{"id":22599,"date":"2014-04-21T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22599"},"modified":"2014-04-21T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:05:57","slug":"what-are-we-telling-our-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22599","title":{"rendered":"What Are We Telling Our Graduates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2014\/04\/21\/likely-youll-hear-liberal-commencement-speaker\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage.org<\/a> posted an article today about the difference in numbers between conservative and liberal graduation speakers. They also looked at the statistics on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrat<\/a> and Republican speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Democratic governors set to speak outnumber Republican ones by a ratio of 11-6, reports Campus Reform\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Editor-in-chief\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Editor-in-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">editor in chief<\/a>, Caleb Bonham, while Democratic senators overshadow Republican\u00a0 senators by a 9-4 ratio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The most heavily weighted group of invited speakers? Liberal political appointees and operatives are 21-5 over conservative counterparts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;\u201cThe bullies\u2019 vision of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">America<\/a> is alarming to behold, with the values of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Peaceful coexistence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peaceful_coexistence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">peaceful coexistence<\/a> turned on their head,\u201d Jennifer A. Marshall, director of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Domestic policy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Domestic_policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">domestic policy<\/a> studies at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Heritage Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">The Heritage Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2014\/04\/05\/bullies-america\/\">wrote recently<\/a> for The Foundry in a piece about the growing intolerance of the Left.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the message that we are sending our young adults?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=e7c82dc8-cbc7-4812-a721-3dc3341c97af\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage.org posted an article today about the difference in numbers between conservative and liberal graduation speakers. They also looked at the statistics on Democrat and Republican speakers. 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