DON'T SEND MY BOY TO HARVARD, THE DYING MOTHER SAID

Horsefeathers ^ | 6-4-2005 | Stephen Rittenberg

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In post 9-11 America a dawning awareness is growing that our wordsmith intellectual class---the media, university faculties, writers---is effectively allied with our foes, the Islamist jihadis. Increasing numbers of Americans have become aware of the smog of leftist utopian ideas enveloping liberal arts faculties of our elite universities. The self flattering narcissism of the wordsmith class is extraordinary. With the recent identification of 'Deep Throat' we've witnessed a non-stop orgy of self praise by journalists who want us to believe in their noble moral superiority. How many more of these candidates for sainthood will tell us they were "inspired" to become journalists by the example of Woodward and Bernstein? Those of us who've spent our lives outside the circle of wordsmiths see in Woodward and Bernstein, a couple of vain self promoters who attained wealth and celebrity by vastly exagerrating their role in Watergate, but who certainly contributed to the plague of journalists more interested in bringing down Presidents than in reporting the truth.