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The Blog for Wednesday, April 06, 2005

A National Embarassment

    This is getting embarassing:
    Baxley said the bill will protect the rights of conservative Florida college students, some of whom testified Tuesday about prejudices they say they fell victim to at the hands of liberal professors.

    "I find it humorous that we are pretending our universities are not bastions of liberal thought," said Baxley, who is the chairman of the House Education committee. "Conservative students have to go underground or face retribution."

    In introducing the workshop, Baxley cited several other examples from around the nation, including an anecdote that [conservative activist David] Horowitz used in a column about a University of Northern Colorado student getting an F on an essay after she refused to write about "why George Bush is a war criminal."

    But Horowitz admitted last month on his Web site that the anecdote was untrue, although he did not correct Baxley Tuesday.

    In 2001, Horowitz also caused a stir when he attempted to run an ad titled "Ten reasons why reparations for slavery is a bad idea for blacks — and racist too" in newspapers, many on college campuses.

    The University of Florida and Florida State University were among many student papers nationwide that refused to sell Horowitz space for the ad, which said reparations totaling trillions of dollars have already been paid to blacks through welfare and racial preferences.
    And Jeb!" is of course running and hiding from this idiot? Well ... no:
    Gov. Jeb Bush, when later asked about Baxley's bill, called Horowitz a "fighter for freedom."
    "Conservative champions bill to limit what professors say".

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