Posted on 12/01/2006 1:10:19 PM PST by daveinboca
The preposterous joke of a university whose reputation has sunk as low as the fortunes of its spectacularly inept football team, Columbia U., has a journalism school which is run by Nicholas Lemann, whose reputation as a journalist used to be peerless.
The Peter Principle of Yore has caught up with Lemann, and with the craven coward Lee Bollinger who is the President of this woebegone institution, Lemann is way over his competence level and, it appears, way under his former moral stature. Bollinger of course is an "expert" on free speech, but is keeping mum about the spectacular threats and violent acts of radicals disrupting free speech on his campus during the recent Minuteman lecture. Columbia is run by apparatchiki grooming new nomenklatura candidates who will continue the corruption of our educational institutions.
This cheating is another example of the hopeless decadence at many Ivy League institutions and of the general moral free-fall America is experiencing during the Clinton and also the Bush years, as a corrupt and biased media destroys all values and breaks every law and rule of ethics in its attempt to wrest control of the national agenda out of the hands of responsible politicians.
Rush Limbaugh had a lot of fun with this ridiculous situation today, saying that all the students were doing was the same thing that Columbia's Pulitzer Committee awards its risible prizes for. Cheating and leaking and breaking one's word and lying are all part and parcel of the journalists of the WaPo and NYT and the corrupt civil servants and government officials they seduce and suborn.
Rush believed that despite the fact that the course is a ridiculous pass/fail parody of education, the students should all get an "A" for Attitude.
Attitude rather than ethics and hard work is what gets hacks to the top of their fields.
Congressman Billybob
As they say in the green machine, sh!t rolls downhill, or in this pick-up analog, downcage.
I just saw Congressman Tom Tancredo at Michigan State get the Columbia U. treatment. Even though the police tried to protect the Congressman, the riffraff pulled the fire alarm twice and the building was evacuated both times.
Too bad the Young Repubs don't have a contingent of the Guardian Angels around to protect them from the thugs. That sure would have helped at Columbia.
And good luck running for Congress, even though you might regret your committee assignments or get disinvited from the Bush White House like Tancredo claims on Hannity that he has been [Karl Rove was the culprit, TT says].
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