Eric Foner, your kind of guy. Here is what Ann Coulter had to say about him.
Liberals attack their country and then go into diarrhea panic if anyone criticizes them. Days after 9-11, as the corpses of thousands of our fellow countrymen lay in smoldering heaps in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University said, "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." On the basis of exhaustive research, apparently the events of September 11, including the wanton slaughter of three thousand Americans, were worse than Bush's rhetoric -- frightening and disturbing though it may be.Treason, Ann Coulter, 2003, page 6.
Foner claimed to be the victim of Mccarthyite tactics for not being lavished with praise for his idiotic remark. A report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni -- founded by Lynne Cheney and Senator Joseph Lieberman -- cited Foner's remark as an example of how universities were failing America. This was, Foner said, "analogous to McCarthyism."
Treason, Ann Coulter, 2003, page 7.
In April 2002, a favorite of the liberal intellectual set, Irish poet Tom Paulin, told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that "Brooklyn-born Jews" in the West Bank "should be shot dead." This wasn't a colorful polemic: "Brooklyn-born Jews" in the West Bank really were being shot dead. He continued in the same vein, saying of the "Brooklyn-born Jews": I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them." The next semester, this Oxford don and BBC commentator was a visiting professor at Columbia University. (Perhaps he and Columbia professor Eric Foner would finally be able to get to the bottom of the puzzle about whether the 9-11 terrorist attack was worse than rhetoric emanazting from the Bush white House.)
Treason, Ann Coulter, 2003, page 287.