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Truthdigger of the Week: Jean Rohe

Staff / Truthdig May 22, 2006 Truthdig salutes New School University graduating senior Jean Rohe, whose commencement speech at Madison Square Garden on Friday preemptively struck against the address that Sen. John McCain was due to deliver directly after her.Click here for links to the speech, biographical information on Rohe, and the instantly infamous response by one of McCain's staffers in which he insulted Rohe's graduating class and called her an "idiot" in print.UPDATE: Rohe responds to the McCain staffer: "Please don't try to bully me anymore." UPDATE #2: Rohe goes on MSNBC. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Student Tells Why She Ripped McCain as He Listened

Staff / Truthdig May 21, 2006 Jean Rohe, the graduating senior at the New School University who spoke just before John McCain's commencement speech explains why she "tore McCain's speech apart before he even opened his mouth." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

McCain Is Booed at Graduation Speech

Staff / Truthdig May 20, 2006 The Arizona senator got heavily jeered during his commencement address for a New York university. One student banner read, "Our commencement is not your platform." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Day: Steve Almond

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2006 Almond, an adjunct professor at Boston College, has resigned his post to protest the college's choice of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker. "I cannot, in good conscience, exhort my students to pursue truth and knowledge, then collect a paycheck from an institution that displays such flagrant disregard for both," he writes. Imagine if Colin Powell or George Tenet had shown this kind of moral fortitude. There might not have been a war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

John McCain, Former Maverick

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 Now the Arizona senator says it's "an honor" to speak at the college of Jerry Falwell's, the same man he once called an "agent of intolerance." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )