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...Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT) that the gender discrimination at the clubs is an issue of basic civil rights, the issue is identified with liberalism on campus." The implication of this statement--that because SWAT's cause is a liberal cause it is not a civil rights cause--is absurd. Liberals have long been champions of civil rights, conservatives long opponents of it. (Just take a poll of civil rights activists asking which side they're on.) It was not that conservatives of this country who championed the fight against racial discrimination. The greatest civil rights leader this country...
...rally "didn't interfere with our evening," partly because most of the protesters had left by the time the function started. Club members paid little attention to the demonstrators, ignoring their taunts and chants. And one passerby who said he is being punched by another club called the event "absurd...
...need a place to just chill with the guys sometimes," the onlooker told demonstrators. "Girls are absurd after awhile...
...come on. That's absurd. The Republican strategy as you well know was developed way back in the spring. Bush was making speeches attacking me in May. Look, everybody expects a certain amount of jabbing and poking at conventions. I mean they had their convention. I don't recall that it was a "kinder, gentler" convention the way it painted Mike Dukakis, do you? The last kinder, gentler period in the Bush campaign was just terminated after 24 hours...
What's really surprising is that anyone who watched Favorite Son could take this elaborately outlandish fantasy at all seriously. In the climax of the truly absurd third segment, Koslowski cuts her hair off with a Bowie knife, changes into fatigues, and looking utterly Ramboesque (though Sly is no peroxide blonde), runs amuck at a Fallon press conference, slaughtering first Fallon, then a couple of policemen, then herself...