A sad day for Harvard - Lubos Motl's reference frame

The main thing that this vote has proved to me is that some of the politically correct people won't hesitate to use almost any tools to achieve their goals and to threaten those who disagree with them, and the only way how they stop before doing something really unwelcome is that someone else will stop them. It won't happen automatically, I am afraid.

I quote this approvingly.

On the whole Dr. Motl's post is hopeful. Hopeful that in the end those who seek Dr. Summers' ouster will find it is their own credibility which they have destroyed.

The remainder of Dr. Motl's post is link rich with commentaries from around the blogosphere providing evidence supporting the proposition that the opponents of Summers will be tomorrow's Trent Lott.