Professors from around the country are joining together for yet another signed anti-McCain statement. This time it’s only briefly about Bill Ayers, but mostly about the McCain campaign tactics.
 

Almost 100 educators from schools like Louisiana State University, University of North Carolina and the University of Texas have signed the letter which denounces the Republican’s smear tactics. The professors claim the McCain methods include veiled racism and breed hate.
 

Check out this excerpt of the statement:

We wish to express our great concern over unethical communication behavior that threatens to dominate the closing days of the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Both major campaigns have been criticized by fact-checking organizations for prevarications. We call on both campaigns to halt blatant misrepresentations of their opponent’s positions.

It would be misleading, however, to imply that since “both sides do it” there is no qualitative difference worth noting. In recent weeks, the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin has engaged in such incendiary mendacity that we must speak out. The purposeful dissemination of messages that a communicator knows to be false and inflammatory is unethical. It is that simple.

The letter goes on to criticize the use of rhetoric like “socialist,” the deceptive references to Joe the Plumber (who’s not even a licensed plumber! Gasp!) and Palin’s suggestion that Obama “pals around with terrorists.”
 

We all know college professors are super left-leaning, but when is it considered “liberalness” and when is it just “good sense”?