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<p class="first">We take you back now to Feb. 9, 1950, when Sen. Joe
McCarthy gave a speech to the Republican women�s club in Wheeling, W.Va., about
the Communist menace.</p>
<p>He whipped out a piece of paper and yelled, �I have here in my hand a
list of 205 people that were known to the secretary of state as being members of
the Communist Party, and who, nevertheless, are still working and shaping the
policy of the State Department.�<BR /><BR />The list was actually a group of
employees who were being monitored for poor job performance.</p>



<p>Even though there eventually proved to be Communists in the federal

government, McCarthy was censured after failing to prove anything with his mostly
misdirected tirades.<BR /><BR />That right-wing dissemblers such as Ann Coulter
have lately attempted to rehabilitate McCarthy demonstrates the poverty of modern
discourse. How do you deal with people who think George Orwell�s �1984� is an
instruction manual, not a satire?<BR /><BR />Why, you accept their every word
uncritically, if you�re a member of Pennsylvania�s General Assembly.</p>



<p>The state House is setting up a committee to investigate whether

professors at state universities are giving students unfair grades because of what
a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story calls �differing political ideologies.�<BR
/><BR />Horrors! Evil liberal professors are trying to keep the next generation of
Sean Hannitys from reaching their full blossom.<BR /><BR />That it�s possible for
students and professors to have ideological disagreements is not only obvious,
it�s desirable � it means the students are paying attention and the professors are
engaging them.<BR /><BR />I can even imagine the worst � a political science
professor who voted for Kerry downgrading an essay submitted by a Bush-supporting
student. What I can�t imagine is why the state Legislature needs to be involved in
such a dispute.<BR /><BR />Because once you start beating this particular gnat
with that particular sledgehammer, you�re going to end up with parades of D
students giving testimony on the evils of liberal professors. What you won�t hear
a lot of them say is that the real reason for the bad grade is that they skipped a
midterm to get an early start on spring break.<BR /><BR />This campaign is being
promoted here and in other states by Students for Academic Freedom. It�s led by
David Horowitz, who has made a career out of badgering the usual suspects: the so-
called liberal media, liberal professors, liberal Hallmark cards, liberal Hummel
figurines and so on.<BR /><BR />I would like to point out that this David Horowitz
is no relation to a man of the same name who had a consumer advocacy TV program in
the 1970s. Although the Horowitz in question doesn�t deliberately trade on this
confusion, I�ve noticed it works in his favor when he�s peddling his papers to
people who don�t know him.<BR /><BR />As to the matter at hand, accusations of
instructors� political bias affecting their work tend to be anecdotal at best and
maliciously false at worst. Which side is represented by Horowitz and his group?
<BR /><BR />We can get a hint from another Horowitz endeavor,
DiscoverTheNetwork.org. This is a website that purports to expose the vast left-
wing conspiracy so that America can protect itself from this shady network that
controls... what? The media, run by such socialists as Rupert Murdoch, Michael
Eisner and Sumner Redstone? The federal government? The military? The weather?
That would explain why only red states are being pummeled by Hurricane Dennis,
anyway. (It�s a joke, David.)<BR /><BR />Click on �Individuals� when you reach
this website and you�re given a rogue�s gallery of mug shots implying unsavory
connections among Fidel Castro, George Clooney, Roger Ebert, John Kerry, Sheik
Omar Abdel Rahman and Erica Jong. Now you know why I started this column by
talking about McCarthyism.<BR /><BR />Horowitz already has made a dry run in
Pennsylvania by tangling with Michael Bérubé, a literature professor
at Penn State. After challenging Bérubé to an e-mail debate on the
topic �Is the Left in Bed With Terrorists?� for Horowitz�s Front Page Magazine,
its website cut responses by Bérubé that clearly topped Horowitz�s
assertions � then accused Bérubé of not responding.<BR /><BR
/>Eventually the site restored Bérubé �s comments. Later,
Bérubé received his very own individual page at
DiscoverTheNetwork.org, which depicts him essentially doing the job the university
pays him to do.<BR /><BR />I�m willing to concede Horowitz�s main point � there
are lots of liberal college professors. So what? Does Horowitz want affirmative
action for right-wingers in tweed blazers?<BR /><BR />I could be persuaded that
way if he could simultaneously make a similar arrangement for career fields in
which liberals are not well represented. The CEO class is remarkably overrun with
conservatives, for starters. Given today�s CEO salaries, feel free to pick me as a
leveling influence.<BR /><BR />And I recently read that Democratic senators got 4
million more votes in 2004 as a group than did Republican senators. Sounds like
some sort of a corrective is called for there as well.<BR /><BR />I hold in my
hand the names of 203 state representatives who need to do more research before
they waste any taxpayer funds on the Horowitz crusade.</p>


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