It’s hard to believe that Forbes ranked Janet Napolitano as the world’s ninth most powerful woman in 2012.
It’s hard to believe because three years earlier, in March 2009, as secretary of Homeland Security, she referred to terrorism as “man-caused disasters” in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
Embarrassingly, she also insisted that terrorists were coming across the Canadian border and called it a “real issue.” She was proven to be wrong.
Even worse, in her threat risk assessment the following month, she insulted our armed forces veterans when she wrote that disgruntled veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were vulnerable to recruitment efforts by extremist groups as potential risk factors as rightwing extremists.
Janet Napolitano (businessinsider.com)
The year 2009 wasn’t a good year for the Napolitano. In December, when the underwear bomber attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 approaching Detroit, she said in an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley that the “system worked.” Napolitano believed that the inefficiency of the bomb-maker and carrier could be chalked up as a success for the system. Yes, passengers leaped into action when the terrorist’s bomb failed, but he was able to board the plane with the bomb – the system didn’t work.
Napolitano changed her story when she appeared on NBC’s Today Show, insisting that her comment to Crowley was taken out of context. Of course.
The sorry saga of Janet Napolitano doesn’t stop there. Now, as president of the University of California, she is in a position to affect the lives of young people.
She’s concerned now about offensive “microaggressions”– actions and phrases against disadvantaged groups – and she has initiated faculty training to prevent them at UC campuses.
Among the sinister microaggressions the faculty is to avoid are: saying that America is the land of opportunity, stating that you believe the most qualified person should get the job, describing America as a “melting pot,” stating that there is only one race – the human race, using “he” as a generic pronoun for all people, and using forms where individuals must identify as male or female.
Holy Cross’ Crusader mascot is the latest victim of political correctness. (telegram.com)
CAMPUS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS CATCHING – I recently wrote of an effort to force the University of Notre Dame to drop its “fighting Irish” character. This week, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts announced it was dropping its Crusader mascot amid concerns that it evokes the violence of the Crusades and promotes “Islamophobia.”
When is this nonsense going to stop?
