Hannity & Colmes, David Horowitz, UC- Santa Cruz

PIT BULLS VS HOROWITZ

Exposing Academic Extremists Unleashes Anti-FOX Squad







When it comes to criticism of the extreme left's collegiate strongholds, our so- called "progressive" friends sure have thin skins.

Merely for denouncing one of America's most outrageous examples of taxpayer- funded campus radicalism gone amok, Frontpage founder and ex- leftist author David Horowitz has stirred up a mini anti- FOX attack squad.

First, here's the clip of Horowitz appearing on Hannity & Colmes Friday night, placed on YouTube by News Hounds, an anti- FOX News Channel website:





And from the News Hounds post on this segment:

In a true moment of McCarthyism, admitted traitor David Horowitz, who has NO academic credentials, joined college drop-out Sean Hannity to declare the University of California at Santa Cruz as the worst school in America. Not because the students aren’t learning but because Horowitz felt its faculty and courses were too anti-capitalism and pro-communism. Unfortunately for Horowitz, his hypocritical bias was exposed by Alan Colmes.

Horowitz’ treasonous past was not revealed to viewers, nor were they informed that the evaluation of UCSC was coming from someone without any credentials and being endorsed by a co-host who never finished college, either. Nevertheless, FOX News presented Horowitz as an expert without any balancing guest who might have cast doubt on his credibility.

Horowitz cared not a fig about the school’s academic capabilities. He even acknowledged that the UCSC has a “world class astronomy department, it’s got a first rate physics department, it’s got professional schools which are terrific. The problem at UCSC is the liberal arts college which is just an indoctrination and recruitment center for far left ideologues.”

In other words, politics trumps scholasticism in Horowitz’ evaluations.

Horowitz’ proffered evidence that the liberal arts college is an “indoctrination and recruitment center” was the fact that the women’s studies department has been renamed the “Feminist Studies Department.” Horowitz claimed that the department’s “guiding light” and “architect,” Bettina Aptheker, is “a well known American communist who supported the Soviet Empire until after the fall of the Berlin Wall.” A quick look at their website makes it clear that Aptheker is not the chair of the department. Nevertheless, Horowitz, who just proved that academics took a back seat to politics in his own standards, complained, “It’s politics conducted by other means.”

By focusing on personal attacks against Horowitz and Hannity, News Hounds is clearly attempting to skirt the issue itself. Is UCSC a hotbed for campus extremism, indoctrination and taxpayer- funded radicalism?

Our lefty friends believe Hannity and Horowitz aren't qualified to answer that question. But the latter has been studying the left for decades, since his own personal conversion from that philosophy, writing extensively about UC- Santa Cruz and other extremist strongholds in academia.

In fact, in a new FrontPage piece, Horowitz and Jacob Lacksin provide a number of excellent examples of just why the campus has gone off the deep end.

And during the segment, it was Colmes that was confused, not Hannity or Horowitz. What he thought was "redbaiting" on the part of Horowitz was in fact a mere statement of fact, since some of UCSC's professors have quite openly been members of the Communist Party USA in the past.


As a UCSC grad, your Radio Equalizer not only knows that Horowitz was right on the mark with every point he made, but can also answer Alan's question as to whether courses with a radical political agenda are actually required of students in order to graduate.

The answer, of course, is a big YES, since incoming freshman are forced to take "core courses" sponsored by their particular colleges, regardless of one's intended major. These courses seem built around re-education, working to convince students that everything they've learned to that point in their lives is dead wrong.


In the Hannity & Colmes segment, however, a major point was missed: why hasn't Governor Schwarzenegger done anything to clean up the mess that has become the University of California system? Between widespread corruption in executive compensation to taxpayer- funded radicalism, Arnold has been asleep at the switch.

And here's one for everyone in this debate: why does the public sector insist upon rewarding poor performance? UC- Santa Cruz, for example, has added thousands of students in recent years. In response, the city of Santa Cruz is aggressively fighting further campus expansion, which has led to a lawsuit by the university.

In the end, this is the key question: why are taxpayers on the hook for what Horowitz correctly labels one of America's worst universities?


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