The Conservative Persecution Hoax Exposed

[marmar]

from HuffPost:




Max Blumenthal
The Conservative Persecution Hoax Exposed
Posted December 19, 2007 | 03:34 PM (EST)



With President George W. Bush only a year away from departing the White House and the Republican succession in turmoil some of the most prominent conservative intellectuals and activists have gathered together for one last great crusade. Movement icons from Robby George of Princeton to Harvey Mansfield of Harvard, from David Horowitz to Brit Hume, raised howls of persecution when they learned that two masked men allegedly attacked a conservative Princeton University student. They insisted that the right-wing acolyte was beaten up "for his conservative views," as Horowitz put it. And they accused Princeton of failing to protect conservatives and upholding a hypocritical liberal double standard. Unfortunately, as I have reported for the Nation, the trumpeted cause collapsed when the victim turned out to be a hoaxer.

The embarrassing episode for the conservative leaders began last week when Francisco Nava, a junior at Princeton University, appeared at the hospital with cuts and bruises covering his face. He claimed that two unidentified men repeatedly bashed his head against a brick wall, shouting to "shut the fuck up."

Nava is a member of a student group called the Anscombe Society. Named for G.E.M. Anscombe, a British philospher who opposed her country's involvement in World War Two, the group was founded to promote "a chaste lifestyle which respects and appreciates human sexuality, relationships, and dignity." The Anscombe Society explained its abstinence advocacy on its website: "The nature of this sexual act is itself unitive--two become one flesh. Sex is thus the actualization of the marital union, concretizing the mutual gift of self between the partners."

Nava, a conservative Mormon, claimed his troubles began when he wrote a column for the student newspaper, The Princetonian, called "Princeton's latex lies." He warned "the infectious threat posed by Princeton's hookup culture" would spread if the school continued its policy of free condom distribution. "What Princeton's condom campaign amounts to is a tacit sponsorship of hookup sex," Nava declared. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-conservative-persecut_b_77561.html

[magellan]

1. Guess I didn't get the liberal memo

...condemning free condoms because they promote hookup sex. And I'm damned angry about that. No one ever tells me anything...!

:cry:

/sarcasm

Freepers = mugs

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Poor kid.

Can't find anyone willing to have sex with him. :rofl:

[yardwork]

3. One of the responses on the blog references Romney

cwilson (See profile | I'm a fan of cwilson)
There are plenty of self-persecuting wingnuts out there. The most prominent of them is Mitt Romney. His fingerprints are all over a bizarre "push poll" in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, in which people were told negative things about the Mormons and asked for their reactions.
Romney denounced the calls as "unamerican" and linked them to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act. His campaign introduced two recipients of the calls to the news media, who were then quoted saying that the calls were not only anti-Mormon but pro-McCain.
Both innocent call recipient turned out to be paid Romney campaign staffers. They never disclosed it to the media. Oe of them went further and actually lied, saying that she was "leaning" toward Romney but still undecided. Then it came out that she has received thousands of dollars from the Romney campaign.
Interestingly enough, the major news media decided to ignore the story, just as they've ignored a couple of major scandals involving senior Romney fundraising officials.