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Friday, April 11, 2003
Hiding behind the First Amendment
When it comes to great comic relief in Congress there is no bigger clown than the apoplectic JD Hayworth (he's the potential stroke candidate on the left) of Arizona .If you've never seen him on TV you're really missing out. Imagine Mike Ditka having a massive cerebral hemorrhage...but funny. That's JD. The good people of the Arizona's 5th Congressional District in their wisdom thought the local news sports guy was the just kind of guy they wanted representing them in Congress based on his ability to intone important imformation like "The Diamondbacks lost a heartbreaker today, falling to the Reds 3-1 at the Bob...". As they say, you get the government that you deserve...
That's why I particularly enjoyed his letter to Lee Bollinger of Columbia University demanding that Bollinger fire assistant professor Nicholas DeGenova over his comments about the American military. I particularly enjoyed this quote from his letters to his "colleagues" asking them to sign too:
While Columbia President Lee Bollinger chided DeGenova for his comments, he is apparently not going to take any further action. Instead, he hides behind academic freedom and the first amendment, saying that, “Assistant Professor Nicholas DeGenova was speaking as an individual at a teach-in. He was exercising his right to free speech.”
Which prompts this question: So what? The question is not whether DeGenova has the right to make idiotic comments - he surely does as do we all - but whether he has the right to a job teaching at Columbia University after making such comments.
JD...the Patron Saint of Idiotic Comments
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