Liz Cheney, the disgraced RINO who lost to her Republican opponent in Wyoming’s primary last summer by 40 points, used the motto over a campus building entrance as the springboard for her commencement address at her alma mater, Colorado College. The quote was from Jesus in the Gospel of John: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
One observer tweeted: “Liz Cheney gave the commencement address at The Colorado College she graduated from and half the graduates turned their chairs to show their backs!” Apparently, the students at the far-left indoctrination center located in downtown Colorado Springs weren’t buying her version of the truth. Some of those who didn’t turn their backs booed her instead.
She opened with a lie:
After the 2020 election and the attack of January 6th, my fellow Republicans wanted me to lie. They wanted me to say the 2020 election was stolen, the attack of January 6th wasn’t a big deal, and Donald Trump wasn’t dangerous.
I had to choose between lying and losing my position in House leadership.
She touted her role as an anti-Trumper on the phony January 6 “investigative committee” that came up with nothing after thousands of hours of testimonies and hundreds of supportive headlines from the anti-Trump media.
She picked on a former advisor to Trump — Cleta Mitchell — who, said Cheney, “told a gathering of Republicans recently that it is crucially important to make sure that college students don’t vote.”
Far-left Votebeat was far more accurate. What Mitchell criticized was how easy it was for college students to vote:
“They basically put the polling place next to the student dorm so they just have to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed,” she said at one point. She also took aim at the use of same-day voter registration by students in Michigan last fall. “There were hundreds of votes that were cast by students who were registered after the deadline, after the polls closed,” Mitchell alleged, adding, “but those ballots all still counted.”
None of this was mentioned by “truth-teller” Cheney. Instead she urged the students to get active politically, putting into action the ideology that the college had pumped into them over the last four years.
That, of course, was the same ideology that has relegated Cheney to the political wilderness. She now serves as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, where she has plenty of time to write her memoirs and give commencement addresses to students who aren’t particularly interested in what she has to say.
Cheney doesn’t even show up on polling data from RealClear Politics, falling below the 0.4 percent who support former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson for president in 2024.
But the class of 2023 of Colorado College has largely drunk the Kool-Aid offered in place of a real education. The motto for the class comes from a deceased black radical poet, Audre Lorde. Lorde described herself as a “black, lesbian, feminist, socialist … warrior … [who] dedicated her life … to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.”
The class motto: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation and that is the act of political warfare.”
That’s what passes for truth at Colorado College these days.
