At least one high-profile conservative activist group wants to continue smashing "left-wing scum," and they're not afraid to admit it.

When Campus Progress first reported on Campus Reform, the right-leaning social networking Web site funded by the conservative Leadership Institute to confront “leftist abuse” in higher education, it was discovered that one of the organization’s staff members had written on the site that one of his goals was to “smash left-wing scum.”

Shortly after the report, the comment was removed, and when asked about the incident, Campus Reform’s national director, Bryan Bernys, chalked the incendiary rhetoric up to the nature of social networking. “I don’t know where that is on the site or anything,” Brenys said. “Obviously with all Web sites you can post anything. Nobody at CampusReform can go through every single post.”

But now a few months after the incident, smashing left-wing scum is apparently back in fashion for Campus Reform—in fact, it’s alive and well on the group’s own YouTube page.

A video, posted four days ago, shows a group of Campus Reformers holding a “Global Warming Beach Party” to protest a speech by New York Times contributor Thomas Friedman that was taking place at George Washington University. (Yeah, I still haven’t quite figured that one out either.) Anyway, along with a furrie dressed up as polar bear and the backing of the archconservative Young America's Foundation, there was also a sign that encouraged others to—that’s right—“Smash Left-Wing Scum.”

Look, obviously students shouldn’t be discriminated against because of their political beliefs. But really, if Campus Reform’s goal is to combat what it perceives as “leftist bias” in classrooms, and the organization’s mission is to bring more ideological diversity to educational institutions, then how, exactly, is that accomplished by such a confrontational and polarizing statement like “smash left-wing scum?” Is that kind of rhetoric really supposed to make anyone empathic to the plight of the young Reaganites?

Either way, there’s a chance that the video—like the last incendiary comment—may mysteriously disappear from the Web site. After all, it was just a few days ago that somebody at Campus Reform tried to remove praise of James O'Keefe from the Web site, shortly after the former Leadership Institute employee and some of his friends were arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting to illegally enter the downtown New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) under the guise of repairing the building’s telephones.