Looks like this slimeball figured out early that the way to notoriety and CASH is to mainline into the wingnut Dan COULTER/Bernard GOLDBERG "book" machine.
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http://benjaminshapiro.com/blog.html Thursday, June 10, 2004
Associated Press takes notice
Justin Pope of the Associated Press has taken notice of the success of "Brainwashed," which has remained near the top of the amazon.com charts for nearly a month (it has been on the amazon.com hardcover nonfiction bestseller list for the last three weeks). As he says, the book "has won attention even amid the flood of political tracts from both left and right that is saturating the best-seller lists." You can check out the AP piece in newspapers throughout the country and abroad. Here's a link to the piece in the UK Guardian (believe it or not): Enjoy!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4190516,00.html .... An Orthodox Jew, Shapiro grew up in the Los Angeles area, skipping grades three and nine and entering UCLA at 16. He jumped quickly into campus politics, earning a column in the Daily Bruin campus paper.
That ended in the spring of 2002, after a dispute over a column that criticized campus Muslim groups for supporting terrorism. When the paper wouldn't run it, Shapiro took his case to the air on a local talk-radio show and was suspended by the newspaper. ....
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0524/p12s01-legn.html Brainwashing on campus?
By Marjorie Kehe | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Ben Shapiro attended the University of California at Los Angeles and came out dismayed by much of what he heard and saw. Professors there, he laments, routinely spouted liberal propaganda and rarely had their biases challenged. Conservative thinkers, on the contrary, Mr. Shapiro says, were generally shrugged off as not too bright.
As a columnist for UCLA's student paper The Daily Bruin, he was able to voice his outrage until, he claims, he was fired for his views.
Now - having already graduated from UCLA at 20 - Shapiro has written "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth" (WND Books), alerting the world to what Shapiro sees as the sorry state of US higher education. .... Freshly published - and without the support of a national advertising campaign - "Brainwashed" has already jumped to No. 28 on Amazon.com's bestseller list. ....
Of US professors in general, Shapiro makes sweeping - and many would say absurd - charges that they promote atheism, absolute sexual freedom (including pedophilia and statutory rape, which are crimes), and rampant environmentalism to the point of urging the annihilation of the human species. ....
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13303 Shapiro: I’ve spent some time in public school, and having seen the liberal propaganda put out by lower public education, I thought I knew what I would get when I set foot on UCLA’s campus. But I was totally unprepared for the level of radical leftism expressed in the classroom, in the student newspaper, by the student groups. And all this leftism underwritten by either tax or tuition money.
Thankfully, I was already secure in my politics – I’m as right-wing as they come, thanks mostly to my Orthodox Jewish background (and my parents). But I saw that for many students, mainly those who were politically ignorant or apathetic, this overwhelming bias was perceived as truth. If the professor, who presumably has spent years studying his area of expertise, says that George W. Bush is a moron, well, then, he must be a moron. If all your peers believe that US foreign policy is evil, would you risk social ostracism to argue with them? Practically speaking, it’s much more fun to have a beer with the liberal guys and girls in your class than to argue with them and spend the evening in your dorm room browsing the Bush/Cheney 2004 website.
I also saw that the problem of leftist indoctrination in the university system was being largely overlooked by the general public (right-wing talk radio and FrontPage excluded, of course). Professors hold a level of respect in our society that in my opinion is largely unwarranted. Somehow, when Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT (a linguistics professor, and a true traitor) speaks about politics, he gets more respect from the mainstream media than political experts like David Horowitz do. ....
But I didn’t want to just claim this – I wanted to document it. So for three years, I sat in my classes and transcribed direct, in-the-classroom quotations from my professors, carefully noting the date of each quotation. Virtually every anecdotal instance of UCLA bias I discuss in Brainwashed is footnoted. I also worked for a year and a half for the UCLA Daily Bruin (the student newspaper) and got involved with student group politics. I researched other universities. I name over 400 professors in Brainwashed, and mention over 200 institutions of higher learning. UCLA is only the tip of the iceberg. ....
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