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Originally Posted by CShine
I wonder how we can do this in a country that protects freedom of speech.
......................The Ohio legislation is based on principles advocated by Students for Academic Freedom, a Washington, D.C.-based student network founded by conservative activist David Horowitz.
"It doesn't matter a professor's viewpoint,'' Horowitz said in an interview. "They can be a good professor, liberal or conservative, provided they pursue an educational mission and not a political agenda.''
Mumper said he is concerned universities are not teaching the values held by taxpaying parents and students.
He questioned why lawmakers should approve funding for universities with "professors who would send some students out in the world to vote against the very public policy that their parents have elected us for.''
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If you read the information at this link,<a href="http://mediamatters.org/etc/about.html">http://mediamatters.org/etc/about.html</a> it will answer the question as to why investigative journalist David Brock created the website and the organization in May, 2004. Media Matters
exposed the fake white house "reporter" who used the fake name "Jeff Gannon", just two weeks ago. There is more on Gannon in the newest posts
on the "The GOP gets caught in yet another media scam" thread on this Politics forum. Now David Horowitz is held up for examination, a similar process to the one he advocates subjecting college instructors to.
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<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/02/white_house_friendly_reporter_under_scrutiny?mode=PF">http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/02/white_house_friendly_reporter_under_scrutiny?mode=PF</a>
David Brock, the former investigative journalist who made his name revealing aspects of former President Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs, said he was watching last week's press conference on television and the "soup lines" question sparked his interest because it "struck me as so extremely biased." Brock asked his media watchdog group, Media Matters for America, to look into Talon News.
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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200502140002">http://mediamatters.org/items/200502140002</a>
<b>David Horowitz paid controversial Jesse Helms advisers to advise him</b>
David Horowitz -- the right-wing pundit who has recently sought to defend himself against charges of racism by baselessly branding one of his critics, radio host Al Franken, a "racist" -- paid nearly $300,000 to Rotterman & Associates, a Republican media consulting firm that helped run the racially divisive campaigns of former Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), a review of the tax filings of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture shows.
The financial records tying Horowitz to the Helms political machine specify only that the payments to Rotterman were for "consultant" services to Horowitz's center. In North Carolina, Marc and Karen Rotterman, who head Rotterman & Associates, have worked for Republican campaigns using race- and gay-baiting political tactics.
Horowitz has penned a series of racially provocative attacks that have caused critics to conclude he is a bigot, including an August 16, 1999, column for Salon.com titled "Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do," a February 2001 campaign to publish an ad titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea -- and Racist Too" in college newspapers across the country, and his 1999 book, Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes.
More recently, in a January 26 posting on the History News Network website about "Why I Am Not Celebrating" the 90th birthday of the African-American historian John Hope Franklin, the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University and chairman of President Clinton's Commission on Race, Horowitz referred to Franklin as "the most honored and generally revered African American historian of slavery," then attacked Franklin's response to his anti-reparations ad by characterizing his writing as that of "a racial ideologue rather than a historian" and "almost pathological." In the piece, Horowitz, who has no academic credentials as a historian, sought to defend his claim that "free blacks and the free descendants of blacks" benefited from slavery.
Through it all, Horowitz has sought to portray himself as a strong supporter of civil rights. In a November 30, 2004, column, he wrote that "there is no single cause -- except America's wars against totalitarian foes -- to which I have devoted myself more consistently that than that of racial equality. Not a shred of evidence exists to the contrary."
Horowitz is president and co-founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC) and the editor-in-chief of FrontPageMag.com, the CSPC's online journal. The center's agenda includes right-wing campus organizing and opposing affirmative action programs. CSPC is classified by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) public charity. As such, the organization must file a Form 990 with the IRS every year, in which it is required to disclose, among other things, the top five independent contractors to which it has paid more than $50,000 for "professional services." CSPC's Form 990s for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 reveal that the organization paid Rotterman & Associates $167,417 in 2003 and $121,193 in 2002 for "consultant" services...........
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