He should come to Canada. Then he’ll go back thinking he’s living and studying in a bastion of political balance and a diversity of views.
In any case, Fox News (of course —who else would TOUCH this subject?) brought up the story of a student named Dan Lawton who raised the issue of political imbalance among the faculty of his own college, in an opinion piece which also appeared in the Christian Science Monitor. Of course for covering this and stories like this, Fox News Channel is bashed by liberals and their media for being “biased” against them, and “unfair”, and “unbalanced”. Naturally, the fact is (once again), NOT covering this story shows utter bias and imbalance in news and current events coverage.
Here’s the simple question he asked: “Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn’t that a problem?”
Liberals and further leftists all answer, in unison, “no”, shrug their shoulders, look at each other somewhat nervously perhaps, then shuffle off to their pro-abortion (and nuclear disarmament!) rallies. Others simply deny it’s a problem categorically, possibly with great astonishment or bewilderment, proving that they’re so liberal they don’t even know how liberal they are any more. Then they shuffle off to a “tax the rich!” (and gay pride!) parade.
Some liberals start sputtering with hysterical rage and clearly apparent hate, betraying their famous liberal-left “tolerance” for all things and their great love of “diversity” and so on, and lash out at the person for daring to speak out, thereby possibly spoiling their well-crafted, well-engineered plans, and moreover, their erstwhile well-hidden plans. And they thus expose themselves as the liberal fascists that they actually seem to be.
For another example, see how they treat Sarah Palin.
But here’s some of what Dan Lawton wrote:
The University of Oregon (UO), where I study journalism, invested millions annually in a diversity program that explicitly included “political affiliation” as a component. Yet, out of the 111 registered Oregon voters in the departments of journalism, law, political science, economics, and sociology, there were only two registered Republicans.
Here’s what one professor wrote back to him:
And here’s what another one wrote:
I’m glad Fox News and the Christian Science Monitor are around to reveal the whole truth about the world to Americans and Canadians. Unfortunately, other media outlets will refuse to cover this. Thereby depriving you of the truth. Misinforming you, on purpose, by way of a purposeful omission of the whole story of our American and Canadian experience.
Dan Lawton goes on:
A professor who confronted me declared that he was “personally offended” by my column. He railed that his political viewpoints never affected his teaching and suggested that if I wanted a faculty with Republicans I should have attended a university in the South. “If you like conservatism you can certainly attend the University of Texas and you can walk past the statue of Jefferson Davis everyday on your way to class,” he wrote in an e-mail.
I was shocked by such a comment, which seemed an attempt to link Republicans with racist orthodoxy. When I wrote back expressing my offense, he neither apologized nor clarified his remarks.
Instead, he reiterated them on the record. Was such a brazen expression of partisanship representative of the faculty as a whole? I decided to speak with him in person in the hope of finding common ground.
He was eager to chat, and after five minutes our dialogue bloomed into a lively discussion. As we hammered away at the issue, one of his colleagues with whom he shared an office grew visibly agitated. Then, while I was in mid-sentence, she exploded.
“You think you’re so [expletive] cute with your little column,” she told me. “I read your piece and all you want is attention. You’re just like Bill O’Reilly. You just want to get up on your [expletive] soapbox and have people look at you.”
From the disgust with which she attacked me, you would have thought I had advocated Nazism. She quickly grew so emotional that she had to leave the room. But before she departed, she stood over me and screamed.
“You understand that my column was basically a prophesy,” I shot back. I had suggested right-leaning ideas weren’t welcome on campus and in response the faculty had tied my viewpoints to racism and addressed me with profanity-laced insults.
Dan Lawton is a freelance journalist and journalism student at the University of Oregon. God help him.
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