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Alex [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Alex [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:28:57 +0000

Hoyt,

Did you do any research on the organizations I named?

You'll find verification of my claim there.

All you need do is a little homework.

Can you give positive proof that you have four liberal, journalist friends?

Don't throw around numbers unless you can prove them.

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:12:33 +0000

>>>>>>Alex writes: "This blog has gone so far afield, it's probably time that I made my final post here. ... An objective observer of liberal bias in the media need look no further than today's column by Jeff Wilson of the Associated Press on the death of former President Ford."

So you're bummed this dialogue has gone so far afield (note that I have kept very much to the same point/s), but then you bring a story about Ford into it!? That's rich.

Hey, since this is your final post here, I'll just go ahead and assume that you are patently unable to verify your claim that there are zero registered Republicans teaching at the Cal Berkeley law school. I'll assume too that your pal Smails cannot verify that 95% of all professors are registered Democrats.*

What I'd still like to know, though, is why you toss around numbers like that in the first place?

* I'll give both of your the benefit of the doubt on cross dressing. You sure seem like real men to me.

Alex [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Alex [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:11:28 +0000

As and addendum to my final post on this subject, several studies of liberal bias on elite campuses were made by groups called "Accuracy in Academia" and the "American Enterprise Institute"

Contributors to the findings of these groups were Judith Reisman, Joseph Sobran, Dinesh D'souza, Thomas Sowell, and John Howard, all distinguished authors, lecturers, columnists, and professors. Also, all are admitted and unrepentant conservatives.

There findings confirm that not only Cal Berkeley but many other elite universities had zero percent of the faculties in the so-called social sciences as professed conservatives.

These findings do not in any way surprise me, but I am sure Hoyt will dismiss them as right-wing propaganda.

Alex [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Alex [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:38:55 +0000

Hoyt,

This blog has gone so far afield, it's probably time that I made my final post here.

I see that you still won't admit your strong liberal bias, and I don't blame you that good piece of judgment.

But you see, Hoyt, you don't have to. Your propensity for blockheadedness and personally insulting invective gives you away.

An objective observer of liberal bias in the media need look no further than today's column by Jeff Wilson of the Associated Press on the death of former President Ford.

It is so slanted that it is almost funny. Mr. Ford has not been President for thirty years but one would never know it by Wilson's column.

Maybe Jeff Wilson is as protective of his privacy as your four liberal journalist friends. He might tell anyone who asked about his voting preference that it was none of the business, but, really, can there be any doubt?

As for cross-dressing, I don't know a thing about that subject, so I'll defer to your expertise. I suppose it takes one to know one.

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:05:35 +0000

>>>>>Alex wrote: "It is an article of faith in the national press that 93% of African-Americans(I really dislike that hyphenated description)vote for the Democratic candidates. No one ever polls them individually..."

Of course not, you're talking about a HUGE, ever-changing number of people - a group of people we are not discussing, by the way. What I want to know about is where you got your VERY specific number (zero) of registered Republicans teaching at the Cal Berkeley law school. And I'd still like to know where your friend Smails learned that 95% of all professors are registered Democrats. Note that he did not say "a majority are liberal" or "a minority hold conservative views" or anything of the kind. No, he wrote that 95% of all professors are registered Democrats. (You know, I suspect that 94.6% of the time statistics from the likes of you two are just used to wow mush brains.)

>>>>>Alex wrote: "Several studies of political leanings of academia have been done by groups from all segments of the political spectrum. Usually they are done by investigation of voting registration rolls and secondarily by polling."

Great. Which one of these studies showed that there are zero registered Republicans teaching at the Cal Berkeley law school?

>>>>>Alex wrote: "Finally, I find it strange that your liberal journalist acquaintances would be adamantly opposed to divulging their voting choices, but that somehow you know that they are in fact liberal."

Well, they divulged their voting preferences (and other twisted preferences, I might add) to me over many beers over many years. Old friends do that.

>>>>>Alex wrote: "Hoyt, I notice that thus far you haven't proudly stated that you are a liberal."

And I notice you haven't proudly stated that you are a cross dresser but that doesn't make you one. Does it?

Alex [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Alex [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:12:38 +0000

Hoyt,

It is an article of faith in the national press that 93% of African-Americans(I really dislike that hyphenated description)vote for the Democratic candidates.

No one ever polls them individually, it is assumed by the demographic structure of wards and precincts and the results of the vote in those wards and precincts that black voters cast their ballots in that manner.

Several studies of political leanings of academia have been done by groups from all segments of the political spectrum. Usually they are done by investigation of voting registration rolls and secondarily by polling.

The number that reply is normally about 60%. From these results, inferences are naturally made since there can never be any proof positive about what anyone does in a secret ballot.

Finally, I find it strange that your liberal journalist acquaintances would be adamantly opposed to divulging their voting choices, but that somehow you know that they are in fact liberal.

My take on that subject is that since you are a liberal, they don't have a problem with sharing their liberal bias with you, but would not want it revealed to any outsider who MIGHT not be of like mind. I personally have never met a liberal left-winger who would admit it. They are all "moderates", "middle-of-the-roaders", "in the mainstream".

Do you have that same difficulty getting a conservative to admit his political leanings? I don't think so. I admit my conservative proclivity. Hoyt, I notice that thus far you haven't proudly stated that you are a liberal.

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:09:06 +0000

>>>>Judge Smails wrote: "I'm not going to do legwork for people on message boards. I write commentary, thus, it is my business to know these things, and I endeavor to be accurate when disseminating statistics."

AH! You write commentary! On the Internet! Under a fake name. And you "endeavor to be accurate." Well, how silly of me then to question you when you pull some "facts" out of your rump!

>>>>>"One of my editors used to occupy a lofty position in an Ivy League institution, however, he decided to resign from it and enter the private sector partially because of the leftist environment that prevailed. He once related a story about how he was shouted down at a faculty meeting simply because he expressed a politically incorrect opinion. He remarked to me that most academics are 'wretched' people."

Gosh, given that you endeavor to be accurate, I believe 100% (not 99.43%) that this happened and was not just imagined to help make your point (indeed your whole worldview) seem more credible!

>>>>"... in 1992, 86% of Washington journalists voted for Bill Clinton; in 1996 the percentage was 92. ... I can assure you it's accurate."

I know you you endeavor to be accurate, but I do not believe your statistics. I know 4 Washington journalists, and yes they are all liberal. However, none were ever surveyed on how they voted. And, to a man (eek! They're all white men - the dreaded limo libs!), they each told me that, if they HAD BEEN "surveyed" on who they had voted, they would have told the surveyor it's no one's damn business who they vote for.

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] in response to: Michelle Wie accepted at Stanford; writers pick Woods, Ochoa, Haas as players of the year

Hoyt Decker [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:58:56 +0000

>>>Alex writes: "I get the feeling that you may actually think that some sort of diversity or even-tempered neutrality exists on elite campuses. Such diversity or neutrality does not exist in the world of academia. ... For some reason, you appear to be in denial of this fact."

I'm not in denial that diversity or neutrality does not exist in the world of academia. But you wrote that at Cal Berkeley "the number of registered Republicans teaching at that law school is ZERO." I just want to know where this stat comes from? And I want you to substantiate your charge that the number of registered Republicans teaching at Cal Berkeley's law school is zero? But you can't, can you?