aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Friday, February 24, 2006
The WORST PROFESSOR EVER! (Vote early & often)
Who is the world’s worstest professor? Per the FrontPage magazine poll, as of now, it’s Michael Bérubé; In fact, Michael is about 1000 times worse than Ward Churchill, the guy who, only a few months ago, was worse than Osama bin Laden. Michael is c. 5000 times worse than Bernardine Dohrn, who was part of the leadership of the Weather Underground, and even made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. And ProfessorBérubé is more than 10,000 times worse than ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers.
(Ayers, as we are reminded by Jamie Glazov in an interview David Horowitz consented to give to FrontPage about his book, “was the leader of the terrorist ‘Weatherman’ cult” who accidentally blew up his girlfriend while making a bomb. But Horowitz reveals something even worse about Ayers “Even when I was a leftist Bill Ayers struck me as a superficial human being, and essentially thoughtless.")
So, you can see just how evil Bérubé must be.
And with your help, he can be even worse. Vote now to ensure that Michael gets the recognition he deserves. (And since you can apparently vote as many times as you want, your opinion can really make a difference.)
The last time I quoted Michael Bérubé was when he called academic freedom a cornerstone of a free society (and pointed to the $1,000 popcorn maker). That’s bad Bad BAD! But to see what he’s been up to lately I moseyed on over to Bérubé’s place and dug around a bit. Shortly I found my way to this:
[Y]ou know, dear friends, I resent being called “the very professor who calls [Horowitz] a liar without checking the facts.” The truth—and I use the term advisedly—is that I called Horowitz a liar while hyperlinking to the facts. Horowitz lied about the student in Colorado, he lied about the biology professor who allegedly showed Fahrenheit 9/11 to his class, he has lied about me (actually, the line about how my “entire political focus since 9/11 has been in getting our terrorist enemies off the hook” comes closer to actual slander), and—I can’t believe I forgot this one!—he lied—to O’Reilly, on one of his many Fox News appearances—about his speaking engagement at Hamilton College. Or, as Horowitz put it at the time, “I fibbed about my invitation to Hamilton and about my Academic Bill of Rights . . . because it was truer to say that I had to be invited by students . . . than to say the faculty there—the Kirkland project in particular, which is what we were talking about—would invite me.”
Whew! That’s ONE BAD PROFESSOR. I’m going to place my vote (again) right now.
