Michael Rectenwald is a professor at New York University (NYU).
On Tuesday The O’Reilly Factor tweeted out a podcast featuring Professor Rectenwald. The NYU professor spoke about the dangerous radicalism dominating US campuses.
Contributing Factor Podcast-@antipcnyuprof on the dangerous radicalsim dominating campuses: https://t.co/n6sjs4KBYn pic.twitter.com/UCunXqlFgL
— Bill O'Reilly (@oreillyfactor) February 22, 2017
Far left Twitter users immediately hurled vile insults at Rectenwald following the mention by O’Reilly.
Rectenwald responded:
The illiberal left revealing its utter ugliness & hypocrisy. Is this how they treat everyone who appears on @FoxNews. Stalinist wannabes.
— Michael Rectenwald (@antipcnyuprof) February 22, 2017
Later Rectenwald posted on the vile attacks on Facebook.
Rectenwald wrote:
I don’t want to reproduce the putrid and vile character of this attack, but I will say this: Today’s “Left” is rife with the most obscene, abusive, nasty, spiritually ugly and utterly unethical, hypocritical and fanatically horrible people I’ve ever encountered in my 58 years on earth.
When I was a left-liberal activist and founder of Citizens for Legitimate Government after the first GWB Bush “election,” I routinely received hate email from right-wingers. They were routinely mean-spirited.
But now that I am a critic of the Left, nothing from the past comes close to the kind of personal invective, baseless insults, vilely degrading language and imagery that I was barraged with from these Leftists — and all because I critiqued an IDEOLOGY and its mechanisms, and critiqued the hypocrisy of today’s illiberal leftists.
The Left has utterly and completely lost its way and I no longer want anything to do with it.
A commentary on last night's viral Twitter attack on me. Goodbye to the Left, goodbye. pic.twitter.com/OgpdRA9EAU
— Michael Rectenwald (@antipcnyuprof) February 22, 2017