The Cole appointment at Yale

Remember all those right wingers who insist they are for intellectual freedom in the Universities? How they insist that they are only fighting for equal time for conservatives who are discriminated against by a cabal of liberals in academia?

Well, guess what? These same right wing guardians of academic freedom are now all rejoicing about a liberal being turned down for a job he was accepted for by the department that wanted to hire him. That's right, they are bragging about having a qualified professor denied a job that the departments involved agreed he was qualified for. Here's the story from "Inside Higher Education":

A joint appointment in history and sociology had already been approved at the departmental levels. But on Friday, the blog Power Line reported that a senior appointments committee at Yale has overruled those votes,

In other words, historians and sociologists recognized that Cole was the best qualified for the post, but senior administrators, subjected to pressure from anti-intellectual right wing extremists, over-ruled their own faculty members.

So much for the right as defenders of academic freedom.