Why Professor Johnny can’t spell
By Mike S. Adams
From: Townhall.com
Nov 21, 2005
Rebecca Beach is a freshman at Warren County Community College (WCCC) in Washington, New Jersey. Recently, she sent an email to the faculty at her school announcing the appearance of a decorated Iraq war hero named Lt. Colonel Scott Rutter. The war hero was asked to discuss America’s accomplishments in Iraq.
The simple email announcement was met with the following blistering response from part-time English Professor John Daly (jpdalyca@yahoo.com):
I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look like fascist propaganda and is [sic] extremely offensive. Your main poster "Communism killed 100,000,000" is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that CAPITALISM has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily news papers. The U.S. government can fly to dominate the people of Iraq in 12 hours, yet it took them five days to assist the people devastated by huricane [sic] Katrina. Racism and profits were key to their priorities. Exxon, by the way, made $9 Billion in profits this last quarter--their highest proft [sic] margin ever. Thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and working class people who are recruited to fight and die for EXXON and other corporations who [sic] earning megaprofits from their imperialist plunders. If you want to count the number of deaths based on political systems, you can begin with the more than a million children who have died in Iraq from U.S.-imposed sanctions and war. Or the million African American people who died from lack of access to healthcare in the US over the last 10 years.
I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like your [sic] won't dare show their face [sic] on a college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people's needs--such freedom fighters can be counted throughout American history and they certainly will be counted again.
Prof. John Daly
Some people reading the above diatribe will ask why a college would allow a professor to use such harsh language while addressing a student. But I disagree with any implication that Professor Daly had no right to say what he said so poorly. In fact, I would fight to the death to protect his right to very bad free speech. That is not because I am a principled person. I just enjoy watching liberals make asses out of themselves. To me, it is a cheap form of entertainment not unlike the CBS Evening News.
But the real question for Professor Daly and his boss (austin@warren.edu) follows: Why can’t English professors spell?
The answer can be found in Daly’s biography/teaching philosophy, which is posted on the WCCC website:
“Often linguists do not use their skills to teach grammar and writing, but Professor Daly finds that linguists have a special view on language that may help students—particularly students who have had trouble in these areas in the past. English courses generally are taught from a rule-based perspective. Students become overwhelmed with these rules and often find the exceptions make them impossible to manage. Linguistics [sic] view language from a descriptive point of view—that is they understand language in the same way you might organize a sock draw [sic] — by dumping the contents on the ground and seeing what goes together until finally ending up with a super-efficient drawer (or deeper understand [sic] of grammar and writing). Students often respond to this approach.”
For those who do not understand the above statement, I am delighted to offer the following translation:
“English is a really hard language with a lot of confusing rules. So when you take my class, you don’t have to follow rules at all. I do not try to bring you up to a higher standard. Instead, I am committed to lowering myself to your standards – even to semi-literacy, if necessary. That way, we can all avoid judgments and keep everyone’s self-esteem intact. And, best of all, when I am not teaching English I have plenty of time to talk about my political views. ”
I sincerely hope that the above re-statement of Daly’s philosophy helps to explain his incompetence. In the next installment, I will try to explain his anger.
To be continued …
Here is the second column:
Caution: Your professor may have PMS
By Mike S. Adams
Nov 28, 2005
At the end of my recent column highlighting the tolerance, integrity, and competence of Warren County Community College Professor John Daly, I promised my readers some insight into why he seems so angry. Part of that anger might be explained by the fact that Daly graduated from Keane University.
Perhaps while he was studying at Keane he heard the following remarks by Khalid Abdul Muhammad of the Nation of Islam – remarks delivered at that institution when it was still called Keane College:
“If the white man don’t get out of town by sundown, we kill everything white in South Africa. We kill the women, we kill the children, we kill the babies. We kill the faggot, we kill the lesbian, we kill them all. Kill the old ones too …push them off a cliff in Cape Town. Kill the blind, kill the crippled, and when you get through killing them all, go to the graveyard, dig up the grave, and kill them again …
“The so-called Jew is a European strain of people who crawled around on all fours in the caves and hills of Europe, eating juniper roots and eating each other. You (Jews) slept with your dead for 2000 years, smelling the stench coming up from the decomposing body. You slept in your urination and your defecation ... The so-called Jews are bloodsuckers of the black nation . . . That’s why you call yourself Rubenstein, Goldstein and Silverstein, because you’ve been stealing rubies and gold and silver all over the earth …
“Everybody talks about Hitler exterminating six million Jews. That’s right. But don’t nobody talk about what they (the Jews) do to Hitler. They supplanted, they usurped, they … undermined the very fabric of society.”
Of course, the speech delivered by Muhammad really wasn’t the cause of Daly’s anger. In fact, he probably wasn’t there to hear this message from an adherent of the so-called “religion of peace.” But, the relationship between the speeches of bigots like Daly and the late Muhammad stem from a common cause, namely; PMS.
In the case of the late Khalid Muhammad, PMS stands for Paranoid Muslim Syndrome. And, of course, this syndrome can be found in abundance in the 21st century. The leader of Iran has it as do the leaders of the Palestinian Authority. And many have died from it including many “insurgents” in Iraq and the architects of the attacks of 9/11.
And the bad news is that PMS has spread to another faction that shares two vital characteristics with these paranoid Muslim extremists: 1) a deep-seated hatred of America and 2) a proven track record of slaughtering innocent Jews.
It appears that, without question, Professor Daly is suffering from Paranoid Marxist Syndrome, which is also known as PMS.
For those who have never considered the similarities between radical Muslims and radical Marxists, it is time to take heed. While the attacks of the former have been well-documented over the last few years, insufficient attention has been paid to the attacks of the latter.
Our college campuses have become the last safe haven of Marxists, largely because its adherents have never had to survive in the real world, much less in a communist dictatorship. Indeed, there are more communists teaching in the State of North Carolina than there are in the former Soviet Union.
Look carefully at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Few campuses have more avowed Marxists within the ranks of the faculty. And few schools have done more to present a kinder, gentler version of Islam – one that omits every reference to the killing of “infidels.”
And the same pattern seen in comparisons between different schools can be seen within them as well. As one who teaches at a school with fewer Marxists than UNC-CH, a similar pattern emerges. The proponents of Marxism are also the greatest supporters of those who kill our troops in Iraq.
For the most part, academics are silent about the blood-letting that inevitably ensues once a nation is governed by radical Islam or by the principles of Marxism. And if anyone dares to state the obvious, the subsequent willingness to distort the “atrocities” of this nation knows no bounds. That is why colleges tolerate the likes of Professor Daly.
At some point we must ask ourselves why it is that simultaneous sympathy for both radical Islam and radical Marxism is to be found almost solely on the campuses of the nation most responsible for the existence of Israel and the non-existence of the Berlin Wall.
Few who listen to the words of radical Muslims and radical Marxists can find comfort in the fact that so many who belong in mental institutions reside comfortably in our institutions of higher learning.
And that is really the problem. Very few are listening
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