Petition Gets University Officials To Reconsider Giving Bush A Humanitarian Award

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14. Denver Post on University of Denver

Thanks for the post. Sunday's Denver Post has a diatribe of an editorial written by Vincent Carroll against the "left-leaning college faculty intent on proclaiming their moral superiority." It is not difficult to have moral superiority over the Bush administration. Vincent Carroll, long-time columnist, was recently appointed Denver Post editorial page editor. Lots of complaints about the appointment but he wrote that he would not turn the editorial pages to the hard right. Since he's always written from that direction we doubted that he could tell the truth. Today there are two letters both decrying DU for the disgraceful way it is treating Bush, none in defense of the students and faculty protesting this stupid decision to honor Bush for "improving the human condition."

Both letters praise Bush for his work in Africa against AIDS. We can all agree on that but why not mention only that action, which is about .0001% of his presidency, if you insist on having him raise money for your university. I am sick of the rebranding of figures like Bush, Reagan, and Cheney by the media and the rewriting of history by some of our finest universities who get most of their money from billionaire barons who want to name their buildings and departments.