Right-wing Politically Correct: Could Dick Cheney pick up this fired professor's job in Utah?

Rightists continually bitch and moan and whine about politically correct speech.  It's a good mantra for them, like "tax-and-spend liberal" or "welfare queen", and they milk it for everything they can.  Not a hint of hypocrisy here:

'F-word' stands for fired; prof loses job

Here's a news story about a professor, Stephen Roberds, who received the award for 2003-4 Professor of the Year at Southern Utah University, a public institution.  Roberds was fired for saying the word "fucking" while discussing a Supreme Court decision.

  This comes from the same state that I grew up in, that passed a law allowing students to bring concealed firearms into the classroom at public universities.  Being a liberal in the National Socialist Republic of Utah probably didn't help Roberd with his auto-da-fé.  Looking on the bright side, Dick Cheney, who told Sen Patrick Leahy to "Go fuck yourself", seems to be uniquely unqualified for a comfortable think-tank retirement post as SUU.  

Please make sure to give SUU your thoughts about their concepts of academic freedom and political correctness:
http://www.suu.edu/ad/pr/contact.html
You might want to spend your vacation dollars in some other state as well.   If you need gas in Cedar City, UT, you can probably make it to the Nevada border.  Stop by on your way to Las Vegas and let them know what you think of their academic standards.

•  Three Votes

  And they all went with number 1. That's a little scary.

  by Goldfish on Thu Dec 16, 2004 at 05:52:30 PM PDT

  •  It's because that's the only "no"

    Kossacks would never shoot somebody just for saying "fucking"--- I'm sure all of us use that expression regularly.... OK, almost all of us.

    by murphy on Thu Dec 16, 2004 at 06:08:50 PM PDT

    •  I voted #1 also

      I just thought the second part of the answer was funny.

      by Goldfish on Fri Dec 17, 2004 at 08:13:58 AM PDT

•  Can I Say this!!! Does anybody know?

  Just wondering if saying "I don't support this President" on a bumper sticker would get me arrested or thrown in jail. Not that I care much - but I think my kids would be embarassed.

  by corkie60 on Thu Dec 16, 2004 at 06:12:29 PM PDT