Fox News and Professor Hill--Enough!

I can't be the only one who is becoming irritated by the constant exposure of Marc Lamont Hill on the Fox News Network. He got his start on TV punditry at MSNBC (which should have been a clue), but has become ubiquitous at Fox. He's on news shows. He's on panel discussions. And he's even a regular on Greg Gutfeld's Red Eye. He poses as an affable liberal, and Fox seems to buy into it. In fact, he's a black radical who is unfortunately becoming a regular "friendly face" on Fox.

He is always billed as a Columbia professor, but with nearly every appearance, his title seems to change. At various times he's been a professor of urban studies, black studies, education, sociology, and God knows what else. But what is he, really? He got his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequent degrees from Temple University (where he taught, whatever it was he taught, as an associate professor until summer of 2009). He is currently a professor of (fill in the blank) at Coumbia University Teacher's College.

His baccalaureate degree is in "anthropological education" (whatever that is). But what is his actual area of expertise? Hip-hop music, the rap culture and education. There's a winning combination if I ever heard one. But his true love is radical black "liberation" politics. If there's an opening for a new Secretary of Education, I think I see an Obama appointee in the making.

He has conducted an ongoing war with David Horowitz since Horowitz first published an article regarding the foolishness of giving Professor L. a lengthy segment on the O'Reilly Factor to discuss, of all things, Iran's development of nuclear armaments and pending sanctions back in August. Horowitz was very blunt. After being asked by O'Reilly "do you think we should give Iran three months or six months to let the UN inspectors in?" Horowitz reacted very publicly to the nonsense. "How would he know? How would he even be in a position to make an intelligent speculation? By his own account, Hill is an expert on 'hip-hop culture,' i.e. rap music. His academic degree is in education. What are his views on foreign policy worth, unless putting him on was designed to show up the shallowness of the left? Hill is in fact a knee jerk leftist, a defender of ACORN and a man whose attitudes toward race are a throwback to the Sixties. I wonder if O'Reilly understands that putting on such a lightweight feeds the racism of low expectations. Having a Columbia professor of rap music comment on the foreign policy views of Karl Rove (who was featured in the preceding segment) is demeaning to Rove and embarrassing to every African American watching."

Rather than take Horowitz on directly, Hill decided to put his arguments on Twitter. It was the final blow to Hill's phony reputation as a good-natured liberal. On September 27, Hill sent out another critique which Horowitz picked up. Horowitz responded, but at that point he noticed Hill's Twitter wallpaper. Prominent on the wall was one of Hill's heroes, Assata Shakur. Shakur is an escaped felon, charged with the cold-blooded murder of a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973 (some of that 70s violence that seems to worry Nancy Pelosi). Shakur escaped to Cuba, where she has been hiding out and producing radical black hate literature all the while protected by Fidel Castro.

Expecting Hill to do something to cover up his radical connections, Horowitz was shocked to receive another post from Hill which said "Assata Shakur is an American hero & freedom fighter. I'll always stand next to her." So rather than disavow an urban terrorist, Hill supports a communist murderer who was a member of the murderous Black Liberation Army (also well-known to Nancy Pelosi, when they had a base in the Fillmore District of San Francisco). These weren't the over-heated Sixties--the murder occurred during a pitched battle ten years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voters Rights Act.

By the time Hill had sent twenty-seven increasingly belligerent responses to Horowitz, he had caught the attention of Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid. On September 28, Kincaid interviewed Hill and published a corresponding article. Says Kincaid: "What's more, an article on his web page, which appears under Hill's by-line and photo, declares that Shakur, who is still on the FBI's Most Wanted List, is one of the great heroes in the Black Freedom Struggle, and proclaims 'Mother Assata: I am eternally grateful for your life and example. I give thanks to the ancestors for you. I pray for your continued protection and pledge to support you and our people until I die.' "

Here are a few other juicy tidbits of information about Hill:

He called the notorious anti-white, anti-Jewish Khallid Muhammad a "mentor, teacher, and revolutionary hero." He believes that news reports lied, and that Muhammad did not die of a brain aneurysm, but rather at the hand of a white assassin. Muhammad was so filled with hate and invective, that even Louis Farrakhan kicked him out of the Nation of Islam.

He gave a lecture on the "Importance of Ideological Training in the New Millenium [sic.]" at the Polymathematic University's "Political Education Program for the Poor Righteous Communist Party."

He declared on a MySpace page that the people he would most like to meet include Assata Shakur, Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, and Mumia Abu Jamal (an even more cold-blooded cop killer).

He speaks on the "Importance of the Nation of Islam to Hip-Hop Culture" and once belonged to the Ansaaru Allah Community, an Islamic sect with doctrines similar to the Nation of Islam which has been accused of being a dangerous religious cult.

His MySpace page also includes Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Ella Baker ( a personal favorite of communist Van Jones, recently exiting the Obama administration).

By October 3, Assata Shakur was removed from Hill's Twitter page and MySpace. So the next time you see Marc Lamont Hill, impeccably dressed and smiling up a storm anywhere on Fox News, remember that he is not Alan Colmes in disguise. This is not a good-natured liberal who's just in it for the happy face time. He's insinuating himself as some kind of moderate into the mainstream of semi-conservative TV. And he's doing so with the assistance of Fox News, its producers, and its regular personalities. While the hosts are jocularly bantering with him, he is smiling and thinking to himself "you deserve to die."