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...face of a distinguished guest. One might also hope that the guest wouldn’t lower himself to the levels of disrespect and obstinacy broached by his audience. For those who attended presidential candidate Ralph Nader’s speech at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum this past Monday, such hopes were dashed...
...spoiler” in an important election. But the kind of unimaginative and disrespectful proselytizing of the LaRouche supporters in question or the openly combative College Dems—not to mention Nader’s unimpressive and angry sensitivity to such taunting—is frustrating. The Forum should be a place for sober and respectful civil discourse, something that is hard to find in an era of meaningless sound-bites and swift-boat ads. Everyone who made Nader’s visit such a circus should be ashamed...
...some guests of the Forum came only to heckle or protest and not to listen and politely challenge an opposing viewpoint, they should have followed the example of those peacefully and respectfully protesting outside. If that would have been too difficult, perhaps they should have stayed home...
...arch-conservative justice defiled a usually-staid Institute of Politics forum last week, saying for the sake of argument that perhaps “sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged...
...barnyard politics at the packed JFK Jr. Forum last night, as activist Ralph Nader faced a rowdy crowd while defending his third-party candidacy in the upcoming presidential election...