Not Your Father’s Churchill - You couldn’t make up faculty antics like these

City Journal ^ | 2-4-05 | Katherine Ernst.

[crz]

I wish this Judge was nominated to the SCOTUS. Although we may not all like his opinions all the time. He follows the LAW and not some whim.

BTW..when the FL Supreme Court came down with "the" ruling in the 2000 election, the Judge was FURIOUS and rightfully predicted what would happen. I can remember him saying "They are legislating!"

[chadwimc]

Tenure helps protect unpopular ideas. Ideas like, oh... The earth is round... The sun doesn't revolve around the earth... No matter how repugnant we find the idea, it could just as easily be your ox being gored. Now if this guy lied on his curriculum vitae...

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

More to the point, it's a determined refusal to allow any viewpoint other than their own...(This is the left's definition of free speech).
They get to speak freely, but you mustn't disagree, or you're a Nazi!

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

Bulls**t that I'd expect from someone educated beyond their intelligence

[vpintheak]

Youknow those sorry SOB's would back a person who would have said something remotely conservative, or possible non-PC. His butt would have been fired the next day.

[Max Combined]

Judge Andrew Napolitano is a fool.

[randog]

Churchill’s academic allies may be defending him based on the importance of protecting free speech, even when it’s offensive, but in truth some are probably sympathetic with his out-there leftism.

Exactly. Churchill is their nutter.

[BerniesFriend]

Since Ann was mentioned..she should be shown in her beauty..just sticking to the rules..;)

[Rummyfan]

How does someone get to the state of mind that Churchill has? I heard a talk of his played back this evening: Bush is the world's leading terrorist, the United States is a rogue state, racist to the core, a nation that has no respect for law. These statements are so opposite of the truth and facts that it is confounding as to how anyone can believe them. Getting rid of this guy is up to the students: refuse to take any of his classes in particular, and the so-called Ethnic Studies (WTF?) courses in general. Maybe CU would have to keep paying him, but no students have to listen to him.

[Rummyfan]

As public anger over Churchill’s expected Hamilton appearance grew, the college had the Kirkland Project change the panel into a forum where Churchill’s views could be “confronted.” Therefore, to the original panel—Richard Werner (a Hamilton philosophy professor and pacifist) and Churchill’s wife, Natsu Taylor Saito, a law professor at Georgia State University, whose curriculum vitae reads like a satire of elite radicalism (among other things, she has sat on the board of cop-killer Leonard Peltier’s defense committee)—Kirkland added First Amendment scholar and Nation contributor Philip Klinkner, who also teaches at Hamilton.

All living off the fat of this land while proselytizing for its destruction. I despise these people!

[GVnana]

Only because Churchill is employed by a PUBLIC university. If it were a private institution, they could can him.

[TASMANIANRED]

It sounds like the chancellor of the school needs to get the boot.

[Poser]

"It does not, I repeat not, mean that others, whether taxpayers or employers, are compelled to subsidize this speech. What is so difficult about this?"

You would think that somebody smart enough to earn a PhD. would be able to understand the 1st amendment.

As a college professor, I am embarrassed to have my name associated with these idiots.

[chadwimc]

Now *THATS* an educated response...

[purpleland]

Churchill is a lunatic and a FAUX indian.

[purpleland]

They might be able to fire Churchill if he falsified his credentials and his Indian heritage claims. His Indian heritage is discredited by the very tribe of which he proports to be a member. He's a fake and a lunatic.

The speech from a lunatic is always free...of lucidity.

[SE Mom]

No disrespect to Hannity or Coulter- but in a debate with this man I'd like to see (someone like) Ted Olson. Hannity and Coulter are fine for TV and radio partisan debates- but to put this evil character in his place requires an agile intellect that won't react with name-calling and emotionalism.

[riri]

Dennis Prager could make him look silly.

[purpleland]

Well, the students could withdraw from the school - walk out protest.

Parents could demand return of tuitions which they saved up for so many years so their kids could receive a "liberal education". Nothing more irking than Alumni pressure.

Unrelenting public ridicule is the best medicine for Churchill's "problem" and the problem of Churchill.

[AmishDude]

His PhD was apparently from a very radical Illinois university where the grades were nonexistent and the degrees were jokes. That university has since been absorbed in the Illinois State University system.