Poor Princeton conservatives! Looks like the leaders of the Anscombe Society, Princeton’s abstinence group, have a bit of apologizing to do to their liberal peers (as do some jerks in the national media). Let’s stroll down memory lane and see if we can recall some of their finer moments as they defended the Talented Mr. Nava:

Professor Robert George on receiving an email threat: “If I were betting, I’d bet next month’s salary that … this is someone who stupidly thinks that no one is entitled to disagree with him, and if they do, that they’ll be intimidated into silence by threatening.”

Okay, Robbie. Will you be making that check out to NARAL or Emily’s List?

Anscombe VP Jonathan Hwang:

This is the worst form of trying to silence opposing views: intimidation and fear.  If they were to stop issuing threats and actually come to the table with rational arguments or any intent for civil discourse, we’ll be ready and waiting.”

Who are “they,” Jonathan?  Liberals who simply can’t argue things rationally and beat the crap out of people instead? I mean, has that ever actually happened?

After the jump: more outrageous outrage!

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Some reasons L’Affaire Anscombe seemed fishy from the start:

• Nava claimed to have received a threat that read: “ONE MORE ARTICLE AND YOU WON’T LIVE TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.” Has anyone ever gotten something like this? It’s straight out of a D movie, and the sort of thing only an op/ed writer would dream up. Because really, nobody but you, your roommate, and your mom are reading those Prince columns.

• This quote: “For several days I lived in fear of saying, writing or even thinking anything controversial in class or informally among my friends.” Here Nava implies that some violent gay mafia is in cahoots with the thought police. Hello, psychosis.

• The email threats came from a computer in Firestone library, where Nava was placed at the time. Furthermore, there were two threats: the second one followed after the first one was relegated to the recipients’ spam folder. How would a mythical violent “sexual liberationist” know that the first email had been rejected unless he had sent it to himself?

• No self-respecting thug would use an Orangina bottle in a streetfight. Broken bottles are for barfights, and even then, it’s gotta be 6% alcohol at least.

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