Or maybe a Hydrox; it’s unclear
Liberal Academia’s War On Decency
At long last, they have no decency at all. Michelle Malkin gets an email on the latest outrage, just one of many: Watermelon Math. Does anyone in the academic world care? Or, for that matter, any liberal, anywhere? Not that I’ve noticed.
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‘At long last,’ wow. They’ve crossed the final inch of the ultimate line. Yesterday some decency, today no more. That’s certainly a funny item over at Michelle’s place. It looks like she’s stopped shrieking about the Hispanic menace since…whoops, I spoke too soon.
Anyway, interestingly, it’s a new ‘outrage’ drummed up by Wayne Perryman, the guy who’s trying to sue the Democratic Party for slavery reparations, and the author of the classic tome, Unfounded Loyalty.
Rev. Perryman
While Liberals are gathering around like buzzards waiting to pounce on what they perceive as a dying Bush administration, and while many African Americans leaders are seizing the opportunity to poison the minds of African Americans, why don’t Conservatives make them focus on their own evil deeds? There are several ways one can do this. One is by giving every Democrat and liberal leader in Washington a copy of Unfounded Loyalty, it’s a holiday* gift that will blow their liberal minds and give them something to think about.
Yeah, that Rev. Perryman — the favorite black clergyman of the conservative race-baiting set. And what titanic outrage has liberalism supposedly committed this time? It goes a little something like…
Dear Friends
The following sample math problem was given to students as part of their final exam at Bellevue Community College in Washington State. I was asked by black students to represent them in this matter. Some of these students attend my church.
I am asking all of you and your friends to e-mail the school at the following e-mail addresses and express your outrage:
[…]
The following is the math problem given to the students.
The Problem: Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300 -foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second. The height of the watermelon above the ground t seconds later is given by formula h= -16t2 + 20t + 300
a. How many seconds will it pass her (she’s standing at a height of 300 feet) on the way down?
b. When will the watermelon hit ground?
If they used this same problems and substituted Condoleezza’s name with Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, there would be mass protest and they would shut the college down. Because it was Condoleezza Rice, they wanted to ignore it until I showed up today.
Please e-mail the college and express your outrage and your support of having me at the table to resolve this issue. I am demanding that the college to do several things to correct the problem.
This is serious. Please do not let me down, I want thousands of e-mails to come from all across the country. A CBS affiliate, KIRO TV did cover this story.
Right. Aiee. Oh-em-eff-gee, three exclamation points. At long last, etc. Now, how many of these liberal-professor/details-unclear ‘final exam’ stories have turned out to be factual? In any case, this shows why no one with a brain is fooled when Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, and the rest of the WingNet bigots flap their arms and yell about liberal secret double-standard racist liberal in bla bla yonk ah-oogah. Because while it might be true under some circumstances that if someone, as Perryman says, “used this same problem and substituted Condoleezza’s name with Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, there would be mass protest” (which is what Malkin, et al. are really interested in attacking, using the switcharound tactic they love so well, and using Perryman to enable it) it’s also the case that if somebody were to make a crack like,
Oreo Math:
Wayne Perryman holds a gigantic, humungous Oreo cookie with Double Stuf just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Joel Chandler Harris Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second while singing “Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me (‘Cause I Belong to Somebody).” The height of the Oreo above the ground t seconds later is given by formula h= -16t2 + 20t + 300.
a. How many seconds will it take to pass him (he is at a height of 300 feet) on the way down?
b. When will Wayne Perryman hit bottom?
…there would not be mass protest.
* Will the war on Christmas never cease?
Rev. Perryman, what seems to be the problem? Condeleeza never held a watermelon?
Liberal academia is now represented by a professor at Bellevue Community College? What happened to the real America haters at leading US universities?
The problem: George W. Bush stands upon two trailers and forcefeeds a brown substance to the US media, insisting it is chocolate ice cream.
Question: when Fox News learns that the two small trailers were not full of ice cream, but totally full of shit, how long will it take them to tell their audience, “Mmmm, that was some good ice cream!”
I’d say Hydrox. Perryman is topshelf loon, but his lack of star power prevents him from being anything but off brand.
“…if somebody were to make a crack like…”
I’m offended.
I site-searched KIRO and Belleview Community College, and Googled every possible combination of words I could think of and got nothing. It could be true, of course, but if KIRO reported it yesterday it’s completely vanished from their site since then.
“And what titanic outrage has liberalism supposedly committed this time? ”
I, too, am offended.
Oooh, I have one:
If Lolly Liberal throws an Oreo cookie at the Lt. Governor of Maryland who is on a podium 30 feet away, and the cookie travels at a rate of x-1 feet per second, how long before people figure out the whole story was a complete lie?
Poor wording by the prof, if true, but at that same time, this looks like a final for freshman physics and there’s basically 6 questions that get reworded 20,000 times in order to make the exam seem new. I can’t say that this isn’t stupid, but the the prof that wrote this question is probably cut from the same cloth as Trent Lott, Strom, and Crazy Michelle. Not every prof is a liberal moonbat. There’s rightwing nutjobs in college teaching positions as well.
Liberal academia is now represented by a professor at Bellevue Community College?
And, yeah.
Isn’t Wayne Perryman the guy who’s accused Jesse Jackson of hiring people to kill him?
And at any rate, if a liberal had thrown a shit fit about the watermelon question, people like Malkin and Hinderaker would be rolling their eyes and making the jerk-off gesture at how “unhinged” liberals are and how they’ll drum up any old stupid racial non-issue to try to pander to African-Americans. So why are they so up in arms about this now?
I can’t for a moment think that there are better things for the media to cover than the Great Liberal-Racist Physics Exam Scandal of Bellevue, Washington. Only a far-reaching conspiracy of silence and sympathy can account for this.
Doh! I did actually spell it right when I searched, as I c&p’d it instead of attempting to type it in.
Has anyone managed to find any evidence of this happening, apart from Perryman’s original email?
Has anyone managed to find any evidence of this happening, apart from Perryman’s original email?
Searching for evidence isn’t necessary. Progressives just need go with the default position that it is, of course, a big lie (like everything the wingnuts have ever said) and…voilà …you’ve saved yourself a whole lot of time and can spend it on other pursuits…like squeezing in a few extra abortions.
Has anyone managed to find any evidence of this happening, apart from Perryman’s original email?
Not me; I looked all over the place.
Inter alia, the big event at Bellevue Community College this week is the American Indian Film Festival.
Then again, there’s this:
“4/14: Withdraw in-person by 5:00 p.m. to avoid a “W” on your transcript.”
Bashing our president (shriek, scream, ululate).
If it happened, it would be offensive.
The question (without Condoleeza or a watermelon) is a standard physics/math question (though if it’s on a final I despair for the educational standards of our youth).
The wording of part a is unclear, and I can bet if it made it onto a real exam students would contest it. This leads me to doubt it’s real, but I’ve seen poorer writing by physics professors before.
I’m amused at the thought that Bellevue is liberal, though. It’s a town of old-money Republicans and new-tech-money Libertarians.
Moreover, the only Washington State community college professor I know well is my dad, who taught me that William F. Buckley, Jr., was God. This made him a minority in the CC community, but not terribly unusual.
Anyway, tacky if true.
Has anyone managed to find any evidence of this happening, apart from Perryman’s original email?
The email states that it’s a question from a final exam (and finals aren’t for another couple of weeks, at least). My guess is that happened like four years ago and this is a repeat handwringing.
The email states that it’s a question from a final exam (and finals aren’t for another couple of weeks, at least).
Actually, I thought that too, but I checked the college website and they just (middle of March) had final exams for winter term.
Also,
didn’t GWB give an address at Bellevue a while back?
Even then, there’s absolutely nothing on the interwebs about this happening aside from the post by Crazy Michelle. And few tsk tsking posts by rightwingers in her trackbacks.
Nothing
Although I expect this will make its way into the numerous email forwards I get from my sister-in-law.
morfydd: Croeso i S,N! Ydych’in siarad Cymraeg? Y gwir yn erbin y byd!
I like how he shilled his book in that email.
“Do you know what would REALLY make the liberals in DC open their eyes? Well, in a total coincedence, it happens to be my book!! I know, crazy isn’t it?! Well, anyway, for the low low price of $29.99 (in four easy installments) you can help liberals focus on their own Evil Deeds! Hurry, supplies limited!”
The Problem: I hold a bucket of fried chicken just over the edge of the roof-top. How long before the newly emancipated slave from whom I stole that savory, secret spice recipe runs up the stairwell and through the roof access to beat my cracker ass to a pulp?
Y gwir yn erbin y byd!
The ghost of Iolo Morgannwg rears his head.
Everyone knew that Hydrox were always a poor substitute for Oreos. It’s because Hydrox uses vegetable oil and Oreos use rendered beef fat.
More importantly, how long will it take Gay Ruppert to admonish everyone here for loving socialism.
It sounds like standard racism to me. Bellevue’s sorta like that. It is *not* a hotbed of anti-Bush liberalism.
Lame and offensive, sure. And Doug’s right about the likely reaction of conservatives to a fuss like this, and Perryman’s wrong. We wouldn’t even have heard about this if it’d said “Jesse” or “Al”. I leave it to people like Perryman to figure out the difference between “Jesse Jackson” and “Condoleezza”.
Isn’t it racist of the Rev to automatically associate watermelons with black people? I mean, come on, I’m white as they come, and I eat watermelons. Charles Bronson was pretty white, too, but he grew the damn things in that old film “Mr Majestyk” (that is, grew them before he got really, really angry…)…
And didn’t we just have this discussion?
I am SO reporting all of you to Ann Bartow.
Didn’t it used to be that conservatives were the ones with respect for higher learning, and the leftist socialists were all for blue collar solidarity against the suits? Now, you’re immediately suspected of being a liberal if you so much as crack a book.
I mean, hell, John Yoo, professor of Law at UC Berkeley was the architect for the US torture policy and the all-powerful Presidency. What a crazy liberal moonbat bleeding heart that guy is!
Of course, the conservative leadership really wants to keep their people totally suspicious of any learning. I guess if your strategy depends on keeping your supporters easily led, then you don’t want ’em reading anything you don’t put right in front of them.
Ry’n ni yma o hyd, Tlachtga. I bet Iolo is laughing his ass off on the other side;)
Oops…that was me~
Are you guys invoking Chthulu again? You know that plays hell with the server…
You were kind of asking for it when you named your server R’lyeh, Gavin.
How have we continued for so long on this without Gary Ruppert showing up to tell us just how prominent Bellevue Community College is in the world of academia. That does seem to be his special talent; discerning the relative importance of things. Well, that and being a wonderful pinata.
Ia! Ia! Gary Ruppert f’thagn!!
I am SO going to jump through your computer screen and strangle you.
I’d say Hydrox. Perryman is topshelf loon, but his lack of star power prevents him from being anything but off brand.
Posted by: Crack
Everyone knew that Hydrox were always a poor substitute for Oreos. It’s because Hydrox uses vegetable oil and Oreos use rendered beef fat.
Posted by: C.I. Dreyfus
And yet, Hydrox were the original. Oreos copied offa Hydrox. Bastards.Here is a helpful tribute page celebrating “the original sandwich cookie,” which people like you rotters hounded into nonexistence with your insistence that Oreo was the original and Hydrox were a poor imitation.
http://www.spacefem.com/hydrox/
See Lucy, we can change reality just by insisting that that which is not real is and that which is is not. That’s why some of us are really going to miss President Bartlett.
And I’m one of them. I decided after Nov. 2004 that I was going to pretend Bartlett (or is it one T?) was president instead of Cuckoo Bananas, and that cute li’l Bradley Whitford was chief of staff instead of that hydrocephalic monster baby. What I do now?
Vote for Matt Santos, of course. Though even Vinick would be an improvement over the Cokehead-in-Chief. Or is it Cobag-in-Chief? I always forget what these official abbreviations stand for.
you may have facts on your side Lucy, but Oreos have taste on theirs.
There is too much Welsh on this post.
You’re discriminating against those of us who don’t speak Welsh.
As a Washington resident, I can tell you that even if this did happen, no one outside of Bellevue gives a flying fuck what happens there, unless you’re talking about the outlet malls. PS, quarter systems suck. Three finals weeks a year is anti-American.
Oh, so it’s fine to have entire threads devoted to Saami cursing, but there’s too much Welsh?
The Welsh are offended.
So you associate Saami with cursing.
I’m offended.
If it were really a racist question, Condoleeza would’ve refused to throw the watermelon off the roof, said something like “sho nuff I do like dem water-melons”, tied her hair into pigtails and done a little tap dance.
The watermelon story appears to be true. This is from the college’s web page:
http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/news/announcements/
Do we know anything about the math professor, such as his race or whether he is a liberal or conservative?
thanks for the laugh, n.c.
So, suggesting a lewd act between your mother and a reindeer in Saami is more like a cheerful greeting?
If so, I’m offended.
It is if you’re having a beer in the sauna.
Mr. Perryman is retarded if he thinks this is racist. A black person mentioned in the same sentence as a watermelon is automatically considered racist?
Rev. Perryman saw a watermelon.
Quick! Call the NAACP!
The school should be ashamed for apologizing.