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#Post#: 14245--------------------------------------------------
A truly moronic act
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: June 24, 2014, 6:14 pm
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It doesn't matter what you feel about the Koch brothers when
they're offering your school $10 million to help educate
students, you take the money. Not if you're Brooklyn College.
Kinda hard to say it's all about the kids when you make a
foolish move like this.
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> They may teach business classes at Brooklyn College, but the
school’s liberal leaders have told two of the country’s top
businessmen to take their money and shove it because they don’t
like their conservative politics, a veteran faculty member
charges.
>
> The CUNY college has turned down a $10 million grant offer
from the Koch brothers, said business professor Mitchell
Langbert — who called the decision by School of Business Dean
William Hopkins a knee-jerk reaction to the mega-rich
industrialists’ support of Republican causes.
>
> “It’s political correctness. It’s intolerance about anyone who
doesn’t toe the left-wing line,” Langbert told The Post.
>
> Langbert was so upset that he fired off a letter to members of
the state Senate Education Committee protesting the school’s
refusal to take the donation.
>
> “The Charles G. Koch Foundation has repeatedly called Brooklyn
College and me personally with an offer of as much as a $10
million grant,” he told the senators. “This grant would have
been considerably larger than any that I have seen in my nearly
quarter century of teaching.”
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HTML http://nypost.com/2014/06/24/brooklyn-college-spurns-10m-grant-from-koch-brothers/
#Post#: 14246--------------------------------------------------
Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: rapids_60
Date: June 24, 2014, 6:27 pm
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I guess if they want to "Make A Statement", that's their
choice. But man, $10 million? How much is a pointless and
ineffective "statement" worth?
Why not let the students decide? If they don't want Koch
grant money, they don't have to apply.
#Post#: 14247--------------------------------------------------
Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: FTB41
Date: June 24, 2014, 6:32 pm
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Who knows what kind of strings were attached though.
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Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: June 24, 2014, 7:09 pm
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--- Quote from: FTB41 link ---
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> Who knows what kind of strings were attached though.
>
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If you can find an article where it states there were strings of
any kind attached please do. If there were strings attached it
would have been announced by the school and you know it. Just a
made up argument by a left wing nut job trying to defend the
indefensible. This is just another case of the morons at the
top letting their ideology make adverse decisions. Do you have
any idea how many kids could be educated with $10 million?
Isn't this supposed to be what institutions of higher learning
supposed to be about?
(Talk about a conspiracy theorists. Kochs will only give you a
donation if.....) :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
#Post#: 14261--------------------------------------------------
Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: udontnojack
Date: June 25, 2014, 9:03 am
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The Koch family is famous for its philanthropy. Since 2000 they
have given more than 629 million dollars away to other New York
institutions including Lincoln Center, Sloan Kettering Cancer
ctr, metropolitan museum of Art, Columbia university, and many
others. But don't forget all this generosity still makes them at
least in Harry Reids small mind "unAmerican"
Maybe f can find the strings all these gifts were attached with
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Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: June 25, 2014, 9:33 am
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F's post is just another example of what's becoming known as
KDS, or Koch derangement syndrome. Whenever certain groups
receive money from them, the more left wing groups go crazy.
For example, $25 million given to the United Negro College Fund.
Once this was accepted the left wing accused UNCF of "selling
it's soul to the devil". Simply for accepting money to send
students to college. What do liberals have against education?
HTML http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeleef/2014/06/18/koch-derangement-syndrome-breaks-out-after-25-million-donation-to-united-negro-college-fund/
In another case KDS reared it's ugly head when the Kochs donated
$100 million to a NY hospital for a cancer center. Unions,
NAACP and the NY state Nurses union all protested the donation
despite the fact that this donation will provide new jobs and
will provide better care to cancer patients. What could
liberals possibly have against that?
HTML http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/10/liberals-protest-100-million-donation-to-hospital-because-david-koch-gave-the-money/
Just a couple more cases of extreme blind ideology protesting
what are actually good things. So much for the more open and
tolerant liberal party.
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Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: Snickers
Date: June 25, 2014, 11:03 am
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Once again it show how stupid liberals are.
#Post#: 14264--------------------------------------------------
Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: rapids_60
Date: June 25, 2014, 12:56 pm
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--- Quote from: Snickers link ---
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> Once again it show how stupid liberals are.
>
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Because they all march in lock-step and think exactly alike.
You'd be the first to point out that this was an act of an
individual, not representative of the group were it a
conservative.
I guess the change in your thinking means means morons like the
Westboro Baptists now represent all conservatives, right? ::)
#Post#: 14267--------------------------------------------------
Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: FTB41
Date: June 25, 2014, 8:14 pm
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--- Quote from: trollslayer link ---
>
> F's post is just another example of what's becoming known as
KDS, or Koch derangement syndrome. Whenever certain groups
receive money from them, the more left wing groups go crazy.
For example, $25 million given to the United Negro College Fund.
Once this was accepted the left wing accused UNCF of "selling
it's soul to the devil". Simply for accepting money to send
students to college. What do liberals have against education?
>
HTML http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeleef/2014/06/18/koch-derangement-syndrome-breaks-out-after-25-million-donation-to-united-negro-college-fund/
>
> In another case KDS reared it's ugly head when the Kochs
donated $100 million to a NY hospital for a cancer center.
Unions, NAACP and the NY state Nurses union all protested the
donation despite the fact that this donation will provide new
jobs and will provide better care to cancer patients. What
could liberals possibly have against that?
>
HTML http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/10/liberals-protest-100-million-donation-to-hospital-because-david-koch-gave-the-money/
>
> Just a couple more cases of extreme blind ideology protesting
what are actually good things. So much for the more open and
tolerant liberal party.
>
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I said ONE fucking sentence, you pompous bloviating twat, and it
wasn't even a definite accusation. If anyone is deranged, its
you.
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Re: A truly moronic act
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: June 25, 2014, 8:45 pm
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--- Quote from: FTB41 link ---
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> I said ONE ****ing sentence, you pompous bloviating twat, and
it wasn't even a definite accusation. If anyone is deranged,
its you.
>
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F, one more time. Where or what are these strings. Instead of
breaking out into another of your liberal name calling melt
downs provide a little justification for your previous post.
You just can't admit, you've been caught attempting to turn
something good into something nefarious with out a lick of proof
again. A real dead ender type argument.
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