Who needs evidence?

Max Blumenthal has an interesting piece in last week's Nation discussing Robert "Robby" George, a Princeton professor of jurisprudence, and his James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Of interest is that the Program is supported by many of the conservative foundations that fund the Discovery Institute and that George himself is a darling within conservative Catholic circles.

That aside, the following in particular caught my eye:

"The only way I made it is that there were honorable liberals prepared to support me," George told me. "But today, the hegemonic point of view is the liberal point of view on universities. So if you have a conservative student, I'm thinking it would be great to have him as a professor at Williams or Yale, or Oklahoma, but look what he faces. If they find out he's pro-life or against same-sex marriage, he might be cut off, or not be able to get through graduate school." When I asked George if he had firsthand knowledge of conservative students being "cut off" by liberal discrimination, he said he did not.

So, George claims liberal bias without any knowledge of same. Who needs evidence when you can just assert the "truth".