Video: Indoctrinate U’s Columbia Quiz
posted at 9:05 am on September 26, 2007 by Bryan
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Just what do they teach at Columbia University when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn’t around? That’s what indie documentarian Evan Maloney wanted to know, so he took his camera crew to Columbia to conduct a quiz. During the shoot, the university’s security appeared and hassled them about not having permits to shoot.
Hilarity and enlightenment ensues. Click the image to head over to the Indoctrinate U site to see the clip.
By the way, the Indoctrinate U world premiere is this Friday in Washington DC.
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Gee. Columbia wants to make sure you don’t hear any unmonitored, undoctored, unchecked thought coming from their universities. I’m STUNNED.
Only thing is I still wish the rough cut of Indoctrinate U was still available for free download on Evan’s website. I saw it years ago, but now he’s showing it in places I can’t afford to travel to.
MadisonConservative on September 26, 2007 at 9:16 AM
Wait one just one doggone minute! It costs $1500 to film on campus but it can be waived if the content is to the college’s liking?
Bwahahahaha! I guess when someone from Columbia sees this, Evan will be getting a bill.
Hilarity indeed Bryan…….
JohnnyD on September 26, 2007 at 9:23 AM
Perfect timing. By watching that video, I feel like I have vicariously kicked a sadistic bully while he’s down. Can’t WAIT to see that film.
RushBaby on September 26, 2007 at 9:27 AM
Yep. Certain speech freedoms have a price tag attached according to Columbia.
mojowire on September 26, 2007 at 9:28 AM
Sounds a bit like the “Soviet” style of film making from the old cold war daze to me.
Sgt. Khe Sahn
1GooDDaDDy on September 26, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Can we get a quote from Senator Bluto Butarsky about this?
Romeo13 on September 26, 2007 at 9:51 AM
ha nice, cant wait to see more of this.
trailortrash on September 26, 2007 at 10:05 AM
I can’t either. It needs to come a little further South.
Esthier on September 26, 2007 at 10:11 AM
Everyone should bookmark the Indoctrinate U. website. If people want to know more about university indoctrination and prfessor ties to terrorist and Communist groups they should also check out David Horowitz.
davenp35 on September 26, 2007 at 10:12 AM
was it me or could they have bribed the security with the free burger card ?
Mojack420 on September 26, 2007 at 10:20 AM
So much for free speech.
csdeven on September 26, 2007 at 10:22 AM
And the free flow of ideas in institutions of higher learning. The left have become fascists.
csdeven on September 26, 2007 at 10:23 AM
If they would have ran 25 feet, that cop would have been winded and would have had to break off pursuit.
I think the $1500/day is the donut budget.
JayHaw Phrenzie on September 26, 2007 at 10:34 AM
people know what they’re getting into when they go to columbia. its not like these guys are doing some terrible disservice we all need to be outraged about.
ive been taking college courses at 3 seperate NYC colleges, and of course theres alot of snide bush bashing and republican hating. so what, i ask. these are college students, they can think for themselves. if i can roll my eyes when my idiot philosophy professor calls bush a fascist, so can anyone else in the class.
bryan, for the love of god, put some effort into a real issue
ernesto on September 26, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Become? They’ve been.
Bad Candy on September 26, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Ernesto, for the love of God, stop acting like a stalker troll.
Bryan on September 26, 2007 at 10:44 AM
It is a real issue, college/uni is a reinforcement of the years of indoctrination they’ve received at public schools, that combined with the bias of big media puts us at a huge disadvantage.
Bad Candy on September 26, 2007 at 10:45 AM
lol fine, i wont call you out by name anymore, if it upsets you that much.
either way, if this has been such a longstand pervasive problem, that “puts us at a huge disadvantage”…then why havent we been forced into hiding long ago?
we gotta watch how much credit we give these people. pointing out irrelevant attitudes among academia is a waste of our time. just because an english or business or whatever professor says weird ass things, doesnt mean anyone takes it to heart.
when was the last time any of u were in a college classroom?? students can identify a qwack pretty quickly. and even so with students that attend an elite university like columbia, they don’t need any direction from idiot professors. if a student is a radical lefty or a true reaganite, they can come to these conclusions by themselves.
ernesto on September 26, 2007 at 10:55 AM
ernesto on September 26, 2007 at 10:55 AM
the point is, we(students, parents, and taxpayers) are paying the professors to TEACH, not indoctrinate thier own leftist ideologies on the students.
mrfixit on September 26, 2007 at 11:07 AM
I guess Columbia isn’t about free speech after all. The whole IAmAWhackJob affair was more about publicity than demonstrating their free speech values. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
Mallard T. Drake on September 26, 2007 at 11:12 AM
About a year ago, and if Ian Schwartz is lurking around, I think he’s still in.
Sure, many recognize the really nutty acting professors and teachers, but some of them really are swayed by that kind of nuttiness, and really, its not the crazy hippie guy who smells wears Birkenstocks that’s the problem, its the one in the clean suit that can spout insanities in a way that doesn’t sound like they should be standing on a street corner ranting and waving a book around at people without challenge that is the problem. Oh, sure you can challenge them, but expect to your GPA take a hit.
Bad Candy on September 26, 2007 at 11:16 AM
So it’s not a problem to you that CU has a raving anti-Semite on staff but rescinds a speaking invitation to Minuteman Jim Gilchrist, while letting Ahmadinejad speak at the World Leaders Forum?
We’re not lending credibility to anyone by pointing out academia’s raging hypocrisy and its failure to educate. Stop your whining.
Bryan on September 26, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Goodbye sweet America
Gregor on September 26, 2007 at 11:26 AM
OK, some of you know that I’m a little slow, so help a brother out. It sounds like showings have not yet been announced except for the opening.
I went to the site and tried to “request a screening”, but nothing comes up. It seems like they would want to know where I am emailing from when I make that request, no?
Also, saw no contact info for Evan or Thor or anyone on the site. Meh?
Jaibones on September 26, 2007 at 11:35 AM
So it’s not a problem to you that CU has a raving anti-Semite on staff but rescinds a speaking invitation to Minuteman Jim Gilchrist, while letting Ahmadinejad speak at the World Leaders Forum?no, its not. they can do what they want. if it was the CUNY graduate center or something, id be a bit more miffed, but its a private university, i wont whine about who they let speak.
and either way, this does not represent a failure to educate, just a failure to educate in a way we’d approve of. i dissapprove of the way liberty university educates its law students, but that doesn’t mean liberty university fails to educate.
calling on the community to ignore CU…not whining
crying over the fact they let the midget speak and not the minuteman…whining
ernesto on September 26, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Done.
Mcguyver on September 26, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Man, I wanna see this film.
infidel4life on September 26, 2007 at 12:02 PM
I wonder why we don’t just build more Colleges and let the market take care of campus bigots?
Speakup on September 26, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Of course there is nothing wrong with what they are doing ernesto, you have already been indoctrinated. Were they using the exact same tactics to promote Christianity at any of those Universities you attend you would be infuriated. But they are not and you are not.
doriangrey on September 26, 2007 at 12:11 PM
And how does one go about “calling on the community to ignore CU” without actually pointing out what’s wrong with the place?
Bryan on September 26, 2007 at 12:16 PM
I guess paying $45K to go to an Ivy League college entitles the student to learn how to ignore his professors.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on September 26, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Ernesto, it is not a coincidence that the same students listening to this professor at Columbia were cheering the President of Iran throughout his antisemetic rant. Did you notice how there was not a peep of protest from the crowd until he crossed the wires in their liberal budding fascist brains by saying something absurd about homosexuality. The student mind is an impressionable one. They are bombarded with garbage from every direction. The texts, the professors, the MSM all give them the same BS story. The result of this is their almost computerized inclination to sympathize with an anti-semetic US Marine murding moster like Ahmedinejad. A movie like this is very important. The only way to wake a person up from brainwashing is to show them the process and source of what has been brainwashing them. These are after all the next generation of leaders in our country. Do we want fascism or freedom?
Zetterson on September 26, 2007 at 1:38 PM
And Ernesto, if we are going to have a discussion we have to be clear about our terms. The goal of an education is to develop mentally. If the end result of this education is not to seek truth, if it is not to seek accurate, unbiased answers then the student is not becoming more well educated. They are not developing mentally. In actuality they are moving further from the truth. They are becoming more disfunctional mentally. That is the result of this biased education you prefer not to have exposed. It seems that you classify any and all learning experiences as part of the process of education. That is false. Not all educations are equally valid. Not all educations seek truth. Biased teaching only leads to uneducated/miseducated students. There is no benefit to that and it should be exposed for what it is. My goodness.
Zetterson on September 26, 2007 at 1:54 PM
Home page:
Scroll down – “Join Others in your area by requesting a local screening”
erik on September 26, 2007 at 1:56 PM
Is Ernesto on CU’s payroll? I wonder…..
I would like to see this on the internet for all to watch.
Kini on September 26, 2007 at 2:04 PM
You have done a good job in exposing the truth, here.
But from past experience,
Ahmadinejadernesto does not respond to the truth.He merely comes in here to berate the truth seekers/tellers, and then promptly disappears.
Good try though, keep up the pressure…..and welcome to the club.
Mcguyver on September 26, 2007 at 3:21 PM
Insisting on final content approval is almost unheard of in this industry.
And the fact that an American university is demanding this, makes it all the more absurd.
The Ugly American on September 26, 2007 at 4:25 PM
ah don’t give me that. i have a tendancy to think you and those like you give too much credit to some of these wackos. when i see us on the right using the words left and fascist interchangably, as is done on this site often, i cannot help but cringe. me and you would agree on alot mcguyver…you simply see some issues as more urgent and pressing than others.
and when it comes to analysis of higher education, im both a student and staff at an NYC school. i know the drill. ive seen the wacko professors, and though their rhetoric is insane, you’d be surprised how many students ignore it. the problem with academia from a student’s standpoint is not its leftist radicalization…but its apathy. there are 3 times more students who dont even know who the iranian president is than those who sympathize with him.
this matter, though outrageous, simply isnt all that important. you give these people too much credit. just as those who at the mere thought of a clinton presidency have nightmares of stalinist iron fisted communism. this is not to say i like clinton…i actually support romney…but wheres the restraint? wheres the grain of salt? it may be that i stand on the far more moderate end of this community…but am i wrong to feel that things like nutty professors are inconsequential? really?
ernesto on September 26, 2007 at 5:11 PM
Ernesto, allow me to appeal to you moderate tendencies. I believe you may be going a little overboard with your assesment as well. Perhaps the word inconsequential is not giving these profs enough credit. I believe there is some consequence to the teaching practices. The evidence for this we could see and hear as the Columbia students cheered gleefully for Ahmadinejad. I see evidence of the consequences caused by liberal profs everyday as I stroll through Harvard Square in Cambridge MA on a sunny afternoon. Can we agree that there is some consequence to the extreme liberal bias of nutty professors? Can we agree that the consequences are, most often, unfortunate? Can we agree that it is a righteous endeavor to expose such unfortunate consequences?
All that is happening here is speech being countered with more speech. Nobody is saying these profs are doing anything illegal. They should not be punished for preaching the crap they believe. But they should be exposed through the free and open exchange of ideas. That is all this movie represents. That is all Bryan was doing when he linked to this movie.
I need to ask, have you seen the movie ernesto? If not I’d be interested in hearing what you have to say about it once you do see it. One of the main themes throughout is the squelching of free speech on college campuses. Its very eye opening. And ernesto, my moderate Republican friend, the squelching of free speech is and always will be the foundation of fascism.
Lets reach for some middle ground. The behavior of these profs is not inconsequential nor will it doom us.
Zetterson on September 26, 2007 at 5:43 PM
agreed. and welcome
ernesto on September 26, 2007 at 5:49 PM
But it ought to be exposed, and that’s where Ernesto is wrong to slap at me for posting a little clip.
Bryan on September 26, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Exactly, I got a little distracted and I meant to add exactly that to the end of what I wrote to ernesto. If there is something unethical going on then there is nothing wrong with exposing it. No matter how large or small one considers the problem to be.
I’m looking very forward to seeing this film in its final draft form so thank you for posting this Bryan.
Zetterson on September 26, 2007 at 6:11 PM
Yes I know! And it’s sold out damnit, I waited too long to find a babysitter…
4shoes on September 26, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Ernesto, those profs may be ignored by the valley girls, who are in university just to kill time and party. But they are not ignored by the intelligent students, who are not quite intelligent enough to understand what “Left” is all about. Young people get so much anti-American rhetoric simply from watching TV, that they need to hear none of that from their teachers. One can dismiss a Rosie O’Donnell at home while sitting on one’s couch, but if your professor at school tells you the same thing, except with bigger words, it may very well become part of your belief system.
This is what is happening. Those students, the intelligent ones with good grades who go on to graduate with degrees after studying law, or public policy, or foreign policy, or history, or social studies, etc., they then go on to occupy the seats of power from which they will govern our society, and, by extension, the world. Why do you think the US has devolved so much since the ’60s? We were once the champions of the world, hated by no one in 1945, now we are considered both a paper tiger, and a hated imperialist entity the world over. What has changed in 40 years?
I’ll tell you. The people who lead us, regulate us, administrate us, and entertain us. They have changed. The ones who do those tasks today are from the hippy generation. Now that they are in power in all areas of society, from the local level city hall, right up to the advisers in the Whitehouse, our society is paying the price. Even in Middle East, we see this. We have a Secretary of State that wants to talk to Hamas, rather than just eliminate them like would have been done 60 years ago. That is just one example. I could go on but I’d be here typing all night.
What’s worse, is that some of those hippies are now ensconced in the university system, where they indoctrinate the next batch of kids. And on the cycle goes. That is how the Left can keep control of the various levers of society. They keep control of the universities. That is key. We don’t draw our leaders from the corn fields. We draw them from the universities. Whomever controls the universities, controls the politics, controls the future. It’s that simple.
jihadwatcher on September 26, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Now, doesn’t that feel a lot better coming in here to have a debate by expressing your opinions without berating others?
Mcguyver on September 27, 2007 at 12:32 AM
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