Score another one for the bloggers. Not only did the pajama
pundits blow the whistle on Dan Rather’s misrepresentation of the
president’s Air National Guard record (Rathergate), and CNN
correspondent Eason Jordan’s false accusations that U.S. servicemen
intentionally targeted and killed journalists in Iraq (Easongate),
but last week the blogs Protein Wisdom and Blackfive outed a
potentially dangerous leftist university professor. The principals
have rather tediously designated this scandal Ramseygate, as in
JonBenet. You’ll see why.
As the late Rod Serling might have said, meet Deb Frisch, a
psychologist and adjunct professor at the University of Arizona.
Prof. Frisch is a longtime supporter of leftist causes and Blame
America Firsters. Not long ago she wrote an unintentionally
hilarious defense of Prof. Ward Churchill — popularizer of the
phrase “little Eichmanns” — for the far left webzine
Counterpunch, from which I quote: “there is nothing absurd
or outrageous about using the term ‘Eichmann’ to refer to the
stockbrokers who died that day [i.e. on 9/11].” But we are most
likely to find the professor’s tirades in the comments sections of
various conservative blogs, quite often attacking Christianity, as
in this joyous Christmas post
in which she ranks Christianity the worst of all religions:
[I]t is time for the scientifically literate left to
stop pretending that Christianity is a harmless cultural
institution. The Christian theory of god and creation is at the
bottom of the heap of plausibility — under Judaism, for sure (same
kooky god — but no kooky son) and maybe Islam, I don’t know. It is
WAY below buddhism and pantheism. The scientifically literate left
needs to grow a spine and stop coddling Christians in the name of
tolerance. Merry ephing Christmas.
Or, as in this recent post from her blog, where she advocates that
liberals behave like “whackjobs”:
I agree that the right suffers from its share of
whackjobs — I disagree that liberals should refrain from acting
like them. I’m just as into kumbaya, om, peace, be the change you
want to see as the next leftie but I think you need to speak the
truth about how nutty the rabid right is and how conservative
“mainstream media” is.
Trite, silly stuff. But last week Prof. Frisch went too far. Over
the edge, you might say. Apparently Frisch has been trolling Jeff
Goldstein’s conservative
Protein Wisdom blog for some time, but last week
something set her off. (What exactly is unclear. Prof. Frisch did
not respond to my email.) Suddenly Goldstein begins receiving —
from Frisch — thinly disguised death threats against his
two-year-old son. It isn’t just the tone and vocabulary Frisch uses
throughout her rant that is so scary, it is more the creepy
imagery, like dialogue out of a slasher movie. I am not a
psychologist like Prof. Frisch, but I think I recognize paranoid
schizophrenia when I see it:
I’d like to hear more about your “tyke” by the way.
Girl? Boy? Toddler? Teen? Are you still married to the woman you
ephed to give birth to the tyke?…
[…] as I said elsewhere, if I woke up tomorrow and learned
that someone else had shot you and your “tyke” it wouldn’t slow me
down one iota. You aren’t “human” to me….
Ooh. Two year old boy. Sounds hot. You live in Colorado, I see.
Hope no one Jon-Benets your baby. …
I reiterate: If some nutcase kidnapped your child tomorrow and
did to her what was done to your fellow Coloradan, Jon-Benet
Ramsey, I wouldn’t give a damn. …
Give your pathetic progeny (I sure hope that mofo got good genes
from his mama!) a big fat tongue-filled kiss from me! LOTS AND LOTS
OF SALIVA from Auntie MOONBAT, if you don’t mind! …
I am SHAKING, I tell you, SHAKING!!! in my boots at the prospect
at an FBI and/or state police trooper tromping down my driveway to
see if I was a threat to the progeny of the pissant name of Jeff
“pissant” Goldstein of the pathetic, neutered, sissified, state of
Colorado….
Wanna escalate this game. Fine wit me…
Like a serial killer who scrawls “stop me before I kill again” on
the walls of the murder scene, Prof. Frisch didn’t even trying to
conceal her remarks. She posted them on Goldstein’s blog for all to
see, along with her signature. She now claims “I made a joke on a
blog about the death of a nasty rightwing blogger’s toddler.” Call
me crazy, but I don’t think that’s
anybody’s idea of
humor.
It is worrisome to think that this “academic” is influencing the
way young people think. Equally troubling is the fact that Frisch
is a psychologist and former director of the Decision, Risk and
Management Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation.
(Physician, heal thyself!) Worse is the thought that there are
hundreds of Frisch’s out there on American campuses, most not so
careless.
Frisch’s remarks were copied by readers and emailed by the
hundreds to Al Kaszniak, the psychology department chair at the
University of Arizona. Lacking tenure, Frisch did the only thing
left to do — last week she resigned and offered Goldstein a goofy apology. Now she
is pouting, writing that she feels physically threatened by the
Great Right Wing Conspiracy. The FBI is on alert. As one blogger
put it, Frisch is now headed down the familiar liberal path to
victim status.
As David Horowitz documents in his new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics
in America, these kinds of loonies have been ruining America’s
universities and American education for four decades. In the past
it took an enterprising student with a hidden tape recorder to
record evidence of left wing professor’s lunacy. Now the Web is
giving “educators” a more convenient way to shoot themselves in the
foot. Thank God for the Web.
