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I've looked for commentary about Ward Churchill's rally, which was aired on C-span, and was glad to find this blog-post. The "show" really was astonishing in many ways, but the press didn't describe it or cover it well.

The students were so adoring, one even had a little break-down during 'question-time', telling Churchill how much he admired him (the kid went on so long, Churchill was obliged to cut him off and it was cryingly pathetic). Also there was this really disturbing, almost fascist like atmosphere, as the blogger notes, with apparent body-guards staring down the completely friendly crowd.

Churchill himself was creepy in a way that is hard to describe. It was like seeing the musculature and the bare bones of arrogant evil, animated. Maybe that seems hyperbolic to say, but it was transfixing, and especially scary because his audience so obviously regarded him as a victim/hero. I'll never forget it.

1 posted on 02/13/2005 3:00:19 PM PST by withteeth
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To: withteeth

You have seen the face of evil my FRiend. Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil.


2 posted on 02/13/2005 3:03:49 PM PST by vpintheak (Liberal = The antithesis of Freedom and Patriotism)
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To: withteeth

C-Span has replayed that garbage several times since Tuesday...I can only take it in small doses.

I'd like to know if they kept dissenting voices against physco-Ward out of the building.

Also- those fat security guards looked like a bunch of aged Hell's Angles clowns who have not scene their schween's in a decade they are so fat!


3 posted on 02/13/2005 3:03:57 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: withteeth

There's something very David Koresh about Ward.


4 posted on 02/13/2005 3:04:48 PM PST by Darkwolf377 ("Drowning someone, I wouldn't have a part in that."--Teddy K)
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To: withteeth

I have to say that I'm sorry I missed this even though I do not generally enjoy train wrecks. Thanks for the report.


5 posted on 02/13/2005 3:05:04 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: withteeth

Churchill is pure scum and taxpayers should not be paying him to spread his faux-analysis of politics. Critiques are one thing, but this guy spouts propabanda, and that cannot be in line with his responsibilities as a professor. On the other hand, he should not be turned into a martyr for free speech, it only strengthens his hand, and I am sure he is loving the attention. When this is said and done, sensible people will see him for what he is, and he will marginalize himself even more. Aside from his lackeys, students should be speaking out against him, conservatives and liberals. They after-all, are also paying for his tripe.


6 posted on 02/13/2005 3:06:54 PM PST by honest2God
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I stumbled on the very end and watched for a few minutes in awe. It wasn't so much like watching an accident, it was more like watching parallel parking at its worst.
And the very last thing Churchill yelled at the end was, believe it or not, "Power to the people!"
Isn't that just so seventies.


7 posted on 02/13/2005 3:07:59 PM PST by jim macomber (Author: "Bargained for Exchange", "Art & Part", "A Grave Breach" http://www.jamesmacomber.com)
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Whether this guy is fired or not, he is going to be a leading Left celebrity for the next few years.

Excellent, he serves the right-minded thinkers very well. The more he talks the better.

8 posted on 02/13/2005 3:10:13 PM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
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The security people, with their fake paramilitary-looking vests, made the thing look like a low-rent Nuremberg rally

Farrakhan syndrome.

9 posted on 02/13/2005 3:10:20 PM PST by JennysCool (I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
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Churchill himself was creepy in a way that is hard to describe.

LOL! Churchill looks like Tony Perkins' mother in Psycho!

10 posted on 02/13/2005 3:12:28 PM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
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ward churchill
12 posted on 02/13/2005 3:14:12 PM PST by Bobber58 (whatever it takes, for as long as it takes)
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Can you say putz?


14 posted on 02/13/2005 3:15:22 PM PST by Beckwith (I know Churchill, and Ward Churchill is no Churchill . . . he ain't an Indian either . . .)
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I want this Churchill dope paraded around for all to see.
Yes, it is the true face of the left. If others leftists arent saying what he says, they are thinking it. Let everyone know what they are about.


15 posted on 02/13/2005 3:15:22 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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Yes.

And from this morning..................

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342209/posts

I'm Post #7.

16 posted on 02/13/2005 3:16:18 PM PST by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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```I've looked for commentary about Ward Churchill's rally,```


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342209/posts


17 posted on 02/13/2005 3:17:28 PM PST by Howlin (Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
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And then this turd, who just can't wait for the destruction of the US, is one of the leftists America haters who stand up and say "How DARE you question my patriotism?"

Unbelievable. I heard a liberal caller on one of the right wing talk talk shows actually try to say that Churchhill was a RIGHT WINGER and a CONSERVATIVE! I think it was the same guy who tried to argue that Osama would vote for Bush because Osama was afraid of Kerry (being the he-man PH hunter that he was, and all).


20 posted on 02/13/2005 3:19:48 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (God is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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This guy probably writes in crayon.

Let's look around his office and see:

Yup! Crayon-type drawings and spray paint all over the place. You pegged it!

21 posted on 02/13/2005 3:20:27 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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I am a student at Miami University, where Churchill spoke right before the controversy. I just found this message board, which is great.

Anyways, I actually asked Churchill about his theory on the ninth amendment and free speech. For those of you who do not know, he claims that his right to not be offended trumps first amendment rights, citing the ninth amendment and enumerated rights. Now, this interpretation has never been made by any court that I know of, but Churchill does as he pleases. I said the problem with hate speech codes is who gets to detirmine what hate speech is. For example, how would Mr. Churchill like it if someone deemed his column hate speech (which is hateful and offensive to the victims of 9/11 families).

He responded by saying that hate speech specifically refers to matters of race. I said, "what about homophobic hate speech," to which he told me that there were specific provisions in the law for that type of hate speech. He then went on to tell me that I need to know and follow that law and I was simply wasting his nickel and dime.

The point is that this man does not even have a PhD. He isn't Native American. His Constitutional logic is extremely flawed and has no backing that I know of. What a fraud.

(On another note, when a professor tried to question him on his column, a Miami administrator tried to take the mic away and silence him. So much for tolerance).
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050208/COL05/502080319/1004/COL
23 posted on 02/13/2005 3:29:26 PM PST by szaronsj
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 Terror Teacher, Take Two- the vile Ward Churchill Saga
Blogosphere Politics

25 posted on 02/13/2005 3:34:38 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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"If this is the face of the Left today, they haven’t much of a future. Pathetic."

They run a French loser like Kerry for president, their ideological lights are the likes of Michael Moron and Wade "The Fraud" Churchill, Dan Rather is dumb enough to run with clearly-faked memos, and Eason Jordan is chowderheaded enough to defame the U.S. military in front of a senator and a congressman. Plus they keep pushing gay marriage, which 80% of America recoils from in horror.

It's no bloody wonder we're beating them like a drum - they're STUPID!


31 posted on 02/13/2005 4:08:36 PM PST by Malleus Dei ("Communists are just Democrats in a hurry.")
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Churchill himself was creepy in a way that is hard to describe. It was like seeing the musculature and the bare bones of arrogant evil, animated. Maybe that seems hyperbolic to say, but it was transfixing, and especially scary because his audience so obviously regarded him as a victim/hero.

I watched Churchill on CSPAN for about 15 minutes -- it was all I could take. I think his audience, with their power salutes and their adulation, were creepier than Churchill was. Churchill's just a relic. He would be laughable if he weren't twisting young minds.

The thing that strikes me most when I see Churchill is what an intellectual lightweight he is. You come away with that impression if you read his speeches and other works on the web, but when you see him give a speech, it really hits home. This guy is a dullard. It's hard to overstate how unworthy he is of teaching at any university, let alone a major one -- let alone heading a department!

As for the audience, it was filled with mindless kids supporting their victim-professor (though I noticed some young people who seemed to be laughing). I think a lot of us can remember being a liberal twit at that age, so I have hope that with age will come wisdom. I do wish that some of the Indian groups who have come out against Churchill would be more vocal about it. I think that would make a difference with CU students. Imagine an anti-Ward Churchill rally in Boulder sponsored by Cherokees, Oneidas, and others he's offended.

32 posted on 02/13/2005 4:11:21 PM PST by Glenmerle
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