…And the incumbent for whom he toils so — Mark Kirk — must stop referring to himself as a Congressman, let alone the incumbent United States Representative from Illinois’ 10th District. (It would seem that big glossy mailer about the VA clinic named after [can't-call-him-an-astronaut] Jim Lovell that was printed and franked at taxpayer expense was a really big no-no in TA’s mind.)
…And Senators John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama must stop referring to themselves by their job titles. (And [can't-say-Senator] Obama and the news media reporting on his campaign must stop referring to his role as a professor at the University of Chicago or his position as president of the Harvard Law Review.)
Team America’s latest myopic, illogical rant about [can't-say-Rep.] Kirk’s opponent Dan Seals highlights a political stunt done by partisan students at Northwestern University to complain that Adjunct Professor Dan Seals is calling himself an Adjunct Professor. It’s fine for conservative Wildcats to bemoan the fact that Seals is a professor at their school, just as I’m sure some Stanford students aren’t happy with cracker-jack historian Victor David Hanson being associated with their university.
But this hollow, purple-faced whining over Prof. Seals calling himself by his title is based on a lack of reason and rationality that is just sad. Kindergarteners could make better arguments.
Are Republican partisans really this lathered up over the fact that Dan Seals is referring to his job (whether they like the fact he has a job or not), or are they simply recognizing the very real threat that Northwestern University Adjunct Professor Dan Seals poses as he makes his second run to return Democratic leadership to the 10th District?
Apparently, even a cornered elephant will lash out in whatever way it can when cornered — logical or not.
But hey, at least we’re not talking about the looming recession, the housing collapse, the health care crisis, the quagmire in Iraq, the lack of progress in finding Osama bin Forgotten, or anything of any actual importance to the 10th district and America.
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April 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Team America
Rob N–I’ve seldom read a post that so thoroughly misses the point of what I wrote, unless it was ArchPundit’s post on this same subject. The issue of the day is the complaint of the NU students that Seals is not following university policy. Read it again. I doubt that the Northwestern administration is going to be thrown off by you and ArchPundit insulting me.
Congressman Kirk is not a teacher at Northwestern and doesn’t have to worry about its policy. What he does have to worry about is the House Ehtic Rules, which specifically permit him to refer to himself as “Congressman” and similar usages. Go read it for yourself, on page 181 (page 193 of the PDF counter)
http://www.house.gov/ethics/2008_Ethics_Manual.pdf
Clearly, I’ve gotten inside your head, and ArchPundit’s, as well as Seals himself. A good morning’s work. Wonder why Seals had to ask campus security to gurad his classroom door, as some have reported?
April 3, 2008 at 1:26 pm
robnesvacil
Sure, TA, you go right on thinking that. What gets to me is when people such as yourself choose to make asses of themselves in public in order to further their partisan agenda. It’s fun and interesting to point out…
Two points:
- First, the students’ letter seems to miss the point of the faculty manual. Prof. Seals is not selling anything and thus not using the Northwestern name to sell anything. Rather, he is making a point of reference in his biographical information.
On your own blog you describe yourself as a lawyer. Same thing. He’s a professor. What do conserv-o-partisans not get about that?
- Second, I’ve not seen any verification of Mr. Atsaves’ claim that campus police were checking IDs at the door to the class.
Even if they were, given the hyperpartisan atmosphere you and others have helped manufacture around his professorship it makes sense that campus police would want to keep out people who are not registered for the class, lest they attempt to make some hay by playing the part of an interloper doing ‘recon’ — an activity with which you admit you are already familiar.
….By the by, I see from that McCulloch post that you are interested in the cost of a certain home of a certain retired mega-church pastor. I wonder if you’d care so much about the home costs for Reverends Moon, Robertson, Hagee, Parsley, LaHaye, Haggard (oh, wait, he caught teh gay), the late Rev. Falwell and many, many more conservative pastors who have turned their mega-churches into money machines for themselves and their families.
Nah, Pete Couvall probably just dropped a cigarette butt and you’ve got to run and blog about the horrors of litter.
April 3, 2008 at 1:33 pm
robnesvacil
PS: try rereading my own blogpost on the topic.
Rather than “missing the point,” I point out that the Northwestern students are the ones missing the point (as are you).
This fact has been pointed out to you numerous times in the past few months, yet you continue to operate under illogical and irrational assumptions. This means you either have no capacity for logic or are simply a dunderhead willing to act stupid in front of the whole world.
April 3, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Team America
Sticks and stones, my friend.
April 3, 2008 at 3:30 pm
robnesvacil
I’m not trying to hurt you by pointing out these facts, TA, just point out how far off the reservation you are…. Your blinding partisanship tends to make it rather easy.
April 3, 2008 at 11:53 pm
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