Falwell Jr. Has Instituted Censorship of Liberty U. Students Critical of Trump

Source: RedState | October 19, 2016 | Susan Wright

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A disturbing trend on college campuses these days is the clamping down on free speech of anyone who doesn’t tow the liberal, Democrat line.

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Now imagine it happening on a conservative Christian campus.

The editor of Liberty University’s official school newspaper, the Liberty Champion, says that an article that was critical of Donald Trump was shut down by Trump surrogate, Falwell Jr.

The editor, Joel Schmieg, posted a statement on his Facebook account claiming it was Jerry Falwell Jr., the university’s president and a Trump supporter, who spiked the column, which criticized Trump for lewd comments he made on a hot mic during a 2005 taping of “Access Hollywood.”

“Yesterday I was told [Falwell] was not allowing me to express my personal opinion in an article I wrote for my weekly column in the Liberty Champion about Trump and his ‘locker room talk,'” Schmieg wrote.

The paper’s opinion editor, Cierra Carter, backed up Schmieg, saying that their president had been very vocal in voicing his support of Trump. They would simply like the same freedoms.

In his Facebook post, Schmieg poked fun at a statement by Falwell earlier in the week, in which he said: “It is a testament to the fact that Liberty University promotes the free expression of ideas unlike many major universities where political correctness prevents conservative students from speaking out.”

“I find these words from Jerry amusing and extremely hypocritical,” Schmieg wrote.

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To further prove that associating too closely with Trump causes mental disturbances, Falwell went into full conspiracy theory mode.

“I think this whole tape … videotape thing was planned, I think it was timed, I think it might have even been a conspiracy among establishment Republicans who have known about it for weeks and who tried to time it to do the maximum damage to Donald Trump, and I just … I just think it just backfired on them,” Falwell told radio host Rita Cosby on Oct. 10.

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Schmieg’s article took a strong stand against Trump, and against the language used in the 2005 hot mic audio.

He pointed out that anyone blowing the language off as “locker room talk” wasn’t truly sorry about the statements, because they obviously didn’t see them as being too bad.

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