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20-12-2014, 02:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-12-2014, 05:11 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
CTKA will soon have a long article up about this.
But clearly what happened here is--as my pal Albert Rossi noted-- similar to what Buckley did with D'Souza at Dartmouth in the eighties. And this is why so many think McAdams is a spook.
If you read the entire story in Higher Ed, the student waited until after class to talk to the prof. He taped the conversation on his cell phone. And then lied about it. He then apparently went to McAdams and McAdams wrote it up.
As a teacher and as a student at three universities, this is not a matter of free speech. Classrooms are run at the disgression of the teacher or professor. It has to be that way. He or she then controls how far the discussion goes depending on the good will and maturity of those involved. It seems here that the prof sensed something was up, and so she curtailed the discussion before it got away from her. The proof is what the kid's cohort did after.
I really hope this investigation focuses on McAdams' role in all of these disputes on campus at Marquette. Does he recruit young RW students as provocateurs and informants on campus, thereby running a sort of intel/propaganda ring there? I think that will turn out to be the case if the inquiry is full and unbiased... If so, the guy should be fired. But I hope they go all the way to find out who he was doing it for and with.
We reposted my two articles at CTKA, in which I proposed that looking at the McAdams case through the lens of only JFK was wrong. He has a much wider scope than that and a much wider agenda. He is a destabilization agent who wants to completely eliminate the last vestiges of the liberal state left over by Kennedy.
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Agreed Jim. Not free speech matter at all. Looking forward to your article.
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If so then that's different, but free speech should always be deferred to until proven otherwise in my opinion.
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McAdams is hardly a fighter for freedom of expression under any definition. It seems his whole reason d'etre is to subert it where ever possible in service the big lie.
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See, the revival of the RW under Reagan always had as one of its targets the presumed "liberal intellegensia" on the campus.
Way back when Buckley wrote his book about Yale, this had been one of the goals of the new right. To somehow reform the perceived liberalism of the college campus. Although, I never thought of it that way. I just thought that college campuses were supposed to be places of quality higher education and scholarship. If it just so happened that this research revealed the ill gotten gains of the American power structure, well, that was just the truth.
But the new right wanted to discredit that idea. So D'Souza came up with the concept of"political correctness". This was supposed to make conservative ideas more acceptable by discrediting the allegedly condescending attitudes toward them held by liberals. In reality, what D'Souza was doing was turning back the clock on things like racism and homosexuality.
Well, McAdams has taken up where D'Souza left off. This is why I have said, we should not pigeonhole McAdams as a JFK disinformationist, even though he is. He is more than that, much more. And his aim is wider. For him, JFK is important as a symbol of the sixties, which he wants to discredit.
I wouldn't be surprised though if he comes through this thing OK. Simply because the CIA has such close ties to Marquette. Therefore, the investigation will not be full and thorough.
(BTW, the long article about this, which is by far the most detailed synopsis, should be linked to in a few minutes at CTKA.)
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Does McAdams have now a different story? Says he was discharged for blog posts...
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/19/ma...d%3D585880
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20-12-2014, 06:43 PM
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Well Drew, of course McAdams is going to do a spinning exercise at Fox News. And he is going to try and limit the focus as much as possible.
But the story is much deeper than that.
What I think Marquette is doing is taking a bit of consideration of this as part of what he has done there overall.
He does not want that addressed. So he will try and spin it as narrowly and politically as much as possible. That is McAdams and that is Fox.
BTW, the new link to that long story is up now at CTKA.
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CIA has a history of throwing persons like this to the wolves once they become a liability. They did that already with Posner. Even Nixon.
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Well, that is a distinct possibility of course.
When an asset or agent like McAdams gets overexposed, one option is to cut loose and throw him under the bus.
Casey did this in the Hawaii case of Bishop Baldwin with Ron Rewald.
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Catholic Universities are sensitive to negative publicity. Especially after the molestation scandal. DePaul denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein because he demolished Dershowitz's hagiographic pack of lies known as The Case For Israel. That was sort of the equivalent of McAdams getting you fired for your Kennedy assassination works. I'm sure they are making a preventive gesture by isolating McAdams and his views on gay marriage. Pope Francis has made some unprecedented gestures in this direction so I'm sure they don't want to attract any negative publicity. I'm upset with Marquette. Not because they suspended McAdams but because they failed to fire him for his JFK assassination denial.
