Inaccuracy In Academia

Tompaine.Com writer Alec Dubro details the commitment to accuracy demonstrated by Daniel J. Flynn, executive director of Accuracy in Academia:

I tried to ask Flynn this question, but he was signing furiously and waved me off. So, I searched his book for the evidence, and there it was: "Lindh grew up in Marin County, California, home to Berkeley, site of Angela Davis's flight from the law, and the constituency of the lone congressional voice against an American military response to the terrorist attacks. If simply by osmosis, John Walker Lindh could not help but absorb the trendy anti-Americanism that pervades his community."

A pretty compelling case except that Berkeley is across the Bay from Marin County, Angela Davis fled to New York, and Barbara Lee, who cast the offending vote, represents Alameda County. As for the osmotic effect of trendy pervasive anti-Americanism, it didn't seem to encourage any other Marin resident to join the Taliban. Moreover, according to U.S. News, the hundreds of American jihadists came not from the left, but from across the social and political spectrum.

Of course, dumbass also thinks that surfing and the computer are American inventions, so it's not surprising his geographic knowledge is equally weak.