Dr. Mike Adams is one of the Townhall wingnuts (actual column titles, "Yes Massa" and "Wigger Please," I shit you not) I don't bother with, mostly because World O Crap said all that really needs to be said about him years ago. I can't add much to SZ & Scott's documentation, so Dr. Mike Adams, I feel, simply ought to remain decently satirized. Also he's yawningly stupid and he makes me so very tired.
That said, Dr. Mike has nevertheless become briefly interesting, insofar as a lawsuit he instigated has ended in comical ignominy.
Before we dive in, here is an excerpt from an actual Dr. Mike Adams Townhall column, one where he imagines addressing a student who has asked him to reconsider a final grade. Adams is a tenured perfesser at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. No, really.
I am sorry, too. I am particularly sorry that I was hog hunting in South Carolina and was, therefore, unable to respond immediately to your rather pathetic little missive. But before I get to the solution to your problem, let me share with you some of the details of my hunt. After you hear those details, you may decide that you are interested in an extra credit assignment designed especially for you, your special needs, and your fragile feminine feelings....
During the first week of January, I am going to take you down to South Carolina for a free hog hunt. We will carry my Benelli along with a Glock 10mm backup pistol and a machete. I will carry the guns and let you have the machete in case we need to go deep into the woods to fetch a dead hog. I’ll let you hold a gun if you would like but I’m afraid you may miss your target in a stressful situation. In fact, I suspect you’ll be shaking like a blind lesbian at a weenie roast if we encounter hogs the size of the two I saw last weekend.
That's straight quotation.
Now, as a perfesser myself, yes, I have received unconvincing pleas for revised final grades, but I'm not entirely convinced that in correspondence with undergraduates it is entirely appropriate or even sane to reference rural pig shooting. Also, "fragile feminine feelings" and "blind lesbian at a weenie roast" -- holy shit.
And then there is the time Adams plagiarized George Carlin.
Now, the lawsuit. Apparently Adams sued UNC-Wilmington after being turned down for promotion to full professor, alleging that he was discriminated against because he became a Christian. The suit is dead, and was just killed, something announced at Townhall the other day thusly:
A federal judge has ruled the opinion pieces written by UNC-Wilimington criminology professor and popular Townhall columnist, Mike Adams, are not protected by the First Amendment because Adams referred to them in an application for promotion. Huh?
Adams sued after being denied promotion due to his religious views. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), which has come to Adams' defense, is now considering options to appeal the decision.
In a statement, ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence was quoted, “We disagree with the court’s assessment that Dr. Adams’ speech is somehow not protected by the Constitution. Opinion columns are classic examples of free speech protected by the First Amendment, and mentioning them on a promotion application does not change this fact.”
Additionally, the upward trajectory of Adams' professorial career seems to have plateaued following his conversion to Christianity after priorly being atheist. Coincidence? What do you think?
I think it's hilarious. The decision is not even close; the judge is annoyed, and not just because he can't get Facebook Scrabble to give him points for"priorly."
Danged for the life of me why anyone ever took Adams's case; he never had any evidence for his central claims, and he is anyhow someone you can't help disliking.