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Monday, February 07, 2005Beware Professors Sending ForwardsThanks to Instantman, I've gotten a chance to find out that David Corn is not, in fact, a Bush mole. Whew! I'd been laying awake nights worrying about this one. Actually, it's an interesting picture of how the loony left works. A flake who thinks that Corn's CIA - and that Alan Greenspan tried to poison a buddy of his - asserted that Corn is a Bush mole in the progressive movement. Nobody gave a damn till an NYU prof sent it to his mailing list, though. If Corn is a Bush plant, he's a good one. But how'd he know to become a left-wing flake so many years before anybody had even heard of W? Actually, Corn is a fairly reputable leftist crank, slightly off-center from reality but aware it's there. This distinguishes him from an out and out flake, but hardly makes him a Bush mole. The real scandal here, though, is not the libel on Corn. It's that people like Mark Crispin Miller are allowed to trade on their degrees and university affiliations to push sludge like this. We on the right don't have a problem here. If we read that a professor from NYU had something to say, we put it in the same pile as the handwritten sheet the homeless guy gave us about invading Martians. However, on the left they take academics seriously, so in that sense, Corn got burned. But so did everybody on the prof's mailing list who thought that tenure equalled intelligence. The second thought that occurs to me in all this is that Mark Crispin Miller is more likely a Bush mole than David Corn. After all, though David is near sane, he doesn't miss a chance to throw a punch at Bush if he thinks it will stick. Because he dismisses the men in tinfoil hats, however, he comes off as sane for a progressive. If I were Karl Rove, I'd be delighted to get an NYU prof slamming Corn and undermining his credibility. But getting a few nice words from Corn? Is that really going to fire up the red-state base? I think not. Bottom line: If a professor sends you a political e-mail, read carefully. If it's too far to the left, it's probably just a Rove plant dragging the left further to the left and isolating it from the mainstream a little more. 
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