Clinton Administration officials, Democratic Party politicians, Hollywood personalities, media personalities, and liberal activists make up the largest groups to deliver graduation speeches at our nation's schools. University administrators really seem to love entertainers and media personalities, especially when they promote leftist causes. A couple examples are rock star John Mellencamp at Indiana University and musician Billy Joel at Long Island University-Southhampton College. The leftist domination of the commencement addresses of 2000 is not an irregularity. In the seven years that Young America's Foundation tracked commencement addresses, liberals have dominated while conservatives have generally been shunned.
Some schools have an amazing track record of liberal speakers.
Yale University hosted Jodie Foster in 1993, Sergeant Shriver in 1994, former Baltimore Democratic Mayor Curt Schmoke in 1995, Henry Winkler in 1996, author David McCollough in 1997, NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw in 1998, Clinton advisor David Gergen in 1999, and Bob Woodward in 2000. Tulane University hosted Carter Administration official Andrew Young in 1995, cancer researcher Andrea Martin in 1996, Mohammed Ali trainer Ferdie Pancheco in 1997, Donna Shalala in 1998, Cokie Roberts in 1999, and Walter Isaacson of Time magazine in 2000. Even though liberals dominated the commencements at the top 50 schools in the country, one would believe there would be more than a few of well-known conservatives on the list. Yes, the speaker was Marian Wright Edelman. It was nothing more than an agenda speech.