WP: GMU Disinvites Moore

[kskiska]

Speech, $35,000 Fee Drew Criticism

Friday, October 1, 2004; Page A01

George Mason University canceled a scheduled speaking engagement by liberal filmmaker Michael Moore yesterday after two conservative state legislators and others complained that public money should not support an overtly political event.

Moore, the outspoken director of the movie "Fahrenheit 9/11," was to have received about $35,000 for his Oct. 28 speech at the Patriot Center on the Fairfax campus -- an event that university officials had arranged a week ago and had not begun to publicize.

Word spread quickly, and after complaints from the legislators and some members of the community reached the office of President Alan G. Merten this week, the school announced that the event, coming so close to the presidential election, would be "an inappropriate use of state resources."

Moore, in a telephone interview last night from his home in Flint, Mich., said he intends to speak at George Mason anyway. "I'm going to show up in support of free speech and free expression," he said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63399-2004Sep30.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Then he should show up and make the damn speech anyway

Free exchange of ideas, especially at a public university is more important that reimbursing a multi-millionaire $35,000.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. I must say

that $35,000 is a lot of loot for MM to show up. As other have suggested, why not sell tickets?

[Sub Atomic]

2. If I were a GMU alum would ask

what speaking fees have been paid to right-wing speakers within the last four years.

if those speaking fees were greater than what Moore were asking, why is it that those who speak for the right(wrong) are OK, but those who speak for the left(right) are wrong?

:shrug:

[goforit]

3. The irony is ,...they are making Michael Moore a living martyr!!!

Goooo Michael!!!!

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Typical Republicans

If you don't agree with someone, shut them up.

[Democat]

5. Right wingers tried to censor Moore's speech in San Diego too - but...

The students of the college put together an off-campus speech for Moore after the right wing college adminstration tried to censor him for not supporting Bush.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040923-1348-moore.html

On the first day of ticket distribution for the new San Diego event, they went through 4,000 tickets, including many of them sold at $10 each for non-students. They expect there to be 10,000 people at the San Diego event which the right wing tried to block.

When the 10,000 tickets went on sale Tuesday, members of the Associated Students Inc. said they were overwhelmed by the response. By the end of the day, 4,000 tickets were gone. Some were issued to students for free, while many others were purchased by the public at $10 apiece.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/09/30/news/top_stories/22_40_079_29_04.txt

The students at the other college need to do the same thing - sell tickets, raise the money, screw the right wing censors!

[Dem2theMax]

12. I got mine today! :-) nt

[tonekat]

6. backwards mentality strikes again

Those of us living here in "occupied virginia' are embarrassed by the dumb hack politicians and 'necks that pull this crap.

[Maat]

7. This 45-year-old Mom made an 18-year-old friend-of-the-fam

buy me a ticket! She goes there! She had to be there Wed. morn. at 8 A.M. in order to get us tix!

[Dogmudgeon]

8. And George Mason U is already right-wing

If the GMU student body weighs in in favor of Moore, this will be a real coup within one of the Radical Right's Academies of Extremism.

And Moore knows it.

--bkl

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. GMU

has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican Party for years. Reagan era thug Edwin Meese is head of the board of visitors.The law school funnels graduates to serve the Republican cause. Wendy Gramm was Chairman, Regulatory Studies Program & Distinguished Senior Fellow at the school's Mercatus Center.

Wendy Gramm, the Mercatus center

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Before joining the Mercatus Center, Gramm served as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1988-1993. She was Administrator for Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget from 1985-1988, the Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief, and Director of the Federal Trade Commission?s Bureau of Economics. Gramm was on the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses. She started her economics career at Texas A&M University, where she taught economics for over 8 years.
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That's odd; there's something missing from this biography. Oh, this:

ENRON's Wendy Gramm



Yes, that's Wendy Gramm standing right next to Kenny Boy. You may already know that her significant other is ex-Senator from Texas Phil Gramm.

[AMD_CPU]

14. Yup, here's Bush appointing Chuck Robb...

GMUSL's Distinguished Professor of Law & Public Policy, to a co-chair position. They sure must be 100% Republican if Bush is appointing their faculty to government positions...

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/law/currnews/robb-commission.html

Oh, wait a minute...Chuck Robb...here's his bio... http://www.gmu.edu/departments/law/faculty/bio.php?fac=37
Damn, doesn't say a thing about him being a Republican...

[bluedeminredstate]

11. I wonder what Ann Coulter gets paid per speech?

I also wonder if she has any college engagements between now and 11/2 and if she had events back in 2000 this close to the election?
These conservatives sure get worked up over "fairness" and "partisanship" - they must really love democracy!! *sarcasm off*
:eyes:

[missingthebigdog]

13. Ann was at UCA last night

University of Central Arkansas. I don't know what her fee was. Moore will be there Sunday night. The tickets were distributed by lottery, and I didn't manage to get one. . . .

[pstokely]

15. the head of the economics department of that college guest hosts

for Oxyrush