Ward Churchill: The Tenured Tonto
Moving from D.C. to Denver meant less traffic, more sunshine, and a few breathless walks up and down the stairs as my lungs acclimated to the mile high atmosphere. It also put me at the heart of a national tragedy — the academic fraud known as Ward Churchill. Or as Dennis Miller glibly calls him, “the tenured Tonto.”
Naturally, the far left is rallying to his side. Again. And if you need another reason to distrust that side of the ideological aisle, here it is:
Churchill, a former Ethnic Studies professor at the University of Colorado, had his 15 minutes of infamy when word leaked of an essay he wrote after the 9/11 attacks. Referring to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, Churchill called those who died in the Twin Towers “little Eichmanns,” because they supported the wicked system known as the U.S.A. Churchill wasn’t fired for these monstrous comments, but that’s more an indictment of modern academia than anything else. He received a pink slip some time later, after the university investigated his academic bona fides and discovered he had fabricated his credentials, along with other serious misdeeds.
Some news stories never die, and Churchill is making headlines again with his lawsuit against the University of Colorado. He claims he was unfairly canned in July 2007, and blames the media maelstrom surrounding his essay for his termination. Academic fraud? What academic fraud?
Denver residents can’t hide from the latest trial accounts. A fine local radio show, “Caplis & Silverman,” has been checking in with the case on a daily basis. Even co-host Craig Silverman, a reasonable left leaner who cordially battles with his conservative sparring partner, Dan Caplis, can’t muster a defense for Churchill. The program is but one of many local media outlets giving residents the latest information on Churchill’s case. It’s like a traveling O.J. Simpson trial hit Colorado, but without the Dancing Itos or Kato Kaelin.
Churchill wraps himself in the invisibility cloak known as free speech, but if he had uttered anything offensive to a protected group he would have been fired without a hint of protest. What if he had penned something offensive and indefensible, like claiming high black crime rates indicate a genetic inferiority within the race? His time at the university would have ended the minute that news hit the wires. But if you work in academia, assaulting the U.S. on any level is not only accepted, it’s common practice.
Naturally, the hard left can’t help but rally to his cause. After all, conservatives led the outrage parade against Churchill early, and you know how evil they are. And Churchill is a first-class America basher, which makes him enormously appealing to the “blame America” contingent. Heck, he’s a folk hero to them.
The usual suspects surfaced to defend Churchill once the initial news blasts hit including CommonDreams.org, The Progressive, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, and attorney Lynne Stewart, famous for passing messages between one of her clients and a terrorist organization. With friends like these …
In a recent trial-related column, the Denver Post‘s new liberal columnist, Mike Littwin, wasn’t angry with Churchill for his many educational sins. Instead, he blamed the university that fired him: “But however guilty Churchill may or may not have been, he was never as guilty as the University of Colorado.” He ended his pro-Churchill column with this golden thought: “Even if a witch hunt turns up an actual witch, it’s still a witch hunt.”
Churchill’s academic fraud and hateful rhetoric has been swept under the academic rug. Free speech is complicated. Reminding people they can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater is easy to digest. But employers have a right to fire people for offensive statements. Heck, hockey player Sean Avery was banned indefinitely by the NHL for making derogatory comments about his ex-girlfriend, Elisha Cuthbert.
The worst you can say about the left’s embrace of Churchill is that it goes against some of its core values. The left treasures diversity and the protection of minorities. Churchill falsely claimed he’s of Native American descent. So he actually took a teaching slot that could have been given to another minority. And his academic fakery is a blow to those who hold up academia as one of our culture’s most cherished strengths.
It’s a miracle Churchill was allowed to keep his job following his hateful comments. But once the professor’s full portrait was revealed, there shouldn’t have been a soul out there willing to stick his neck out for him.
Churchill must be taking comfort in the knowledge that he’ll always have a home on the far left.
Kemo Sabe…white man speak with forked tongue!
The “academic fraud” side of Churchill’s antics is interesting, too. It seems most of his “original research” in Native American culture was cribbed from previous researchers, notably one T.E. Mails, author of a highly colored and extremely “rose-colored glasses” book on the Plains nations, “The Mystic Warriors of the Plains”.
Mails’ portrayal of the Plains nations includes a good bit of fairly accurate information on ceremonial tools and costume (while completely misunderstanding the ceremonies they were used in), some moderately accurate data on tribal customs (while mistakenly assuming that all nations had substantially the same customs in every case), some highly fanciful “theories” about how peaceful the Plains nations supposedly were (no mention of the constant warfare between the Sioux, the Apache, etc., or the half-millennium of war between the Plains nations and the Aztecs in Apacheria and along the Rio Grande before the Spanish Conquest), and a condescending analysis of the Plains tribes as gentle, simple-minded folk who “lived close to the land” (mostly true) and “had no need for or knowledge of” any form of technology (not even close).
Mails believed that the “layering” of the Apache bow was solely to keep it from snapping, apparently unaware that the Apache’ bow was in fact a refined version of the powerful Asiatic composite bow (brought across the Bering Straits land bridge by the Apaches’ ancestors),and was much like an automobile leaf-spring in structure- and effect. He also said that in making arrowheads, or repairing their later firearms or making ammunition for them, “the Indian(s) knew nothing of hot iron or molten lead- these were not natural things.” The Apache were making arrowheads and spearheads from iron when Cortez conquered Mexico, and casting bullets in soapstone moulds about the time the English were harrying the Spanish armada up the Channel, having learned the utility of both from the early European conquerors. the rest of the plains nations did so by copying from the Apache- mainly in the interest of not being repeatedly defeated by them.
Any reasonably-competent researcher can pretty much demolish most of Mails’ “scholarship” fairly quickly. Churchill, by comparison, just quoted him. Without attribution, apparently. And got away with it.
The only thing more ridiculous than the fact that Churchill did so, is the fact that the University of Colorado swallowed it, and granted him tenure.
There is no greater indictment of the modern academic culture than the fact that there is apparently no “fact-checking” done, anywhere, anytime, on any subject. This being a case in point.
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Mr. Toto, I believe the fact that Churchill used made up facts deserves a mention. At his trial a witness for Churchill told the court that made up facts can be useful toward understanding truth. This is exactly why he supported by the left. Made up facts and contextually out of context quotes (Rush Limbaugh’s wish for Obam’s POLICIES to fail) are their bread and butter.
Typical academia…no different than with Bill Ayers. Notice how this trash all congregates within the soft and/or contrived disciplines where few standards exist.
This clown even managed to pass himself off as a Native American Indian when on the basis of DNA he has no connection to that group. He signed up with one of those tribes that pass out Indian Heritage like the spammers that want to sell you a PhD and if you can’t afford that, a Masters or a Bachelors degree.
All universities need to take a step back and just close all those Departments of Fluff and Fantasy. No tenure problem then, just no funding and no curriculum pollution.
Ward Churchill is the perfect case study analyzed in Jamie Glazov’s recent book “United in Hate”. He is in the same league, a league of their own, at the top of haters, as Ayers and Noam Chomsky.
Mr. Toto:
“Churchill must be taking comfort in the knowledge that he’ll always have a home on the far left.”
No he won’t. He’s got nowhere else to go, see?
Who would hire him, and for what?
His lawsuit is nothing more than him fulfilling his end of his obligation to the Left for giving him some sort of Robeson like status.
Once he is of no further use to them, he will be discarded as quickly and as thoroughly as was Michael Bellesisles and Cindy Sheehan.
Ward Churchill is a symptom of the cancer that exists in academia these days. The old saying “birds of a feather” really applies here.
Why doesn’t Obama hire him? Yes he seems to have problems in his head.
Great example of the Establishment’s complete and total submission to skin color. I too am an academic minority, but I am consrevative, so I have to hide my far less than inflammatory thoughts like “free markets actually work better.” Churchill’s violent, hateful, and antiillectual comments get a pass. Check my post “True Story of the Multicult” for another example of how crazy academia is:http://rebelsk8.blogspot.com/2009/02/true-story-of-multicult.html
Professor Churchill provided a very important service to the University of Colorado. If it were not for him and people like him teaching disciplines such as “Ethnic Studies”, the scholars on the football team and basketball team would be deprived of a well rounded education.
Why are universities even necessary anymore? Online study courses are everywhere.
Universities anymore are mostly just money pits. Their employees are safe from the “outsourcing” that other US workers face, and the demand for more and more tax funding never ceases…”it’s for the future of America’s children…” Oh, sure.
With the exception of few hands on subjects, such as medicine and science, it seems that anyone having a computer and internet access possess everything necessary to study and test to obtain a degree.
Thank goodness they fired him, and we should all salute the brave CU board and committee that was brave enough to do so.
From academic tenure to unemployment. From wandering the gorgeous CU campus and infecting student’s minds with poison to trying to find a way to pay the bills.
Ahh, bliss.
The Churchill saga is ofcourse a perfect illustration of one of the many things that plague “Academia”.I use quotation marks because many “Academics”are just intellectual lightweights who have found a not very taxing way to a comfortable living.
One of the many reasons I no longer donate money to “Higher Education”.
“The left treasures diversity and the protection of minorities.”
Unless such diversity includes diversity of opinion and such protections include protection of viewpoints that are held by the minority of a faculty.
Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill-
Poster boys for the left wing nut jobs.
With the current economic crisis many of these POS will be terminated or have their hours cut back.
At least the bad economy is doing some good.
Leftism is a disease. Not to be confused with liberals…who tend to flock like sheep to the BIG LIE of leftism too easily at times, these are traitors who no longer hide their treason in the shadows, but rather, they peddle it from pushcarts to our children on every corner of our information stream.
When truth no longer matters, the soul dies. We live in a nation where truth is under constant attack from the left, lefter, leftist reaches of our information stream. Those gathering places where our ideas are hatched and our ideals are formed and cemented.
Ward Churchill is a carrier of that disease. I feel strongly that freedom of speech should be protected at almost any cost. Simultaneously, I believe that open sedition has become too tolerated, we are too lethargic, too passive in the face of it.
I would at once defend the Raging Imbecile his right to speak (see, for instance many of the trolls here)…and at the very same time would with unblinking and tearless eyes watch Ward Churchill hung from the highest tree in the land at high noon. Bill Ayers and his wife of no soul could join them.
And when the rancid stench of their ugly treason was erased from our shores, we could begin to freshen tha airing of our differences within the range of reason and principled dissent.
For the fools who cannot discern the difference, there is always a home in the entrenched media, academia and Hollywood. Mindless sheep flock there in a bovine huddle against the winds of truth, honor, integrity and loyalty.
Good grief. There are a bunch of full-on LOONS on the left.
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“Churchill wraps himself in the invisibility cloak known as free speech”
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-Yeah and when the left do that they are ‘righteously defending their right to speak their minds’ but when the right do that they are evil ‘wing-nuts’…oh how the worm turns.
There, fixed it for you.
There you go again, implicitly assuming that our enemies have any sort of integrity. They do not. We have absolutely nothing in common with them in that regard. The Left’s only “ideal” is to acquire and retain power. Every statement, every supposed ideal, every utterance is just a way to manipulate the foolish and defeat anyone who stands between them and power.
Get it through your head–there is no such thing as an ethical or decent lefty. Stupid ones, yes. Decent ones, no.
…after the university investigated his academic bona fides and discovered he had fabricated his credentials, along with other serious misdeeds.
Documented academic fraud and plagiarism, as your linked article states.
…an 8-1 vote by the University of Colorado regents, following a thorough investigation by his peers — two dozen faculty members serving on three separate committees — judged that he was guilty and should be held accountable for “repeated and deliberate” plagiarism, fabricated research, willful misstatement of facts, and violations of “bedrock principles of scholarship.”
Mid-March of this year, Billy Ayers was in Colo. alongside his good buddy Ward Churchill. Bernadine Dohrn (Ayers’ despicable other half) had, some months earlier, praised Churchill as a real leader of the movement (that would be the pro Marxist, anti-capitalist, anti-bourgeoisie, anti-America “movement”) but ole Billy Ayers couldn’t quite seem to remember Churchill’s “importance” at that time. Now, they’re best buds.
Grimy, slimy people, all around.
In my youth, I had a lot of fun telling stories about my Native American ancestors. With a last name like Hawk, it was easy. Like the voguish stories about the Greeks stealing all their science and literature from Africa, I had my people inventing electricity, the button and buttonhole, the cannon and various and sundry other items. Even had the Vikings stealing the idea of the long boat from us. In the academic environment it was easy. My friends were in on the joke, but in academia, nobody questioned my blue eyes, fair skin and sandy blond hair for fear of offending my ethnic sensibilities. Of course, my last name is actually an Ellis Island rewrite of the German name my family brought with them from Prussia.
Worm Churchill and Gnome chumpsky are lower than sty crud on a hogs hoof. It’s surprising and a shame they haven’t yet volunteered to be human shields for al qaeda.
…attorneyfelon Lynne Stewart, famous for passing messages between one of her clients and a terrorist organization.
Specifically, messages from the old, blind guy in prison for the first attack on the WTC*, 1993, and his fellow Islamist cretins on the outside.
*Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, a mentor of Osama bin laden. Springing the sheikh was a lesser known motivation of bin laden in the 911 attacks. These guys hate it when their leaders are in the infidels’ jails, which is why springing Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails is such a high priority with Hamas & Hezbollah. (small digression)
There, fixed again.
16. cfbleachers writes:
“..Leftism is a disease. Not to be confused with liberals…who tend to flock like sheep to the BIG LIE of leftism too easily at times, these are traitors who no longer hide their treason in the shadows, but rather, they peddle it from pushcarts to our children on every corner of our information stream.”
I once visited a friend on mine in San Francisco in the late seventies; he lived in the Haight and we went to some hyper-eclectic cafe for a meal. I noticed a poster on the restaurant’s community bulletin board saying, in effect, “Protest Demonstration, Golden Gate Park, Wednesday, 1 PM.”
That was it, no declaration of cause or reason, just that there was to be a protest.
It was so-o-o-o-o-o instructive.
I saw his sorry ass on TV whining about Bill O’Reily . Blaming O’Reily’s coverage for his woes in academia. Free speech must only apply to him. Churchill disgusts me. He is like to mascot of the left. Trying to portray himself as some sort of victim. Cashing in on his hatred of America while bemoaning the “injustice” he is suffering. He sucks
Churchill is a fraud and a liar like so many of his fellow travelers in academia. Ethnic Studies and all other “Studies”, for that matter, are similarly fraudulent and dishonest products of faux outrage and pc victimhood. Such “programs” offer nothing of value and are better described as repositories of human garbage and non-think posturing. CU and most other American universities continue to suffer these embarrassments because the schools themselves are lead and administered by the vapid, the self-serving, and the spineless. Anyone who supports or contributes to them does both themselves and society a disservice. As someone who taught at several of these sorry excuses for “schools” (including CU)I feel very comfortable issuing this indictment. These places are a sorry waste of resources and aside from keeping a large number of the young, disinterested, unskilled, and indolent off of the job market for a couple more years certainly do not serve their intended or for that matter any, useful purpose. Those alumni who donate or contribute to these places might as well simply flush their funds down the toilet.
Ward Churchill is an example of what happens when universities establish leftist programs. Because all leftist programs of necessity begin with fradulent premises, only frauds can participate in them. I’ve earned three substantive degrees in good universities (Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate) and never encountered one of these frauds in person, but they are there and they get a lot of ink, while teachers and researchers in substantive and genuine disciplines are rarely noted.
I’m surprised he hasn’t been given a job in the Obama White House.
You evil Neo-Cons leave Warped Churchill alone! Even if he is a complete douche & a racist liar, you’re still discriminating against his imaginary heritage. Did it occur that he’s an Indian trapped in a white man’s body? He’s like Ayers, who is a whiny tantrum-throwing little girl in an ineffectual male’s body; that’s why they support each other.
Wow. It almost hurt to come up with that pseudo-diatribe. How does it come so easy for the leftards?
I`m sure Harvard, Yale or Columbia University can find a teaching spot for him…
28. AlanABQ
LMAO! So true, Alan. The Leftardation of the USA is getting to the point of blatantly embarrassing. The lefty chickens have come home to roost alright and it’s high time we held a barbecue in their ‘honor’. I’ll light the fire and you gather the wood! Boo yah!
Please. Less articles throwing brickbats at the moonbats and more articles about an actual plan for getting us out of the mess we’re in. Until you have a plan and can articulate it rationally in a way the average guy can understand, ranting about moonbats won’t do you any good.
Snizzy Sizzorlip: you are the best. they should all become human shields for al queda. what a splendid remark. and so prescient. i wouldn’t be at all surprised if they do just that.how i loathe these psychos who have produced nothing but their own bad breath and spittle.
This guy is in need of a good old fashioned scalpin’! Someone send a smoke signal to Buffalo Hump (Dead Mans Walk) requesting his expertise in this matter, and offer six ponies, a repeating rifle, and Matilda the whore as payment for lifting his hair!
1) ““Academics”are just intellectual lightweights who have found a not very taxing way to a comfortable living.”
2) “There is no greater indictment of the modern academic culture than the fact that there is apparently no “fact-checking” done, anywhere, anytime, on any subject.”
3) “Their employees are safe from the “outsourcing” that other US workers face,”
Please, permit me, as one of the lazy idlers in the ivory tower to address a few of these misconceptions.
1) Yes, I prefer my job to anything that my grandfather had to endure on the railroads and in brickyards. But, leaving the ivy league aside, most of us are laboring in institutions where teaching is a minor, almost incidental part of our job requirements now. The tyranny of the social science approach in universities which have led to ideas antithetical to a universities mission such as teaching and learning should be homogeneous and thus measurable, have us chasing our academic tails in a pernicious circle of (ugh) assessment activities that have absolutely no validity whatsoever. And we labor for very little money–check out average salaries at tier II and III universities in the Chronicle of Higher education for a reality check.
2)Typical hyperbole and an insult to those of us who are trying to fight the good fight–left and right.
3) An entire department at my university was outsourced last year. Read an educational journal. You think this is going to actualy improve standards and rigor at universities?
People’s conceptions of what occurs at universities, especially vis-a-vis professorial workload and “academic freedom” is based on 1) a narrow data set from the elite colleges of this country–the experiences of professors there bare no relation whatsoever to the lives of teachers at tier ii and iii colleges, and 2) an outmoded conception of what it is that professors actually do based on books about the halcyon days of higher education in the 1950′s-1970′s where yes, things WERE good for academics.
NEVER SUFFER FOOLS LIKE CHURCHILL
A TIN HORN DICTATOR AIN’T WORTH SPIT
This guy is not a player.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/03/never-suffer-fools.html
its about time the universities get their due..We all know the newspapers and television are useless but somehow the universities dont get enough scrutiny.
It makes you wonder where you can send your kids to college these days. With all these so called left professors, it would be great to have home school college availbable for your kids.
17. Delia: . . . “Yeah and when the left do that (wrap themselves in free speech) they are ‘righteously defending their right to speak their minds’ but when the right do that they are evil ‘wing-nuts’…oh how the worm turns.”
Yes indeedy. For the last eight years when the right did that they were righteously defending their right to speak their minds but when the left did it they were “unpatriotic” and undermining our troops.
Yes the worm has turned. Only difference is – we have the power now, and you’re relegated to the peanut gallery where even worthy and truthful complaints are rendered irrelevant by the juggernaut of majority rule.
Doesn’t feel so good, does it. Maybe you should have been more reasonable and inclusive when you had the chance. But you chose “the other way.” Frankly your group-think and rubber-stamp governance was too egregious for us to ignore, so we’re going to take a few pounds of flesh out of your hypocritical hide – partly because we must to get new policies in place, and partly just because it’s fun.
All hail and thanks again to Rush.
Not good enough, Pace, unless you’re an adjunct. Your statement about not being well paid is ridiculous. I know lots of professors, and every single one of them gets decent pay, except the adjuncts, who are exploited, or those like me who are unemployed, who of course get nothing.
And let me digress and point out that most of the tenured leftists pay no attention to our plight, which is why their rallying to the cause of a plagiarist is deeply offensive.
As for a department being outsourced, I read the Chronicle of Higher Education every week. I can’t remember anything like that being mentioned. Give me some of the details. OK?
As for the halcyon days of the 1950s through the 70s, yes, they were great for getting a job. The pay was worse, though, at least according to my father-in-law, who easily got a job in the 1960s but who struggled with low pay for years. My wife, also a professor, admits that her pay is better than his was, although she had a much harder time getting a job.
33. fireyourgubs . . . What century is this?
#31 Richard:
“Please. Less articles throwing brickbats at the moonbats and more articles about an actual plan for getting us out of the mess we’re in.”
Throwing brickbats at moonbats is a pretty good place to start, though, you must admit.
First let’s decide what we ain’t, and then we can decide what we want to be.
Fake Indian fake academic with a bad attitude and a worse hairstyle is a lead-pipe cinch, ain’t it?
Judy, NYC – I agree. They DO have bad breath. It’s from all the crap they spew.
Chuckles @ ‘prescient’
Actually my hub is the one with the ‘crystal ball’ head! LOL Though he swears I am a ‘psychic’ because I always know when he is lying!
Poor Chief Wannabe got caught at academic fraud. I know some native Americans and they said this impostor should be made to run the gauntlet. Nothing nastier than the Iroquois gauntlet.
What a poor excuse for a man. Just another Leftist turd who’s only in academia to satisfy his ego, push Marxism, and score the coeds. The thought of the latter benefit for Chief Wannabe makes me sick.
Pace #34:
“the experiences of professors there bare no relation whatsoever to the lives of teachers”
The word is actually spelled “bear.” I know this is just an Internet forum but if you really are a university teacher, couldn’t you at least have gotten your grammar correct?
This kind of BS will stop the day people start suing teachers and professors who use their class as a political forum and schools or universities who allow it.
After all for ons side they are doing it on your money and on anotherr side the lost side will translate later into pooer job perspectives for the student.
Ian Thorpe wrote:
Why doesn’t Obama hire him? Yes he seems to have problems in his head.
Capital idea Ian. Why there should be plenty of position open at the Treasury dept, State dept, the INS( after all he is am imaginary minority).
Some other possibilties: Muslim Students Association, Muslim Brotherhood, cair, Isna, or even the Aclu.After all, the only experience and pre-requiste needed to work for the mullah obamaham’s house of corruption is the ability to lie and talk demosocialista double speak.
#38 oneofmyown-
That, ma’am, was the funniest thing I’ve read in a long, long, long, long, long time. The status quo will certainly give you an extra Scooby Snack for your efforets here.
Here’s a tibbit (or kibble, if you prefer): I can remember so far back…over the last eight years or so…when dissent was the “highest form of patriotism”. I still see it today, even though “Chimpy McNaziburton-Cheney” is not in the White House.
Of course now that that pseudo-black guy is keeping the oval office warm, it’s totally seditious, but the point is this-
You’re old enough to know better. Try to stop being the Emmanuel Rahm of the erstwhile status quo; you’re fooling no one.
Al
#38…. although we have digressed far from the original intent, this country is not supposed to be a democracy by mob rule, but rather a constitutional republic. i leave it to you to investigate this, however, i suggest originalist texts for study, as opposed to a course at the university.
38. one of my own,
If the ‘right’ have been relegated to the proverbial ‘peanut gallery’ then why are you still here trying so hard to convince the ‘peanuts’ to swallow your giant load of B.S.? Hmm?
One of George Soros’ less shadowy organizations, Media Matters, pays oneofmyown to sit in on various thoughtful and intelligent forums and spew bilge.
Since “one” can actually string words together in actual sentences, he is a rare find in the Lefty blogosphere and one of MM’s better paid guys.
“Since “one” can actually string words together in actual sentences, he is a rare find in the Lefty blogosphere and one of MM’s better paid guys.”
But he is so transparently liberal, ignorant and wrong that no one pays much attention.
Churchill is a pure freak show.. he is pathetic. I can see why Ayers is his best buddy!
#31 Richard — us conservatives got a real plan.. that is to beat the liberals to death with words and maybe a AR-15. Ah, eventually these retards will die off so no need for violence.. in the mean time we need to figure out a way to get the Prez out of office — a police arrest warrant for being an imposter/usurper is the best way to go — I honestly think it will happen. Of course there will be blood in the streets but the folks will get over it after we offer them a welfare check and a full tank of gas as a peace offering.. anyway, you asked what the plan was? that’s the plan!
cfbleachers — who gets to decide which imbeciles are tolerated and which imbeciles are hanged? And who gets to hang them?
As a liberal, I thank you for writing this kind of crud. By focusing the wingnuts’ attention and outrage on the Churchills of the world, ie., the fringe radical liberals who really have no influence or power, like Churchill, you effectively steer the conversation and the attention away from the truly powerful, connected liberals who are quietly and diligently doing the work of reforming the government and our society.
It’s as if you’re secretly working for us…
But he is so transparently liberal, ignorant and wrong that no one pays much attention.
Well, that’s true. But “oneofmy” can spell and (dat right der) sets him apart from the majority of his ideological compadres.
Steve P apparently doesn’t even grok that, throughout his own publick eddukashun, Ward Churchill types covertly and overtly directed his own conditioning, brainwashing & inculcation into the “liberal” worldview…just infused all that identity politics, class envy and so forth into Steve P’s little neural circuits, drip by drip, day in and day out.
#54 SteveP:
“By focusing the wingnuts’ attention and outrage on the Churchills of the world, ie., the fringe radical liberals who really have no influence or power, like Churchill,”
A “fringe radical liberal”? Why Steve, old man, you sound positively Nixonian!
(And I hope you are old enough to appreciate the full flavor of the egregious insult I just socked ya with).
Problem is, of course, that until Chief Sh+tting Bull put his made-in-China moccasin in his made-in-Cleveland soupcooler, and got caught out at it…red-handed, (as it were), he was a tenured professor at a reputedly respectable state-subsidized university doling out edumacation to hordes of undergrads.
As such, he was a man of stature and respect in the wonderfully rainbow-colored world of Librulism.
“…you effectively steer the conversation and the attention away from the truly powerful, connected liberals who are quietly and diligently doing the work of reforming the government and our society.”
They ain’t all THAT quiet, Steve. Nor are they that diligent…staffing problems, y’see.
BTW, have you heard of this thing called the Blogosphere…?
Re: your reference to Mike Littwin as “the Denver Post’s new liberal columnist.” Mr. Littwin is new to the Post because he was one of the “talent” brought over from the recently deceased Rocky Mountain News, where he produced reliably partisan liberal opinion for years. Take a look at one of his columns, complete with photo, and you’ll see there’s nothing “new” about him: both his hairstyle and his tired politics scream 1974.
Bonnie,
Thank you for correcting my spelling, not my grammar and adding an intense intellecutalism to the conversation.
Oh look, another spelling error Bonnie! Fire me at once.
Good grief.
LOL
Sorry JFP that you are so out of touch. If you want details then the whole TESL program at my university was outsourced. And you need to consider that professors, depending on discipline, get paid radically different salaries. Salary studies for example reveal that COMP SCI profs at the same level as ENG profs make 1.5 to 2 times as much. I’m not getting into a debate regarding market worth, blah, blah, blah, over that. It’s just a fact.
I agree, adjuncts are hopelessly exploited. It’s criminal. I’ve been there too and I appreciate having a full time appointment (note, not tenured appointment–those are actually becoming rarer too–there is no tenure at my university and it is a tier II institution).
I think it would be fair to agree that academics labor under a multitude of conditions. ($45,000 in South Dakota goes way further than in New York or Chicago or Hawaii of California etc etc) Let’s just not lump them all into one homogenous block–as we do righties, lefties etc etc. It is inaccurate and unproductive. Churchill is NOT typical of all academics and some of us are distinctly embarrassed by him and his ilk and DO, despite the comments on this thread, fight against him and his quackery. Perhaps if people here could make alliances…
With left-wing thought the standard of academia, from kindergarten to the university, Ward Churchill and the minions who support him should come as no surprise.
The saying “first, kill all the lawyers” needs to me amended.
Ward Churchill is not now and has never been a Native American. He knows that. A.I.M. knows it and has tried exposing Mr. Churchill for what he truly is: a white guy who has problems with authority and women. He looks like a Polish elf.