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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.

 

 


Category: Education, Intellectuals

2004: Kaitlyn Hunt’s Father ‘Pressured a Victim Not to File a Battery Charge’

Posted on | June 1, 2013 | 52 Comments

How did Steven R. Hunt Jr. become an ex-cop?

May 21, 2004 — WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. – A police officer involved in a nightclub quarrel resigned after an internal affairs review showed he pressured a victim not to file a battery charge, officials said Thursday.
Sgt. Steve Hunt, who joined the West Melbourne Police Department in 1996, resigned Tuesday after the internal investigation on official misconduct allegations was completed.
Reports show Hunt lied to his supervisors about contacting a man he had gotten into an argument with on Oct. 11 [2003].
The incident happened at the 702 Nightclub in downtown Melbourne, said Sgt. Sean Riordan, spokesman for the Melbourne Police Department.
“It was a disturbance where one person pushed another,” Riordan said. No arrests were made, but West Melbourne investigators found Hunt placed multiple calls to the other man and convinced him not to pursue a battery charge, reports show.

So in 2004, when Kaitlyn was 9, her father got fired as a cop after he “lied to his supervisors” about a “quarrel,” an “argument,” a “disturbance” — as the “incident” is variously described — that took place at a nightclub in Melbourne, and then “pressured a victim.”

And by 2012, he was arrested for fraud.

 

Category: Crime, Florida, Kaitlyn Hunt

FMJRA 2.0: Keine Liebe für den Technischen Support

Posted on | June 1, 2013 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Major thanks to Smitty, without whose help this space would have been completely blank.


Aggravating Circumstances: Against the #FreeKate Campaign for Sexual Anarchy

It’s Early, Turley: Why So Surly? Thy Blame Laundering Doth Make Me Hurly

The Story Too Good to Be True

#FreeKate Lies Rejected by Daily Kos Staffer, and Other New Developments

VIDEO: Saint Kate of the Blessed Finger: ‘Beat Her F–king Ass! Get That Bitch!’

Local PFLAG: ‘The Cry of Discrimination …Does Not Seem to Apply’ in Hunt Case

#FreeKate Lies Unravel; Roman Polanski Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Hiroshima for #FreeKate? Younger Sister Praises Her Mother as ‘F–king Badass’

The Holiday You Forgot

In Search of Liberal ‘Principle,’ and Also: Does #FreeKate Have a Larger Agenda?

Rule 5 Monday

A Definition of Insanity

Our Own Corner Of The Library

Liberal Logic™ — #FreeKate Edition

Quite Possibly the Most Eloquent Sentence of My Entire Journalism Career

Can You Count All the Rationalizations and Lies Offered by Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mom?

New Defense by #FreeKate Defender: ‘But It Would Be Perfectly Legal in Canada!’

The #FreeKate Meltdown Continues

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (17 the hard way)
  2. Da Tech Guy (9)

Lots of folks who just missed the five-link cutoff.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for the next FMJRA is Friday, June 7.


Category: FMJRA Award

Don’t #FreeKate: The Hunt Family’s Hate

Posted on | June 1, 2013 | 41 Comments

Evading responsibility is really what the “Free Kate” movement is all about. Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar has mentioned the  messages between Kaitlyn Hunt and the 14-year-old: She knew it was illegal and she did it anyway. This whole thing is the fault of Kaitlyn and her family, as I explained in a comment earlier today:

There was a troll commenter on an earlier post — who got zapped by Wombat before I could reply to her idiocy. Her argument included this:

“There has to be a different way to treat these cases. Punish, yes. At 18 ruin all their chances of leading a useful life, no. … Not all states punish offenders like Kate the way Florida does. Kate was not offered a good deal and sex offender registry still loomed as a possibility. … She needs to pay her debt to society but not be burned at the stake of public opinion.”

Well, who was it that decided to appeal this case to the Court of Public Opinion?
Who was it that put up Facebook posts and a Change.org petition that deliberately misrepresented key facts in the case (including the ages of the two girls) and made Kate Hunt’s sterling character — a “model student,” according to her mother — a central part of the argument for leniency?
As I have said before but will say again: This was just a commonplace local cops-and-courts story until Kelley and Steve Hunt decided to turn Precious Kate into a poster girl for the gay-rights movement. By the time I even noticed this story (May 22), there were already more than 200,000 signatures on that “Free Kate” petition, which was crammed full of lies and perforated by omissions of basic facts. If the truth about this case had been known from the beginning — if the Hunt family hadn’t lied, and if liberals hadn’t stupidly repeated their lies — there never would have been a “story” here for me to cover.
Now that I am covering it, I find myself accused of trying to have Kaitlyn Hunt “burned at the stake” when — as anyone can see — it was Kaitlyn and her family who have sown the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. It was Kaitlyn’s crime that caused this. It was Kaitlyn’s family’s lies that made it a national story. It was Kaitlyn’s refusal to accept the plea deal that now has her facing a court date for a felony in which her admission of guilt is already a matter of public record.
At every step of the way, Kaitlyn and her family were in control of their own destiny, faced with choices between right and wrong AND THEY DID THE WRONG THING EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Hey, you should have taken the plea deal, sweetheart. Don’t blame me for the consequences.

Let’s not forget that Kaitlyn’s mother Kelley Hunt Smith named the parents of the 14-year-old nine times in her deceitful May 17 Facebook post, deliberately unleashing hell against that family:

Ah, but the monstrously vindictive Hunts are crying “mercy” now.

Too late . . . Oops!

Learn the truth at SupportHonesty.net.

 


Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt

World’s Youngest Blogger: Resist This, Rachel Maddow!

Posted on | June 1, 2013 | 6 Comments

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

You Stay Classy, Cleveland!

Posted on | June 1, 2013 | 23 Comments

My wife’s family is from northern Ohio, where the nightly local news is like a continuing education lesson on Reasons to Avoid Cleveland:

. . . what happened at a kindergarten graduation in Cleveland. What started as two teens fighting over spilled juice led to the families getting involved and eventually turned into a riot. Police were called when one participant pulled out a hammer and another pulled out a pipe, though authorities are unsure whether they were brought to the graduation or found while the riot was happening.
In the end, eight people were arrested and charged with aggravated rioting. . . .

More — including video — at Viral Read.

 

Category: Crime, Ohio

‘Honey, I Blew $200 Million’

Posted on | June 1, 2013 | 11 Comments

Halsey Minor and his second wife, Shannon, in 2008

CNET founder Halsey Minor files for bankruptcy
— Los Angeles Times

CNET Founder Halsey Minor Bankrupt
5 Years After Firm’s $1.8 Billion Sale
— Daily Finance

How Halsey Minor Blew Tech Fortune on Way to Bankruptcy
— Bloomberg

Famous Tech Entrepreneur
Halsey Minor Declares Bankruptcy
— ViralRead

The headlines pretty much tell the story, but the details are interesting: Halsey Minor is a Virginia aristocrat of such illustrious heritage that at his alma mater the University of Virginia, two campus buildings — Minor Hall and Halsey Hall — are named for his ancestors. Where did everything go wrong for the dot-com bad boy?

In 1999, Fortune magazine’s list of “40 Richest Americans Under 40? had Minor at No. 31 with an estimated net worth of $354.1 million. He divorced his first wife in 2006 and quickly re-married to the ex-wife of Hollywood producer Marc Gurvitz. A 2008 profile showed Minor with the blonde second wife, Shannon, leaning on his shoulder and called him “The Baddest Boy in Silicon Valley.”
In 2008, Minor sold the company he founded, CNET, to CBS in a deal valued at $1.8 billion, from which Minor’s haul was reportedly $200 million. Minor then went on a spending spree — he called it “investment” — that looked an awful lot like a mid-life crisis. He bought hotels and mansions and race horses. He also frequently found himself in legal disputesover unpaid bills, hassles that included losing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit to Sotheby’s auction house. It was reported last year that he and his new blonde wife owed the state of California more than $10 million in unpaid income taxes. . . .

Read the whole thing (and watch the video) at Viral Read.

 


Category: Economics

Local PFLAG: ‘The Cry of Discrimination …Does Not Seem to Apply’ in Hunt Case

Posted on | May 31, 2013 | 49 Comments

Feb. 16 mug shot of accused sex offender Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt

The local chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) refuses to support accused sex offender Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt:

PFLAG of Vero Beach has received questions and comments regarding the controvery involving the two young ladies in Sebastian.
We have been watching the developments in this case since it was brought to our attention. PFLAG of Vero Beach cannot enter into the controversy for the following reason. We have not been able to find where the charges brought against this unfortunate young lady are inspired by homophobia, or are in any way anti-LGBTQ. . . .
The cry of discrimination, unless more facts come out, does not seem to apply here. Some very simple research yields cases where heterosexual kids have been arrested and prosecuted under the same law.

When this news was reported online Friday by South Florida Gay News, the article was quickly deleted, but the Google cache still exists. Probably this is evidence of the kind of pressures for movement solidarity that were reported earlier this week by a local TV station:

Two local gay men who “held high ranking positions in a Treasure Coast LGBT advocacy group” quit over the issue, according to a report Tuesday by WPEC-TV’s Peter Schaller, who quoted one of the men: “Some folks in the community, in that organization, were supporting Kate and would not hear the voice of reason… . I resigned as a result of two members in particular who referred to this matter as nothing more than a teenage love story, it is not a teenage love story.”

Meanwhile, Kaitlyn Hunt’s attorney has sought and been granted a delay in the case, saying she needs more time to prepare.




 

UPDATE: Kinda related:

A government website designed for girls ages 10 to 16 offers health advice and information on a wide range of topics, including homosexuality, anal sex and “mutual masturbation.”
The Health and Human Services’ girlshealth.gov includes tips on fitness and nutrition and an “environmental health” section where girls can read about leading a “green” lifestyle. . . .
“Our tagline is ‘Be Happy. Be Healthy. Be You. Beautiful. It focuses on the idea that being yourself — finding what makes you smile and how to live well — is what makes you ‘you.’ And that is beautiful!”

Anal sex for 10-year-olds. Your tax dollars at work.

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Category: Crime, Florida, Gays, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex
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