Exclusive: the backstory to CUA's "invitation" of John Kerry

Heard this evening from CUA president David M. O'Connell, C.M. (I am paraphrasing):

John Kerry was never invited. What happened was that a student member of the College Democrats at CUA knew someone who worked for John Kerry and thought it would be a good idea to invite him to speak at one of their meetings. The CUA newspaper (The Tower) extrapolated on this word-of-mouth and published (on the opening weekend before classes with the campus chock-full of visiting parents) a frontpage story claiming that he had in fact been invited. He was never invited. I wouldn't have allowed that to happen.

Normally I keep news like this to myself, but President O'Connell said this publically and also asked that the news be spread. So ... consider it hereby spread. Take it as you will, and that's all I'm offering.