Comments on: Vote Bérubé!

By: David Brake

David Brake — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:31:36 +0000

To cross with another thread here it's nice to see he refers to all of the entrants as "professor". But wouldn't it be more respectful of bell hooks' wishes to de-capitalise her name?

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:15:14 +0000

Indeed. I just voted and Foster has dropped to only five votes. Berube looks untouchable, although Juan Cole is now in third place.

By: jre

jre — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:26:43 +0000

Oh, no! The Most Evil One, Penn State University, (who holds tenure at Michael Bérubé) has dropped to 1508 votes! We are left to imagine the bales of virtual ballots taken out to the back alley behind FrontPage for incineration, and the rising plume of virtual black smoke revealing that, for the moment, we do not have an Evil One.

By: C

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:24:39 +0000

DH’s constituency is his right-wing funders. He wants names those folks recognize and revile, which is why he names all those superannuated hippies that John keeps voting for. The list is largely filled out with people who have a public left (or Israel-critical) political presence. If you look at the sample here:

http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/Becker.pdf

it’s entirely about the guy’s politics.

By: DS

DS — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:09:13 +0000

JQ: “There are nearly half a million votes so far! I wonder if Horowitz will pitch this as evidence of the popularity of his site. Actually, it would be more in character to write some whiny piece about how evil leftists victimised him.”

My guess, he will do both.

By: Andrew Edwards

Andrew Edwards — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:53:45 +0000

How is there not a single Harvard prof on here? I thought Harvard was a bastion of politically correct leftism?

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:28:28 +0000

The scholars at Berkelyl, my alma mater, are not faring well in this ranking, and Mark LeVine, of my local UC campus, an occasional contributor to Juan Cole’s blog, is doing even worse. Not fair!

If they’d put a computer scientist on the list, it’s a fair bet that she would have gotten millions of votes by now.

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:40:19 +0000

There are nearly half a million votes so far! I wonder if Horowitz will pitch this as evidence of the popularity of his site.

Actually, it would be more in character to write some whiny piece about how evil leftists victimised him.

By: djw

djw — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:34:42 +0000

Foster’s a sociologist, or at least is currently housed in a Soc. dept. He seems like more of an economist though.

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:39:32 +0000

This poll is being very heavily freeped by us. Berube isn’t the only one whose friends are voting for him. I’ve been keeping Victor Navasky on the charts singlehanded.

Nobody cares about Ron Karenga, who in my udnerstanding might be the only genuinely evile person there.

By: Yuri Guri

Yuri Guri — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:04:24 +0000

I did my part and voted for Berube, although I agonized over whether I should throw my vote away on a third-party candidate like Chomsky. I hope Noam doesn’t take offense.

Still I was a bit surprised to see that Sami al Arian, who was recently put on trial for his affliation with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (and who allegedly was one of its leaders), only has 82 votes right now, which puts him below even Paul Ehrlich and Cornel West.

By: lemuel pitkin

lemuel pitkin — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:15:43 +0000

Foster is the co-editor of Monthly Review, so he has a better claim to his place than most of those on the list. He’s also a genuione marxist and (I think) an economist, the only one I recognize on that list. Isn’t anybody scared of value theory any more?

Also, as a sign of just how dumb they are, anybody else notice that the professor and school columns are flipped on the results page?

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:39:11 +0000

Can we have candidates’ speeches? As in, “I promise to continue my studies in neo-postmodernist Bolshevik mind-control, and to corrupt the precious bodily fluids of America’s youth”.

And the botnet teams could compete – I imagine names like “The Diebold Blackboxers”, “Karl Rove’s Angels”, “K Street Program”, “Swift Bot Veterans For Truth”, etc.

Is anyone coordinating this? It could be an event.

By: Pablo Stafforini

Pablo Stafforini — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:54:07 +0000

Calling all Quigginians! Follow Dr Quiggin's advise and vote for Chomsky. Chomskyan bots are also accepted.

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:50:19 +0000

Considering how many of the people on the list are either Muslims or scholars who deal with the Middle East and/or Islam, I’m surprised no one is crying racism yet.