by Jim Brown
A survey reveals there are six liberals to every one conservative commencement speaker at America's top colleges and universities this year.
The annual study by the Young America's Foundation confirms what many on the right perceive as a strong, left-leaning bias on university campuses. Young America's Rick Parsons says liberal media personalities and politicians, including a handful of former Clinton administration officials, dominated this spring's graduation addresses.
“We've been doing this for ten years,” Parson explains, “and every single year we find that there's a huge disparity between conservatives speaking at commencements and liberals. Every year there are many, many liberals — the same liberals — speaking on campus.”
Parsons says popular Fox News personalities like Tony Snow, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly are noticeably absent at this year's commencement exercises, while Tim Russert, Jim Lehrer, Chris Matthews, and other liberal hosts at struggling TV networks appear on campus year after year. Parsons says the disparity is nothing unusual.
“We're not saying that these liberals shouldn't be speaking at commencements,” he says. “What we are saying is that there needs to be a balance — and administrators, faculty, and students need to take responsibility [to see that that happens].”
Parsons says schools like Yale and Tulane are perhaps the most notorious for hosting left-leaning graduation speakers. The annual survey reveals that only four top schools hosted well-known conservatives.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
