Posted on 10/10/2005 2:19:57 PM PDT by bc4gwb
The Chronicle of Higher Education yesterday published a story on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. It spoke of her “playing a key role” in the late 1990s in establishing the Louise B. Raggio lectureship at Southern Methodist University, Miss Miers’ alma mater. The article says Miss Miers “pushed for the creation” of the Raggio speakers’ series. The Raggio lectureship brought an apparently unbroken string of pro-abortion speakers to the university’s Dallas campus. Among those tapped to enlighten young law students were Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine and a veteran campaigner for liberal abortion laws. Also holding forth were Congresswoman Patricia Schoeder, Susan Faludi, author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, and even former Texas Governor Ann W. Richards, the pro-abortion Democrat whom George W. Bush defeated in 1994.
Interesting, isn’t it? Well that’s not really the WHOLE STORY, either, but you wouldn’t know it unless you CARED TO LOOK for yourself.
From the SMU Raggio lecture series page: [continue reading]
(Excerpt) Read more at bamapachyderm.com ...
Certain people here aren't interested in the whole story. The same people who blindly paste the words of their favorite pundits couldn't bother actually researching the issues for themselves to see if they're being led astray by someone with an agenda.
Not looking good!!!
We conservatives have a lot to notice - do you think another Gingsburg - and Not an O'Connor! Where there's smoke - there's fire!
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/10/2005100602n.htm
The Chronicle: Daily news: 10/06/2005 -- 02
Supreme Court Nominee Helped Set Up Lecture Series That Brought Leading Feminists to Southern Methodist U.
By PETER SCHMIDT
Supreme Court nominee helped set up lecture series that brought leading feminists to Southern Methodist U.
Washington
For someone both heralded and feared as a potentially conservative voice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Harriet E. Miers has played a key role in exposing college students to some unmistakably liberal ideas.
In the late 1990s, as a member of the advisory board for Southern Methodist University's law school, Ms. Miers pushed for the creation of an endowed lecture series in women's studies named for Louise B. Raggio, one of the first women to rise to prominence in the Texas legal community. A strong advocate for women, Ms. Raggio helped persuade state lawmakers to revise Texas laws to give women new rights over property and in the event of divorce.
Ms. Miers, whom President Bush announced on Monday as his choice to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, not only advocated for the lecture series, but also gave money and solicited donations to help get it off the ground.
A feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, delivered the series's first lecture, in 1998. In the following two years, the speakers were Patricia S. Schroeder, the former Democratic congresswoman widely associated with women's causes, and Susan Faludi, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991). Ann W. Richards, the Democrat whom George W. Bush unseated as governor of Texas in 1994, delivered the lecture in 2003.
Other speakers in the series have included Geraldine Laybourne, founder of Oxygen Media, a cable-television network for women; Gwen Ifill, moderator of public television's Washington Week and a correspondent for The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer; and Colleen Barrett and Herb Kelleher, both top executives at Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, who teamed up to give the lecture in 2004.
A description of the lecture series on Southern Methodist's Web site says it "brings role models of vision and achievement to SMU to speak on gender and women's issues."
The series "expands students' opportunities to hear and interact with nationally renowned speakers in the area of women's studies," the site says, "as well as strengthens intellectual ties between the university and the greater community."
What's the matter - you can't stand scrutiny on ideas and personalities? That's what this site is about!
scruitiny is only allowed by some if you're scrutinizing someone they oppose.
Turn it around and then you're killing kittens.
There is no question Miers has consistently supported quotas and affirmative action programs and that she has leftist feminist leanings. No one ever stated she agreed with Gloria Steinem on everything.
Stanley Kurtz at NRO:
Now I don’t think this necessarily establishes Miers as a closet feminist....The charitable view is that Miers was willing to see left-leaning feminists take advantage of the donation in a spirit of intellectual fairness, and because her larger concern was to honor her predecessor and to encourage young women lawyers....In any case, I find this disturbing, especially because it happened in the late nineties, by which time Miers was well into her conservative phase....I must say that this report worries me.
I think you missed my point. It is that I don't believe I've ever seen so many, post so many lies, half-truths, rumors, smears, etc, etc. This article is a perfect example of a flat out lie spread far and wide. And not too many gave a damn to bother checking out the truth, or even cared what was the truth. I wish most would do some serious scrutiny...
WAs Miss Miers such a believer feminism that she abandoned her Christian principles and pushed for and donated money to a lecture series honoring a leftist woman that is considered a hero by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood?
No true Christian I know, especially pro-lifers, would want to see such a woman honored even if she did have admirable characteristics.
Sorry - thanks for clarifying that...It just makes me more concerned as I begin to read that these feminist series were supported and begun by Miers in the - Latter 90's - not the early 90's - when it seems she should have been More conservative...Plus all the things I am reading about what Miers has said...
I have a feeling it wasn't just Andy Card that induced President Bush on this nomination...GW has many "pro-choice" people surrounding him in the advice area (his mom, his wife, Condi, etc.).
besides the nonsensical rantings of a feminist apologist, i don't see how the fact that:
" in the late 90's Ms. Miers pushed for the creation of an endowed lecture series in women's studies "
has been discredited in any way? people should understand what "women's studies" is code word for marxist feminist drivel. my girlfriend in college took a course, at a fairly conservative university-- you wouldnt believe the crap they tried to feed her. men bad, marraige bad, "women's right to choose"
is harriet miers a marxist? it's doubtful, in this sense -- she's just been duped by the feel good (but dangerous) rhetoric of the left. herbert marcuse and others from the frankfurt school were masters of framing issues -- for example herbert marcuse is the one who invented "make love not war" which was one of the feel good propaganda phrases that the left uttered over and over during vietnam.
what we DO know is that in addition to a feminist lecture series, she also supported Affirmative Action in the dallas fire department. affirmative action is actively promoted in the PC culture (duh)
The below essay may explain things, with regard to the frankfurt school, the critical theory and the origins of political correctness:
"The Origins of Political Correctness"
http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html
As you may notice-- Accuracy In Academia (academia.org) does live campus reports on righttalk.com (a site frequently posted on FR)!!!
Good lord, what do you think the post was about?
READ IT, would ya?
::sheesh::
It looks to me like you can't stand scrutiny on ideas, since you obviously didn't even read the post! LOL
DID ANYONE read it? WHY she pushed for the lecture series?
OMFG! Where am I?
Thank you, Jess. I'm glad you understand it. You're a gem. :)
Miers honored a friend of hers, a friend who was a pioneer in establising women in the legal profession in Texas.
That's all.
FYI: The Chronicle of Higher Education is NOT a conservative-friendly publication. Choose your sources for smearing carefully.
They've done a fine job of further dividing conservatives, on the (apparently correct) assumption that nobody would bother to notice that Miers might have a reason (other than what you're thinking) to support Raggio...as in, a likely personal friendship, and definitely parallel paths as being among the first female lawyers at the same time in Dallas.
I'm stunned that so many took the bait. Kos even front-paged that Chronicle article, and here you are using it as "evidence." Unbelievable.
HEH.
Thanks. xoxoxo
I take great offense at your inserting of the F between M and G. I am hitting the abuse button now.
OK.
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