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There Are Some Things You Can't Cover Up with Lipstick and Powder

There Are Some Things You Can't Cover Up with Lipstick and Powder
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Nation columnist, CUNY Distinguished Professor, Senior Fellow, CAP

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I'm with Mr. Unpronounceable.... There is literally nothing at all admirable about George W. Bush and Scott Pelley's stupid questions and they are undeserving of serious response. What an embarrassment to CBS News this should be. Perhaps they should save themselves $70 million, apologize, and bring back Dan Rather to do these interviews.

Nixon's sorta with Ahmadinejad too. At least insofar as it relates to Jews.

But anyway, relating to the free speech aspects of this issue in 2005 -- after several colleges and universities withdrew valid invitations to speakers during the 2004 election cycle -- the American Association of University Professors published the following statement on the subject. Methinks it makes sense regardless of whether the speaker is Hitler or Gandhi.

Read the whole Altercation here.

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