Went out and bought a digital camcorder recently and now I’m doing a full-blown video project on the Left wing folks here and their response to 9/11 and the war on Iraq. As part of that, tonight I went and videotaped a panel hosted by a student group that was about Bush’s policy responses to 9/11. Except for one gentleman (a former professor of mine), it was mostly standard Left wing claptrap including conspiracy theories galore.
What really struck me, however, was the professor they had on the panel to discuss affirmative action. The prof. made the mistake of addressing Bush’s cabinet, which has been touted as having more minorities than any other cabinet in history.
To which our speaker — who is a professor mind you — noted a specific objection and a bizarre meandering observation.
The objection was that while Bush claims to have more minorities in his cabinet than anyone else in history, the reality is that people like Condoleeza Rice are conservatives who oppose affirmative action. Apparently being black and liberal are supposed to be synonymous or there’s something wrong.
Even more bizarre, however, is the professor actually digressed for several minutes about Labor Secretary Linda Chavez. Of course, Elaine Chao is actually the Labor Secretary. Chavez was nominated, but withdrew her name from consideration in January 2001. (And this wasn’t simply a mix-up of names — the context of his comments were clearly about Chavez and her Hispanic heritage).
Oy.