Letters to the editor

Liberals find their place in a conservative

country

It seems most of the mentions in The Daily discussing the political mix of educators tend to frown on the mere composition of more liberals than conservatives. Some opinion writers seem to suggest that liberal professors are crowding into the University, statistically hell-bent on a sinister agenda to brainwash impressionable youth.

Conservatives have the House, the Senate, the oval office -- and let's not forget voting machine-maker Diebold -- so what's left? It used to be we had the unfair liberal media, right? A poll was done around election time by the Program on International Policy Attitudes with interesting results. Fifty-eight percent of Bush supporters believed that the 9/11 commission found that Iraq was at least responsible for supporting Al-Qaida. The commission concluded no such connection.

When Charles Duelfer (chief weapons inspector, CIAs Iraq Survey Group) gave the final report on the complete lack of Iraq WMDs or any active program to create them -- guess what? Fifty-seven percent of Bush supporters asked about the report's conclusions claimed that it said the opposite.

Finally, 58 percent of Bush supports said that if there were no WMDs or Al-Qaida ties then we should not have attacked Iraq. Clearly the supposed liberal media (minus FOX and Sinclair Broadcasting, of course) can't affect non-liberals if the hard facts themselves have no effect. And that's just a sample. Now the insidious liberal menace is poised to corrupt our youth with yet another kind of underhanded devilry?

What's the next ominous leftist trend? Proselytizing liberal pizza chefs?

-- Darien Hager

Junior, Informatics