[dirtboy]

The real mystery of this kind of thing is how there seems to be a kind of telepathic transmission of orthodoxy, such that all pilgerising journalists appear to think much the same thing and to wheel and stampede like a mob of sheep without apparent prompting but all in the same direction.

It's no mystery at all. If a group starts with a shared Marxist belief set and then never allows fact, experience or reason to influence those beliefs, they will always have consistent reactions to a given situation. Leftists who open up their minds almost always end up eventually drifting off the reservations (David Horowitz and Christopher Hitchens being the prime examples).

[optimistically_conservative]

It's no mystery at all. If a group starts with a shared Marxist belief set and then never allows fact, experience or reason to influence those beliefs, they will always have consistent reactions to a given situation.

And they'll all gather at Cornell?

Rhodes Professor Process to Be Reviewed

Martin and others say that the trustees' request has less to do with this year's appointees, former Congress member Cynthia McKinney and filmmaker John Pilger, than with the procedures and practices that the University uses to select the visiting professors.

Pilger on FR