46 CommentsMatthew Fox’s Class Day speech just hit YouTube, in all its ghostwritten glory.
AMENDMENT, 9:45 PM EST: The assertion that Mr. Fox’s speech was ghostwritten is pure speculation, and probably somewhat irresponsible. Bwog apologizes for the potentially specious claim.
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@oh noes i am so disturbed.
http://www.tmz.com/photos/celebrity-packages/144179/
@yo bwog practice responsible satire/mockery (e.g. you have to actually be correct and not be colossal tools when your predictions are disproved)
@paul bwog, i can’t believe you have such a pompous group of assclowns posting the primary articles on this site. the dude delivers a high-quality speech, flying in the fact of essentially everyone’s elitist expectations, and you have the gall to turn up your noses and suggest the speech was ghostwritten? why? do two of you take umbrage with the fact that fox is in a television show? is that somehow beneath the blue-blooded artistocrats who post tripe like that to this blog?
at least the majority of the dissenters admitted that the speech was actually pretty decent. but of course there’s still some people who can’t let it go, can they?
@BX SCI '03 boo stuy. lame peglegs lol.
@gpa answer Thanks~!
@quick question: What was (roughly) the gpa cutoff for receiving cum laude honors? 3.8?
@GPA Cutoff May have been a bit lower. I know a 3.78 who got it.
@rollo tomasi So Matthew Fox is smart enough to graduate from Columbia, and navigate a successful career in showbiz, yet can’t come up with 10 minutes of material on his own?
@Quigley is a crap dean. I haven’t received one email from him since I got to Columbia. All he does is give a witty speech during orientation and a witty speech during Commencement, both of which are recycled variations of previous speeches, and that’s it. Compare that with Zvi’s awesomeness; he was really able to develop a sense of seas pride.
@seriously Bwog, before you go on a vendetta against someone, do your homework first. He appeared on a couple of talkshows before graduation (eg: Jay Leno) and seemed like a pretty cool guy. Also I heard Calatrava was crap, and you’ve conveniently decided to make no mention of him at all (despite your initial hullaboo)
@Dizzying You’re dismissing unsupported accusations of ghostwriting as “probably somewhat irresponsible”? On top of Matthew Fox (whose selection I criticized) turning out to be a pretty wonderful speaker, Bwog is behaving in a totally douchey manner. I need to lie down, the world has gone topsy turvy.
@Not gay But I’d let him blow me. If I got to film it, of course.
@epb I thought that the speech was good, but does anyone else think it’s kind of funny that he says he won’t apologize for being part of pop culture and then he goes on to make an apology for his role in pop culture?
@mike I liked the speech and don’t see any reason to assume it was ghostwritten.
Hooray for Fox!
@yay Fox I liked his speech. During McCain’s, the audience was tense and the speech was basically “you think you know what you’re talking about, but you don’t.” Well, fine. But that didn’t amuse anyone. Fox’s speech did.
@Foog Pop Culture Surrealism: 1, Reality: 0
@bwog you totally suck. youre the ones that made the big deal about matthew fox in the first place– an unwarranted big deal– and now you cannot even give him the sincere respect he deserves. youre such a bunch of losers.
@... amen
@Check writer The campus looked great – it is so nice that they clean it up for the first and last days of the year.
I needed to be told who Matthew Fox was when his name was announced but I thought the speech was wonderful. He disarmed the crowd with his charm from start to finish.
@cc 07 everyone i talked to at class day was incredibly impressed with fox’s speech. it touched me, and it touched my friends – and yes, we were all skeptical about him going in there. unless we know for sure that this was a ghostwritten speech, it’s grossly unfair to call it that. fox deserves an apology and thanks for his speech – not more embarrassing middle-class elitism.
@Didn't sound It didn’t sound ghostwritten to me. He may have gotten some help with it, but the sentiments seem to be genuinely his. Also, I think it was a very good speech.
@true true true loved it. love him… everyone needs to stop being so damn snooty
@sittingonthcouch great speech! far better than mccain’s. it doesn’t matter how prestigious the person is, but how much they can relate to a graduating class. for ex: my high school class speaker was sarah jones, not famous at the time i graduated, but she was amazing and inspiring. the year after mine had kofi annan. he is presitigous as hell but gave a terrible and dry speech.
@Stuy 03 ?!?!?!?!?!
@Stuy '03 #2 Yes, schools other than Stuy get Kofi Annan as a speaker, and yes, classes other than Stuy ’03 also get screwed over class speaker-wise.
@oh please kofi annan is probably the biggest fraud/extortionist in recent history with his cash-for-oil scandal and dearth of oversight in the auditing department.
that’s why the new sec-gen has ordered an external audit of the UNDP.
I’d rather have Paul Wolfowitz come and speak for us.
@wow quote:
“kofi annan is probably the biggest fraud/extortionist in recent history”
Really? The biggest fraud / extortionist in recent history? Bigger than Saddam?
@wow yes I think Kofi Annan is responsible for more deaths than any current totalitarian regime/dictator, save Kim Jong Il.
@wowz One of my favorite journalists, Claudia Rosett (Columbia alumnus):
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/rosett200403101819.asp
http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm589.cfm
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjRiNzRjOTVhZjZiNTkzMDhkYzAwNTVmZGJkZmNlMWQ
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/675mviot.asp?pg=1
and my personal favorite:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ODQyMTQ5ZWE4MDUwNjQ0MjQ0YTBlZWRhZTc1NjEyZGU=
@CML Jesus Christ dude! Where did you go to HS?
@... can someone please post quigley’s joke about “puff puff chug chug”?
please!
@puff puff word is he used it last year too.
@they should be happy there were tents. poeple could have passed out from the heat.
@cu alum after feeling skepticism about fox being chosen as class day speaker, i must say he was much better than mccain. go julia! btw, love how THIS year they get the tents on a perfectly sunny day… and how last year we were told that it’s “impossible” to have tents covering us.
@a big plus i think his speech was the best purely because no one had any expectations because he’s not the most prestigious alumn. Kagge’s speech was good too.
Everyone else’s sepech was bad. except Quigley. the little train part was hilarious
@klagge's speech sucked. it was totally inappropriate to bring up those issues at class day. i wish he hadn’t used his speaking time to try and be an activist while still at columbia.
@I think bwog might implode if anyone ever let a compliment go unrescinded
@mlp Don’t forget to also check out Fox’s introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-vN2Lgrehg&mode=related&search=
@ghostwritten??? is the fact that we think it’s ghostwritten an incredible underestimation of matthew fox?
i think the speech was just slightly bad enough such that it was actually him, but not polished enough that it could have been anyone who makes a living off of butchering the english language.
@he should have given answers to Lost.
But the first part was hilarious.
@Sayid Yeah Jack, blow them Others back to hell!
@mannamanna ermmm yeah. disappointing.
@expectations high much?
@disappointing?! there was no way he could have been “disappointing” because this (excessively attractive man) had absolutely no expectations, except to be ridiculously, ridiculously good looking. and that he was. also, j.j. abrams wrote a cute little speech that definitely could have made an appearance on lost. it was schmaltzy hollywood, and that was completely transparent, so that made it wonderful. for those of us who love falling for that schmaltz, just now and then (despite some the shame that comes with such a love…but, never apologize? oh my).
@word word word WORD
@Actually... That was a very good speech in my opinion…