Obama's Academia Nuts
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Friday, April 25, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Education: How exactly do former terrorists get to teach at America's
universities? Unfortunately, Obama's friends William Ayers and
Bernadine Dohrn are just a few of the inmates running those asylums.
Obama associates William Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, are more
than former members of the Weather Underground, terrorists who engaged
in bombings of American government buildings during the Vietnam War.
They are academics.
Ayers and the Weather Underground bombed New York City police
headquarters in June 1970, the U.S. Capitol Building in March 1971 and
the Pentagon in May 1972.
His memoirs appeared in the New York Times, oddly enough, on Sept. 11,
2001. In them, he wrote: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we
didn't do enough."
Today Ayers, the man who found "a certain eloquence in bombs," is a
distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois,
Chicago, a "respected figure in liberal education circles" according
to Politico.com.
His wife is an associate professor of law at Northwestern University
School of Law the director of Northwestern University's Children and
Family Justice Center. Go figure.
The irony of terrorists teaching law and justice and educating our
children is mind-boggling, but it does not surprise us since academia
had been a hotbed of liberal activism since even before the Vietnam
War. The search for truth is obviously no longer a qualification for
tenure.
In 2005, Robert Lichter, a communications professor at George Mason
University, and fellow political science professors Stanley Rothman of
Smith College and Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto authored a
study that showed that 72% of those teaching at American colleges are
liberal and 15% are conservative.
The disparity is even higher at the so-called elite schools, where,
according to the study, 87% of the faculty are liberal vs. 13% who are
conservative.
Religion, which Harvard Law School graduate Obama says small-town
America clings to, is not a high priority for many faculty members,
with 51% saying they rarely or never attend church or synagogue.
American academia is clearly dominated by liberal secularists.
The most famous nutty professor of recent years was Ward Churchill,
who came to public attention for a piece he wrote shortly after 9/11
that said those killed in the World Trade Center were a "technocratic
corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire," calling
them "little Eichmanns."
Churchill, then chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department at the
University of Colorado, titled his essay, "Some People Push Back: On
the Justice of Roosting Chickens," a tome as off the wall as its title
suggests.
It echoed the theme embraced by many on the loony left that America
invited the 9-11 attacks through a long history of violent domination
of other cultures. In other words, we had it coming. If that sounds
familiar, it's what Barack Obama's pastor of two decades, Jeremiah
Wright, once shouted from the pulpit.
Churchill is only the most prominent campus clown indoctrinating
future generations in colleges and universities, including state-
funded ones, that are essentially little more than liberal re-
education camps.
In March 2003, assistant professor Nicholas DeGenova provoked national
outrage when he called on U.S. soldiers in Iraq to "frag" (or murder)
their officers and said he wished "for a million Mogadishus,"
referring to the 1993 ambush in Somalia that left 18 American troops
dead and 84 wounded.
DeGenova told students at an anti-war teach-in on the Columbia campus
that "U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white
supremacy," and that "the only true heroes are those who find ways
that help defeat the U.S. military."
Barack Obama graduated in 1983 from Columbia University, whence his
hard-core fondness for anti-U.S. thugs and opposition to liberating
Iraq may have been derived.
He and wife Michelle are both Ivy League graduates. These days it's
poisoned ivy.
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