Our Enlightened Academy - Yesterday,

Our Enlightened Academy - Yesterday, we poked fun at Saint Cloud State's diversity training.

Today? Not funny anymore. King, from the SCSU Scholars, was there. And he wrote a letter to Limbaugh about it:

"If your office mate wants to listen to Rush Limbaugh -- you know, he's one of those dittoheads -- and wants to listen to Limbaugh, he can, but here are your headphones." (I was taking notes on my laptop as he spoke. I typed it as I heard it.) So the comparison is someone looking at scantily clad women on a calendar to someone listening to your radio show. I just shook my head, and thought well, the guy's a liberal, and taking a cheap shot at Rush is all in a day for liberals. I let it go.

But in a separate session this afternoon, he does it again. He refers to students listening to your show again as "dittoheads" and says "you know, so that they don't think, they just follow whatever Rush says." Laughter around the room. What I thought was a throw-away line appears to be a regular part of his training. Conservatives are not thoughtful, no better than visitors to a peepshow, just follow the script.

He finished the thought in his blog last night:

Now I confess to not being Rush's biggest fan, largely because his command of economics pales before that of his own guest host Walter Williams. But it struck me that the man felt perfectly safe saying this. Here he had discussed (in the afternoon session) how we won't speak out about racist or sexist comments unless there's a person of color or a woman in the room, but did anyone speak out against this rather crass treatment of conservatives?

Does part of his definition of diversity include "diversity of thought"? Hell, no.

It never does.

I think I've noted it in the past - I could write a blog, an only slightly less-prolific one, that merely catalogued the manifestations of Democrats' hatred for Republicans.

This is as good a rejoinder as any to those like Kos, or Marshall, or Fecke, who think that the Democrats have the momentum. No, they don't - not yet, not in any meaningful way. Because none of them are articulating any sort of vision. They are merely venting, at this point; Which of us hates hates hates Dubya more?

And while that truly wins momentum among Democrats - I'll wager Bush is back down to a minority of the Democrat base - it doesn't win elections.

Posted by Mitch at August 27, 2003 08:33 AM