JOURNALISM PROFESSOR CALLS FOR FIRING SQUAD, MISSILE ATTACKS ON NRA.

UPDATE: Some background from Bryan Preston.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Mockery from reader Kevin O’Brien:

He writes: “But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.”

One would think a Card Carrying Journalist™ would be able to distinguish between a Cretan and a cretin. Evidently not.

(One is a resident of a large Greek island. The other, it seems, is a professor at a university best known for its football squad. NTTAWWT).

Extra credit: diagram that sentence.

And there’s this: “Except it won’t be a boot. It’ll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won’t do them any good.”

Er, Hellfire missile isn’t used by the F22. And I don’t know where he gets the idea that RPGs are widespread among the Americans he hates (or is it the Cretans? I don’t think they have RPGs either).

If this guy thinks he’s propping up the anti-gun, for-renewing-AWB-before-he-was-agin’-it, “background checks”-as-registration Manchin, well… I bet Joe doesn’t want the propping.

But politics aside, shouldn’t a professor of anything be able to express himself in English? STEM grad assistants, maybe not, but a full professor? Of Journalism, lord love a duck?

There’s a reason the higher education bubble is popping.

MORE: Another reader emails: “Headline: Journalism Prof Swindell insults Greeks: Academic cretin has Greek Parliament in uproar.”

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REALLY? DOJ: Social Media Posts Trashing Muslims May Violate Civil Rights.

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:

Nose of the camel. This is the same BS that speech control advocates have successfully implemented in Canada and the UK. The pushback on this should be very hard. Out of curiosity, someone should ask the Holder which of the amendments in the Bill of Rights his DoJ is willing to uphold. This is the same fellow who wanted to pledge his troth to our fundamental rights…off the record? Sure.

The IRS and DoJ certainly seem in need of thorough house cleaning.

Indeed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Background: DoJ official refuses to denounce demands for Saudi-style blasphemy law.

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THIS WHOLE THING IS LOOKING KINDA FISHY: FBI reviewing Todashev shooting amid family’s accusations.

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YA THINK? Boy, the head of the IRS went to the White House a lot. “Last week, conservatives were saying that former IRS head Douglas Shulman had been to the White House 118 times, while his predecessor had visited the Bush era White House only once. I didn’t write about it because I idly assumed that this reflected some underlying change in administration management style or legislative priorities; perhaps, for example, he’d been there talking about Obamacare implementation and changes in tax enforcement. But the Daily Caller has now compiled a list of White House visits by various administration officials, and Shulman sure does seem to visit a lot more than other folks. . . . Though I don’t think that the administration was involved in some sinister conspiracy, I do think that conservatives have legitimate reason not to trust that the laws of the land are being impartially applied to them. This sort of thing doesn’t help. The administration needs to move to restore confidence by being as open and transparent as possible.”

You keep ignoring these scandals, assuming that this is just paranoia over something for which there is a simple straightforward explanation. Well, each time it turns out that there is a simple, straightforward explanation. But . . . .

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