Quick background: Thursday evening David Horowitz gave a lecture in MacMillan Hall of Brown University about the threat of radical Islam. Of course liberals in the audience somehow tried to refute the facts. One left-winged student thought it would be funny during the question-and-answer session to pose as a Horowtiz admirer. After raising his hand and being chosen by Horowitz, the student proceeded to make comments such as “It is soooo good to have your views represented on campus. I can’t stand being surrounded by all these liberals,” and “You should come teach here.”
It is pretty sad when the best attempt that a Brown student has to discredit Horowitz is to sarcastically mock him. The entire audience never fully caught on that the student was sarcastically complimenting Horowitz, indicating initially the poor quality of the joke.
Further, the rebuke emphasizes the student’s ignorance on the subject matter. Imagine with me, a debate between Obama and McCain. If McCain’s rebuttals to Obama’s arguments consisted solely of sarcastic praises, viewers would consider McCain an idiot. The same can be said of the dolt in the audience of Horowitz’ lecture. Brown needs to further analyze their prospects to prevent admittance of students like the aforementioned embarrassment to higher learning.