David Horowitz's Academic Hit List (ROBERT JENSEN)

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Horowitz's Academic Hit List
By ROBERT JENSEN

In his self-promotional mass emailings from which no inbox is safe, David Horowitz, right-wing pensioner of Richard Scaife Mellon, hypes hyped his latest book about threats to America's youth from leftist professors.

The ad for 'The Professors -- The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America' describes me as: 'Texas Journalism Professor Robert Jensen, who rabidly hates the United States, and recently told his students, ëThe United States has lost the war in Iraq and that's a good thing.''

I'm glad Horowitz got my name right (people often misspell it 'Jenson'). But everything else is distortion, and that one sentence teaches much about the reactionary right's disingenuous rhetorical strategy.

First, I'm not rabid, in personal or political style. I'm a sedate, non-descript middle-aged academic who tries to approach political and moral questions rationally. I articulate principles, provide evidence about how those principles are often undermined by powerful institutions, and offer logical conclusions about how citizens should respond. I encourage people to disagree with my principles, contest my evidence, and question my logic -- all appropriate activities in a university where students are being trained to think for themselves, and in a nominally democratic society where citizens should to do the same.

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Beyond these junkyard dog tactics, Horowitz's email also makes one crucial factual error. I did write that the U.S. losing the Iraq war was a good thing -- not in celebration of death and destruction, of course, but because the defeat temporarily restrains policymakers in their dangerous attempts to extend the U.S. empire. But that was the first sentence of an opinion piece I published in various newspapers in 2004, not a statement to students. The distinction is important.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen02082006.html

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1. Interesting that the Republican Right is targeting Lists of people

who are progressives, liberals, and Democrats. Kate O'Bierne, Ann Coulter, Horowitz, that CBS reporter....they all write books listing the '100 worst'_____ . Pretty obvious that their intent is to silence and decapitate the oppostion. Whatta bunch of goons.

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2. and train the listener/ reader.

the right is very effective at what they do -- not only do they get to ''destroy'' the left -- they train their readers how they want them to think.

what logic they want them to use -- spoonfeed information for thinking exactly as they see it.

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3. brilliant idea! a pigmediawhore 'hit list'

bush monkeyfart d horowitz gets to start. then comes:
bush monkeyfart bob schieffer
ditto ari fliesher
ditto david frum
ditoo rush limbah-humbug
ditto brite hum
bush monketfart randy ann coulter
ditto andrea greenspan nee mitchel
bush monkeyfart paula zahn
bush monkeyfart tucker carlson
bush mf tweet mathews
bush mf shawn hannity
bush mf bill oreilly
bush mf tony snow
bush mf john 'holy noggin' gibson
bush monkeyfart dennis miller
bush monkeyfart jonah goldberg
bush mf bernard goldberg
bush monkeyfart bob woodward
bush monkeyfart tom friedman
bush mf david brook
bush mf glen bec
bush fart john leo
bush fart bob schneider
bush fart geewill
bush fart kookoo roberts
bush monkeyfart fred barnes
bush monkeyfart tony blankey
bush mf judy miller
bush mf jim lehrer
bush mfart ted koppel
bush mf rupert murderock
ad nazism....