The Nation: A Hoax Exposed at Princeton

[marmar]

Posterchild for on-campus right-wingers: A fraud and a dumbass. - OP's comment



article | posted December 18, 2007 (web only)
A Hoax Exposed at Princeton
Max Blumenthal


With President George W. Bush only a year away from departing the White House and the Republican succession in turmoil, some of the most prominent conservative intellectuals and activists have gathered together for one last great crusade. Movement icons from Robby George of Princeton to Harvey Mansfield of Harvard, from David Horowitz to Brit Hume, raised howls of persecution when they heard reports that two masked men allegedly attacked a conservative Princeton University student. They insisted that the right-wing acolyte was beaten up "for his conservative views," as Horowitz put it. And they accused Princeton of failing to protect conservatives and upholding a hypocritical liberal double standard. Unfortunately, the trumpeted cause collapsed when the victim turned out to be a hoaxer.

The embarrassing episode for the conservative leaders began last week when Francisco Nava, a junior at Princeton, appeared at a hospital with cuts and bruises covering his face. He claimed that two unidentified men repeatedly bashed his head against a brick wall, shouting to "shut the fuck up."

Nava is a member of a student group called the Anscombe Society. Named for G.E.M. Anscombe, a British philosopher who opposed her country's involvement in World War II, the group was founded to promote "a chaste lifestyle which respects and appreciates human sexuality, relationships, and dignity." The Anscombe Society explained its abstinence advocacy on its website: "The nature of this sexual act is itself unitive--two become one flesh. Sex is thus the actualization of the marital union, concretizing the mutual gift of self between the partners."

Nava, a Mormon, claimed his troubles began when he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Princetonian, titled "Princeton's Latex Lies." He warned that "the infectious threat posed by Princeton's hookup culture" would spread if the school continued its policy of free condom distribution. "What Princeton's condom campaign amounts to is a tacit sponsorship of hookup sex," Nava declared. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071231/blumenthal

[TommyO]

1. I see that Horowitz's comments have been scrubbed from Frontpage

I didn't see an apology from the asshat.

[Catch22Dem]

2. proud member of a liberal hate group

fuckin' count on it.

[Doctor_J]

3. Another lying Republican who can't get laid

There's a job waiting for him at Rove's house as soon as his hospital stay is over.

[brentspeak]

4. Did he hire a guy to beat him up in some abandoned house?

"Relax. Have a seat. Might as well be comfortable..."

[Kingofalldems]

5. "Where is the outrage?" says Brit Hume

Has he apologized yet?

[marmar]

6. I doubt the human Shar-Pei will apologize....

n/t

[Bucky]

8. Ha-ha! Human Shar-Pei!!!

It's funny, cause it's true.

[BuyingThyme]

7. So does this mean that there are conservatives out there willing to pay me to beat the shit

out of them?

My entrepreneurial instincts are piquing.

[dorkulon]

9. ...

[lolly]

10. Clue to mental state of these people:

Their little abstinence club is proudly Named for G.E.M. Anscombe, a British philosopher who opposed her country's involvement in World War II.

OK, it's been a while since I took a history class, but I seem to recall that Britain didn't have much choice? They were, like, being bombed!

They should have just let the Nazis take over--I guess because the Nazis would have kept everybody chaste, which is apparently more important than stopping the Nazis.