It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => The "Educators" => Topic started by: BMG on June 08, 2012, 02:25:53 PM
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LINK (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/schindlers-list-producer-censored-montana-graduation-speech-334409)
A controversy erupted in a small Montana town after a high school principal prevented Oscar winner Gerald Molen from delivering his planned speech because he's "a right-wing conservative."
Molen is one of those rare conservatives in Hollywood (he’s even making a documentary called 2016, based on the Dinesh D’Souza book The Roots of Obama’s Rage) and because of that, he says, Ronan High School principal Tom Stack decided to disinvite him -- and he didn’t tell him so until after Molen made the 90-minute drive from his home in Bigfork, Mont.
It’s unknown how many phone calls have been placed, but one e-mail to the school board that was made public read: “I would like to know the process and people who canceled Gerald R. Molen’s talk to the Ronan Senior Class. I would like to also have a list of other speakers who have addressed the high school in the past five years.”
::outrage::
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How doth Montana swing; red, blue or purple? Depending, I suspect parents at this school are wondering what else their kids were not allowed to hear/see/learn/know.
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How doth Montana swing; red, blue or purple? Depending, I suspect parents at this school are wondering what else their kids were not allowed to hear/see/learn/know.
I'm pretty sure this pegged quite a few BS meters.
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My impression is that for a frontier state, Montana has been pretty purplish at the state level, with a divide between rural areas and cities, but with the Democrat voting base further divided between a few true believers and college town denizens, and old-style conservative blue-collar Democrats. I think in 2010 we saw the first awakening of blue-collar Democrats, that the party they traditionally supported has been overrun by committed Leftists. I wouldn't be surprised if Montana is in the safe GOP column going forward.