Posted on 03/05/2005 4:44:06 PM PST by freespirited
As you probably know, all-purpose fraud Ward Churchill brought his touring one-man carnival to University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on Tuesday, to the delight of his hebephrenic admirers. Hired by the university to bleat about the plight of allegedly oppressed Indians, he yapped instead about himself and his depraved opinion that the mass-murdering terrorists of 9/11 were the good guys. Drunk on the attention his outrageous views have attracted, Churchill continued to regurgitate venom on the country he so undeservingly calls his home, not backing an inch away from his characterization of the murder of 3000 American civilians as a justified act.
Nor did he back down from the highly suspect claim that he is part Indian, which has been so critical to the success of his career; the current story is that he is one-sixteenth Cherokee. For all I know or care, I'm one-sixteenth Cherokee myself, but it seems fairly certain that Ward Churchill is not, or he would have been able to prove it by now.
By now Churchill's psychotic opinions and cartoonish phoniness are old news. Reasonable people will have already reached the conclusion that Ward Churchill — and what he represents — are vile, evil and insane. But a couple of interesting questions remain: Just what does he represent? And will there be a price to be paid for the way its spokesman has insulted us?
Most obviously, Churchill represents the academic establishment, the ivory tower screwballs who soak up public money faster than Ted Kennedy's Big Dig, yet who are completely unaccustomed to having to justify their silly and pernicious views to the country that they think they have a right to despise. Full-blown nutcases like Churchill do not get to be department heads at major universities without a great deal of collusion on the part of the milieu that created him — educrats and elitist colleagues who can be presumed to be at least somewhat sympathetic to his loudly and incessantly expressed anti-American bigotry.
Will they pay a price? Maybe. Certainly the reputation of University of Colorado is swirling down the drain, although the educrats running the place seem only dimly aware of it. After they were forced to remove Churchill as department head, they replaced him with Emma Perez, who has been picking up right where Churchill left off, according to Rocky Mountain News. In a "disjointed, poorly written essay" for the leftist newsletter Counterpunch, Perez is reported to have characterized criticism of Churchill's abominations as a "neo-con test case for academic purges." It seems Hillary Clinton's dreaded Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has turned its attention to harassing well-meaning college professors.
UW-Whitewater may pay a small price for their commitment to "freedom of expression" (a term that is phony and meaningless in the context of academia, since it is never applied to speech that they are truly opposed to — imagine educrats inviting a white supremacist to speak on these grounds). Students are bound to resent the $1,400 in fees that they paid, willingly or otherwise, for the privilege of having Churchill justify the 9/11 attacks on their campus, though there isn't much they can do about it. More importantly, about 80 alumni vowed to end their financial support to protest Churchill's appearance, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
But if there is a real price to be paid for creating this Frankenstein monster of the Left, it won't be by a handful of educrats with conspicuously poor judgment in Boulder and Whitewater. It will be by the Democratic Party, already in freefall, and hardly needing Ward Churchill tied around its neck.
The Badger Herald reports on student demonstrations at the Whitewater spectacle, put on by campus Republicans and by campus Democrats. One group was opposed to Churchill's appearance, the other in favor.
Is there anyone in the country who couldn't guess which group was which?
If I were in a courtroom prosecuting the Democratic Party for treasonous impulses, moral depravity, contempt for innocent life, palpable phoniness, and visceral hostility to the very concept of decency, I would rest my case with that question.
Only the extremely unsophisticated openly cheer someone as obviously objectionable as Ward Churchill. But it's clear where general sympathies lie. Average Democratic voters are almost certainly appalled by creeps like Churchill — which is why they won't remain Democratic voters indefinitely. Because the engine driving their party ever farther to the Left is fueled by the psychotic, inwardly directed hatred spewed by Churchill and his ilk. If George Soros is the modern Democratic Party's wallet, Ward Churchill is its id.
PS: If morbid fascination has you addicted to Churchill coverage, check out Pirate Ballerina and Ward Churchill Is a Fraud. Hat tip to Little Green Footballs for this video of the Whitewater speech.
One-sixteenth blood quantum. My kids are more than that.
Protecting the faux-Indian Ward Churchill's right to opinion is one thing. Demanding that we respect his opinion is another thing entirely. Better that the University professors should be defending Adolf Hitler.
Odious and offensive are not mitigated by coming from a different source.
I'm less offended by what these bozos say (let's face it, there have always been people willing to say the most offensive thing that pops into their heads for the shock value) than by their appalling ignorance and lack of scholarship. This woman is stupid, and she's a department chair.
I started watching the video. I have to go do something else, but I must see the rest. If you are looking for amusement this evening, I recommend this video just based on what I have seen so far.
Ward Churchill makes the case for lobotomies...
Democrat: a form of schizophrenia "characterized by incoherence, delusions lacking an underlying theme, and affect that is flat, inappropriate, or silly"
Amazing how the two definitions are exactly the same!
I tought off and on at an eastern university over the last few years and my conclusion is that much of what is taught in schools is a waste of time and money. And that's because the people teaching this pap are very second rate. I've had full professors insist that SIngapor is the capital of the Philippines and that the Civil War was fought in 1846. Worse many of them buy into the sillest of conspiracy theories. According to one such "academic" we never got to the moon since calculators weren't available until 1972 or so?!?!?
As long as we tolerate these cesspools of stupidity and support them with truckloads of cash this is what we will get.
Just further proof that Liberalism IS a mental disease.
I figured michael moore would be a heavier anchor around the dims' necks.
She's a Latina...she doesn't need no steenkeen English skills.
"For all I know or care, I'm one-sixteenth Cherokee myself, but it seems fairly certain that Ward Churchill is not, or he would have been able to prove it by now."
LOL, this WAS a good read!
Ignorance, indeed.
In mid 60's, I could buy a POCKET calculator at my community college bookstore. Thank you, NASA!
It was very limitied in the number of functions available, was about the size of a 9 transistor pocket radio, cost about $50(!), and ate batteries like candy, so most of us continued to use our slipsticks.
As far as CALCULATORS went, what else was UNIVAC & relatives, if not 'a calculator', albeit large & power-hungry one?
Or, the late 50s/early 60s 20-decimal Marchant desktop scientific electric calculators? KA-chunkata, KA-cunkata, KA-chunkata, Ka-DING!
1968 IMB System-360 Models 20, 30, 40, & 50 with tape drives, disk drives, and a rudimentary optical reader.
Maybe if he were only in it for the attention, but I'm never convinced by the "ignore 'em" argument, and I think his $90K a year job might be at least as important to him as the TV time. If keeping up the pressure might possibly lead to his unemployment, it's worth a shot.
I just followed one of the links above to the Maher program. I think Churchill acted stoned out of his melon. Either that, or he's the stupidest man alive. Maher had to make all his points for him.
Wow, that's a blast from the past...I had that album. You have to take it with a grain of salt. That 1910 Fruitgum Company album cover was a parody of indian dress and mannerisms, but the end result was they made a couple of decent songs. Ward Churchill hasn't done anything remotely beneficial. I take no offense from that album cover, or from having sports teams with native American-derived names, etc. I take serious offense with someone who claims Cherokee descent who speaks with such vile hatred in their heart, like this pestiferous Churchill.
CU will regret it.
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