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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Can't Take a Joke?

Fox News

We told you a week and a half ago that the student senate at the University of Rhode Island was threatening to decertify the school's College Republicans club — because it refused to apologize for a satirical offer of a scholarship for white heterosexual males.

Last week the senate voted to withdraw its apology demand after it was hammered by free speech advocates and school administrators.

The Republicans will publish an explanation of the scholarship offer — which was never paid. The president of the group tells Cybercast News: "The student senate has always been grasping for straws in their pursuit of trying to punish the College Republicans simply because we are the College Republicans."

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So exactly to whom were they supposed to apologize? Everyone on earth who is not a white heterosexual male? Or perhaps it would be to those who are victims of white heterosexual males? No wait, that's the same group - my bad!

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:30:00 PM  

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