Glenn Beck to Give Commencment Speech at Liberty University

By GottaLaff

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match...

What could be more perfect:

Jerry Falwell Jr., chancellor of Liberty University, announced Friday that Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, will deliver the commencement address at the Lynchburg campus’s May 15 graduation, the News & Advance reports.

“Beck is one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded,” Falwell said in a news release.

Everything Baby Falwell said is true.... if by "principles upon which this nation is founded" he means gasbaggy, bellowing hate-filled, lying spew by an alcoholic drug abuser bordering on insanity. And isn't that what conservative Christians value most?

I hope ClusterFox catches his tearful, self-indulgent, blathery blubbering on camera so they can run an endless loop of it all the livelong day.

I almost feel sorry for the grads, because his bloaty little redfaced image will be etched into their memories forever.

How ironic that most of them have twice the intelligence he could ever hope to have in his itsy bitsy hollow little pea brain. I said intelligence, not judgment. After a stint at Falwell U, that still remains to be seen.

Liberty University faculty member's unhinged attack on Keith Olbermann

By GottaLaff

Here's a sample of the nastiest, most uncalled-for, vile piece of excrement I've read in a long time. So much for loving thy fellow man. In the true spirit of Jerry Falwell:

In the end and in Olbermann's eyes, life is what it has always been: hostile. The viewers are disappearing, and all that remains is a Krakatoa of rage, of poisons spewing forth from a shell of a man on a shriveled network into the homes of a shrinking audience.

And he reacts as always with howls of rage, the chief wannabe on the wannabe network: I wannabe an athlete, I wannabe a power, I wannabe a stud, I wannabe Bill O'Reilly, I wannabe loved, I wannabe the center of attention...a deranged diva who has yet to decide whether his jockstrap is half-empty or half-full.

It's all like that. Even the parts about Keith's mother.

Now check out who wrote it:

Stuart H. Schwartz is on the faculty at Liberty University in Virginia.

Liberty U, which banned Dems, sinks to new low

By GottaLaff

Liberty University: Double oxymoron:

Negotiations to reinstate the College Democrats club as an official campus organization had devolved into a game of hardball, with school administrators demanding a retraction and apology from club sponsor Maria Childress, a staff member of the university. They blamed her for making statements to the media that helped to heap scorn on the school after it decided to revoke the club's recognition -- a move criticized as partisan-driven and inhibiting free speech.

School officials accused her of all but hijacking the Democrats club, and Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. cited her "apparent lack of integrity." [...]

Yesterday, it was revealed that Childress had recently been convicted of several criminal offenses among other traffic-related violations. [...]

Childress, who graduated from Liberty's honors program in 2004, said yesterday that the convictions stemmed from a visitation dispute involving her 4-year-old daughter, whom she was attempting to pick up from her ex-father-in-law's house. "I was found guilty because they had witnesses and I did not. It was a nightmare." [...]

She denied saying to the media that the club had been banned from the campus. But she says Liberty's decision means not being able to reserve meeting space. Having to hold meetings in the dining hall would be unproductive, she added.

Childress also denied saying that Liberty officials believe a person cannot be both a Christian and a Democrat, though she acknowledges citing an e-mail in which Mark Hine, vice president of student affairs, stated: "The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of LU and to Christian doctrine."

"Yes. I feel like I'm being asked to apologize for things I did not say," she said. [...]

"I would prefer to speak to Jerry Jr. and have the respect of him speaking to me," she said.

"Personal issues should be completely left out of it," she said. "I feel like they're using this as a weapon."

Welcome, Maria, to the sleazy world of politics.

Democracy in action.

Liberty University bans College Dems

By GottaLaff

I hear Rachel talking about this right now. How timely:

Liberty University, the evangelical school in Virginia founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, is drawing heat Friday for its decision to revoke recognition of the College Democrats' chapter on campus.

According to the Lynchburg News & Advance, the school decided a week ago the organization "stood against the moral principles" held by the school and therefore could no longer be sanctioned.

Maria Childress, the staff adviser to the club, told the paper the school — which opposes abortion rights and gay marriage — had issues with the Democratic Party platform.

Childress says she was told by Mark Hine, the vice president of student affairs, that "'You can't be a Democrat and be a Christian and be a university representative.'"

How Christian of them.