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Marshall University Journalism Professor Expresses Violent Fantasies Against NRA

Posted on | June 2, 2013 | 62 Comments

Professor Christopher Swindell rants in February 2011 YouTube video

America’s university faculty lounges harbor totalitarians, and Christopher Swindell, Ph.D., is a campus commissar of communications at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. His field of expertise apparently includes Hating Right-Wingers 101:

Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.

Coherent sentences are optional for Professor Swindell:

This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.

(He means “cretin,” unless the professor or his spell-check program intend an insult to residents of the Greek island of Crete.)

And no matter how many times Sen. Joe Manchin tries to explain his compromise (a decent attempt thwarted by extremists), the hard right lies and foams. The repeated lies now seem like the truth, what with the likes of Sen. Kelly Ayotte telling them.
Probably the most serious miscalculation opponents make is the guest list for the NRA speaker’s podium. To let the half-wit half-term quitter Sarah Palin have a microphone is to alienate the very people Republicans need to work with on future legislation. To say nothing of the other speakers. . . .

A journalism professor wrote this ranting gibberish? I’ve seen better prose in the comments at Daily Kos. Eventually, Professor Swindell gets around to making his point — The Glorious People’s Army must crush this reactionary insurrection of the kulak saboteurs!

The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That’s treason, and it’s worthy of the firing squad. . . .
Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.
To turn the song lyric they so love to quote back on them, “We’ll put a boot in your —, it’s the American way.”
Except it won’t be a boot. It’ll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won’t do them any good.

Do Professor Swindell’s colleagues on the Marshall University journalism faculty approve these sentiments? Do the taxpayers of West Virginia know that they’re paying this semi-literate clown to teach journalism to their young people? I’m sure readers will be shocked — shocked! — to discover that Professor Swindell agrees with Charles Johnson:

“Stop treating climate change as a myth. Good conservatives should abandon leaders who take this settled issue and kick it like a political football.”

That’s from Professor Swindell’s 2011 YouTube rant entitled, “Why we’re not getting along.” Of course, he’s a semi-literate journalism professor and not a climate scientist, but I’m sure “good conservatives” won’t mind letting Christopher Swindell, Ph.D., tell them who their leaders should be, just like I’m sure the taxpayers of West Virginia don’t mind paying the salary of a professor whose environmental agenda would effectively shut down the coal industry.

One of the few sane men left in academia sees this as further proof of the Higher Education Bubble. More commentary at Weasel Zippers and Twitchy. Background reading from Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler.

 

 


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62 Responses to “Marshall University Journalism Professor Expresses Violent Fantasies Against NRA”

  1. darlingdelilah
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:45 am

    @smitty_one_each It’s violent fantasies against any students he has that happen to be conservative as well! #MarshallUniversity’s sick freak

  2. Guest
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:51 am
  3. robertstacymccain
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:54 am

    Now, now: We’re arguing about the professor’s bad ideas, not about his bad dietary habits.

  4. jsn2
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:58 am

    That clown must have earned his Ph.D from the Barnum and Bailey U. The same one that teaches the monkeys to ride bikes and walk tightropes.

  5. WJJ Hoge
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:58 am

    As others will no doubt point out, the Hellfire missile is not among the weapons carried by the F22.

    Based on my experience with armed federal employees, the weapon most likely to be abused is a .40 Glock or Sig. I’m not worried about the guy who drive M1As.

  6. Phineas T. Barnum
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:01 pm

    There’s now way that yahoo could even meet our entrance requirements for training as a bozo.

  7. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:03 pm

    If climate change is not an “end of days scenario” then why do idiots like Swinden care so much about it? Michael Chrichton and Bjorn Lomborg are right, climate change is happening (to some extent), but it is probably not driven as much by CO2 as people think (a lot of it is solar cycles), it is not a catastrophic issue, and throwing trillions on it is fool hardy and hurts the environment by denying money better spent on habitat preservation or other social needs.

  8. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:04 pm

    Or his fashion choices.

  9. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:05 pm

    Hey, don’t disparage Barnum and Bailey U. Teaching monkeys to ride bikes and walk tightropes is useful.

  10. Dianna Deeley
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:10 pm

    At least amusing!

  11. WJJ Hoge
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:14 pm

    If his fashion choices matched his politics, wouldn’t that shirt would be brown?

  12. Susan Valentine
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:42 pm

    Susan Valentine liked this on Facebook.

  13. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:44 pm

    Good point!

  14. JeffWeimer
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:48 pm

    He then went into the comments and was rather nasty to the commenters. You can’t see them anymore because he went back and deleted them.

  15. keyboard jockey
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:51 pm

    He’s never heard of oath keepers? First he’s got to convince the U.S. Military to fire on their own citizens. I just don’t see that happening as the U.S. military isn’t made up of his wannabe progressive “ILK” The “trained” U.S. Military is made up of my ILK aka the bitterly clinging.

  16. keyboard jockey
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:53 pm

    http://oathkeepers.org/oath/ Check em out. Do they look like they would fire on U.S. citizens, because a semi literate wacko told them to?

  17. Finrod Felagund
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 12:57 pm

    The question the climate change acolytes never can answer is: why has the world’s average temperature not risen at all since 1998?

  18. richard mcenroe
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 1:10 pm

    Journalism majors are recognized to be the only “professional” major drawn from a lower academic grade of applicants than “education” majors,

  19. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 1:11 pm

    You are obvious a denial hatey hater for even bringing up that issue.

  20. richard mcenroe
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 1:11 pm

    If he’s that convinced the military will turn on us, maybe he should enlist. Surely he would want to do his bit.

  21. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 1:12 pm

    Screen shots are always advisable when dealing with doughy slightly effeminate lefty professors.

  22. keyboard jockey
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

    He couldn’t pass ASVAB 🙂

  23. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 2:07 pm

    Prof Christopher Swindell likes to dish it out but does not take criticism very well. Calling for NRA members to be shot by a firing squad? Marshall should consider banning him from campus for being a potential danger to other students and faculty. If Marshall cares about campus safety, they would let other student and faculty be armed just in case this Swindell goes “off.”

  24. Adjoran
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 2:25 pm

    A couple were preserved over at Ace.

  25. Adjoran
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 2:27 pm

    As with most “Schools of Journalism,” the faculty is comprised of wannabes who couldn’t make it in the English Department. Few if any have ever actually worked as a journalist at all.

    In this fellow’s case, it is evident his ignorance isn’t confined to English and journalism.

  26. robertstacymccain
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 2:30 pm

    One gets the impression that academia is no longer about imparting knowledge, but rather is about indoctrinating youth in the appropriate attitudes, among them, disdain for Sarah Palin.

  27. jsn2
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 2:31 pm

    I stand corrected. You can’t believe anything you read at Whitehouse.gov.

    His Ph.D. is an honorary degree from the Carnival Barker University main campus located in the Nairobi slum of Kibera and awarded by the Resist We Much professor of ignorant leftist bullshit, Al Sharpton and his pet monkey’s Uncle Buck.

  28. ChandlersGhost
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 2:32 pm

    Illiteracy combined with high self-esteem. Sounds like a typical academic.

  29. Mike G.
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 3:14 pm

    I’ll tell you what it’s called…it’s been the same for the entire history of the world. It’s called weather and it changes. Get used to it.

  30. Richard McEnroe
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 3:37 pm

    He couldn’t pass thru the recruiter’s doorway.

  31. Richard. McEnroe
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 3:42 pm

    I’ve met Oathkeepers. Swindell looks more like an oven keeper, if Obama gives him a uniform and a chance. IKYWIMAITYD

  32. Wombat_socho
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 4:23 pm

    With a red tie!

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  34. BruceC
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 4:50 pm

    Isn’t “slightly effeminate lefty professors” kinda redundant?

  35. Becca Lower
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 5:11 pm

    (He means “cretin,” unless the professor or his spell-check program intend an insult to residents of the Greek island of Crete.)

    Close. Take a look at the first sentence in the paragraph and the way he spells “Obamar.” He thinks what he’s doing is clever– by making these allusions to unintelligent, redneck RWNJs. But he’s not clever. He can’t write a cogent sentence in English. It’s sad.

  36. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 6:28 pm

    Really? Damn. I hear that there was a mile of ice over New York at one time Good thing those Neanderthals burned so much fossil fuel to melt all that.

  37. Proof
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 9:39 pm

    West Virginians might know about this arse clown and not be able to do anything about it. Remember serial plagiarist Ward Churchill? He was a boil on the backside of Colorado for many years (and law suits) before they could show him the door!

  38. Proof
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 9:43 pm

    “Professor Swindell” ? From his writing skills, maybe passing himself off as an educated man, he meant “Swindle”?

  39. bet0001970
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:32 pm

    I couldn’t find a single comment on that “hot mess” of his that was in support of the professor. Not one. In fact, Swindell kept fabricating threats from commentors in some ridiculous attempt to achieve victimhood status.

    I suspect he is feeling the heat because nobody likes him anymore. And since they have bigger issues to deal with right now (IRS Scandal, Benghazi, “Drones R Us”, Sebelius Blackmailing Scandal, Press Spying Scandal, “Get Ted Cruz Before He Get Us” Campaign), the left isn’t exactly running to defend the professor.

    And he’s being totally obliterated at the WV Gazette.

  40. copper
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:40 pm

    What a fine display of our public education system. A joke, ladies and gentlemen, a joke.

  41. Wombat_socho
    June 2nd, 2013 @ 11:50 pm

    Unfortunately, we’re stuck with the tab.

  42. Kevin M. Koop
    June 3rd, 2013 @ 12:27 am

    Swindell you want my gun grow a pair and come get it yourself you worthless over paid coward! GET A REAL JOB! TYPICAL OVER PAID UNDER WORKED WORTHLESS PUBLIC UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR! THOSE WHO CAN DO, THOSE WHO CAN’T TEACH… UNLIKE YOU I CAN WRITE! KISS MY ASS SWINDELL YOU DOUCHE!

  43. Kevin M. Koop
    June 3rd, 2013 @ 12:30 am

    Oh poor baby! It’s time to shut down these worthless public universities, all of them and tell U.S. management to start training their own prospective employees!

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  45. richard mcenroe
    June 3rd, 2013 @ 1:35 am

    As is a big chunk of the currently civilian bitter clingers. Lessee, TSA goon handed an AR meets a former Marine, Airborne or just plain crunchie with a familiar personal weapon.

    Lotta AR’s gonna change hands in that scenario.

  46. Adjoran
    June 3rd, 2013 @ 2:46 am

    True, and strangely enough, despite all the horrible personal attacks on Palin and her family, it isn’t really personal to them. It’s just that she exemplifies so many of the things they despise. Like family, patriotism, independence, outdoor lifestyle, outspoken for traditional values.

    Academia in America has become the left, and to the left, only the political is personal. But they know no limits, and observe none.

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  48. K-Bob
    June 3rd, 2013 @ 4:08 am

    He is lucky he’s not making those comments in Alabama or Texas, but only barely. West Virginia voted “blue” for one reason, and one reason only: coal.

    For some reason, Biden and barack decided it was a good strategy to kick the miners to the curb. So this guy’s rant is about as timely and useful to the average Mountaineer as the old joke about, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln.”

  49. K-Bob
    June 3rd, 2013 @ 4:11 am

    Well, it singles them out from the “overtly effeminate.”

  50. K-Bob
    June 3rd, 2013 @ 4:18 am

    Here’s a link to the op-ed page for this guy, so folks can see the comments.