E.L. Doctorow, who apparantly had some success as a writer before he became a flunky for the free-Mumia crowd, was booed for turning his commencement address at Hofstra University into an anti-Bush rant. Peggy Noonan has an interesting take on the controversy in today's Wall Street Journal.

"Fast Eddy Doctorow told a story at the commencement all right, and it is a story about the boorishness of the aging liberal," Noonan writes. "An old '60s radical who feels he is entitled to impose his views on this audience on this day because he's so gifted, so smart, so insightful, so very above the normal rules, agreements and traditions."

Noonan's point is that unlike a guest lecturer or the guy with the megaphone at the campus rally, commencement speakers have a captive audience. It's uncouth to politicize a day that's supposed to be about the students.

"I am a conservative," the former Reagan speechwriter explains. "I have spoken at three college commencements. Each time I spoke I talked about the students, and the life ahead of them, and the nature of their achievement. I spoke to them about them. I didn't tell them Jimmy Carter is a retard or Bill Clinton is a pig."

Jimmy Carter really is a retard. Remember when he was attacked by a rabbit, while conoeing. What a pussy, he got his ass kicked by a bunny rabbit. Not a bear, not a wolverine: a rabbit. Pathetic!