Commie-Lover Danny Glover Booed at Utah State Commencement
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 9, 2010, 10:14 AM
Why are they inviting this commie-lover to commencement ceremonies?
Is Danny Glover really the best person to have speaking to graduates?
Venezuelan Marxist leader Hugo Chavez announced in 2007 that he would finance all of Danny Glover’s movies.
Danny Glover was booed at Utah State Commencement on Saturday after he failed to place his hand on his heart during the color guard presentation.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported:
Utah State University’s 123rd commencement ceremony Saturday, featuring keynote speaker Danny Glover, will likely be remembered more for the actor’s controversy than his celebrity.
During the color guard presentation of the American flag, a spectator yelled across the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, “Put your hand above your heart, Glover!”
The five-time Emmy nominee told The Salt Lake Tribune after the ceremony that he doesn’t typically cover his heart during flag ceremonies and he meant no disrespect.
“I was listening to the national anthem and paying attention,” he said. “I probably wasn’t the only one in there who didn’t put a hand over their heart.”
The intermittent booing throughout the graduation, which was largely overpowered by clapping and cheering, didn’t appear to rattle the stage and big-screen star. In his public comments and actions, Glover never acknowledged the behavior dozens of fresh graduates called “stupid,” “rude” and “disrespectful.” Ultimately, Glover was rewarded with a standing ovation by the majority of the large crowd.
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wanumba commented:
Venezuelan Marxist leader Hugo Chavez announced in 2007 that he would finance all of Danny Glover’s movies.
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The “ideologue” is nothing but a paid agitator of a foreign dictator.
Danny Groveler. Treason.
greenfairie commented:
Why did they ever invite this un-American creep? I would have skipped the ceremony if he were at my graduation.
Heather commented:
We need to continue to call out all things that are un-American. Glover is enemy #1.
Joanne commented:
The guy is an actor – I mean what has he actually accomplished other than acting out.
John Skookum commented:
The graduates who care about this sort of thing, which I suspect is a thumping majority in Utah, really ought to have stood and turned their backs on him.
aprilnovember811 commented:
If he is a communist, he should move to where his friends live, Venezuela or Cuba. Take Sean Penn, Anderson Cooper, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the entire Congressional Black Caucus, along with him.
Paul N. Marston commented:
Utah is the most Republican state in the union but that is because of the voting habits of the people over 30. Graduation ceremonies have a preponderance of folks under 30 who have not lived long enough to know how dangerous leftists like Danny Glover can be. They have also just been brainwashed by leftist professors for four years even in Utah. The mere fact that someone like Danny Glover gets invited to speak at such an event speaks volumes about the state of our universities. Yes they hold sway even in conservative Utah.
bitterclinger commented:
A standing O in Utah? Egads, are we really that lost as a nation?
I recall another agitator who refused to put his hand over his (supposed) heart some years ago, but no one but conservatives paid attention to it.
Stuart commented:
“Stupid, rude, and disrespectful:”
That does not describe the students who booed as much as it does Glover. Screw Hollywood. Overpaid,monster egos with no sense of class, the lot of them.
archer52 commented:
Who invited him and why? Seriously. Utah=Glover??
His time will come when this whole mess starts crumbling and he and his fellow “actors” discover that when families have to choose between food and his next “I hate America” movie, they’ll stay home.
jimbo commented:
I wonder how many other countries would have provided Glover with the opportunities that have benefited him here. I suspect that if he had grown up in Venezuela he’d be picking sugar cane (or whatever the normal job for black people is).
Auntie Em commented:
Hollyweird.
wanumba commented:
Actors work hard, long hours, plus tedious publicity duties, sure, but it’s wasted effort – it’s all a facade, a fantasy. A scientist works twenty years in a lab and makes a breakthrough in curing a disease. That will go on through time to save people’s lives, but an actor’s accomplishments are nothing, it was all make-believe, elaborate day-dreaming.
Universities have gotten into a bad trendy habit of rewarding empty glitz celebrity, not tangible achievement.
Finncrisp commented:
I think he and Harry Belafonte should go on the road together. Both irrelevant.
regularguy commented:
I long for the day when universities truly have to compete in the market and when taxed “subjects” do not have to be forced to subsidize the indoctrination of our children by leftist professors and invited s**tbags like Glover. We will end this crap by defunding universities, by refusing to attend them, and instead attending intellectually “diverse” places where the leftist ideologies otherwise fomented will be quickly debunked by conservative, capitalist reality. Universities like the evident Hillsdale and perhaps a few others ought to be where we take our money to, where possible. I have 3 kids and it pains me to think I’ve got to subject them to the crapholes these universities have become, and even pay for it as well. The university system is really nothing short of a scam. I speak as one who earned a Master’s, too, and its not much less worthless than what you get with a Bachelor’s.
I stopped watching Glover years ago–along with tons of movies and shows starring his types that most certainly do not deserve my business. I won’t even watch or pay for cable tv, they can go broke and go to hell if they want to insult me with their leftist crap and think I’ll continue to purchase their lousy products.
d_fitz commented:
I’ve never spent a nickel on a movie that included Danny Glover in its cast.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
the young people (propagandized since elementary school) gave a standing O to an avowed lover of communism—
are we really surprised?!!!!!!
C-CS
wanumba commented:
“The intermittent booing throughout the graduation, which was largely overpowered by clapping and cheering, didn’t appear to rattle the stage and big-screen star. In his public comments and actions, Glover never acknowledged the behavior dozens of fresh graduates called “stupid,” “rude” and “disrespectful.” Ultimately, Glover was rewarded with a standing ovation by the majority of the large crowd.”
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Quite a piece of wordsmithing there. The writer works in “stupid” in a creative manner, quoting “dozens of fresh graduates.” Dozens? Fresh? Really? Haven’t seen any reporter make that much effort in years – what it would take and how LONG it would take to gather “dozens” of “fresh” “stupids” in the majority of the LARGE crowd.
Wonder what it was really like from a neutral attendee.
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