Was Gallagher not available?
By Having gobbled the organs of another hapless calf, Tom DeLay has been rewarded with another year of life. A year ago, I offered a typically affectionate and balanced birthday tribute. This year, I’ll merely pass along this update from the irony deathwatch, which continues tomorrow at Emory University. There, DeLay will be speaking “on the importance of freedom and whether the law protects it.”
No, really:
Ben Clark, outgoing chairman of the College Republicans, said he was optimistic about DeLay’s speech.
“I think that it has the potential to be a great event,” he said. “We get the chance to show that Emory students can partake in intelligent political discourse. I believe we can.”
Diana Zelikovich, president of the Pre-Law Society, said that DeLay was chosen as this year’s speaker because he “strongly impacted the political agenda for the first half of the last decade.”
“DeLay is proof that you don’t have to have a law degree to be influencing the laws of this nation,” she said. “In this respect, he’s perfect as a keynote speaker.”
In October, the College Republicans brought conservative author David Horowitz to Emory. But he was forced to end his speech due to vocal disruptions from outside protesters. The leaders of both organizations do not believe that DeLay’s speech will elicit the same kind of behavior from the audience.
“We do not anticipate problems with him because DeLay is not an extremist and was an elected leader,” Zelikovich said . . . .
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