Prof. Barry McDonald is a “First Amendment Professor” who doesn’t seem to know a freakin’ thing about the First Amendment. Not that Pepperdine is a bastion of intellectual prowess, but the fact that this ass clown has a teaching gig anywhere should shock us all.
Kudos to the L.A. Times for giving Mr. John Stagliano this platform upon which he can punk McDonald.
I remember when one of the qualifications to teach something was that you had to have actually done that thing. You want to teach at the motorcycle mechanics institute, you had better have fixed a motorcycle once or twice. McDonald seems to have learned First Amendment law by shoving his head up his ass and shitting in his own eyes. Having shit in your eyes does not qualify you as a “First Amendment expert.”
McDonald, U R PWNED.
And for formality’s sake:
Barry McDonald = AssHat of the week.
Stagliano = First Amendment Bad Ass
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July 11, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I just happened by your website today and followed the link to John Stagliano’s LA post. While you give him credit for being a “first amendment bad ass,” I couldn’t get beyond the first paragraph.
After asserting that some people are not offended by extreme material, he goes on to say, “And what is wrong with being extreme? In today’s culture, being extreme is revered. It is the people on the extreme who move the world forward, who experiment and find new ways of living.”
Mr. Stagliano appears to be using “extreme” homonymously. Can he seriously equate someone that watches donkey sex videos with someone that writes an experimental novel or founds a radical political organization? Or does he think that someone extreme in one respect is extreme in other respects also, so that the intrepid world movers are also donkey sex connoissuers, albeit at different times of the day?
I didn’t read either of their positions closely and I didn’t stop to comment on this particular first amendment issue, but I do wonder at your criteria for being hailed a “first amendment bad ass.” If there was something of value in his article, he may have lured me into reading it by first using sound logic.