A Colorado law student writes:
I am an avid reader of your blog and wanted to take a moment to thank you for letting your other readers in on - and condemning in no uncertain terms - the sorry spectacle taking place here in Boulder. It is indeed "pathetic" and "symptomatic" of our "sick political times."
What is most appalling to me is that someone like Prof. Campos would go on national TV with a major contributor to the sickness and basically nod along approvingly! What are the fanatical liberal-hating goons in O'Reilly's choir to think when a law professor - they're experts on this sort of thing, right? - explains to the country that everyone should read Churchill's essay to see for themselves how obvious it is that he's an abject hack who should be fired immediately? And then he suggests that maybe finally the administration is going to enforce some "standards" and not just hide behind "freedom of expression." Good for them!
Fox's audience consists of the kind of people who for years have been lapping up propaganda about the monolithically liberal academy, where their kids' professors are indoctrinating the poor impressionable souls with Marxist thought. (And we shouldn't forget that, given the degradation of public political discourse for which FOX and the rest are largely responsible, these people seem to think that Marxism is somewhere just slightly to the left of Clinton or Ted Kennedy.) What comfort it must be to see that even these crazy leftists at Churchill's own school agree with their boy O'Reilly on this one.
It hardly matters if the vast majority of the faculty support Churchill. They, for some odd reason, aren't on O'Reilly's show.
Unfortunately, here in Colorado the O'Reilly choir is well represented, not least of all in the Governor's mansion and legislature. I suppose it's up to those of us with some minimal concern for academic freedom to fill the regents' inboxes, lest my otherwise fine alma mater give itself a permanent black eye.
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