Univ. of Wisconsin English prof offers extra credit for attending 'non-partisan' rally against Scott Walker

How do you know Scott Walker is absolutely driving liberals up the wall? When they start doing things like this: A University of Wisconsin English professor (not political science . . . English) has offered her students extra credit if they will attend a "non-partisan" rally against Scott Walker:

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Professor Beth Lueck, a Democrat who was soundly defeated by state Rep. Jim Ott, R-Mequon, in the 2014 23rd District Assembly race, sent a memo to her students Wednesday outlining the "extra credit opportunity." "UWW students have organized a non-partisan rally with students, faculty, and community members on the UW Whitewater campus against Gov. Walker's proposed $300 million cut to the UW system, along with speaking out against attacks on shared governance and faculty," Lueck wrote an a document first tweeted out Thursday by conservative talk show host Vicki McKenna. "You may get extra credit by joining the rally or by observing it or by protesting it."

Now you might try to defend this by pointing out that the students would supposedly get the extra credit by writing about the event regardless of the point of view they express. So theoretically they could write a paper trashing the event and still get the extra credit. But that would miss the point: The reason Professor Lueck offers this extra credit is that Democrats want to give the media a huge throng of people to talk about having attended this anti-Walker rally. If her gambit succeeded and contributed to a massive crowd at the rally, the stories would merely report how huge the crowd was. They wouldn't tell you that many of the students were just there for extra credit and may not have agreed with what was going on. The only real point to this is make Scott Walker look as bad as possible, because he's scaring the bejeezus out of liberals. He governs effectively and wins battles against them - achieving important things for taxpayers at the expense of public employee unions. He's smart enough not to answer their stupid questions about evolution or whatever else. And if he ends up winning the nomination and running against Hillary Clinton, there's no question which of the two has a more impressive track record of achievement in governing. Liberals are terrified that they can't beat this guy, so they pull stunts like this. It's pretty entertaining, and it's not hard to understand why it's happening.