Ms. Sara Russo This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Profiles in Chutzpah

   www.hartwilliams.com/ava/ava01 - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/2/2004   Last Visited: 6/1/2006

   For a good chunk of 2003, AIA was staffed by a young woman, fresh out of Yale, named Sara Russo. Ms. Russo had been an arch-conservative at Yale, and also at George Mason U. which she seems to have attended. She maintained a blog, entitled "Russo's Republic" wherein she opined on such matters as a Woman's Right To Choose (ain't got none); American Idol (liked it); GOOGLE (liked it because of her high ranking); how many pictures there are of her in the Yale DAILY NEWS ("one photo has me holding a sign that says ‘Al Gore is the Unabomber'") and other weighty matters.
   
   Her "Conservative Activism" page states: "I started this site because as a recent graduate of Yale University and a veteran of many activism campaigns, from protesting a campus celebration of the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China to assisting a campaign to stop Yale from using student tuition to fund abortion, I realized I had many ideas to share.
   
   "In my day job as a program officer and conference director for Accuracy in Academia, I routinely meet conservative students from all over the United States."
   
   A virulent anti-abortionist, she even had a separate page on how to convince people to her side. She brays about writing for AIA as an undergraduate, praising GOOGLE for including "my many articles for Accuracy in Academia."
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   "Thousands more were able to participate in the four-day event through nationally televised coverage from C-SPAN, which aired lectures by Conservative Caucus chairman Howard Phillips, Accuracy in Academia conference director Sara Russo, National Republican Senatorial Committee research editor Shamed Dogan, and Accuracy in Media prize-winning film producer Roger Aronoff."
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   Passing over the questionable ethics of praising your own event in a "news story" on a website purportedly devoted to "accuracy," it should be noted that Shamed Dogan was an old friend of Russo's from Yale, linked from her blog to his blog, and, that Sarah Russo shortly thereafter changed her name, reflecting her new marital status, to "Sara Dogan."
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   Sarah Russo and David Horowitz were ideological soul-mates inasmuch as both believed that the evil "leftist" Democrat professors were Joe McCarthys, stamping out the hate-speech of the Right.
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   And so Sara was installed as Oberstgruppenfuhrer of Horowitz' SA(F) -- a seemingly wholly-owned subsidiary of the CSPC.
   
   According to Transparency in Media, CSPC has received $5,425,000 since 1989 from Scaife foundations.

2. 2. UC-Davis Newspaper Fires Sole Conservative Columnist

   www.academia.org/campus_report - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2003   Last Visited: 12/8/2007

   Sara Russo
   
   The editor-in-chief of the California Aggie, the main student newspaper at the University of California-Davis, has fired its sole conservative columnist in violation of a contract to run his column until June 2003. The paper's editor-in-chief justified the writer's dismissal by citing his "tendency to enrage members of the opposing causes."

3. 3. AIA's Conservative University Graduates Largest Class Ever

   www.academia.org/campus_report - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2002   Last Visited: 12/8/2007

   by Sara Russo
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   Thousands more were able to participate in the four-day event through nationally televised coverage from C-SPAN, which aired lectures by Conservative Caucus chairman Howard Phillips, Accuracy in Academia conference director Sara Russo, National Republican Senatorial Committee research editor Shamed Dogan, and Accuracy in Media prize-winning film producer Roger Aronoff.