive at a consensus as to who would be the facilitator so that they could arrive at a consensus.

What a fragrant abuse of their non-rights!

Pass the corporate water…

Laurence on February 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM

I wonder if that is what it feels like to be part of some of the unions we have today. Some outsider coming in, convincing you to do something you never would have thought of and then finding youself traped in a situation you never would have imagined.

Tim Pancoast on February 23, 2009 at 10:18 PM

Its called Community Organizing. Exactly what Obama used to do.

CrazyFool on February 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM

They all had Mac notebooks but they don’t drink “corporate” water. It’s painful how stupid rich kids are nowadays. Funny that they are all Liberal. I wonder if they assume that their parents aren’t participating in a capitalist society and that if they lived in their Utopian society it would include nationalizing Apple because corporations are bad.

Sultry Beauty on February 24, 2009 at 9:13 AM

Protests are stupid. The campus police should have tossed them all off the balcony. End of protest.

godhelpus on February 24, 2009 at 9:17 AM

Funny, funny stuff. I haven’t felt this good since before the inauguration.
I don’t understand why NYU made the move to evict these maroons and did not start using the plastic ties right away. What is this 10 minute crap?

thegreatbeast on February 24, 2009 at 9:29 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgUktfdDy4&feature=related

snickelfritz on February 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Ahh Red Dwarf. Thanks. That made my day.

Ampersand on February 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM

That may be one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

Metro on February 24, 2009 at 9:41 AM

It’s so funny that they go from days of lazy defiance to “Guys!! guys!!! We have 10 minutes!!!” scurrying from corner to corner of the their “free” space. LOL, the whole time I watched this.

qestout on February 24, 2009 at 9:42 AM

“Excuse me…..excuse me……..Excuse me…….! Excuse me!!!!! Excuse me……”

Hilarious!!! Will there be a sequel?

bloggless on February 24, 2009 at 9:46 AM

They should have sent in laxative laced sandwiches and arrested them on the way to the toilets.

darktood on February 24, 2009 at 9:46 AM

I kept looking at those brats on the balcony and thinking,”Where is Longshanks when you need him?”

bloggless on February 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM

I could lather up with this and soak in it.

greggriffith on February 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM

If these are the idiots who are going to have to pay back the stimulus, maybe it isn’t all bad.

ctmom on February 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM

This country is doomed. Doomed I tell ya.

roux on February 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM

I am unable to view the video, but “scholarships for Palestinian students” Uh why? Thats retarded on its face.

dogsoldier on February 24, 2009 at 10:05 AM

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