A week ago, our MRCTV colleague Ashley Goldenberg reported that an admission official at publicly funded George Mason University in Virginia wrote on his personal (but public) Facebook page that anyone who opposed gay marriage and voted for Donald Trump is a “worthless piece of trash.” That news of liberal “inclusion” has yet to be noticed by the dominant local newspaper, The Washington Post.
That oversight is twice as biased since the Post jumped at the chance to cover the completely fake news of Miley Cyrus “spontaneously” knocking on dorm doors at George Mason to campaign for Hillary Clinton...which would be a violation of the university’s no-solicitation policy.
Andrew Bunting, GMU's Senior Assistant Director of Admissions, attacked the National Organization for Marriage: “NOM, a recognized HATE GROUP by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is not representative of the key pillars of American society.” He then added, “If you agree with them then that is your opinion. Just know that to the rest of us, you are a piece of worthless trash.”
Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor picked up the MRCTV story for a national audience on Monday, but the Post still didn’t lift a journalistic finger. Bill O’Reilly began:
O’REILLY: Madness on college campuses. Not since the late 1960's has been so much craziness in the college ranks. But this time it's the administration that's often the embarrassment, not the kids. George Mason University in Virginia in Virginia, this man, senior assistant director of admissions Andrew Bunting says that any person voting for Donald Trump is a, quote, "piece of worthless trash," unquote. As we can tell, no action has been taken against Mr. Bunting by the university.
Juan Williams suggested Bunting should take off a week unpaid, but O’Reilly said a conservative student applying to George Mason couldn’t be honest in an application letter about his or her beliefs:
O’REILLY: If you are a student and you're applying to George Mason University, you have to write an essay. I mean, you have to tell the people about yourself. And a few hold a certain belief system, maybe that will be included in your essay. And one of the admissions deciders is telling you if you don't agree with me you are a worthless piece of you know what? Come on? How can he possibly do his job?”
LISA BOOTHE, WASHINGTON EXAMINER CONTRIBUTOR: He can't. And that's the big problem here. And this is why he should be let go. Because his job is supposed to be objective with the admissions process. And clearly he is anything but. And I think the university needs to take it one step further and do a review of the applications process to ensure that no students and previous applicants that they were not discriminated against based off their political ideology or Christian beliefs. Because the statement that this individual made on his Facebook post was related to gay marriage and was actually incited something from the Southern Poverty Law Center which has labeled groups like the Family Research Council hate groups.
Boothe added: “Can you imagine if he had said this about Muslims?”
On Wednesday, the Post published (only online) an op-ed by conservative GMU student Thomas Wheatley about "safe space" campus culture after the Trump victory, but it did not mention the Bunting controversy at all. He did write:
First, let’s strip these forums of all pretext: such “post-election conversations” are intended for those unhappy with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s victory. I can only speculate, but I think it is safe to assume the university would not take such ridiculous measures had Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won. Professors would have outwardly exalted checking off the “madam president” box, students would have celebrated preserving our nation’s indifference to abortion, and much of George Mason would have been cheering what conservatives view as the destruction of individual liberty...
Conservatives have suffered many disheartening setbacks in the past few years, many of which kept us up at night in worry and anger. Yet we saw no comforting emails from administrators or invitations to use “special resources” (not that we would have used them; we value our dignity). Rather, we were left to endure the harassment, intimidation and death threats all by ourselves. And we’re still here and still going strong.
Students and faculty and George Mason: get a grip.
Meanwhile, the conservative Family Research Council has been lobbying the university to take action on Bunting's "piece of worthless trash" attack....without any pressure from the politically correct Post.
