The speech was a week ago, but there's so much to talk about
1) Horowitz mentioned that California public universities once had free tuition to every California resident who qualified. Now, the tuition is rising! Horowitz blames this on "overpaid and under-worked professors".
We may want to look into that now that UH tuition might soon go up.
It's so ironic that the Radical Leftists profs claim to care for the poor, yet those same profs want the students to take more core requirements ($$$$) and buy new edition of expensive textbooks ($$$$) . It is the actions of those professors that are hurting low income students. Because of this, more students have to work longer hours just to pay for books and tuition AND students need to take out more loans which they have to pay back.
The Radical Leftist profs claim to care about the poor? Bullshit!
The worse offenders on assigning textbooks were Debra Lieberman (snobbish UC Santa Barbara grad/pscyh prof who assigned 3 textbooks and tested us on pointless, trivial info), and Dr. Foltz (retired English prof who demanded that students keep their textbooks, but I sold em back anyways).
And Tobin Jones defended Dr. Foltz on that? What an ass kisser! And Tobin Jones claimed to care for the low income slum dwellers of Atlanta and Chicago? If those folks were to take Dr Foltz' s class - their $$$ and time would be wasted!
Sociology prof Katherine Irwin assigned a $200 book set ( a rip-off when you see the size of the books) and to make it worse, at the end of the semester, the bookstore wouldn't buy it back. Irwin apologized to the class. Since she's usually a nice lady, I'm optimistic she learned from her mistake.
And for the reward for the nicest prof on textbook savings was Sociology prof Dr. Swift who assigned us small books because he didn't want to over-burden our wallets.
2) Mark Burch on Horowitz
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/23/426a084ba3349?in_archive=1
He was soundly defeated by a courageous group of truth and reality advocates. Every time Horowitz told a lie, he was corrected by an audience member, who then was rudely told to "Shut up!" by demented looking right-wingers.
I saw Burch there, and he wasn't one of the loudest yellers. However, his statement needs examination.
The audience shouldn't interrupt a speaker, even if they dont agree with him/her.
Those rude leftist yellers didn't trust the rest of the audience's ability to figure out what was true and what was crap!
Those "demented looking right-wingers" (Burch's words) were (gasp) trying to get the leftist yellers to (gasp) let Horowitz finish his statements. How dare those "demented looking right-wingers" tell those leftist yellers to (gasp) wait your turn to speak!
A man in the front wanted to ask Horowitz a question. Yet those communist yellers in the back kept yelling at Horowitz. You're dam fucking right someone had to tell those communist yellers to shut up!
Too bad Horowitz left before the man was able to ask the question.
3) Horowitz exxagarting his pain?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=17824&commentID=548565
Date: 4/25/2005 3:40:03 PM
Name: BarFar
Subject: Ill-Bred Professor
Comment:
David, By my count there were three professors at your talk, all three of whom you know. All three were at the breakfast for you that morning. Don't forget us. You did acknowledge the political science professor, but only for her attendance at the nasty un-reception. She also attended the breakfast, and the talk, as did two economists who have been at UH for over 30 years. But in addition to us, you had a significant number of other supporters in the audience. We just aren't as rude, crude, obnoxious, pig-headed, and un-Hawaiian as is the extremist left. The loudest noises any of us made were to cheer you and to shout "Shut up!" at the ugly screamers of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
And a libertarian-leaning friend on my political email list had this to say about that comment above
Aw, geez, why does Horowitz have to hurt his reputation by treating his allies like this? Could it have hurt to mention these professors? Or does he prefer writing up David-and-Goliath scenarios ("I stood alone against the Hawaiian Leftists!")?
