Rove censors his speech at U of I.................

[nhboy]

Karl Rove's Visit to U of I Sparks Controversy

"IOWA CITY -- He's been called the mastermind of the Bush administration. Sunday night, Karl Rove, President Bush's former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor, spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 people at the University of Iowa.

The university paid Rove $40,000 to speak, which is pretty standard for someone like him. However, many people disagreed with the decision to pay him to speak."

"When Rove tried to start speaking, jeers from the crowd immediately interrupted him."

"Rove only allowed journalists to videotape the first few minutes of his remarks. After that, the media had to turn off all cameras and tape recorders."

Karl Rove's Visit to U of I Sparks Controversy | KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Local News

 

[ylexot]

BFD

 

[vraiblonde]

"When Rove tried to start speaking, jeers from the crowd immediately interrupted him."

Actually, THIS part should be what you italicized. Or does disrupting a speech and preventing the other attendees from getting what they paid for not mean as much to you as the media not being able to record it?

 

[rack'm]

Karl Rove's Visit to U of I Sparks Controversy

"IOWA CITY -- He's been called the mastermind of the Bush administration. Sunday night, Karl Rove, President Bush's former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor, spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 people at the University of Iowa.

The university paid Rove $40,000 to speak, which is pretty standard for someone like him. However, many people disagreed with the decision to pay him to speak."

"When Rove tried to start speaking, jeers from the crowd immediately interrupted him."

"Rove only allowed journalists to videotape the first few minutes of his remarks. After that, the media had to turn off all cameras and tape recorders."

Karl Rove's Visit to U of I Sparks Controversy | KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Local News

Must be a slow news day, numbnuts

 

[This_person]

Karl Rove's Visit to U of I Sparks Controversy

"IOWA CITY -- He's been called the mastermind of the Bush administration. Sunday night, Karl Rove, President Bush's former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor, spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 people at the University of Iowa.

The university paid Rove $40,000 to speak, which is pretty standard for someone like him. However, many people disagreed with the decision to pay him to speak."

"When Rove tried to start speaking, jeers from the crowd immediately interrupted him."

"Rove only allowed journalists to videotape the first few minutes of his remarks. After that, the media had to turn off all cameras and tape recorders."

Karl Rove's Visit to U of I Sparks Controversy | KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Local News

What part of this irks you - that a person paid to speak and offer their opinion and information chose to not be recorded during his complete speach, or that a crowd of people are so against hearing a point of view different than their own perspective wasted their college's money by heckling the person they paid to offer that information?

You posted the story, please explain which of these parts is the part you're trying to discuss.

 

[ImnoMensa]

Many times I suppose ,during a speech, something is said to incite jeers ,or Boo's or some other response that can be interpreted by the speaker to mean his message isnt coming across.

When a speaker is met immediately with jeers and nasty comments before the speaking even starts, its ignorance on the part of those doing the jeering, its interference with his freedom of speech, Its rude and disruptive. Coming from supposedly educated people, it shows they are uninterested in anyones views but their own.

 

[PsyOps]

From the article

However, many people disagreed with the decision to pay him to speak.

Do you think if Rove had done the speech for free everyone would have sat and listened to him?



What's this really about anyway... the fact that a bunch of college skulls-full-o-mush refused Rove's right to free speech or that Rove didn't want certain portions of his speech on record? I mean it is his speech, doesn't he have the right to make that deicision?

Besides, I question the accuracy of this article anyway... When the writer can't spell-check their own grammar...

"We study elections all of the time here, this is a man who has gone out and one it and been successful each time he's done it," UI student Greg Baker said.