Inside Higher Education has published an article about the Protein Wisdom – Deb Frisch uproar over the weekend. Frankly, the author, Scott Jaschik, minimizes the offensive nature of Frisch's remarks and gives her a soapbox to present her "defense" of her actions.
Frisch acknowledged that the tone of her comments — even if they had nothing to do with her teaching — make her a target. “I play a dangerous game by being a professor and also having a very rabid left-wing blog and also posting nasty inflammatory comments on other people’s blogs,” she said. “The issue is how these rabid, crazy, right-wing nutcases have stalked me, told on me, reacted totally out of proportion to a joke in bad taste I posted on a blog. They are treating me the way they treated Ward Churchill — a lunatic lefty in academia who deserves to be verbally attacked, abused and mocked.”
Wrong again, Frisch. The issue is that you crossed a line. It has nothing to do with your politics, just your behavior. By the way, the commenters on the article are having none of the minimization of Frisch's remarks.
UPDATE: Protein Wisdom is up right now, and Jeff Goldstein is now getting angry. Frisch's assertion that Jeff altered a comment can be shown to be false by IP log. And Jeff is mentioning the word libel now. Jeff has a point by point rebuttal of the Inside Higher Education story.
UPDATE: Confederate Yankee made an interesting phone call.
There is no defending what Frisch posted.
So, how about we agree that everyone who posts or writes that people should be killed should lose their jobs.
I wish there weren’t people doing so in several places. I also wish more than a few on the left had condemned this.
I simply want access to a well done website (PW).
To much to ask for, in this swamp-filled time.
Pity.
…..Real pity.
Drudge had the story up for about an hour-with a link to Inside Higher Ed blog. It’s gone now.
Deb has a post up from a U ofA student asking for an apology to the univ.,which she gives.
She also says she isn’t going to post anymore on Jeff for a month……I don’t believe it. LOL
She may already be too late. Jeff is getting pissed now. See the update.