University of Colorado fires controversial professor

[Laworkerbee]

The Boulder, Colo., school's regents say Ward Churchill was dismissed over fraud and plagiarism, not a post-9/11 essay.

http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/photo/2007-07/31422252.jpg

BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado on Tuesday fired professor Ward L. Churchill, whose controversial statements comparing victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to Nazis triggered a debate over free speech and scholarship.

The university system's regents insisted that their decision was unrelated to Churchill's 2001 essay that called workers in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," a reference to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of sending Jews to death camps.

They said they were acting because a faculty committee had found that Churchill, 59, a tenured professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, had committed plagiarism and fraudulent research in other writings.

"I'm not sure we had much of a choice," said University of Colorado President Hank Brown, whose recommendation to dismiss Churchill was upheld by the regents. "The integrity of our research is an integral part of our university."

But Churchill and his backers argued that the move was motivated by a dislike for the leftist professor's views, and that it would keep other professors from discussing unpopular subjects. "This is a political firing with academic camouflage," said Tom Mayer, a sociology professor.

Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said he'd file a lawsuit in Denver court today challenging the dismissal as a violation of the 1st Amendment. The message of the university's action, he said, "is there will be a payback for free speech."

The controversy began in 2005, when Churchill was slated to speak at Hamilton College in New York. Critics seized on a little-read essay he wrote after the Sept. 11 attacks titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens." In it, he argued that workers in the World Trade Center were "a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire," and compared them to the Nazi leader who carried out superiors' orders for genocide.

Churchill was roundly attacked on the Internet and television, and his speech was canceled. The University of Colorado's Board of Regents apologized for the essay and the then-governor of Colorado called for Churchill to be fired. He was not, but did step down as chairman of the university's ethnic studies department.

The school launched an investigation of allegations that Churchill's writings on genocide of Native Americans involved research fraud. Last year, a panel found several problems in Churchill's writings, and its findings were accepted by two other faculty panels. Last month, Brown recommended Churchill's dismissal.

"We were guided by the findings of three faculty committees and 25 tenured faculty members," regents Chairwoman Patricia Hayes said of the board's decision.

After an all-day closed-door deliberation, the regents voted 8 to 1 to accept Brown's recommendation that Churchill be dismissed. In their motion, they emphasized that they supported academic freedom.

Dozens of Churchill backers, some wearing T-shirts reading "I Am Ward Churchill," booed and cursed when the vote was announced. At a news conference afterward, Churchill criticized the findings against him as fraudulent and said he was staying in Boulder and fighting to regain his position.

"I am going nowhere," he said. "I'll be here."



Good Riddance!

[Breakfast in Vegas]

Good riddance. Boulder, truly wonderful town BTW, is full of people just like him... including plenty of "Gucci hippies". Entertaining I suppose and I am a defender of free speech, but a raving idiot shouldn't be teaching students at a university... he can rant and rave on Pearl Street with the rest of the freaks.

[RICHICOQUI]

you guys know there will be HUGE demos in the street soon?:roll:

[Mr. JOSHUA]

Whats sad is he's still gonna stay in the spotlight for a little while more because of his desire for a lawsuit which he knows he can't win.

[Breakfast in Vegas]

you guys know there will be HUGE demos in the street soon?:roll:

Boulder youth have nothing better to do... it's a playpen for gold card hipsters.

[usmcprincipal]

"Dozens of Churchill backers, some wearing T-shirts reading "I Am Ward Churchill," booed and cursed when ...."
_________

This fraud has some work to do in terms of inspiring his flock.

[SOG]

good, he's had this a long time in coming. purely a disgrace.

[Paddy51]

I am an academic and a strong defender of free speech. However, with free speech comes social and moral responsibility... Good Riddance!

[LMAV]

Yeah, glad this guy is gone. I think all the attention he got inspired other like minded teachers to begin using their classes for activism. One of my professors not only looks like this guy, but is just as loony. I've been trying to get the local news after this guy all quarter.

[Alpheus]

Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Freedom of speech does not apply to the bull**** he was spreading. (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5642963,00.html)

[LMAV]

This whole thing is bitter sweet though, because there are tons of other professors just like him all over the country.

[Kilgor]

Its a important step, but the far left infestation of universities will remain.

[helomech]

This is a first class a_sshat...

[WarriorMonk]

I say feed them all cannabis, and **** em all up until they're too dumb to act on their words.

[maloryII]

The attitudes and comments expressed and made in this thread are extremely distressing.

As a resident of a Boulder, I will dismiss the comments made about the "hippies." Obviously you have not spent time in Boulder in the past five years: the hippies are all but gone. Look at the average price of a 4-bedroom here in Boulder. $1 mil will get you a "fixer-upper" downtown.

Boulder is becoming the haven of yuppie 30-something Front Range aristocrats -- professionals who have eschewed the suburban sprawl of Denver after having made their fortunes in the nascent tech industry.

As per his comments about 9/11, fine, they were inappropriate. However, I'm willing to bet many of you worship Hunter S. Thompson. Shall I quote one of his many essays in which he beseeches American citizens to revolt against the "Nazi American state"?

Churchill served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, if that means anything to you.

His comments were protected Free Speech. Perhaps if he were a Scientologist in Germany, or a journalist in Spain mocking the "royal" family, such comments would not be tolerated. But here in the U.S., he had every right to said what he did and more.

Furthermore, he was a tenured professor. The point of the tenured professorship is to enable individuals such as Churchill to be as outlandish as possible in the spirit of academic freedom. To challenge, through discourse, mainstream thought.

Churchill was canned under the guise of plagiarism. However, his inconsistencies are not technical, they are philosophical. Churchill sought to disseminate his revisionist history only insofar as it subverted dominant paradigms of contemporary social histories vis a vis the Native American community.

He NEVER claimed to be a historian, nor were his publications distributed as such. Nothing he wrote was ever submitted for peer-review, and it was very clear to everyone in the CU academic community that he was an extreme left-wing ideologue. I've taken and audited nearly six of his classes, and he is a powerful, dynamic, and challenging speaker. I do not agree with much of what he says, but he's very popular with students and his classes fill up quickly. That alone should satisfy the vehement claim that he's a "danger" to students and a "disgrace to the academic community." What a load of tripe.

He got in trouble because he submitted all his work as fact. This does NOT constitute plagiarism. However, it has been construed as such because he went against everything the academy stood for and shouted from the rooftops along the way.

He was fired because he was a difficult and powerful leader of unpopular social causes.

It is the first sign of a failing democracy when we start canning these individuals. How callous and hypocritical of you all to advance cause of the infamous Danish cartoonist while screaming bloody murder at Ward Churchill.

:bash:

[BloodyTalon]

I say feed them all cannabis, and **** em all up until they're too dumb to act on their words.
What about the skull throne?

[gaijinsamurai]

I know more than a few Native Americans who would love to kick his ass for trying to pose as one of them.

[Danik]

The attitudes and comments expressed and made in this thread are extremely distressing.

:-(


As a resident of a Boulder, I will dismiss the comments made about the "hippies." Obviously you have not spent time in Boulder in the past five years: the hippies are all but gone. Look at the average price of a 4-bedroom here in Boulder. $1 mil will get you a "fixer-upper" downtown.

Indeed, the perfect breeding ground for hippies. Rich, affluent, spoiled brats who fight the man by smoking weed, and driving their Mercedes G wagons to class, only to defend free speech as it applies to them and silencing differing opinions with calls of ignorance, racism, and stupidity.


As per his comments about 9/11, fine, they were inappropriate. However, I'm willing to bet many of you worship Hunter S. Thompson. Shall I quote one of his many essays in which he beseeches American citizens to revolt against the "Nazi American state"?

Who?


Churchill served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, if that means anything to you.

No.


His comments were protected Free Speech. Perhaps if he were a Scientologist in Germany, or a journalist in Spain mocking the "royal" family, such comments would not be tolerated. But here in the U.S., he had every right to said what he did and more.

Wow. You stated the obvious [cue applause]. Not only did he have every right to "said" what he did and more, but he DID "said" what he did and more. Run for the hills hippie college kids and left wing professors will prove to you that the government is using scare tactics to take away your rights. Funny because it appears he used his right to free speach. The school also has rights, such as the rights to fire you, since it would be easier to fire him on grounds of plagiarism that is the route they took. Where are the students rights not to listen to this sh-t? Tell me smart ass? The only one taking away their rights is him, as he has control of your grades and determines it based on his own teaching, force feeding you the material that flows so eloquently out of his arse.

If I may divulge on a separate rant: Why is it people bring up this Freedom of Speech argument. Do you not comprehend that it is the government that cant take away your freedom of speech, not individuals, institutions, corporations. We have every right to not listen to you, and especially not offer a platform for your message to be heard. He can still get a permit and go teach in a park, or in his basement. " Oh noes youtubes wont let me post what I want, I will sue u man, for taking way my freedom of speech, america is a nazi state" Yes hippie we are all Nazis. We also have freedoms, such as the freedom of movement: the freedom to move my left foot into your face for talking too much.


Furthermore, he was a tenured professor. The point of the tenured professorship is to enable individuals such as Churchill to be as outlandish as possible in the spirit of academic freedom. To challenge, through discourse, mainstream thought.

And here I thought Tenure was just a way for universities to punish their students. Who woulda thought.




He got in trouble because he submitted all his work as fact. This does NOT constitute plagiarism. However, it has been construed as such because he went against everything the academy stood for and shouted from the rooftops along the way.

He was fired because he was a difficult and powerful leader of unpopular social causes.

It is the first sign of a failing democracy when we start canning these individuals. How callous and hypocritical of you all to advance cause of the infamous Danish cartoonist while screaming bloody murder at Ward Churchill.

:bash:

As for the rest of your post, bla bla.

[oregongrunt]

Glad to see that even a liberal university has had enough of this guy.

[maloryII]

Indeed, the perfect breeding ground for hippies. Rich, affluent, spoiled brats who fight the man by smoking weed, and driving their Mercedes G wagons to class, only to defend free speech as it applies to them and silencing differing opinions with calls of ignorance, racism, and stupidity.

I'd attribute your scathing irony to a wayward Gen-X sarcasm, but you're too young. Hippies smoke weed, yes, but they don't drive Mercedes G-wagons to class.

Give Boulder some credit. Read about the CU campus during the 1960s. Also look up "Naropa University." It doesn't get more hippie than that.

Unfortunately the original freaks have left Boulder. They can't afford it anymore. There aren't many hippies left in Boulder, I'm afraid.




Who?

Don't worry about Fear & Loathing right now. You've seen the movie, I'm sure, but it doesn't do the author justice. Start with 'Hell's Angels' then make your up to the 'Rum Diary.'




No.

Been there done that, eh?




Wow. You stated the obvious [cue applause]. Not only did he have every right to "said" what he did and more, but he DID "said" what he did and more. Run for the hills hippie college kids and left wing professors will prove to you that the government is using scare tactics to take away your rights. Funny because it appears he used his right to free speach.


You're not really saying anything here, much less rebutting anything I've said. I'll chalk up that egregious spelling error in the last sentence to a typo.

So far I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. At least you've put your Thinking Cap on. Better than most of the chimps posting here. p-)



The school also has rights, such as the rights to fire you, since it would be easier to fire him on grounds of plagiarism that is the route they took.

They DID fire him on plagiarism. Not only that, but "fraud." Sort of like being busted for "theft" and "thieving."

You've missed the point if you think the school has a "Right" to fire him. It's a public institution. This is a tenured professor.

The public institution's "right" to fire him is what will be brought up in the coming lawsuit.



Where are the students rights not to listen to this sh-t? Tell me smart ass? The only one taking away their rights is him, as he has control of your grades and determines it based on his own teaching, force feeding you the material that flows so eloquently out of his arse.

What?

The only one taking his right to teach away from students is him? What a cosmic conclusion.

Yes, he determines students' grades based on his teaching. Welcome to SCHOOL.




If I may divulge on a separate rant: Why is it people bring up this Freedom of Speech argument. Do you not comprehend that it is the government that cant take away your freedom of speech, not individuals, institutions, corporations.

It's a public university, darling. A state school. Government.

That's the issue here.

Do you even know what we're talking about?



We have every right to not listen to you, and especially not offer a platform for your message to be heard. He can still get a permit and go teach in a park, or in his basement. " Oh noes youtubes wont let me post what I want, I will sue u man, for taking way my freedom of speech, america is a nazi state" Yes hippie we are all Nazis. We also have freedoms, such as the freedom of movement: the freedom to move my left foot into your face for talking too much.

Your violent metaphors are amusing, but they don't help your rhetoric.

You haven't really addressed any of the issues, much less counter my points with anything other than "I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass" comments.

In fact, I'm about 80% sure you couldn't pick Boulder out on a map, much less have a handle on what's going on here.

:roll:




As for the rest of your post, bla bla.

I'm sorry I haven't impressed you.

[maloryII]

Glad to see that even a liberal university has had enough of this guy.

We're not a liberal university.

We ****canned a tenured professor for writing an "inappropriate" essay.

Pack up the Chevy with Natty Ice and 12 gauges. The party's in Boulder, baby.

[Danik]

I'd attribute your scathing irony to a wayward Gen-X sarcasm, but you're too young. Hippies smoke weed, yes, but they don't drive Mercedes G-wagons to class.

We have different opinions on hippies. Your thinking back to the 60s. I consider a person a hippie when they have far left opinions and then contradict those very same opinions by acting like the people they vow to fight, by driving expensive cars and suppressing freedom of speech of fellow students and invited guest speakers.




They DID fire him on plagiarism. Not only that, but "fraud." Sort of like being busted for "theft" and "thieving."

Plagiarism is copying peoples work without properly citing it, claiming it as your own. Fraud, which you yourself described is claiming opinions as facts and misleading students.



You've missed the point if you think the school has a "Right" to fire him. It's a public institution. This is a tenured professor.

The public institution's "right" to fire him is what will be brought up in the coming lawsuit.

I don't know about Colorado, but in NY the only thing that separates public from private is where the money comes from, the state does not control the school.




What?

The only one taking his right to teach away from students is him? What a cosmic conclusion.

Yes, he determines students' grades based on his teaching. Welcome to SCHOOL.

Thats now what I said. I said he is taking his students rights away by not giving them an option not to learn his opinions as facts.

Lets try to draw this out logically:

I am professor, keeper of knowledge, and distributor of grades.
I will teach you my opinions as fact.
If you fail to adhere to my facts, you fail.

If I was a student and I was stuck with this class where would be my right to not have to tolerate this? You are being forced to learn something which isn't true.



Your violent metaphors are amusing, but they don't help your rhetoric.

Indeed, that is their point. My "rhetoric" stems from cases such as these where the rights of one man are flaunted over the rights of many others. The school has rights, the students have rights, and so does he. He exercised his rights, now he can deal with the consequences.


You haven't really addressed any of the issues, much less counter my points with anything other than "I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass" comments.


That wasn't directed at you, it was a general statement, a comeback if you will to any time someone brings up their rights.



In fact, I'm about 80% sure you couldn't pick Boulder out on a map, much less have a handle on what's going on here.

Well yea, thats probably the percentage of foreign members out of the total number of members we have on this site, who could care less where Colorado was, let alone Boulder. I also don't care, but I do know where it is.

:roll:





I'm sorry I haven't impressed you.

You'll get over it.

[Ratamacue]

Whether or not the University had a legitimate reason for firing him, he deserved it. Not so much for his essay and controversial views, but because even outside the academic realm, he's a fraud. I won't be shedding any tears over his dismissal.

[LMAV]

maloryII (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/member.php?u=28017): You do realize that what he said was hateful and wrong, correct? As a teacher, he cannot say those kind of hate filled things, even under free speech. I cant remember what school it was, but a well known professor was canned because he said "Woman don't lean math and science as easily as men". Now, if he can get fire for that how do you square ALL of the stuff this jackass did?

If David Duke were to give a class, do you think he would be allowed to spew his hate speech in class?


Am I the only one amazed by how a lot of left wingers seem to be apologists for hate speech, as long as its in the vein of their beliefs?

[Happy]

let's see, he was allowed to become a tenured professor, skipping the requirement for having a doctorate degree, for diversity reasons only, because he claimed he was Indian, yet, he has absolutely zero Indian blood in him. He also made up stuff on his veteran record, claiming activities he never did. He is a complete fraud, and should have been fired long ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill

[gaijinsamurai]

Well said, Happy.
The guy is a fraud. Enough said.

[Hunterhr]

We're not a liberal university.

We ****canned a tenured professor for writing an "inappropriate" essay.


You ****canned a tenured professor for making up fictional sources and quoting them in his footnotes.

If I were to do something like that in one of my research classes I would be in front of an academic review board before my head could stop spinning.

The higher you go in academia the higher the standard your held to in your work. Would anyone have noticed his academic failings if he hadn't brought the spotlight upon himself with his essay? Maybe not. But if you decide to plagiarize and use faulty research, it's probably a good idea if you don't bring attention to yourself in the first place.

[Handplaner]

Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Freedom of speech does not apply to the bull**** he was spreading. (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5642963,00.html)

Thanks for that link, Alpheus. I was wondering about the specifics of his academic cheating. It looks like he was caught red-handed:)

This guy is a piece of rubbish. I eally hate the tenure system--there are so many lousy professors who should get the axe--what ever happened to the concept of informing students of both sides of each issue and letting them decide how they see things? Academia is really the last refuge for scoundrels, these days in the USA. (of course this doesn't include all of them, but most)

[Handplaner]

Danik :
"We also have freedoms, such as the freedom of movement: the freedom to move my left foot into your face for talking too much."

LOL. Brilliantly said. I wish it would fit on a bumpersticker :D

[Handplaner]

maloryII (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/member.php?u=28017): You do realize that what he said was hateful and wrong, correct? As a teacher, he cannot say those kind of hate filled things, even under free speech. I cant remember what school it was, but a well known professor was canned because he said "Woman don't lean math and science as easily as men". Now, if he can get fire for that how do you square ALL of the stuff this jackass did?

If David Duke were to give a class, do you think he would be allowed to spew his hate speech in class?


Am I the only one amazed by how a lot of left wingers seem to be apologists for hate speech, as long as its in the vein of their beliefs?

That was actually THE PRESIDENT of Harvard!!! Larry Summers, i think. I live near there--it was a big story for a while, months while they were squabbling. The professor's union or some governing prof. group voted "no confidence" on him! What pussies!!! The one place where one should be able to state a (not plagarized or invented) hypothesis and poke it until it either stands as true or falls as a falsity. They crucified him. Academia makes me VERY annoyed. These wussies are so far removed from the real, working world that they are beyond irrelevant. Except they are relevant b/c they have power. I hope that in 30 years there will be a whole new generation of scholars--all a backlash against these brats. Either that or start getting violent on campus and intimidating them:)p-):backhand:

[Laworkerbee]

He was fired because he was a difficult and powerful leader of unpopular social causes.

Oh thats rich now suddenly he is Caesar Chavez get real. This guy stole other peoples work's and used them for himself and you call that a leader?

[Hollis]

Oh thats rich now suddenly he is Caesar Chavez get real. This guy stole other peoples work's and used them for himself and you call that a leader?


I guess a few people do not know what Plagiarism means. A fraud is a fraud, he is a POSER. he is a Wannabe.

[Laworkerbee]

I guess a few people do not know what Plagiarism means. A fraud is a fraud, he is a POSER. he is a Wannabe.

Also he is apparently a powerful leader as well, I guess I didn't get the memo. I have little doubt that a man like him would sympathize with Al Qaeda even more so now.

[kamaz]

this douchebag was busted about lying about his 'native american' roots. He thinks he's a godamn revolutionary, wearing a Che beret and shades. Hes a fake Indian and a liar. Good to see his ass fired

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2006/0614/20060614_051706_CD14_church_400.jpg

a douche mallet if there ever was one

http://adbusters.org/blogs/images/stories/the_front/churchill.jpg


and to those of you that defend this moron on teh grounds of freedom of speech, imagine a conservative professor likening leftists or democrats to Nazis. there would be an uproard and firings in a minute. Leftists are full of sh.t

[tomonator]

[QUOTE=maloryII;2656504]

He was fired because he was a difficult and powerful leader of unpopular social causes.



This A-hole belongs under a moving bus, right next to you!:-*$

[oregongrunt]

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2006/0614/20060614_051706_CD14_church_400.jpg

Has he been watching Pink Floyd's "The Wall" too often?

[SOG]

The attitudes and comments expressed and made in this thread are extremely distressing.

welcome to milphotos!


But here in the U.S., he had every right to said what he did and more.

AND MORE? your right, he has every right to say what he wants and not get jailed by the government for doing so. and he didnt. that is his right. buh-bye!


Has he been watching Pink Floyd's "The Wall" too often?

wow, that guy looks like a bigger quack than i could ever have imagined.

[Hollis]

I am sure glad the University found the flush handel, and sent that turd to where he belongs.

[maloryII]

let's see, he was allowed to become a tenured professor, skipping the requirement for having a doctorate degree,

Show me where it says that, chuckles.

There are dozens of professors across the country who do not have doctorates.

[Happy]

Show me where it says that, chuckles.

There are dozens of professors across the country who do not have doctorates.

Imagine that, it was right there in the link I posted in my reply. Who would have thunk it, that just by reading, you could have figured it out all by yourself.


"his tenure grant went against normal University of Colorado procedure because normally these positions require an academic doctorate, which Churchill does not possess."

[maloryII]

Imagine that, it was right there in the link I posted in my reply. Who would have thunk it, that just by reading, you could have figured it out all by yourself.


"his tenure grant went against normal University of Colorado procedure because NORMALLY these positions require an academic doctorate, which Churchill does not possess."

Imagine that, you're an idiot.

[Laworkerbee]

Imagine that, you're an idiot.

tsk, tsk turning to anger.

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

and to those of you that defend this moron on teh grounds of freedom of speech, imagine a conservative professor likening leftists or democrats to Nazis. there would be an uproard and firings in a minute. Leftists are full of sh.t

Hey man. Not all of us lefties are full of **** or complete douchbags.

[Midav]

The Demise of Ward Churchill
by Bill O'Reilly

Posted: 07/27/2007

Well, it took two-and-a-half years, but the University of Colorado finally axed the nutty professor. Ward Churchill has been fired for academic misconduct, including plagiarism.
Despite those assertions, this was really about an out-of-control teacher earning nearly $100,000 a year saying things so foolish that no institute of learning could support them.

Imagine losing a loved one in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and then hearing a tenured professor of "Ethnic Studies" accuse your dead relative or friend of being "a little Eichmann," a Nazi. All because the murdered person worked in a capitalistic enterprise.

That statement from Churchill is the equivalent of a teacher denying the Holocaust happened or saying that slavery wasn't evil. How could any school allow a teacher that misguided to instruct students? Talk about academic malpractice!

Predictably, the "free speech" corps rushed to defend Churchill's "opinion." The ACLU urged CU not to fire the man, and a bunch of other phonies screamed "academic freedom."

That must have amused old Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard. In January 2005, Summers publicly mused that maybe women were not as proficient in math and science as men because more males were employed in those disciplines.

Well, you would have thought that Summers had called women Nazis. The Harvard faculty pounded Summers into pudding, and he was forced to resign. The PC forces destroyed him, with barely a peep from the "free speech" lobby. In fact, the ACLU's Women's Rights Project demanded that Summers rescind his remarks.

Now, please, can we put this ACLU thing to bed once and for all? This is a far-left advocacy group with no interest in anybody's speech it doesn't like. Yeah, once in a while it'll stick up for a non-liberal cause, but in a contrived public-relations move. You want free speech? The ACLU is a dishonest group that hides behind the First Amendment in order to promote a secular-progressive America. So sue me.

More free speech: Ward Churchill hates the United States and defamed innocent people who were brutally killed on 9/11. The charade of firing him took far too long. He's now suing, and that's fine. Even though he loathes this country, he's in love with the protections it affords him. What a guy.

This entire sordid episode demonstrates that fanatics on the left like Churchill have a built in fan base in the media and in the corridors of higher education. The University of Colorado finally did the right thing, but it did it the wrong way.

College professors may have cushier jobs than the rest of us, but they also have a responsibility to tell the truth. Most of those murdered in the World Trade Center were decent human beings just trying to do well by their families.

Churchill called them Nazis. For that, he deserves to be shunned forever.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21715

[RICHICOQUI]

the thing is there thousands of ward churchills in hundreds of universitys teaching our kids!! scary isn't it?

[Firetxmi]

the thing is there thousands of ward churchills in hundreds of universitys teaching our kids!! scary isn't it?

Not really. I hope by the time a "kid" has been sent off to college he has at least SOME reasoning abilities, or at least the ability and desire to seek the truth and not take everything at face value.

In my college experience I had some equally nutty right wing professors.