# 3 - "Left Turn" A Report Card

# 3 – “Left Turn” – A Report Card
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, August 15, 2011

Preface: When it comes to talk Radio – whenever Dennis Prager speaks America listens. Last week Dennis stated that the Liberal Welfare State is a failure. You can check it out yourself. It is bankrupt financially, intellectually, morally and spiritually. Study and ponder that almost all of our large cities in America are controlled by Liberal Democrats. [Now, we share # 2 of 2 from the book’s Introduction]

“The most vicious response was by Eric Alterman, a writer at Media Matters. He insinuated that we had been paid by right-wing think tanks to fudge our results. “Rigging the Numbers” was the title of his essay. The following were his concluding paragraphs”…

Check the fine print and one finds this study – naively touted as both objective and significant by the UCLA public affairs office and published, by the previously respected Quarterly Journal of Economics, edited at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, was the product of a significant investment by right-wing think tanks. In 2000-2001, Groseclose was a Hoover Institution national fellow, …

And yet despite its shockingly desultory intellectual underpinnings and almost comical ideological imperatives, we can be certain that we will hear about this study over and over for the next decade – from the very people who have written off normative knowledge and scientific research as some sort of liberal plot to subvert the values of Heartland America…

Larry Greenfield, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, has made a profound observation about the psyche of the far left. “They worship the God of Equality.” … While other virtues, such a kindness and honesty, are important, they are secondary when they class with Equality.

Our study, at least in small ways, harms the goal of Equality. In at least small ways, it works to make U.S. public policy less “progressive” and less consistent with “social justice.” …

First, before the study was published, several professors invited me to present the research at their universities. I gave presentations at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Duke, and two presentations at Stanford… Next was the response at the University of Missouri. At the heated meeting of the department chairs, the chair of the economics department suggested. “Hey, we’re all scholars here. Maybe we should settle this like scholars – with a debate… The dean agreed, and he set up a forum. Not one of the professors who criticized the study showed up at the debate. …

Out of the many hundreds of professors at UCLA, I’m aware of only nine who voted for McCain in 2008, and one of them asked me never to reveal that fact to anyone at the school. I am almost certain that not one dean, chancellor, or vice-chancellor at UCLA voted for McCain in 2009 or for Bush in 2000 or 2004…”

George H. Kubeck -

P.S. As Dennis Prager states in his radio conversations and Prager University via “Google” the Liberals want to change the American Character from our Motto of Life- Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to the French European Motto – Liberty – Equality – Fraternity. We already have Fraternity with 45 million Americans on Food Stamps. Via a screwed-up Alinsky mindset, our President Obama is playing games with the American people.