Flight Pundit

I have to thank Michael for introducing me to the one and only, feather fondling fruitcake of an excuse for a college professor- Ward Churchill- almost a year ago. I remember reading this and getting myself all twisted up in my own undergarment (s). Churchill is still around, still causing trouble and mouthing off and making vague threats. Throughout the year we have both written about this phoney, full of bulloney, attention seeking anti American Indian want-ta-be…I found an article today that sums the year up pretty well.

Some celebrities are recognized by only one name. Cher. Madonna. Bono. LeBron.

In 2005, a CU-Boulder professor entered that territory.

Churchill.

Ethnic studies professor and Native American scholar Ward Churchill dominated talk on campus after publicity surfaced last January about an essay he wrote shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

“Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” a Web essay Churchill wrote immediately following the 9/11 attacks, ignited nationwide furor for comparing some World Trade Center victims to “little Eichmanns,” referring to World War II Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann.

He also called the Trade Center and Pentagon attackers “gallant” and described them as a “combat team.” He wrote that those who died were not innocent victims, but rather willing perpetuators of the “mighty engine of profit.”

At a speech in February at CU, Churchill said he regretted how he phrased some of his argument, but that he wouldn’t back down from his views.

“What you’re putting out will blow back on you and that’s what happened,” he said, referring to the 9/11 attacks, adding rhetorically: “Why do they hate us?’ Why shouldn’t they?”

Churchill resigned as chair of CU’s ethnic studies department in January as controversy intensified.

Read the rest. This man is something else; he has made a celebrity out of himself and it fits him well. He almost has a Hollywood aura about him, with all the groupies and body guards he has around him. Too bad he’s ruined the reputation of a good college; too bad he has spoiled many an excellent high school students desire to attend that college…too bad he just doesn’t go crawl into a tee pee and suck a feather or something. Oh wait…THAT’S right…he isn’t a real Indian so he would never be seen in such primal living quarters now would he??

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