George Mason University’s assistant director of admissions, Andrew Bunting, has publicly referred to conservatives as “worthless pieces of trash”. Bunting is outraged about the group, National organization for Marriage, which supports traditional marriage and was excited about Trump’s win. From Bunting’s Facebook page,
Yes, Andrew Bunting is hysterical because there are people who support traditional marriage and Donald Trump. And he’s quoting the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate group, to make his point!
Bunting also believes that we now live in a world that is less safe because Donald Trump has been elected President. His statements are absurd, insulting, and just plain wrong:
Bunting represents George Mason University among prospective students and their parents. From his LinkedIn page, his position at Mason “requires a strong ethical temperament to ensure the best service is provided to prospective and future students, and their families”. Seriously? He sees himself as has having a ‘strong ethical temperament’ as he insults those who disagree with him?
His Linkedin page proclaims Bunting’s specialities to be: “Student Recruitment & Counseling, Marketing/ Communications and Branding, Customer Service, Volunteer/ Alumni Relations, Visitor Experience/ Tours”. In other words, Bunting is the face of the University! And we’re paying his salary with our tax dollars.
Meanwhile GMU president Angel Cabrera issued the following statement:
Let me be clear:
If you are Muslim or Jewish or Christian, you belong at Mason.
If you grew up in Mexico City, Islamabad, or Roanoke, you belong at Mason.
If you are part of the LGBT community, you belong at Mason.
If you are Black or Brown or White, you belong at Mason.
If you voted for Clinton or for Trump or anyone else, you belong at Mason.
Yes, all are welcome at George Mason but should Andrew Bunting be deciding who is admitted and who is not? Who is recruited to attend and who is not? Who gets scholarships and who doesn’t? Does your conservative son or daughter have the same chance of being admitted to GMU as a Young Democrat? If your child worked to help elect Trump, what do you think his/her odds are of being admitted to George Mason by Andrew Bunting? Conservatives, Republicans, and Trump supporters need not apply.
If you have concerns about this employee of a public university, and his extremely prejudice views, contact your elected officials in Richmond.
More on the story here.
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His job shouldn’t even be in question. He has a right to his opinion. Last time I checked, there wasn’t a question on any college applications that asked who I voted for or what party I was affiliated with.
You apparently don’t understand that it is common for colleges to check an applicants facebook pages.
I don’t think his job should be in jeopardy. How would he or any other admissions employee know who anyone voted for. He has a right to his opinion just like everyone else.
Easy to make an educated guess based on the application, an interview, or an internet search.
Dunno, I would fire him, but that is just me. I think Liberty University is the only sane University we have. Hard to find the words for what is going on at the colleges and universities in our country. It is what happens when kids get raised in daycare and then are indoctrinated through their entire lives in public schools.
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Someone is no doubt going to forward this page to the guy in question. I ask that anyone who is opposed to this witch-huntery within the conservative movement hit this post with a like and respond at will so the guy knows he’s supported.
Public discourse is the foundation of democracy, and people need to feel safe to express their opinions, because when they start to feel unsafe doing that their opinions and discussions go underground, they start to feel persecuted, etc, and democracy depends on people of opposing views creating an environment where they can all feel free and safe to express their opinions and sort it out together. This is bedrock, folks.
I’m as conservative as they come, and I really dislike leftist’s policies, but I really want to hear about their policies and argue the point with them so that we all have a good perception of where each other is coming from.
Leftists have become very closed minded. They are shouting people down, destroying people’s reputations and livelihood, refusing speakers with opposing viewpoints on college campuses, setting up “safe spaces” to avoid the discomfort of debate, refusing books professors on campus choose as teaching material because of its political content, maligning men on campus for simply being male, etc. The response to this should not be more of the same, the response should be a reminder to these leftist snowflakes that their hippie forefathers fought hard during the civil rights era against actual oppression to reinforce the very rights to free speech that they are now trying to quell with their speech codes and nonsense.
Finally, in denouncing this whole thread and its call for a witch hunt, it should also serve as a wake up call to leftists about where their regressive ideas about free speech could lead. Just as supporting Obama’s use of executive orders to bypass Congress now puts liberals in the unenviable position of having to watch Trump do the same whenever he likes, some day leftists may seriously regret their regressive tactics when they are the ones being shouted down in the public forum. Leftists are the cool kids now, supported by movie stars and comedians the world over, but that wasn’t always so, and some day it might not be again, so you better bet its a good idea to protect the basic human rights you are so casual with now, because you may someday have to rely on.
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He is a public employee who is not serving the best interest of the university nor the public. Let the president or the board of regents fix it, or reduce the budget of the deans office one headcount and let them decide who goes.
The irony being that George Mason was a conservative by today’s standards. He really should be working at Karl Marx University or some place like that.
People upset about this and want to challenge this mindset, need to call or email Mr. Cabrera’s office and hold him to the standards he puts forth. Ask him how Bunting fits these ideals. They need to hear from the rest of the country.
Native Virginian and Hokie Alum Bannon is doing YUUUGE things in the new Administration. Power to the Conservative and Pro-American Grassroots!
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/13/trump-names-steve-bannon-as-white-house-chief-strategist-and-reince-priebus-as-chief-of-staff/
Reince Priebus has now been named Trump’s chief of staff. It is Priebus who is now in charge of “filling the swamp”, and making sure that it stays full.
The joke continues.
You think Priebus is celebrated for his role in electing Trump?
Only good thing is his old job is open for Whitbeck now.
Priebus, celebrated by who? The establishment or the voters who voted for Trump?
Where is Whitbeck’s connection to Wall St.?
On another note, is Palin going to pop out of a cake in the Trump admin?
The establishment most likely are upset at Priebus helping Trump win — they probably blame him for not rigging the nominations as well as the democrat party did.
If Whitbeck needs a connection to Wall Street, he can find one somewhere.
I’m lobbying for Palin as Secretary of the Interior.
I believe that Reince ended up in a different place after the election. Need to give people a chance to show who they can be.
Does anyone believe that their conservative son or daughter would have an equal chance of being accepted at GMU as Young Democrat?
Well, does anyone think that a populist son or daughter would have an equal chance of being accepted at UVA as the son or daughter of a politician, or rich Democrat or Republican?
Come on now Jeanine, it’s all crooked.
Yes, like the RPV, I believe there are a few token seats available.
Trump supporters show us why they are deplorable.
Trump-supporting vandals struck Episcopal Church of Our Savior in Silver Spring, MD,
on Saturday night. A sign reaching out to the Hispanic community was
defaced to read: “Trump Nation whites only.”
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And another Trump supporter heard from
“Hang a n****r from a tree, equal rights he’ll never see.”
Police in Pittsburg, California said on Sunday that they were taking
“legal action” to remove a sign that advocates for lynching black
Americans.
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Paul Ryan says access to birth control is a nitty-gritty matter we shouldn’t worry about.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday refused to say if some women
would lose access to birth control benefits after Republicans repeal
President Barack Obama’s health care reform law.
The Wisconsin Republican promised during an interview on CNN that the
repeal of Obamacare would lower the costs of health care by providing
“vouchers” to poor Americans.
CNN host Jake Tapper noted that many women were paying nothing for birth control thanks to an Affordable Care Act mandate.
“Is that going to end?” he wondered.
“Look, I’m not going to get into all the little nitty-gritty details of these things,” Ryan replied curtly.
Ryan has co-sponsored the Sanctity of Human Life Act,
which would give fetuses the same rights as human beings. The measure
would have also criminalized certain types of birth control. Ryan, who
is Catholic, has called the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate a
“threat” to poor Americans.
Keep ’em barefoot and pregnant — that’s the republican way
“With all due respect,” Tapper countered, “I don’t know that the
average woman of childbearing years out there who relies upon
contraception provided by health insurance mandated by the Affordable
Care Act, I don’t know that she would think that that’s just a
nitty-gritty detail.”
You do realize that no church or conservative would put up a sign like that, right? Obviously Democrats put it up. duh.
Do you have a functioning brain cell?
The church put up a sign welcoming Hispanics. A Trumpster vandalized the sign with the result you see now.
Please don’t tell me “no . . . conservative” would do that. Most of the “conservatives” I know would do the exact thing.
Why would anyone sit with you? You are a walking and talking bag of acrimony. Everything is always the fault of someone else, particularly anyone who disagrees with your ideas even when they can provide proof of the factual flaws in your ideas.
Hey – Old Redneck. Army Lieutenant Generals have three stars. And by the way, there is plenty – and I mean PLENTY – of racist blacks who go around beating innocent whites. And unlike your bullshit stories and this sham hate crime hoax – I bet white leftists put up the sign – those videos of whites getting beat up by blacks because they supported Trump are real.
You have hit upon a very important point regarding old redneck. He claims military credentials but does know the difference between army general officers. The more he posts, the more he exposes himself as a military pretender.
Don’t believe you. One more insult or name calling and you’re gone.
I am throwing the bull poo flag on this one.
So you live in the Northern Neck and you took your friend to the American Legion Hall for dinner and you state that the Legion President called you. I think that warrants calls/emails to the National Headquarters from every poster here to condemn the President of your post. It shouldn’t be that hard to track which American Legion it was since the only one in the Northern Neck seems to be in Kilmarnock.
Also, I thought the head of the post was called a Post Commander?
I’ll give you a tip, even though you claim to be former military. A Lieutenant General is a 3 star. It’s easy to remember for all of us civilians, the rank structure goes Be My Little General – Brigadier, Major, Lieutenant, General. You must have missed that day in boot camp.
Last and not least (but you may have missed this day of training as well) 99.9% of the former military I have met may not respect the man but they respect the rank.
You are inciting hate and you need to stop with the garbage.
If this story is true, tell us your name, the name of the retired Army Lt. Gen. and the name of the Legion president so we can all send formal letters of complaint.
I was going to call B.S. but I see others already have. Clearly, Old Redneck is making this up. A buck private knows the difference between a Major and Lieutenant General.
Yeah, I think he is a military pretender too.
I’ll give you a real discrimination story. I returned from the Persian Gulf War and was in several parades that summer (including the NYC ticker tape parade). One was right outside the gates of Ft. Monmouth in Eatontown, NJ. I was sitting on a flatbed filled with straw hay bales on which returning veterans were sitting. A black man came out of the crowd and then down they line and started shaking everyone’s hands. But, when he got to me, he lifted his hand and skipped right over me. I thought that was odd. A couple seconds later, it dawned on me why. The entire side I sat on consisted of black soldiers…except me (white). He only wanted to shake the hands of blacks, not whites.
Bigotry swings in all directions.
Hey, thanks for identifying your area of the Northern Neck here: http://thebullelephant.com/aca-how-to-be-sure-republicans-are-committed-to-repeal/
Now, I can call the American Legion Post 252 in Montross, to register a complaint about the alleged behavior. I also intend to call Montross Moose Lodge 2333, the national levels of both organizations, as well as the Republican members of the Westmoreland Board of Supervisors.
While I don’t know who you are IRL, Montross isn’t that big of a place. I’m sure they can probably figure out who you are just reading through this site.
I will demand an apology on your behalf! There is no place in organizations or persons for racism or lies. On either side.
Thanks for showing us just how low liberals will go to denigrate Trump supporters.
Without a smidgen of proof, he blames Trump
supporters. We have seen incident after incident where these bigoted signs are directly tied to the left trying to intimidate conservatives. The recent claim of violence against a Muslim woman was admitted by her to be made up – false police report.
So you have definite evidence of who put this sign up in the middle of the night right?
A few years ago, in El Cajon CA, a Muslim mom was found dead in her home, with a note on her body that said she should go back to the Middle East. Of course all the media targeted intolerant Islamophobic white citizens of the city. About a year later, the murderer was arrested. Her assailant, was her husband. She was killed by him because she wanted a divorce and that is not allowed in Sharia compliant homes. So if you did not see who put up that sign, then you’re adding fuel to the fire.
It is the era of Trump.
Lynch him.
Then, fire him.
??
That’s basically what Bunting said about republicans and conservatives. Me, I would just fire him.
Three UVA cops on leave for supporting Trump. Leftist students demand they be fired. How about the entire police force just get the flu.
After all, good leftists here in the US believe cops always need to be everywhere at once, or they exceed proper force in every response. Let’s see what they do with no LEOs around.
One other question soon to be answered is just where does Eric Cantor fit into the Trump administration?
Keeping it quiet for now?
Nowhere.
Cantor is begging Barbara and Shak not to run so his Senate path is clear.
The MSM, and those at the anti-America, Catholic boys club blog, have been telling us that the illegal immigrant population has actually been decreasing for years. However, this Sunday morning America wakes up to this;
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/10/dhs-admits-surge-illegals-border/
President Trump, we are going to need a lot of buses. Over 46,000 illegals entered the US in October alone. Who’s job are they going to take?
To me it’s also the principle of the thing. I mean, look at any other country, including Mexico, there is no way any other country would let you stay in in their country without papers and certainly not forever, they’d throw you out as soon as you wore out your welcome. Yet for some reason the conversation in the United States is about not only allowing people who are here illegally to stay, but not even stopping more people from coming in illegally ? I mean the word “illegal” is used for a reason, because it’s *&^%ing illegal, the same kind of illegal as it would be if you just went to China, or Australia, or France illegally.
“Yet for some reason the conversation in the United States is about not only allowing people who are here illegally to stay, but not even stopping more people from coming in illegally?”
Because they are the Republicans cheap labor source, that is why.
They aren’t cheap,labor if 90% end up on welfare – quite the contrary as Europe is now discovering to its dismay.
Get real, illegals work for change. Their employers are tax cheating crooks. And, can you support that 90% BS? If you can, it is because their employers do not pay them anything. And, illegals have all these children to feed because the catholic church told them that if they wear a condom, they are going to hell.
I’d be fine with Trump, if he hadn’t already jumped in bed with the establishment. Trump is the establishment dream president. Lobbyists are loving it. And I didn’t vote for Hillary, she is just as bad. The problem is Trump has evidently developed amnesia. And you know it. I knew what he was going to do.
Buyers remorse is runnng wild. This guy may make Bush 43″ look like the best president ever before it is over.
And, them Democrats are thinking about a Muslim to head the a DNC. What at hell of a mess.
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Who’s chart is that?
It is at the bottom of the chart.
Yea, that info matches other sites I checked. To many natives, legal, and illegals are on welfare. That BS is unreal! I agree. It’s really screwed up.
But, I can’t fight everything. I ain’t on welfare. But, retirement is knocking, and I want my SS.
I want the illegals out. I want the border shut down. I want tariffs on imports. That is what Trump promised. I also want trade deals torn up.
But, in the end, I am done. Not going to do me much good.
And the greatest % per capita of welfare rats hail from solidly red southern states that “NE liberals” are supporting.
Everything was fine down south until the textile industry moved to Communist China and Vietnam for their slave labor. And then, the owners and Wall St. made such enormous profits from that slave labor, and they were smart/crooked enough, that they went out and purchased control of a government, the United States government. And they took over the country and destroyed it.
Center for Immigration studies based on Census data. Easily accessed online.
Paid agitators for the leftist democrat party??
Who?
I was thinking that the illegals can do the soros paid agitator work.
Larry Summers, the guy who was an economic advisor to Obama, used to be President of Harvard. Now remember, he is a left wing academic…. He wrote some things about how maybe women aren’t really engineers because after thirty years of special programs to promote women in math and science, the field is still 90 percent male.
He was asked to step down and had to do so….
Yes, he dared to say that perhaps women didn’t CHOOSE to be engineers, perhaps they were not as fond of math as males, perhaps their talents lay elsewhere, and the very worse thing he did, he made women cry. He hurt their feelings and was let go by Harvard. More special snowflakes.
God forbid he would have an independent thought.
It’d be one thing if he posted it on GMU’s public website, but it’s his facebook page, I say leave the guy alone. He’s welcome to his opinions same as everyone else. Leave destroying people’s lives over their political beliefs to the leftists, the rest of us like free speech and public discourse.
Yes, you are right. I would say though if he was a vocal Trump supporter, his career would be dead. The Left doesn’t mess around or care about such niceties as a person’s right to their own opinions. They are on the right side of history, so if they fire one of those Trump racists, they are more than justified for doing so.
If he was a vocal Trump supporter he would have never got the job in the first place lol. 😀
Ok you got me there.
I agree. I don’t expect everyone in the country to be on the Trump train. I certainly wasn’t on the Obama golf cart.
As long as he didn’t and doesn’t discriminate against students – present, past, or future, he is entitled to his opinion in his personal space.
Do you honestly think he would be fair in student admissions? A young Republican would have the same chance of acceptance to GMU as a young Democrat? The students who worked to elect Trump would have the same acceptance rate as those who worked to elect Hillary? I think not.
Dial it back, Jeanine. If I recall correctly, up until last week you were saying Trump wasn’t your candidate. Why all of a sudden are bandwagonning?
Read.my.comment. Or maybe I should just repost it here and break it down.
“As long as he didn’t and doesn’t discriminate against students – present, past, or future, he is entitled to his opinion in his personal space.”
It’s his personal space. Not the GMU Community, Not the University, Not some College Admissions Group Board. HIS OWN SPACE.
Do I like what he said? Absolutely not, but I respect the right that he CAN say it in his personal SPACE. AND (and this is a big and) if he has not or does not discriminate – IT IS HIS OPINION.
And if you are going to make a claim that GMU discriminates in admissions based on political preferences – you had better be able to back that up.
Totally agree with this.
Nope, I did not say Trump wasn’t my candidate, unless you mean during the primaries. He wasn’t my first choice but once he was the nominee I supported him and voted for him.
In early September, TBE staff endorsed Donald Trump, however, you continued with your #nevertrump stance:
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I can keep going if you would like.
lol
that is all
Let’s let GMU produce their admission statistics. How many conservatives and how many liberals they admit. I would bet the odds are 6 to one.
They have or had courses that are entirely leftist. My daughter, and this goes back about 15 years ago, took a class from a radical feminist professor. No males were admitted or applied because the word was out about a guaranteed failing grade. If you espoused conservative ideas, the professor would fail you and get other female students to attack you. My daughter quit after 3 classes and lost the course cost. GMU eventually fired the professor because of a scandal.
We don’t prosecute, or persecute people for thought crimes. If you have evidence that the guy didn’t admit someone because of their political beliefs, by all means present it to his school for disciplinary action, otherwise the guy is just voicing his opinion as is his right as a human being born under our sun. The last thing conservatives want is people persecuting them for their beliefs and what they “might be thinking”, since people accuse of an amazing assortment of thought crimes.
The problem isn’t just this guy. He is a symbol of how indoctrination and politically correct choice functions in American colleges and universities. You plant people like him in important positions, and slowly and inexorably things move further left to the point that a very high percentage of graduates are like the anti-Trump protestors.
This is very critical in highly competitive colleges where someone like this might skew a close decision about who gets in. An 18 year old with LGBT credentials would certainly receive preference over an 18 year old kid with Eagle Scout credentials.
Oh I totally don’t doubt that things move further left, or that the guy is a leftist, or that he probably hates conservatives. What I’m saying is be careful the tools you use to fight against it. Don’t like his opinion, argue with him. Write an editorial here or in the newspaper about his ideas. Argue your point in forums at the University. Protest. Do whatever you want. Just don’t cross the line and start trying to ruin the man’s life, or accuse him of criminality without evidence, etc.
I don’t agree with leftist either, but we should argue with their ideas.
To say that another way, if you don’t want leftist running Universities, write books, articles, etc, that present ideas that are more powerful and compelling than their ideas, and turn Universities into bastions of conservatism. We will not win by these strong arm tactics, that’s a sure way to win battles and lose the war, we win by having better ideas, creating better results, and convincing other people that our philosophies and strategy is better than what they already believe is true.
On a related note, this election itself has been a teachable moment for a LOT of people, especially those at University. They woke up on Wednesday to a world that was not what they thought it was, proving that their perceptions about the world around them were incorrect. Now, they can go all out delusional and make up a bunch of reasons that is true that jive with their current understanding, or they can be objective and see the world for what it is, try to figure out what actually happened, etc, that’s up to them. The search for truth is strong in young people generally, so I think a lot of them are looking around wondering if the world really is what they thought it was. Remember, most of these kids have been under Obama’s Presidency for 8 years, close to half of their lives, they don’t know anything else except that the messiah had arrived, they have no idea what any conservative thinks because they’ve never been exposed to our thoughts or beliefs, most of them are surrounded by urban people who reinforce their ideas about the world. They don’t know there is another world out there that they know nothing about, they think it all comes to them via the Internet. This is a great time to reach them with conservative ideas because they are actually wondering WTF just happened.
This is the very type of guy who would attack a mom and pop bakery for being Christians who support normal marriage. He has no interest in being fair and unbiased. Frankly, if you go to sociology departments in most colleges you can’t find a conservative professor. They are quickly denied tenure or even employment. (By the way,Jesus had the greatest arguments in the history of mankind and look what happened to him.)
To protect our kids, we have to stop leftist propaganda, indoctrination and violent political correctness. We need a very focused and all too often angry response to what is abuse not much different than what the anti-Trump protestors are inflicting on our peaceful fellow citizens.
If conservatives used strong arm tactics, you wouldn’t have so much socialism being taught and encouraged at these universities. With rare exception, conservatives can articulate their viewpoints and political philosophy without attacking the dissenter. The fact that we have better ideas, and can win elections without massive voter fraud was manifested on Tuesday.
Calif, consider the possibility that there was indeed massive vote fraud, and that we won despite it. If the vote counts had been fair, the result would have been closer to 1980.
You’ll never know unless someone does a lot of digging at the university. But you can’t be naïve either.
I can guarantee you that his recruitment is done through the prism of the Left. He feels it’s his job to fight anything that doesn’t match his political philosophy. How do think these campuses got this way?
How can you guarantee that? Just curious.
Seriously? Do you want him deciding if your conservative son or daughter is accepted at GMU? Would he be fair to a student who worked to elect Trump? I think not.
When you are a public employee, you keep your politics off the job, especially when you are public facing with a job that involves discrimination.
He should be canned because he expressed horrible judgement in his actions and activities.
He’s welcome to his opinions, and GWU administration has a right to expect their employees to follow the Mission Statement. He can leave his ranting to his leftist cocktail parties.