Attended a very good event tonight at McGill: a panel discussion with three Montreal-area profs on the current state of U.S. politics: McGill's Gil Troy and Leonard Moore, and a third prof from Concordia who's name escapes me.
As usual, Troy was brilliant, totally outperforming the other two. He was balanced, criticizing and praising the Bush administration at different occasions.
On the other hand, I was pretty disappointed by some of the stuff said by Professor Moore. He sounded like a PR rep for the Democratic National Committee. The saddest part was that he knows some of the stuff he was spewing isn't true.
One that sticks out in my mind is his comment about evangelical Christians electing Bush, saying something about how Bush has the evangelicals to thank this time for winning. That is false.
Moore praised Seymour Hersh, despite the fact that his inaccurate and ideologically-tainted reporting has been discredited on more than one occasion. He also brought out the old Grover Norquist conspiracy card, blaming the GOP anti-tax activist for bringing issues like Social Security privatization to the forefront. Norquist and his sinister "Wednesday morning" meetings of right-wing activists in D.C. are driving Bush's domestic agenda, blah blah blah, he said. The same crap you read in "exposés" in magazines like The Nation and The American Prospect. He even tried to downplay the immensely successful elections in Iraq. (I wish I had taped this thing.)
Conservatives need to take a long, hard look at starting to populate the ranks of academia, because these leftist professors cannot separate their personal views from what they are teaching. And what some of them are teaching is nothing short of propaganda.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 1:06 AM
