Nightline Tonight 11/25/03: Young Conservatives Take on Liberal College Professors

self | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Nightline is doing a show about Young Conservatives in Texas who established Professor Watch in the wake of Prof. Robert Jensen's rhetorical attacks on America in the wake of September 11. They are keeping track of leftist profs on campus.

The specter of McCarthyism has been raised. Oh the horrors!

[PeteFromMontana]

I saw these folks on The Factor (Bill O'Rielly). The young man they sent did a nice job of explaining their side. He was not swayed by the liberal professor one bit, he really held his ground. He sounded reasonable, intelligent and well reasoned.

[kristinn]

Whether this show turns out to be a hit piece is irrelevant. Just the fact of Nightline covering this shows how effective conservatives have been in starting to roll back leftist indoctrination on campus.

[stands2reason]

bump & ping

[Defender2]

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[aculeus]

ABC finally notices left-wing domination of our universities ... but the real problem is conservative students who dare to fight the campus commissars.

[Jeff Chandler]

This will have a "chilling effect" on dissent.

[Fred Mertz]

I just tuned in. Thanks.

[kristinn]

Daniel Pipes' CampusWatch.org singled out because anonymous tips are accepted.

[kristinn]

It's a chill wind that blows no good.

[Jeff Chandler]

Leave Clinton out of this.

[kristinn]

My pleasure.

ABC poll of college students: 27% Dem 34% Rep 35% ind. Chris Bury uses that to knock down cliche of liberal brainwashing on campus.

[kristinn]

The guy from Dartmouth told America how his conservative student newspaper is under siege on campus. He told how the newspaper has been stolen and burned, that their office was broken into and that the staff has been threatened with disciplinary action for leaving the paper at dorm room doors. Chris Bury wasn't fazed. He expressed no outrage.

[Shermy]

#7

Funniest post in ages, IMO.

Keep it up.

[basque69]

For some time I've noticed that the best and brightest undergraduates at my school appear to be conservatives. Recent poll numbers bear out my insight. I can attribute this to two factors: (1) If you get brainwashed by a liberal professoriate, you didn't bring much to the laundry; (2) the contradiction inherent between dogmatic liberalism and reality. This is a fine generation of young Americans. If only the schools had taught them to read and write.

[Jeff Chandler]

Thanks.

[weegee]

Here's Jensen's op-ed piece from earlier this month:

They'll 'watch' but won't hear of prof's politics

[Mo1]

I missed the show

Thanks for the update of what happened

[kristinn]

You're welcome. Tonight's Nightline was a pleasant departure from their standard fare.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

That 35% independent in all actuality is majority Democrat. 35% of college kids have never heard of either party and either vote D or not at all.