Anti-journalism journalism school "professor"

University of Missouri communications professor, Melissa Click, (pronounced 'Clunk') may be getting chucked out of her professorship. 

You remember her--she's the "communications" professor who, back last November, was intolerant of a reporter, Tim Tai, communicating a news story for ESPN of a racially-charged protest on campus.

A video shows her yelling, "Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here?" Then with no immediate response coming said, "I need some muscle over here." 

For more on this story check  here.

She wanted the reporter thrown off the campus quad, a public area denying him (and us) his Constitutional rights. In fact, Tai is also a student of the school.

Students were protesting the racial climate on campus and the former school President, Tim Wolfe, resigned over it. But the video (shown here) went viral and sparked a First Amendment debate and brings into question the character and intellectual fairness that seems to be at risk on many campuses across the nation.

Now some state lawmakers demand that Clink be fired and they penned a letter.

"The fact that, as a professor teaching the communication department and the school of journalism, she displayed such a complete disregard for the First Amendment rights of reporters should be enough to question her competency and aptitude for her job."

The idea that a professor not only took part in a student protest, but was also affiliated with the University's journalism school, and tried to stop a journalist from doing his job, caused critics to go ballistic.

The so-called communications professor lost her courtesy appointment in the journalism school and was accused of assault and Title IX violations. 

But she still has her job of teaching communications at the University of Missouri because the buck doesn't seem to stop anywhere.

Not so ironically, it was Republicans most upset with Click's violation of a reporter's Constitutional rights. More than 100 House Republicans and 18 Senate members from the state Legislature signed the letter to the board of curators of the school demanding Click's "immediate firing."

The letter not only questioned her competency to teach at the school of journalism, but it questioned her taxpayer-funded research into Lady Gaga, "Twilight" and "50 Shades of Gray."

I wonder what took those lawmakers so long.


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The Mizzou Three issue apologies for denying reporter his Constitutional rights

It's about time Constitutional antagonists were made to pay for their un-American behavior. Three of them, all members of the University of Missouri faculty, are facing repercussions after a video showed them taunting and harassing student journalists during a campus protest last week. The ironic thing about this is that one of them, Melissa Click, had a courtesy appointment with the Missouri School of Journalism, from which she has since resigned.

The face of anarchy

Another culprit (the guy with whom Click shares an address, according to the St. Louis Dispatch) Prof. Richard J. "Chip" Callahan, chairs the Religious Studies Department. He might have majored in Radical Islamic Studies because he is about as sensitive as ISIS mujahedeen to a Bar Mitzvah boy. He joined the Mizzou mob and stopped Tim Tai, a photojournalist, from reporting on the protest.

When Tai was being menaced by the students, he complained and Callahan responded with "Don't talk to me. It's not my problem."

Janna Basler, director of Greek life and leadership on campus, was also part in the suppression of Tai's First Amendment rights, and she was caught on video like the other two bubble-wiffers. She refused to respond to questions about her role in the mess caught on video.

Click was reported to have "shut herself in her university office on Tuesday afternoon and sobbing could be heard through the door." 

She slithered from her office by 5 p.m. Tuesday and released a written statement apologizing for her inexcusable actions, adding that she also apologized to Tai and expressed regret that she had shifted attention from the 'students' campaign for justice. "From this experience I have learned about humanity and humility," Click clucked.

I doubt it. Some liberal somewhere will tell Click that she had every right to keep Tai from taking photos, in spite of the fact that it is public property and Tai even attends that school.

The campus chanting has now gone from "Hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go," to handing out leaflets urging the anarchist protesters to respect journalists' First Amendment rights and welcome them.

Isn't it ironic, not only about Click teaching journalism, but for her and her fellow scumcrumpets to be exercising their First Amendment rights while denying the same rights to others? This can be used in the definition of hypocrisy.

Janna Basler

"Chip" Callahan apologized to Tim Tai, and the young man had more class than Callahan will ever have by accepting the apology.

Janna Basler was placed on administrative leave and she too issued an apology to Tai for being a censoring ass, although she didn't word it quite that way. She said that she allowed her emotions to get the most of her "while trying to protect some of our students." 

That isn't an apology--where I come from, we call that an excuse.


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U. of Mo new chant: "Hey hey! Ho ho! You ain't got no rights no more"

When a leftist wants to protest, s(he) uses the First Amendment of the Constitution for legal backup. When an actual journalist (as opposed to the mainstream media types) wants to record the protest and speak with the protesters, the First Amendment doesn't apply to the situation.

This is what seems to be the case at the University of Missouri, the "Don't Show Anyone State" school campus as protests come in the wake of the resignation of Tim Wolfe, the now former school president.

The fascist students blocked another student journalist from shooting photos on the public quad, obviously in violation of his rights to do so in a public place and at a public university. A Fox Nation  video shows what happened. Another video on YouTube shows the campus fascists telling Tim Tai, a 20-year-old senior working freelance for ESPN that he doesn't have the right to take their photos. Then the leftbots did the "Hey hey! Ho ho Buttfinger Mambo."

They chanted: "Hey hey! Ho ho! Reporters have got to go!" Brilliant and so original. Folks, this is college tuition money circling the drain.

Of course, that's nonsense about the reporter not having the right to photograph these idiots. He is in a public place and because of that fact, he has the right to take photos of anything or anyone in that public place. It's the law. This is America, not the Soviet Union.

Although with the leftists teaching our kids, we seem to be more and more like the old Soviet Union every day thanks to this administration that is doing all it can to be "five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

For a very good article on the rights of photographers, read this article by William Beem.



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