February 24, 2005

WARD CHURCHILL, the professor who said that 9/11 victims were deserving targets with Nazi-like blood on their hands, gets a standing ovation before an overflow academic audience at the U. of Hawaii. The affirmative action hire also admits that he is not in fact of Native American descent, despite having been tenured as a minority acquisition by the U. of Colorado on the basis of his academic race classification as "Native American". Why the U. of Colorado shouldn't have every right to fire this man I can't comprehend.

UPDATE: Pirate Ballarina has wall-to-wall coverage of the Ward Churchill scandal.

UPDATE II: Churchill's remarks are now in dispute. Whatever Churchill wants to say don't change the fact that researchers have found that the evidence Churchill put forward for his Indian ancestory is false.

UPDATE III: Surprise, Ward Churchill turns out to be just one more lefty with a deep attraction to violence and murder. The dirty little secret of many on the left is that they swoon over lefty tyrants not for their socialist blather but for their willingness to kill. Posted by Greg Ransom