I guess he didn't really understand why it was a problem:
UCLA liberal-hunter Andrew Jones apparently woke up and smelled the politics - and withdrew the $100 bounty he was offering to students who snitched on their too-liberal professors ...
As reported by the L.A. Times, Jones' explanation is weak and disingenuous:
Jones, the president and sole employee of the fledgling Bruin Alumni Assn. and a former leader of the student Bruin Republicans, said the payment offer had become "a distraction from the real problem, which has been all along the issue of classroom indoctrination by UCLA professors."
On the other hand, maybe he was just outsmarted:
Robert N. Watson, an English professor who was one of the academics singled out for further scrutiny on Jones' http://www.uclaprofs.com website, said Jones "withdrew the money offer because professors figured out they could bankrupt him by encouraging masses of their students to submit recordings. He's still recruiting spies, and it will damage education if professors have to worry constantly about what could be taken out of context and used to make them look bad, as Jones does so unscrupulously."
Tacky as it is, nothing's stopping him from continuing to critique UCLA professors whom he (or any of his now-unpaid informants) deems to be "too radical" at UCLAProfs.com.
But then nothing was really stopping Jones from buying "intelligence," even if he couldn't afford a clue.
Posted by: Mack_Reed on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:39 AM
