[Buckaroo]

http://www.nysun.com/article/8027


http://brain-terminal.com/


A Conservative Answer to Michael Moore
Profile: Evan Coyne Maloney


BY JACOB GERSHMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 21, 2005


Evan Coyne Maloney, 32, who dresses and looks like a college student, may very well be America's most promising conservative documentary filmmaker. Yet the Upper East Side resident hasn't completed a single film.


The hype unaccompanied by output says a lot about the room for growth in the conservative documentary community. But a number of those on the right expect Mr. Maloney's unfinished debut film, "Brainwashing 101,"to emerge as a breakout theatrical hit - or at least to make it to theaters, a feat few films of its political ilk have managed to achieve.


A sardonic attack on political correctness in higher education, Mr. Maloney's film was hailed as the "most anticipated" documentary in 2005 by the American Film Renaissance, an upstart film institute based in Dallas. People attending October's Liberty Festival in Los Angeles apparently gave a preview version of it a standing ovation - though not of the duration of Michael Moore's 20 minutes at Cannes. A critic writing for the insider Hollywood Web site Ain't It Cool News called the first cut of the film one of the most "horrifying and hysterical documentaries I have ever seen."


As the title suggests, the 46-minute film, which Mr. Maloney is racing to expand into a full-length documentary by fall, is his attempt to confirm the worst assumptions that conservatives have about what goes on at universities. His film is about the spread of noxious speech codes, abuses of power by vindictive administrators, and the arbitrary restrictions on academic freedom imposed on conservative students - cases of which, the film argues, are increasingly cropping up in universities. The film begins with images of Columbia University, a university embroiled in a controversy concerning students who say professors violated their academic freedom.

more to read at the website above.

[NYCFarmboy]

this film is priceless:

http://brain-terminal.com/video/nyc-...icktime-hq.php

[dialo]

So if you guys think Moore is FOS and think this guy is his conservative counterpart, then that would make this guy ... FOS.

I've watched the first 5 minutes of the clip from here and it looks good so far, your inevitable stream of one sided posts notwithstanding.

I think this is pretty interesting since what I've seen so far is likely true and these are the kinds of small, outrageous stories we don't hear enough of. Taking down a flag because it might offend foreign students?!?! What kind of **** is that? However, I work at a major university and have never in my academic or professional careers experienced the kind of stuff mentioned in the video.

Of course, I do hear about stupid stuff my colleagues at other universities do, but it rarely has to do with politics. Mostly stuff like not being up on important new concepts, tech, etc, in an evolving field.

In other words, considering the number of people employed by and teaching at universities, finding a good sized sample of idiots isn't going to be too difficult, but that doesn't make it representative of the whole.

[Millennium]

It happens on both sides at most universities. In any case it's a severe violation of what educators call 'professional political ethics', whereby educators are not supposed to involve themselves in the political beliefs and decisions of their students.

I suppose it can be blamed -for the most part- on the political polarization of the past decade. Each side sees universities as the battleground for the future of America, and each side believes that should the other prevail, America as we know it will perish. This is, of course, mostly because the professors themselves have been deluded into believing that they have a monopoly not only on rationality, but also on morality.

And who deluded them? Your guess is as good as mine, though I personally blame the spin doctors on both sides of the equation.

[olePigeon]

No, no. He's a conservative. He can't be full of sh*t, his higher moral standards don't allow it.

[IceBreaker]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
No, no. He's a conservative. He can't be full of sh*t, his higher moral standards don't allow it.

well now we know what liberals are full of.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by IceBreaker:


well now we know what liberals are full of.

Sarcasm?

[IceBreaker]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
Sarcasm?

well it does start with the letter "S" but not that many letters.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by IceBreaker:
well it does start with the letter "S" but not that many letters.

No argument from me. I think you're all full of sh*t. It's just that if I had to step in any, the liberals seem to have a smaller pile.

[UNTeMac]

Documentaries like this (including moore's) are just huge lessons in the fallacy of composition. Each tries to make broad statements about the opposing side based on just a few examples of right/left wing extremes. It's not new, and it won't ever be old. If you agree with the film's agenda, then it'll be a nice, long session of political masturbation. The rest of us, on both sides, will go back to finding real porn.

[OreoCookie]

Well, judging from the trailer, it looks like a bad copy of Moore's style (with a different message, obviously). If you bitch about Moore, this stuff is a bad copy of what he does. Go figure.