Students demand Charlie Sheen as commencement speaker

Many college students want commencement speakers who are famous and some new student groups and Facebook pages suggest any kind of fame will do. George Washington University already has a commencement speaker for this year (New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg). But students at the university have started a campaign to get Charlie Sheen as the 2012 commencement speaker, attracting considerable support on Facebook and Twitter (typical comment: “I don’t want some stiff-ass politician boring me to death as I graduate”). The GW Hatchet, the student newspaper, has declared the movement “a satirical ploy.” But the idea may be spreading. Other Facebook pages want Sheen to speak at commencement at the University of Georgia, the University of Missouri at Columbia and West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

Well, why not? Charlie Sheen on campus as seen on TV. He could end up competing with Oprah or Barbara Walters. The dankprofessor looks at it this way, Sarah Palin is in demand to speak at the six figure level at just about anywhere. Well, she appears to entertain the notion that she could be president. Whatever delusional thinking Sheen may have about himself, it is on a low level as compared to Palin’s delusional thinking.

But no matter, ultimately it comes down to another segment of reality TV.

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Hahaha – love it – Sheen the whatever they have called him over the last months is in demand by students to speak. Priceless. “Whatever delusional thinking Sheen may have about himself, it is on a low level as compared to Palin’s delusional thinking,” is so spot-on.

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