[Da Coyote]

I’m sorry. I saw the words “liberal” and “professor” next to each other and my BS alert alarm triggered.

In these modern times, this is the ultimate oxymoron.

[Hulka]

>>In these modern times, this is the ultimate oxymoron.<<

Actually, I think of it as an idiomatic intensifier.

But that’s just me. . .

;-)

[mathurine]

Obama probably knows that there could be some interesting retaliations, perfectly legal, against ultraliberals if he accedes to their whining. One of them has to do with the upcoming house elections. Others have to do with such things as financial support for “higher” education, which turns out a lot of liberal unemployables at vast expense, while proprietary schools are turning out people ready and willing to go to work, donations to not for profit organizations that have outlived their usefulness, and many another. Let’s begin to point out what the loyal opposition can really do if no consideration is given to the 47% who did not vote for the self-styled “great I Am.”

[murdoog]

I’m sorry. I saw the words “liberal” and “professor” next to each other and my BS alert alarm triggered. In these modern times, this is the ultimate oxymoron.

"Oxymoron" means "a contradiction in terms". Is that what you meant? Or did you mean "redundancy"? As a fairly conservative college teacher, I don't really agree that it's a redundancy either. But I think that's the word you were looking for.