[Continued from "Off-Topics" thread, under "Breaking News: Tenured Prof..."] Concerning Ethnic Studies prof Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado at Boulder: "A single action like 9/11...needs to be followed up..." he says. "So it needs to be followed up - so get busy! That's your homework assignment." The audience laughs in the recording. Future news: Wednesday, these tapes will likely air on "The O'Reilly Factor" at Fox News. But you can also go to this webpage and hear them yourself. http://www.khow.com/hosts/caplis-silverman.html Thursday, the famously impotent Board of Regents will meet to respond to the crisis. How does this situation arise? The left practices "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and protects extremists like Ward. (For more, see my post on Ward in the Politics Discussion threads.) It's the consequence of consuming Marxist koolaid. A contextualizing comment: at the same time that dissenting non-egalitarian non-leftist voices have been excluded from American universities, tenure has protected radicals from exposure and cowed the non-extremist left. This phenomenon is fully explicated by David Horowitz in his books "Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and The American Left"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/089526076X/qid=1107309493/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-6630257-5213766?v=glance&s=books and "The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684856794/qid=1107309493/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/102-6630257-5213766?v=glance&s=books I am myself, of course, in Churchill's terms, a "little Eichman." Proudly so. -Orson
