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I watched a little of this last night…what a circus Ward Feather Fondler Churchill is. His carefully managed appearance, strategically grey-streaked hair and total disrespect for the families of Sept. 11th…his attitudes toward teaching should cause every parent to HIGHLY discourage their kids from attending CU.

WASHINGTON - If people expected to see a bloody clash between a fire-breathing leftist and a ranting right-winger, that was some other monster movie.

Instead, two equally controversial men - liberal University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and conservative author David Horowitz - put on a genial display of good manners and polysyllabic brilliance Thursday night in a much-hyped debate about ideology in the classroom.

I didn’t hear any yelling or name calling per say. But there is something very sinister about the Feather Fondler.

The night’s question: Can politics be taken out of the classroom - and should it be?

Horowitz unleashed the first attack, prefacing it with the remark: “The answer is, yes it should and of course it can’t.”

He then lashed out at the liberal elites he believes have hijacked academia. He denounced women’s studies programs as little more than recruiting grounds for “radical feminists.” He denounced “social justice” teachings as socialist indoctrination. And he decried classroom mention of “institutional racism” as “the fantasy of the left.”

“Whole fields have developed,” Horowitz argued. “They are ideological fields. They are not academic fields.”

The bottom line about teachers, he said, is “you don’t get a lifetime job for expressing an opinion. You get a lifetime job for having an expertise.”

Makes sense.

Churchill spent little time discussing his own case, but said such inquiries into academic standards only seem to happen when someone dares question the status quo or officially sanctioned “predetermined truth.”

He said teaching critical thinking requires professors to inject their unique points of view.

“There is no consensus. There is no homogeneity. There is no truth, and that is what the issue here is,” he said.

If people think there’s a calibrated machine that spits out all the objective, true answers, “This is a myth,” he said. “It is a myth that precludes critical thought.”

Uhhh….what planet is he from?? Does this make sense? Sounds like he smoked something besides a cigar prior to this debate. What a freak.

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