From World Net Daily(not the tabloid site World News Daily), with h/t to Green Hell Blog, something that if proven is quite disturbing. Yet given the kind of treatment I’ve recently received at the hands of an eco-zealot who can’t tolerate my views on climate, I’m not surprised.
Some people have no scruples and no shame. – Anthony
Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children
By Art Robinson
In an effort to do my part in rescuing our country from the out-of-control Obama administration, last year I ran for Congress in Oregon’s 4th District against 12-term incumbent, far-left Democrat Peter DeFazio, co-founder of the House Progressive Caucus.
Although I won the nominations of the Republican, Independent and Constitution Parties and the endorsement of the Libertarian Party, a massive media smear campaign by DeFazio, paid for with money raised by MoveOn.org and from special interests favored by DeFazio in Washington, resulted in a 54.5 percent to 43.6 percent victory for DeFazio in a race that was expected to be much closer.
Although I had never run for public office before, I immediately announced my candidacy for Congress again in 2012.
However, when you take a stand for what’s right, sometimes there is retribution.On Nov. 4, 2010, as soon as the election results were in and they were sure their candidate had won, faculty administrators at Oregon State University gave new meaning to the term “political payback.”
They initiated an attack on my three children – Joshua, Bethany and Matthew – for the purpose of throwing them all out of the OSU graduate school, despite their outstanding academic and research accomplishments. OSU is a liberal socialist Democrat stronghold in Oregon that received a reported $27 million in earmark funding from my opponent, Peter DeFazio, and his Democrat colleagues during the last legislative session.
Read full story here: Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children
UPDATE: I decided to pull the direct link to the website that hurled unspeakable insults to me by an eco-zealot, they don’t deserve the traffic WUWT will generate for them. Such things are best handled by other means. So, I used WebCite to permanently log the website, and you can view it here, scroll all the way to the bottom and note “corrections”: http://www.webcitation.org/5x0pgZdgl
UPDATE2: OSU has posted a statement which you can read here
The people involved should attend this workshop being held on campus:
olderwiser,
Your link’s title is:
Art Robinson fights aging with his home-schooled lab rats
Don’t you think it might be a heavily biased hit piece by the same kind of people causing Robinson’s “lab rats” their OSU problems?
Anthony
Find a good defamation lawyer, it is time for you to sue these buffoons!
Bill
At 9:15 AM on 7 March, Jeremy had written:
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Well, it might be projection.
Who knows? The guy vomiting up this spew on The Beast might himself be psychoneurotically fixated upon sodomizing other folks’ barnyard critters and housepets. For all we know, he wrote this garbage while futtering a cageful of chinchillas.
Male chinchillas, the poor, confused little rodents.
There most certainly is much more to the story. Just click the link to read much more.
???eco-zealot???
I think you need some sleep to help clear your foggy, travel whiry mind Anthony. These people are NOT eco-anythings. They’re anarchists out to destroy everyone and everything. The funny thing is that as soon as the cops throw their badges on the floor and walk out the door into the “Brave New Lawless World” these ‘anarchists’ will be the very first victims. Cavemen hate fanatics. Believe me I know of what I speak.
Gneiss says:
March 7, 2011 at 8:27 am
Think there might be more to this story?
Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s brother but no relation to Art is head coach for Oregon States basketball team.
Having said that, I can’t imagine in my wildest dreams that the progressives in Oregon want to become nationally known for being home to cutting edge nuclear technology.
After going thru 3 ballot initiatives to close Oregon’s only nuclear power plant I can imagine the progressives will do absolutely anything to insure Oregon doesn’t become a center for ‘advanced nuclear technology’.
IMHO This whole kerfuffle is about killing the nuclear engineering program at Oregon State and sending a message to NuScale to ‘take your business elsewhere’.
About the independence of the media:
Here in Canada, the Globe and Mail has been the most vocal, one sided newspaper on the climate change issue. Clearly pro IPCC, not a week goes by without the usual pro AGW paper or glorifying of green enterprise. This newspaper belongs to CTV Globemedia, a subsidiary of the Thomson Reuters media empire owned by the richest family in Canada, the Thomsons. Their wealth is above $23billion. Here is some relevant public information that should be known to all readers:
1) Thomson Foundation Trustee, Sir Crispin Tickell: “Sir Crispin’s close relationship with the Climate Institute began in June 1988 when he was the luncheon speaker at a climate change symposium organized by the Climate Institute for UN Missions under auspices of UNEP.”… “With Sir Crispin as Chairman and under auspices of the IPCC and UNEP, the Institute held Presidential and Ministerial briefings on climate change in 22 nations, the first in Mexico at Los Pinos in March 1991.”
http://www.climate.org/publications/Climate%20Alerts/Winter2010/SirCrispinTickell-EnvironmentalPioneer.html
http://www.trust.org/learn-more-about-us/trustees/
2) The Woodbridge Company (Thomson’s investment arm about $15 billion):
http://www.alacrastore.com/mergers-acquisitions/Woodbridge_Co_Ltd_(parent_of_Thomson_Financial_ESG)-3312381
” Thomson Reuters Corp acquires Point Carbon AS from Schibsted ASA May 27, 2010
…NORWAY – Thomson Reuters Corp of Canada acquired Point Carbon AS, an Oslo-based provider of analysis, advisory, news and consulting services for European and global power, gas and carbon markets, from Schibsted ASA.…”
http://www.pointcarbon.com/
“Point Carbon, a Thomson Reuters company is a world-leading provider of independent news, analysis and consulting services for European and global power, gas and carbon markets. Point Carbon’s comprehensive services provide professionals with market-moving information through monitoring fundamental information, key market players and business and policy developments.
Point Carbon’s in-depth knowledge of power, gas and CO2 emissions market dynamics positions us as the number one supplier of unrivalled market intelligence of these markets. Our staff includes experts in international and regional climate policy, mathematical and economic modeling, forecasting methodologies, risk management and market reporting. (…)”
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Therefore, the appearance of conflict of interest is obvious: With that much invested why would the Thomson Reuters Canadian flagship national newspaper publish anything against the science of global warming? Have they ever? It took the Globe webedition over two weeks to have a comment on Climategate and it was never an in depth discussion. The subsequent whitewashing inquiries were simply accepted as fact instead of being investigated despite the glaring inconsistencies exposed by Steve McIntyre, a Canadian whose door seems too hard to find for Globe reporters or the Canadian Press for that matter.
Instead those summoned to explain carbocentric climate science edicts to the readership are political scientists, software developers brought as supposed climate change experts or an IPCC author whose diplomas are in Mathematics who wrote a book with a Globe and Mail political pundit, both being represented conveniently by the same speaking engagement agency.
In clear, this is not information; this is opinion media. And a simple Google search explains why. As much as it is their right to have a vested interest in the cause, it should be perfectly well advertised every time climate related issues are discussed in their outlets.
If this is true, it is indeed an incredible travesty. However, it comes from the WND, and so its veracity is automatically suspect. (not automatically wrong, just suspect)
WND gets some things right, like the date and spelling, but beyond that, they’re a tabloid with the typical trustworthiness of one.
Can you find a more reliable source?
[Reply: How about Art Robinson, who wrote the article? ~dbs, mod.]
Amazes me how the MSM and the “progressives” endlessly harp about the tea party and the right’s hate speech and how it will result in violence yet when I look all I see is hate speech and thuggery from the progressives: Bullets found at the Wisconsin union rallies, that disgusting piece that included you (which can’t even get facts right), tea party members beaten up by SEIU thugs and this. And for those who don’t believe that faculty members could do what’s been alleged, better come down out of your ivory tower and find out what really goes on.
Stalinists
Smokey, that is from the American Spectator it is not a hit-piece.
This is precisely why I feel so vulnerable having only just started my PhD.
In my experience, academia in the UK for anyone right-leaning, or who holds climate sceptic views, (or god forbid, both) is like a snakepit, whilst it presents itself to the outside world as something more akin to a creche.
Sorry Anthony, but I can’t feel I’m getting a fair account when terms like “out of control Obama administration” and “militant feminist” color the article. Is there a secular accounting of these events available?
I certainly would not condone these events as described, but there are those of us who contribute to Climate Audit, WUWT etc. but still prefer the administration the country elected the previous one.
REPLY: No need to apologize or argue with me, I didn’t write it. – Anthony
Anthony: Don’t know what the libel and slander laws in the state where ‘The Beast’ is based are like, but it might be worth serving its owners with a lawsuit, just to make them squirm a bit. Maybe one of the lawyers who read this site could help.
/Mr Lynn
I recall seeing this sort of bullying occur back in the 1960’s, when various lone voices spoke up against psychiatrists perscribing the amphidamines and barbituates which were called, “Momma’s Little Helpers.” Most of those drugs have since been proven harmful and are banned, but at the time the lone voices were upsetting the applecart of a money-making scam, and they tended to get ostracised, ridiculed, and marginalized, and for a time their voices went unheard. The drug-perscribing psychiatrists looked calm and sensible, while the lone voices raged and looked like crack-pots.
What seemed to be the downfall of the drug-pushing bullies of that time was that they got too greedy, and were joined by increasing numbers of equally greedy people, who wanted to share in the easy money, until finally too many were being hurt. Then it was no longer a few lone voices standing alone, protesting the bullying and the problems. It became the low, murmuring-but-growing growl of many.
It is only when a lot of people got angry that, (in the 1960’s,) the amphedamines and barbituates were no longer handed out like candy.
I think that is what we are witnessing today, only it is about a greater issue. People need to speak out and keep speaking out, and to refuse to be discouraged or to be reduced to raving. Remain calm, strong, and persist.
“that Oregon State University administrators are throwing his three children out of graduate school in retribution for his political campaign, does not ring true”
Seems like you are sure its not true, but then you state you are guessing? Not very precise in your useage of the English language there? In any regard, this is fairly common in academia. I don’t care how large the university is, none of the faculty really gets along well, they tolerate each other at best and evil games are common. This story is probably more then just true, its probably common and goes both ways. From my experience in graduate programs, the ability to lie, cheat and steal is paramount and people often get this mistaken idea that those in the ivory towers are sole crusaders of truth when in fact they are just the best at being petty, vile and above all else grabbing Government funding by making their studies look better then others.
Not pretty, but that is university life today. At one point, the best research came out of universities, but that quit a long time ago, and today you only go to university to get your degree and get out as fast as possible. The politics of this makes one think that its like you are constantly running for office with spites and everything else happening. I was not even one of the big dogs, but I saw the damage it caused to others.
I quit academia for these reasons…petty spites, and other just terrible actions. I did want to teach children in Universities at one point, but whats the point when your entire life is going to be made hellish by others?
Now as far as this article goes, I never saw anything this bad, but I did see graduate students hounded because their friends screwed up over and over. It didn’t matter that they had nothing to do with an event, their faces would be rubbed in it and the others would gloat and cheer.
These students for some reason hung in there, but I could easilly see it going the other way. This article is very possible with the kind of people that occupy academia today. Its not the same as it was 30 years ago. Does that mean this article is the unvarnished truth? Who knows, but I am sure it is a good representation of the truth. Smearing people in academia because of who they know is common place.
To Smokey,
The article I quoted from is quite sympathetic to Art Robinson and it was published in The American Spectator. After reading the entire article, do you still think it is a “heavily biased hit piece by the same kind of people”? It’s true that the title is a strange one.
I prefer to wait for a little more information before jumping to a conclusion. Unfair things happen in academia — also in corporations, government, wars, and random events. Most of us just deal with it and move on, without our parents launching campaigns against public institutions.
Anthony,
I went to the link that has you in it. It’s a purely political smear web site. It discredits itself with the childish things it says. It hurts itself by being that way.
Your stations project is valuable and does work that is real. I think that’s why they hit so low below the belt. If the stations project wasn’t important they wouldn’t even have spent time on you.
I have only gotten a lesser degree of hate from global warmers. So I don’t know what it’s like to see a web site like that. But you’re a nice guy with a good heart. You should get better than that. God sees all. Even if we don’t get treated the way we should in this life in there will be a day of perfect justice when all will be treated the way they deserve to be treated, both the bad and the good.
From what I can see, the left ALWAYS targets children.
It’s all about the children. Who will think of the children? Please donate, so we can save the children.
I’ve recently been helping a high school student with her Social Studies homework, and the political distortion that these kids HAVE to pass is shameful. They all but condemn anything “conservative” as evil and heartless. They’re still claiming that Hitler was “far right”. When the school system itself is promoting a one-sided idealist belief in liberal-left positions, something is horribly wrong.
Going after a man’s children in school is reprehensible, but those few commenters above who think it’s not likely are apparently blissfully unaware of the real world. It’s not just likely, it’s probable. And it is something I have personally seen.
We were warned that it would come to this, yet most ignored the warnings.
Why? Because the warnings came from “Conservatives”. Oooh, ick!
Bill Yarber says:
March 7, 2011 at 9:30 am
Anthony
Find a good defamation lawyer, it is time for you to sue these buffoons!
Bill
Other people have been encouraged to sue too. It is an expensive process. Timothy Ball tried doing it and ran out of money. I’d like to see a lawsuit over these kind of these things happen too. So many times in the past I’ve wanted to see it. But who’s got the time and money?
After a modicum of Googling, it seems that the one and only reference to this issue is the letter that Robinson himself penned.
Coupled with the fact that Robinson manages to avoid mentioning what it is the kids are being charged with makes me a bit suspicious.
Then, to top it all off, this “article” is in the WND Commentary section, not an actual story.
I’m starting to have multiple red flags go up about the veracity of this story.
anyone that thinks being “swiftboated” means a smear campaign wasn’t paying attention during Kerry’s run for the presidency …
the candidate was quoted in the article … How many other “sources” do you need ?
sure, WND is alot like the National Enquirer but then again Mr. Edwards actually was cheating on his wife …
“something that if proven is quite disturbing.”
Tangential to this, it is interesting to follow stories of conservative speakers being threatened and needing physical protection when making presentations of their ideas on today’s college campus’. It becomes so violent that some events have to be cancelled altogether.
This latest incident is provided by libertarian pundit Larry Elder:
How Obama’s Alma Mater Treated an Iraq War Vet
“Racist!” shouted some Columbia University students at an Iraq War vet. Other students reportedly “hissed and booed.” Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who spoke at Columbia three years earlier, received better treatment from the audience.*
The subject of the students’ scorn? Former Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Maschek. The 28-year-old Columbia freshman and Purple Heart recipient served in Iraq. During an attack, he was shot 11 times, suffered two broken legs and sustained injuries to his abdomen, arm and chest. He spent two years at Walter Reed, where one leg was amputated. He uses a wheelchair.
The reprehensible treatment of Maschek took place at a campus town hall meeting held to discuss rescinding Columbia’s 42-year-old ban of an on-campus ROTC program.
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*I listened to Iran’s leader speak at Columbia and there was thunderous applause and plenty of polite listening to go around.