Yay! Now, University of Tennessee: Please do the same. Banish this shithead to talk radio.
“I didn’t live up to my own standards”
No need to apologize, Glenn! What you wrote was pretty standard for you.
Typical. He felt no need to apologize… until it affected his paycheck.
Ok, now we know what it takes for USA Today to pull a right-wing editorialist: They have to actively advocate for the killing of protesters. Got it.
Who?
Also, again with the Standard Conservative Apology: “I’m sorry I got caught”.
Well, given that there’s been barely a squeak about a presidential candidate who’s twice called for the assassination of his opponent, it’s progress of a sort.
As an individual who is not an elected official or in charge of anything important, Reynolds has an extravagant amount of influence through USA Today, and an extravagant amount of protection to say whatever the hell he feels like as a tenured professor. The people who were protesting were using the means at their disposal to try to get themselves heard for even a few minutes by people who really, really, don’t want to listen, and they were doing so without any protection against arrest or loss of employment. By his response, Reynolds just proves that he is a cosseted asshole who thinks the little people should leap out of his way when they see him coming so his path through life is even more charmed than it already is. Beneath contempt.
“I didn’t live up to my own standards, and I didn’t meet USA TODAY’s standards,” Reynolds said in a statement on the newspaper’s website.
USA TODAY has standards? Who knew?
Reynolds is feeling the heat here in Knoxville.
While Tennessee is pretty red, the four major cities—Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis—are islands of blue in a red ocean.
The local scuttlebutt is not in Reynolds’ favor, and the UT campus gossip has the Dean of the Law School ready to mete out some kind of punishment, but no one know what it will be.
I think they should be creative. I think Reynolds himself should think creatively. Like giving his pontification perch to a Black leader in Charlotte to express the point of view of the protesters, to give them a forum to express their views that doesn’t require them to disrupt traffic and risk their own personal safety.
I hope the consequences make a big difference in this guy’s comfort level, and most importantly, income. I hope the decision of the law school of what to do with this racist is published so everyone can read about him again.
You are asking Reynolds to do something he has never done before—because he is incapable of such action.
He defended it in a post on his blog, saying that the protesters were themselves behaving violently
You would think a professor of law would understand the difference between a good argument and a bad one.
No doubt you are correct. The right to control the narrative is the ultimate exercise of privilege.
Wingnut Pundit: Freedom of speech is under attack in liberal media. Hopefully this will make me have my own Talk Show or a show on FOX.
I was referring to your idea that Reynolds should think creatively.
He’s never done it before, and the odds are against him being able to do so now.
Like that of most right-wing apologists, Reynolds “thinking” is both rigid and deeply superficial.
By “Run them down”,
he did not mean to suggest that drivers physically injure protesters
The jury is leaning 12-0 against that argument, prof.
Should have been done years ago. The University should be embarrassed.
So, in 2016, this is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee? Isn’t it pretty?