‘Un effing believable’; Patricia Heaton tweets video of university professor’s anti-Republican rant

Actress Patricia Heaton is one of the few, the proud … a Hollywood star who openly admits leaning right. That’s why instead of tweeting about drowning polar bears or how wealthy white people are, Patricia gets incensed at a video released today showing a university professor ranting against “closet racists” — that is, of course, Republicans.

Partial transcript of the professor’s unhinged remarks via Campus Reform:

“If you go to the Republican convention in Florida, you see all of the old Republicans with the dead skin cells washing off them,” said Penn. “They are cheap. They don’t want to pay taxes because they have already raped this country and gotten everything out of it they possibly could.

The professor is reported to be William Penn. He teaches fiction and non-fiction writing at Michigan State University. He reportedly made the comments on the first day of his creative writing class last Thursday. The university told Campus Reform it is looking into the matter.

Heaton retweeted several tweets critical of Professor Penn:

She also took a well-justified dig at Oberlin College, which is under fire for covering up a racial hoax:

It takes considerable courage and character for a working actor or actress to challenge liberal orthodoxy. Major props to Heaton.

  • CatHerder

    He’ll probably get a stern talking-to. Heated words may even be exchanged.

    • WhoMeToo

      and then a promotion…..

      • stuckinIL4now

        …and a hefty raise.

        • anonymouse

          and an appointment as an Obama czar of something or other

          • PatriotRG

            then tenure

          • Clete Torres

            and finally retire as either Dean or President of the University.

          • Lady 12

            But never shut up about his hate.

          • PatriotRG

            then run for office

          • Clete Torres

            and sadly, likely win.

          • Le Chiffre

            Exactly. The free pass created by the left, for the left. We don’t point enough fingers at the public education machine… they’re a huge part of the mess we’re living in today. The reason so many sheep blindly voted for Obama, twice. Taught to love heroes like JFK, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. Then told our forefathers were all racists, and were evil. The list goes on. I remember when I was in HS 1999-2003 they made us (made us!) watch Channel 1 news every single morning. Channel 1 was operated by ABC News, and well, you can guess the rest.

          • Elaine

            You forgot a paid vacation in the rubber room?

      • perky3238

        Tenure

    • Magdalene51

      He’ll be frowned upon.

    • trixiewoobeans

      Will they draw a red line?

      • marque2

        The World will draw a red line.

    • Jerry Camp

      Yep, and it’ll probably lead to his disallowing of electronic devices in class from that day forward…

  • TYPE O NEGATIVE

    “closet racists”, the new Liberal fear mongering ploy.

    “You’ve never said anything racist, but I …I just know that you are”

    • Demoivre

      The liberal guide to winning any argument in the 21st century:

      ”You’re a racist”

      • RJ

        Don’t forget to add: “It’s Bush’s fault”

      • stdog

        So true.

      • truckee22

        Don’t forget step two: Poop on a cop car or wear cute tampon earrings.

      • Gregg Mcphedrain

        liberals are people who were bullied as kids and not beaten enough

    • Barry A. Brewer

      Better a “closet racist” than an obvious public moron

      • Clete Torres

        He’s probably both. Projection, and all…

    • andrew4550

      I wonder when this “prof” stopped beating his wife and children.

    • D-dubs

      I’m hoping everyone reading this has contacted the school. That’s the only way things are going to change…..power of the people.

      • Guest

        That’s right–an Article II violation of MSU’s anti-discrimination policy. MAKE them aware of it-show them the video. Embarrass the hell out of them.

    • trixiewoobeans

      They stole that from Conservatives, as they’ve been accused of closet racism time and time again.

  • EDUCATEDPATRIOT

    Hating and discriminating are condoned, accepted and applauded as long as the targets are Repubs or conservatives. NEVER let the left tell you that they are are against hate or intolerance. They demonstrate time after time their own hate and intolerance, always aimed at the right regardless of whether the target is female or gay or minority.

  • Jack Deth

    I’ve always heard that college professors (A wonderful oxymoron) are a tightly knit, narrow minded, inbred, incestuous lot. And there’s the proof.

    • http://www.facebook.com/glenda.w.elrod Glenda Wall Elrod

      You know the old saying, “Those who can do, those who can’t teach”. Can you see this guy in a work place setting? That is why he is a “professor”, he has a captive audience and if the students don’t agree – does he give them a low grade? He’s GREAT in his own mind only!

      • $2943864

        Please people! We need your support. We aren’t all liberals. I am surrounded by this stuff in my dept./univ. It is hard enough having to deal with them but there are Patricia Heatons in higher education too!

        • SturJen

          I agree. One of the Math Profs at my College is a staunch Conservative. Oddly enough, he seems to be the only Math Prof in my College who isn’t a flake. I’ve had them all for one math class or another.

          I told him of the time when my TEA Party pen fell out of my book bag in Chem class. I thought my Prof was going to have a coronary on the spot.

        • TexasMom2012

          Where? Where are the Patricia Heatons in higher education? Because we are college shopping right now.
          It is a fallacy. Conservatives are as outnumbered on today’s campuses as they are in the MSM and Hollywood.

          • $2943864

            Outnumbered maybe but capable of making disproportionate contributions to your young adult’s education. Just like k-12 – start by looking at private schools first – see if they have a Christian affiliation as that also helps some. However, they will still be outnumbered but – again – we are not without influence because we don’t waste our time on non-sense activities.

          • gjwags1

            TexasMom2012, Check out Hillsdale College in Michigan, thoroughly conservative, and doesn’t accept government funding. (Check out their web site.)

  • radjahshelduck

    “He reportedly made the comments on the first day of his creative writing class last Thursday. The university told Campus Reform it is looking into the matter.” But doesn’t it sound very dated, the references to Ann Romney as First Lady and such? Could this be a year old video that’s just now surfacing? Either way, this professor is a very unpleasant man.

  • bigMike

    sounds like there needs to be reform in the classrooms, enough of this anti white, anti conservatism rants! brain washing those who are only there for an education shows how DESPERATE those loons are! I would love to see someone show up in this pricks class, wait for him to start ranting, and then cut his tongue out!

  • PeterP

    Cher called John McCain a tea bagger? Well, it takes one to know one. Rumor is she let Sonny “Tetley” her every night in exchange for fame and fortune.

  • Night Owl

    Ignorance and arrogance, an unpleasant combination, but one all liberals seem to share.

    • 32lain44

      You nailed it!

    • grais

      Don’t forget the emotional and intellectual immaturity. They couldn’t be true liberals w/o it.

      • http://www.facebook.com/glenda.w.elrod Glenda Wall Elrod

        I was going to say, he can’t be too smart he’s a liberal!

  • Concerned

    I’m sure a few of the students republican parents are paying a portion of this “professors” salary. But that’s ok, right?

    • perky3238

      Redistribution of wealth. As long as the “Have’s” are giving it to the “have nots” (read any liberal who wants what you have}…it’s okay and expected.

    • nc

      Even better. They’re paying their “fair share.” But still worthy of his contempt.

    • Concerned

      See professors ratings and read course reviews about professor William Penn’s classes at Michigan State (MSU).
      https://www.koofers.com/michigan-state-university-msu/instructors/penn-159539/

  • Maxwell

    … and people ask me why I hate school.

  • fishydude

    Had it been a psychology professor saying that liberalism is a mental disorder he world already be fired.
    That same university hates very smart black students. I worked with an engineer who went there on a football scholarship. He made the deans list every semester without the aid of tutors. But because he was a black athlete, professors like thus a-hole accused him of cheating every single semester. He graduated with honors and never have up in the face of constant racist assaults by liberal academics.

    • $2943864

      Yep – happens at my university too. Every black student is treated like they can’t make it. Additionally, there are three faculty members who have a rainbow sticker on their office door on my floor to show they are “safe”. However, every student who has “come out” as gay has come to me and in most cases I was the first person they ever told. I am also the one who has sat with students who were recovering from abortions. I don’t share my politics with my students – I just treat them like equals, because, well – they are equal (just younger with less world experience) and I’m a conservative so I view the world differently than most of my colleagues. If you are wondering if this makes for more successful students – I can assure you – it does.

  • Susan Altobelli Kessinger

    thanks, Patricia, for being a voice against hate. Keep the pressure on and force MSU to actually take action against this “professor”.

  • ICOYAR

    He should DAMN well what happened to Detroit and Chicago. Overrun by Democrats WITHOUT a single Republican elected in 50 years.

    Of course, if that is their idea of “utopia”, they could go there now by going on a boat to Cuba, or taking a plane to China and hopping the border to North Korea.

  • stdog

    Remember how as a kid you would hate your parents if they wouldn’t buy you
    something or let you do something? Well its the same thing with libs. They hate the right because the right says no. The left only says yes to everything.
    Here is a guy whose income come directly from taxes so of course he hates anyone that says no to more taxes. Because those people are a threat to his lifestyle. Pretty simple.

    Just ignore the douche and next time a lib says the right should pay more just say no.

    • ICOYAR

      Ask them how the term “progressive” is anything but a buzzword. Then ask them if Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Venezuela, and Cuba are to them, reminding them that they used the term “progressive” as well.

  • Arnold Townsend

    I always admired Patricia but even more so now. What we need are more conservatives willing to open up like Patricia and Michelle Malkin. For a while, I let some talk me into a negative view of Sarah Palin but no longer. She’s sharp as a whip and also willing to tell it like it is. She’s not ashamed to be a libertarian-flavored conservative. Things like this also make Twitchy a pleasure to visit.

  • Bolt Upright

    DRD4. These people have been genetically identified by their own genetic types at Harvard and UCSD. These DRD4’s are different from normal people.

  • The Jackal

    What an asshole🔫

  • RDeNoyer

    And only wealthy republicans use legal means to hide their wealth. John Kerry, docks his yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying Massachusetts taxes on it. And he was the f’ing Senator from this state! Please this guy is a clown.

  • wassr1956

    must be related to sean penn

  • CrashFroelich

    More proof that a PhD in the liberal arts is the equivalent of a GED in 1970.

    • FilleGitane

      I’m not sure what this guy’s educational credentials are or how ‘ethnic’ he really is. His main claim to fame are his academic awards. This is his wiki page and his background looks a bit dodgy.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Penn

      • http://www.vatican.va/ Rulz

        Lately, I’ve seen progressive straight white men toss around the race and homophobia card.

        They think being liberal gives them a license to do that.

    • http://www.vatican.va/ Rulz

      LOL!

  • Jamie Huff

    If anything it is liberals who are racist. They see everything through the lens of race.They condescend to minorities and rule them as strictly as a slavemaster would. Seriously. Notice their wrath whenever a minority conservative stands up for conservative principles. They are for feminism but look how they savaged Sarah Palin. They are for blacks but look how they treated Herman Cain and Condoleeza Rice. Finally, it is liberals who are raping this country through their oppressive taxes and fees and regulations. They continue to pass laws which restrict our freedoms. They don’t see minorities as real people. They see voters plain and simple.

  • frank tomasic

    patricia rox in more ways than one !

  • AMERICAN Kafir™(KAdams)

    I live near that liberal bastion of indoctrination known as MSU. The same place that student faculty advisers ENCOURAGED the blatant use of EBT… at one of the nation’s more affluent universities, no less. MSU may have started out as a farm college.. but it certainly didn’t end up that way.

    • Curt Williamson

      They’re farming sheep now.

      • John Thomas “Jack” Ward III

        With Professors like Penn, that’s not all they’re doing… Jawamax 8<{D}

  • Glitter

    He had a captive audience of young people. Hardly anyone dared speak out for fear of humiliation or punishment. He is a tyrant. You know, I never had one college professor preach his or her politics (under and grad school). They always just taught the course like they were supposed to.

    • AMERICAN Kafir™(KAdams)

      I have to agree with you on that with my professors… but then again, I went to a community college. The only part that didn’t sit well with me, was when the gay counselor for gays came around to all the classes and talked about gayness in the school and safe zones, or some other gibberish….

      • Damien Johnson

        I had a biology professor in community college that would talk about how God didn’t have anything to do with the beginning of the world, and went so far as to force students to answer this as a question on a test. Unfortunately, I didn’t say anything because I was pushing a D in the class because I made the mistake of taking too many difficult classes at once, and all in two days out of the week. And last year, there was a voluntary transexual/transgender presentation. I thankfully had a class so when somebody asked me if i was going, I could say I had a class instead of saying “no, I don’t want to go to this indoctrination session.” Then I actually looked in there at one point, and there was bullsh*t on the screen about”first and second” identity and I thought “Really? What extra identity do you need?” But of course, in the current climate I knew better than to walk in there and raise hell by calling out the bs.

  • Caves45

    Would love to meet this spineless bastard after class . I love the subtle attempt to find the conservatives in the class that fin loser , Who here wants to be Mitt , And married to her ? What a scum bag bully .

  • Steve_J

    Somebody should have gotten up and knocked that c***s****r on his ass.

  • BlahBlah

    I had a grade lowered from A to B because I’m a Republican. Didn’t do anything about it cuz I couldn’t prove it but it was curious how I was getting straight As in that class and after an in class death penalty debate where everyone was whining how boo hoo poor death row inmates, I laid out my case for it. The prof went – wait you’re a Republican? Why yes I am. It was all Bs after that.

  • AMERICAN Kafir™(KAdams)

    No worries, guys! This guy’s a professor of fictional writing. He’s in the same class as wash-up Ms.Terry McMillan. They get paid to write about “make-believe”.

  • Noneya

    Unreal. The blatant twisting of the racism is despicable. The professor is the hate filled racist is he not? The fact that students just sit there and don’t walk out is disgusting as well.

  • PatriotRG

    yes this guy is so tolerant , so diverse in his thinking , so understanding of others point of view , so loaded with real facts , so anti hate , this guy is the epitome of a liberal academic. The real kicker is people are paying this guy to teach their children this poison. Any way you look at this guy he is the enemy. He is the norm in academia. He is the average the common denominator. He is not the exception.

    The only ray of hope is these kids mostly realize this guy is a complete tool.

    • nc

      Really? I thought they were laughing at all the “right” places, sounding like they were absorbing the propaganda like good little sponges.

      • PatriotRG

        Look at the web link and some of the reports they give him anonymously.

        • nc

          Thanks for the tip! Maybe it was just nervous laughter I heard, or they were just playing along for their grade.

          I’m heartened by those reviews. Even the ones who really liked him called him a jerk.

  • TedCruz2016!!!

    Now more people know of this…..Thank You Patricia Heaton!!

    • John Thomas “Jack” Ward III

      Thanx, Gracias, Merci Beau Coup, Domo Aragotto…. I can’t find enough ways to THANK YOU, Patricia! Jawamax 8<{D}

  • Bill C.

    leave the guy alone, he’s just polishing his resume for the chair position coming open soon. From the looks of it, he’s got it all sewn up now.

  • waterytart

    Alma Mater of Michael Moore, need we say more?

    • TocksNedlog

      Moore went to the University of Michigan-Flint.

      • waterytart

        You are right kind person!! He was actually a drop out, and seeing him constantly with that MSU ball cap perched on his fat head made me forget that. Thanks!

        • Doreen Beisel

          Moore wasn’t from Flint another lie

  • 17_woods

    Penn is typical of the many educated dopes that fill college students’ minds with crap.

  • seemorejustice

    Penn looks like some panty-waste Progressive!

  • gman213

    Minds full of mush being indoctrinated by a sad, strange, little man. Just what mom and dad didn’t pay for.

  • trnichols

    That A hole should be fired.Colleges are a joke,they don’t teach anymore ,they indoctrinate.Did you hear”I’m a professor” like he’s God.Penn,as far as I’m concerned you’re another left wing loon who hates the US.Outside of class I’ll meet you anytime and have a little discussion

  • Devin Andrew Ring Cassidy

    I couldn’t listen to it for more than 49 seconds is how appalling it was..

  • LR99

    This guys should be fired! This is the caliber of argument he is presenting to a college class? This man is too stupid to cut my lawn!

    • Jeff Coil

      He’s tenured, he can do whatever he wants and the University cant do a thing.

      • LR99

        I figured! Listening to his comments how does someone lacking such basic skills to present an a argument get tenured? Time to scrap the ‘guarantee’ in education and replace it with proven skills!

        Of course obama wouldn’t understand the implications of tenure on Higher Ed costs! He thinks it can all be solved through student loans. I guess he doesn’t understand what student loans are for!

      • Marvin Nelson

        I am a conservative college professor who is sick and tired of these liberal hacks giving us all a bad name. He is a great example of why I hate tenure. In fact, I teach at a college where we do not have tenure. So, if Penn were teaching at my college, we could kick his ass out of class and send him packing. I truly feel sorry for students who sit and take this because they are afraid of failing a class. He is a pitiful excuse for a person and should be forced to seek employment elsewhere.

  • CynicOwl

    “Creative Writing” Professor? He certainly has the imagination for it. Don’t think he’s supposed to actually believe his own fiction though.

  • Bruce Darling

    The university will promise to “look into the matter” – but nothing will be done.

  • http://opcentral.org/ Andrew Mark McAlpin

    The cowardly words of a modern, tolerant, liberal punk. Most of my rich friends pay more in taxes quarterly than this guy will in his entire life.

  • Kelly Laraia

    There isn’t much the students can do about it. The profs hold the power in the classroom. Go ahead and challenge him and cut your own throat academically. He has the power and he is using it to full advantage.

  • bossmanham

    Funny, republicans not only pay their taxes, but they give the most to charity too.

    • Stephen L. Hall

      Liberals would give to charity, but they spent all their money on Lattes.

  • religionandhistory

    A liberal college professor that writes fiction ….engages in fictitious tirades ! Suprised ? ..Liberal politicians stock and trade is speaking fiction …Liberal news organizations applaud….cheerlead …and are well compensated to sell one dimentional fictitious narrratives to the public . Truth is three dimentional …not diluted ….denied….denigraded …..deleted and a fictitious magical one dimentional narrative fabricated ! Friction created by fiction …just another well worn tool of the left !

  • John Thomas “Jack” Ward III

    The question shouldn’t be “How does …MSU Professor William Penn keep his job,” but “Why does….MSU Professor William Penn Keep his job?” If the MSU regents don’t give him Tenure, KING FINK OBAMA might…. Jawamax 8<{D}

  • rippersnort

    Nah – He will just be suspended with pay and have a nice vacation on our dime…oh wait…have I heard this before…

  • fed-up

    I’m 63 and feel like going to college just to argue with these dolts. There are students there that don’t agree and want to argue his points but can’t for fear of failing his class.

    • Guest

      Yeah, so much for critical thinking.

    • cjinva

      Fed up, please do. And you may be eligible for tuition waivers, so you may even be able to do it for reduced tuition or even free. Check at the colleges/community colleges near you to see if they have tuition waivers for retirees.

    • Jerry Camp

      Listen closely, he actually said he’d be ‘coming for you’ to a female student when he believed her to be frowning (or simply not smiling maniacally) at his diatribe.

      • fed-up

        I’d be curious to know how she manages in his class.

    • Jerry Camp

      Best reasoning I’ve heard yet for taking a night class…good on ya, sir.

  • dentedcan

    Penn, William (Professor at Michigan State) reminds me of a laughable caricature of a pseudo-intellectual. His views are so stereotypically narrow-minded that the moment I saw this video I thought he must represent the English department. Sure enough the risible pasquinade masquerading as a creative writing professor appears to have a myopic Weltanschauung. In other words, this professor of creative writing has probably never had an autonomous thought in his life. He sounds like an inarticulate rube parroting something his addlepated dullard professors recited to him in college.

  • Steven Shirey

    hey he is at michigan state what ya expect

  • Ivan Wagoner

    And this is educating college students? How really, really sad.

  • Jake Wilde

    I got called a liar last year by a Comp Writing Phd. when I did an article on the TSA. I had everything referenced and she didn’t choose to look any of it up. I hammered her in an email, because I am 47 and have a previous minor education in computers and I’m just going back to school because I feel like it and I’m paying out-of-pocket.

    When you are paying cash you really don’t need some moron that got a Phd. just because she kissed someone’s butt real well for a couple years calling you a liar with no basis.

    • Karl Winrich

      Many modern progressive liberals have become so indoctrinated to the system that they have nothing but hatred and contempt for any who don’t agree with them. Given that fact they will always look at life through blinders, there is no hope left for these people.

      • Guest

        I would agree with that, just on the surface of it.

      • Jake Wilde

        That is pretty much her story Karl. I have to admit that after I did chastise her for having no grounds for her unprofessional perspective, we got along well and I did get a 4.0.

  • Right Wired

    I was convinced that my Sociology professor at Purdue North Central was member of the Black Panthers.

  • g’ma

    GO PATRICIA. she has gut’s. get rid of that prof. NOW since we’re paying his salary. digusting.

  • TocksNedlog

    Where’s the “un-effing believable” part? A liberal professor attempting to indoctrinate his students on Day 1? Sounds like business-as-usual to me.

  • Karl Winrich

    That’s a major problem we have in our education system today. They don’t teach actual skills like reading or arithmetic, they teach….no indoctrinate political dogma. This jack wagon Prof goes on about “voter supression” in NC because they are passing voter ID laws and that the GOP is trying to silence black voters because they vote Democrat. He obviously missed this report from Atlanta, GA, which also just happened to be a Section 4 VRA state. Turns out that since they passed ID laws the black vote has gone UP!

    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/despite-voter-id-law-minority-turnout-up-in-georgi/nR2bx/

    • Guest

      And, if I am not mistaken, didn’t NC vote for Odumbass in ’08 AND in ’12?

      • Karl Winrich

        NC went O in 2008 and Romney in 2012

        • Guest

          Oh, okay–my mistake.

  • Cajun

    Yall’ quit over-thinking all the dumb sh*t this idiot says. Notice all the white/black references. It is very simple. He got him a brotha in the closet that is feeding him some radiator hose, and he wants ever so desperately to keep that. See, told yall’ it was simple.

  • belief101

    I don’t expect someone as beautiful as Patricia Heaton to be a lib.

  • Cyborg3K

    I’ll bet he’s not even a real Indian, like Fauxahontas or Ward Churchill.

  • Gregg Mcphedrain

    if liberal teachers want their opinion taught – open a college – otherwise stick to what you’re paid to teach – end of story – end of job should be the policy.
    to bad liberal whore colleges like MSU and University of NEW MEXICO -think they are progressive with idiots like this on their staff

    • Dee

      He was sticking to what he was getting paid to do — telling fairy tales.

  • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

    We’re living in a Tom Clancy world, run by Thomas Wolf characters.

    Man, I wish I could just pull up stakes and find a different planet. This one’s crazy – I think there’s something in the water.

    • Karl Winrich

      Liberalism: A condition which renders a person totally unable to determine between rational thought and ideological fallacies.

  • cjinva

    There is a way to fight this in the classroom itself. Few young people are going to challenge a professor in class. A man who would mock the handicapped could reasonably be suspected of retaliating at grade time against a student who contradicts him in front of the class. (And should the student have the debating ability to reveal this jerk to be the bigot he is in front of his class…whooee, watch out.)

    However, many colleges offer tuition waivers to seniors/retirees. Unfortunately, few people take advantage of these waivers. But imagine if we had an army of 60+-year-old conservative Alinksyites attending classes in our universities. They could challenge a classless jerks like this one. What’s he gonna do? Fail them? And that harms their future employment how, exactly? A knowledgeable senior who is older and more experienced could present an alternative point of view.

    Retired conservatives, we need you on campuses. Please, please, please find out if a school near you offers tuition waivers. Hopefully, you’ll have some interesting classes and learn some things you didn’t have time to study when you were working and raising a family. And if you get a professor like this twit, you’ll be there to present an alternative point of view these young people badly need. We need you, older conservatives. It’s time to engage in the fight of your life to save the future for your grandchildren.

  • AZWarrior

    Uh, Mr. Penn, is this part testable?

  • Ron Hasek

    liberals,demoncrats,progressives are the real racists!!!

  • Michelle

    Wow. Take a look at this: https://www.koofers.com/michigan-state-university-msu/instructors/penn-159539/

    Not even his students are all that impressed with him. After reading the reviews on him, sounds like he simply uses his classroom as a stage for personal rants.

    Back in April of this year, a student posted this review: “This class is a disorganized mess. All you get from this class is that Penn hates Republicans.”

    • SturJen

      Those reviews were fun to read: “If you’re not his pet, sit in the back w/eyes lowered and try to get through it.”

      Begs the question: If the product is so bad, why does the college still offer it? I know the answer. Unlike good ol’ Capitalism, the Union protects this loser. If he were in a private school, his ass would’ve been fired decades ago.

      • Michelle

        MSU released a statement yesterday that they’re “looking into the situation” regarding the secret video of his Republican bashing. Yeah, right. According to those reviews by former students, he’s been bashing Republicans and insulting students with opposite political views for quite some time. I have a hard time believing this is news to the administration on that school.

        • Unicorns and Rainbows

          They’re probably just “looking into” who took the video so they can expel the student.

          • Michelle

            You are most likely correct.

    • Dee

      Who else wanted to register for Koofers to read the 30 extra reviews? lol

  • http://www.IKnowbo.com/ Slam1263

    Having been a 40-year-old college student in the past, I am just surprised this wasn’t a Gender Studies class.

  • Milodactyl™

    The clown looks a lot like Ward Churchill.

  • https://youtu.be/h82D5ZvcALM CrustyB

    Nobody can misinterpret reality like a liberal.

  • Barry A. Brewer

    Notfernuthin, but that rating system for the professor at the link is open – not closed to students only. Just sayin’ . . .

  • John Andrews

    Indoctrination… Yep.. You are paying for your children to be subjected to that crap.. And this clip is only the tip of the iceberg that is Marxist indoctrination… Wondering why you kid is wearing a Che Guevara shirt?? Now you know.. They are being brain washed… and you are paying for it.

    • GrindingMills

      Children don’t go to college. Young adults go to college.

  • Derek

    Just another example of liberal bias in our education system. From personal experience I can attest that a good majority of “educators” hold left-leaning and very similar views as this man but most aren’t as transparent or blatant when expressing those views. It’s usually done more subtly but one thing that is made clear to most students, if you let on that you are right-leaning in any form or fashion you might not be treated very well by these self-righteous blowhards. A lot of people then wonder why our country is in the shape it is in now but I think it is very clear and easy to piece together. Between the near constant bombardment from television, music and movies glorifying sex, violence and a whole host of immoral behavior to the near brainwashing indoctrination tactics employed by our publicly funded education system our country’s youth and most impressionable citizens are subjected to, is it any wonder why subsequent generations have been and are continuing to turn out this way? Truly, this is the worst plague that could have ever been wrought upon our society.

  • Unicorns and Rainbows
  • Chimfish

    If you acknowledge that the debate involves moral and economic disagreements about the proper role of government, then you have to construct arguments to support your position. If you simply declare that half the country is racist for disagreeing with you then it’s easier to get away with just berating people and insulting their wives and old skin.

    The video is a combination of appealing to Holy Liberal Poetic Truths (like, “Whites don’t want blacks to succeed in America”) that they’re never actually burdened to prove, combined with an excuse like, “I have plenty of facts and logic to support my position, but no ignorant Republican is going to be capable of refuting them so therefore I don’t even need to express them,” combined with the mindset of, “I’m in a room full of people who agree with me, so let’s just skip the messy work of checking our premises and get straight to insulting those weirdos on the other side.”

    He should be teaching a course on classic leftist tactics, because he’s certainly good at giving examples of them.

  • Rachael Cini

    I am a Michigan State University student (who is mostly republican) and I am appalled at this. I have never had a teacher talk like this to me or any of my Republican friends before.
    I have been taught by multiple professors who are mostly democrats, but they do not voice their opinions like this. They encourage opposition, debate, and embrace it. This is honestly very discouraging to me.

  • Paula Flechtner Martin

    So, he’s criticizing Ann Romney…who battles MS daily and is a cancer survivor. Ann Romney has more class in her finger nail than that jackass teaching hate to captive students, AND infinitely more class, poise and intelligence than that thing we call a First Lady right now.

  • http://philmon.blogspot.com philmon

    Good. We need to push back publicly on stuff like this. You go, Patricia!

  • AJ

    Let me get this straight. It’s okay for schools to tell people how to vote, but it is illegal to do the same in a church? Are they not basically the same thing?

  • des111168

    Nothing will happen. The faculty almost certainly agree with him to a large extent. Any students that complain will not only face Penn, but also will be punished by professors in other classes that support him. A non-apology apology will be issued, and then a no-camera rule will quietly be implemented on campus to prevent such embarrassments in the future. Penn will go on ranting at students, all at taxpayer expense.

  • arrow2010

    “Closet racists”? So now the left is declaring right-wingers to be thoughtcriminals and they will be persecuted. 1984 simply came late.

  • deadeyedan

    I feel sorry for the students in this guy’s class; not one of them got up, walked up to him and punched his teeth to the back of his throat as I would have.

    DEMOCRAT – someone who sees a mirage and then votes for it

  • halflight

    Look on the bright side– at least this one kept his clothes on.

    “Michigan State professor apologizes to students for ranting, stripping naked in apparent mental breakdown”

    “McCarthy, 57, reportedly shouted about Steve Jobs, God, religion and other topics during his Monday afternoon class on Oct. 1, then stripped naked and continued screaming in the Engineering Building’s hallway in what students called an apparent mental breakdown.”

    http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2012/10/michigan_state_professor_apolo.html

  • disqus_lJpzo1DMyh

    if he finds out i’m an uncloseted constitutional conservative he’s gonna do what? pee himself is a likely answer. i’d beat this pussycat silly.

  • cscape

    this is how MOST of them think….. i had a wonderful experience last weekend – was at a weekend retreat at a camp reunion…… there was a discussion about what movie to see on Saturday night….. they decided to see the movie “2 Guns”…… They were all card-carrying libs….. i proceeded to lay them out in lavender, with a rant reminiscent of Prof. Penn’s – only much more passionate…. I accused them all of subsidizing the “gun culture” in America by paying to see this movie…… I threw the spectre of Newtown and Aurora (etc) in their face… with lots of expletives thrown in for good measure….. Their collective JAWS dropped!!!!….. The next morning some of them reported back to me that the movie “sucked”….. I simply replied – “it serves you right”…. BUT, it felt so good turning the tables on these libs

  • Dee

    I don’t know what’s more amusing to me – our comments down here on Twitchy, or the negative reviews/comments under the “William Penn: Rate your Professor” page. I mean, they really bashed him. How does he still have a job?

  • yukon57

    Liberalism is a disease and spreading from people like this? He will probably get ten year for this.

  • Casey Bringham

    What did any of what he said have to do with the class he supposedly is teaching – creative writing?!

  • Jay Jay Jet Plane

    Just another socialist teaching our kids to be like them

  • Bill_Fan

    It’s Bush’s fault.

  • conservative2012

    This guys a piece of crap

  • Doreen Beisel

    Overeducated A-Hole!

  • James Rose

    Probably had his limp wrist slapped by his limp wristed Dean.

  • Adamboysmom

    We may root for State football, but this is another reason why none of my children will attend MSU.

  • copperpeony

    One asshole makes a cretinous comment and the whole media complex quotes him. That’s what he wanted…..glorious attention and that is the problem. If people like him received no attention, then they him would disappear into the woodwork like cockroaches.

  • Cat

    Statement from MSU. Apologizes if already posted.

    http://cabs.msu.edu/news/key-issues/issue-docs/professor-inquiry.html

    • Cat

      *apologies. Geez

  • mary

    Do NOT leave your young Student alone at these LIBERAL CESSPOOLS….. They WILL NOT RECEIVE AN EDUCATION.

  • Rick Bowser

    Many Universities stopped being places of learning a long time ago, and have regressed into Marxist indoctrination centers targeting, as Rush Limbaugh would put it…. “little skulls of mush.”

  • conservative2012

    Does my heart good to see the negative reviews his students gave him. There is hope for some.

  • Old Nuke
  • Russell Kerry Kimberlin

    Thank you Patricia Heaton, its a good feeling to know someone has class in Hollywood! What a maggot this guy is!

  • Michael Rice

    Remember the phase liberals went through when they would respond with “you are what you hate” to anyone who opposed homosexuality? Well, I guess this guy is a true hardcore conservative and he hates himself for it then..

  • marque2

    I guess the rant counts as creativity in a creative writing class.

  • Schwazzole

    If it really goes south for him at MSU, Columbia will gladly embrace him…

  • Mike Perico

    This professor claims to be “Native American” and Republicans “raped” this country? Appearently he is very ignorant of history because it was Andrew Jackson, the father of the Democrat Party, that caused the Trail of Tears and force marched many of his ancesors to death.

    • digitusmedius

      So, according to your history of the U.S. it was only one president and one atrocity that Native Americans suffered? I think we know why the right wing hates it when anyone challenges their “facts.”

  • alexander

    Thank goodness, he got fired!

  • Linda Taylor

    He’s gone. Great news!

  • James
  • http://abriefhistory.org MichaelKennedy

    “Creative Writing” is now a course for politics. Obama’s foreign policy adviser has a degree in “fiction writing.” Great preparation for Syria policy.

  • digitusmedius

    “Not even his students are all that impressed with him. After reading the reviews on him, sounds like he simply uses his classroom as a stage for personal rants.”

    So where’s the “indoctrination.” Are conservative students so cowered and/or suggestible that they can’t resist this “indoctrination” or too weak in their beliefs that this can’t be allowed? This is university, people. Deal with it. Students are adults now. I had very rightwing history professors when I was at university. It didn’t warp me or change who I was. I listened. I considered. I rejected what was worth in my mind rejecting. That didn’t mean I still didn’t learn something. And what kind of courage is it to spread a video around the internet? Everyone who knows anything about Heaton (and I like her as an actress) has known her very conservative views for a long time. She hasn’t hid them and she hasn’t suffered professionally for them. You rightwingers need to rid yourselves of your victim complex….or do you need it that badly?

  • digitusmedius

    I love how you rightwingers who claim to love freedom so much are rejoicing at this professor’s suspension. I guess freedom of speech only applies to conservatives.

    • plumberskid

      He’s free to rant and lie all he wants….and we’re free to demand that he be removed from his position. Why is this so hard for you to understand?

      • digitusmedius

        So, you believe the freedom of speech includes the freedom to suppress political speech you don’t like? As with many rightwing ideas of freedom, it’s the inverse, reverse and converse of reality.

  • Wag_a_Muffin (D)

    He claims to be a Native American. Does he belong to Elizabeth Warren’s tribe (tripe?)

  • Ace Steele

    Fire him outright. He should not continue being paid.

  • 1weaver1

    This University Professor is the ultimate argument for ending tenure.

  • $2943864

    Not making blanket statements about my profession?

  • Elaine

    More CONSERVATIVES being hired?