Loud Boos Greet (Andy) Card at UMass

[VolcanoJen]

Source: Amherst newspaper

AMHERST - When it came time for former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. to receive an honorary doctorate degree yesterday, the din was so loud that few, if any, of those in attendance could hear the reasons for the honor.

Card was honored yesterday at the University of Massachusetts graduate student graduation despite repeated protests, petitions and demonstrations asking that the doctorate of public service be revoked.

Card smiled and waved his award as the booing continued. Some faculty members and graduates waved yellow placards reading "Honor Grads Dis-Card" behind and in front of Card as university President Jack M. Wilson presented him with the degree.

Read more: http://www.masslive.com/news/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-1/118016787784900.xml&coll=1

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Just shown on CNN... it's really worth a watch, so you might want to stay tuned in. They resoundly boo the former Chief of Staff, Andy "New Product Line" Card, for two solid minutes!!

[wakeme2008]

1. Just posted the video

:) I love YouTube...

[VolcanoJen]

2. This video?

The magic starts at about 2:40.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dp4MYii7MqA

Are there other vids? Sorry if I duped. :-)

[Skip Intro]

4. Wow. That was stunning.

Gave me goosebumps.

Screw these war criminals who think they can just waltz around like they've done nothing and we'll all just pretend along with them, silently. Kudos to those students and faculty, the University president is a moron.

[VolcanoJen]

46. Doesn't it, somehow, give you a little faith?

It did me. I'm incredibly proud of the UMass Grad School Grads and Professors for standing up!!!

[barbtries]

47. me too

what the video didn't tell me was whether card went through with it anyhow. shows how little shame these bastards have. or did the video show him getting his honorary doctorate and i just couldn't see it through the boos and my tears?

[Critters2]

11. I thought it was pretty magical

seeing all those faculty types wearing protest signs. Pretty damned impressive!!

[aquart]

17. Goosebumps. Chills. Wow.

[rocktivity]

18. Foo-kin-bee-yoo-tee-ful!

Cue the Vonage theme--if you can hear it above all the booing, LOL!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[BrklynLiberal]

23. Actually brought tears to my eyes... I wish the entire country could be as vociferous and

brave, passionate as those students...and faculty if I am not mistaking.

[Divine Discontent]

30. gotta love it - all Americans should confront W, Dick, Condi w/the same "greeting"

it's the PATRIOTIC thing to do! lol

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- check it out, top '08 stuff

[BrklynLiberal]

34. I LOVE your Nixon bumper sticker. I gotta get me one of those!!

[cboy4]

37. GOOSEBUMPS! Excellent and wonderful.

Well done, everybody!! :bounce:

[aquart]

43. No, the magic starts with that remarkable processional.

[ihelpu2see]

50. wow!! nt

[panader0]

3. I remember when Mike Tison was given an honorary doctorate

His comment? " I don't know what kind of doctor this is for, but I hope it's gvnecology."

[piesRsquare]

40. That's disgusting!

Disgusting in its misogyny! Repulsive!

[Ilsa]

5. Couple of threads are in GD with links to the youtube video.

Professors holding up yellow cards that say "Honor Grads Dis-Card". War Criminals Go Home! was on one huge sign behind Card. The students and faculty were pissed! People wore signs on their robes.

[pretzel4gore]

6. soft on crime are they?

a card belongs in jail....not honoured by his victims. Otoh, ted bundy shoulda been president(?)...i mean he was decisive, and quite good looking on tvee....

[sallyseven]

7. Card is a former MA resident.

We are not proud of him. Jack Wilson is on his way out.
No one likes him either.

[Critters2]

12. I'm a former MA resident

Is that all it takes to get an honorary degree? How do I sign up?

[Evergreen Emerald]

8. Loved that!

Under the crap of the neo-cons is the spirit of America. We just need to channel it in the appropriate way to get the evil-doers out of office!

[Fridays Child]

9. When does Karl "The Dog Ate My Homework" Rove get his honorary doctorate?

[peacetalksforall]

10. I'm soaring with pride for these young people and some of their

professors. I feel elated at the same time I want to cry - it's been five years of fighting this war and though this was one of the most fantastic protests, I cry because it is taking all this time for all the public to catch on and there isn't any end in sight. Is there a name for emotions that split a person in half?

DUers - never let his 'easy going' style fool you. That is one evil man who should stand before a tribunal of patriots and world judges.

[Arugula Latte]

14. The pent-up anger of hundreds of people being unleashed was a beautiful sight.

Damn! THAT is democracy!

[drm604]

13. Wow!

Were there any graduates not wearing those signs? I couldn't see any.

This was so wrong. This graduation was for the students and those students did not want to honor Card. How could the University be so disrespectful of their graduation ceremony? How could they honor that criminal against the students' wishes?

[coalition_unwilling]

22. When Schwarze-nazi spoke at the commencement ceremony

for Santa Monica College, his entire speech was booed loudly and passionately throughout. This was in May or June of 2004, I believe, before his three ballot initiatives all went down to defeat in California. I WAS THERE AS A GUEST OF A GRADUATING STUDENT AND WAS ABLE TO HELP SHOUT SCHWARZE-NAZI DOWN! That's the only language these neo-con thugs and crooks understand.

[Cha]

36. Good for Ya'll! I remember that!

Huge incidents like those must have straightened swartzenwhatever's ass up and veered him towards reality.

[trashcanistanista]

41. Good.

Thank you for your service to our country!:patriot:

[rocktivity]

15. Trying to get a half-conscious man to legalize warrantless domestic spying

Public service, my :kick: --he's lucky he's not looking at criminal charges. In the real word, Gone-zalez would be looking at disbarment.

:mad:
rocknation

[DrDan]

16. amazing . . . absolutely amazing

surely he knew that would be his reception . . . and he still showed up . . .

he does have testicles

[aquart]

19. Balls of brass. Hard and useless.

[Amonester]

38. No. Like the lot of the rest of the "New War Criminals" he just...

doesn't care. That's all.

They Do Not Care.

[K8-EEE]

20. He's Such A Card! He Needed To Get Dealt With, HAHAHAHA!

HURRAY FOR U MASS GRADS!!!!!!!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Big shout out from CA for all the grads, hurray for Mass! Still rejecting the tyranny of King George after all these years!

[Divernan]

21. Great to see tenured faculty practise academic freedom in the purest sense.

At lots of universities groups of faculty will sputter around and sign an outraged letter indignantly objecting to an insulting choice for an honorary degree recipient - but come commencement, they participate like silent sheep. It was terrific to see all those different colored academic doctoral hoods & robes with the velvet sleeve stripes - adorned with protest signs in the official entrance march. The whole purpose of tenure was to allow the intellectual leaders of higher ed to state their opinions and beliefs without fear of being fired.

[krispos42]

24. I gave it 5 stars and a comment

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
- Sir John Harington

This is proven day in and day out every moment of the Bush Regime. If you're going to lie, lie big. They have, and the people are only now starting to wake up.

The students should have egged him.

[graywarrior]

25. What a stupid fuck to think Amherst would welcome him.

Jesus, they are dumber than we thought.

[Bleacher Creature]

26. Wow -- what a shameful thing for the university to do. . .

Considering how overwhelming the sentiment was in that auditorium (I didn't see a single person who supported Card), why would UMass not cancel it and allow the students to celebrate the day without the controversy?

Good for the graduates -- and it warmed my heart to see the faculty join in the protest. Very powerful stuff.

[BootinUp]

27. "new product line" lol.

I seem to recall him using that phrase. So nice that he got the welcome he deserved.

[Ranec]

28. Applause

:applause:

for those students. Way to go!

[cascadiance]

29. We need a University "honor roll", which credits significant student activism...

UMass and Georgetown now certainly deserve to be put on that list...

If we're going to have a "Bottom 10" University list, I'd nominate Hillsdale College for that one (perhaps with Regents University too?), with grads like Phil Crane, ex-Rethug congress critter (and unfortunately next door neighbor for me in high school) Chris Chocola, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, Mr. "Istanbul is Baghdad" Howard Kaloogian, and other wingnuts!

http://www.nndb.com/edu/591/000079354/

And it certainly doesn't downplay its hypocrisy (as most wingnut institutions can't seem to avoid) either with its school president having a nasty sordid affair with his daughter-in-law:

http://www.nndb.com/edu/591/000079354/

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll//artikkel?SearchID=73049970421921&Avis=TO&Dato=20010114&Kategori=NEWS21&Lopenr=10114001&Ref=AR

and from this link:

http://www.answers.com/topic/hillsdale-college

Hillsdale currently ranks in the third tier of the 2007 U.S. News & World Report listing of best American Liberal Arts colleges<4>, but ranks first in the Princeton Review's The Best 361 Colleges 2007 listing of colleges where students are "most nostalgic for Ronald Reagan" (politically conservative)<5> . It also ranks number seven in the Princeton Review's listing of the top ten private best-value colleges.

[efhmc]

31. Gives me some hope for a change.

[onehandle]

32. This is the treatment all members of the Bush administration should expect...

...in public, for the rest of their lives.

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[19jet54]

35. Assault...

... too bad rotten tomatoes & rotten eggs would be assault?

[deutsey]

39. These past seven years have been depressing for me

This one event has given me a glimmer of hope.

Thanks UMass.

[caligirl]

42. grads were too civil if they did not cart the guy out and deposit him on the street before

the ceremony ever started.

[valerief]

44. Wow! Wow! Wow! Loved it!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[ClayZ]

45. Yay! K and R

:bounce: I love them!

[bluerum]

48. When the SS is not present free speech happens! Wonderful!. eom

[Massachusetts]

49. I LOVE MY Alma mater!!!!!!!

Go UMASS!!!

[VolcanoJen]

52. Hi Mass!

Have you heard anything about this from former alumni? Are you on any kind of email lists? It would be fascinating to hear more...

[BigDDem]

51. UMass loves ya Andy

you did a heck of a job!