Posted on 02/23/2005 10:57:19 AM PST by Terabitten
DENVER—An exhaustive investigation by Bob Newman of Newsradio 850 KOA (Denver), who is also a frequent guest military & terrorism analyst on the FOX News Channel and a Men's News Daily columnist, into the genuine Vietnam service record of radical University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, has revealed that Churchill’s claimed combat experience is in direct contradiction to his official military records.
After a confidential source provided Mr. Newman with documents pertaining to Professor Churchill’s military service and his employment at the University of Colorado, Mr. Newman began an investigation into the documents’ authenticity.
Using his own sources and calling upon the investigative skills of FOX News Channel’s Rita Cosby, Mr. Newman was able to verify that Professor Churchill, despite his public claim (in a 1987 Denver Post interview) of having been a paratrooper (Airborne qualified) who conducted long-range reconnaissance patrols (LRRPs; extremely dangerous missions conducted by some of the most elite soldiers in the US Army) hunting North Vietnamese in Vietnam during and after the Tet Offensive of 1968, and despite his claim that he was a point man in an infantry combat unit, was in fact trained only as a jeep driver and projectionist (he was trained to operate film-strip machines and movie projectors), according to official documentation from the National Personnel Records Center, the US repository for military records.
Denver attorneys Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, both colleagues of Mr. Newman at Clear Channel Colorado, then acquired Professor Churchill’s original resume that resulted in his being hired by the University of Colorado. That resume matched exactly the resume Gunny Bob had acquired from his confidential source. On that resume, Professor Churchill cited no combat experience whatsoever, no Airborne training, no infantry training or experience and no winning of the Combat Infantry Badge. Instead, it said his experience in Vietnam consisted of his duties as a “Public Information Specialist,” as which he “wrote and edited the battalion newsletter and wrote news releases.”
Verification of Professor Churchill’s real Vietnam service record was completed with the direct assistance of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis.
Gunny Bob notes that in the same 1987 Denver Post report, Professor Churchill admitted to being a bomb-building and weapons instructor for the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group active in the 1970s.
Gunny Bob won a 2002 National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting on homeland security.
Ward Churchill ping.
Ever notice that the very people who protest the Vietnam War are also the same people that blatantly lie about what they did when they were there, if they were there at all?
Daily it appears that Ole' Wardie is completely full of crap.
Perhaps all the brave Vietnam-era exploits he claims occurred during secret missions into Cambodia.
But, but, but,....a hard left wing, commie, "liberal", Democrat wouldn't lie would he?
Hey, you know it was dangerous spooling up those VD films...
AV geek!
He lied? Oh my! I have to go find my surprised look and put it on.
Academic Fraud Bump.
Repeatedly. I could list 6 to 8 examples of people in my personal life who I know never heard a weapon fired in anger while claiming to have been tougher than Audie Murphy. Funny how on close examination they are always far leftists. I'm beginning to think that lefty-libs are fundementally unable to tell the truth.
Is there ANYTHING about this clown that's authentic, besides his obvious mental illness?
Anyone who has ever read Jug Burkett's great book called "Solen Valor" ain't surprised by this news.
Ward supplied Kerry with his magic hat.
Another "Al Gore Viet Nam war hero" LMAO
And colleges and universities all over America are loaded with frauds like this clown indoctrinating our children with communist hate America propaganda...at our expense!
Who says communism is dead!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Probably lying about this, too.
In the same 1987 Denver Post report, Professor Churchill admitted to being a bomb-building and weapons instructor for the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group active in the 1970s.
So, if the first claim of being a paratrooper is a lie, do you think the second claim of being a terrorist is a lie too? Congrats to Gunny Bob for his excellent investigative journalism. I hope he can turn his considerable skills to the issue of whether or not Churchill was a terrorist in the 1970's.
I am SURE he thought that if he claimed combat experience and "hunting north Vietnamese" he'd have more "street cred" with the anti-war crowd. Pathetic. He's not a Native American. He's not a combat veteran. He lied about the smallpox "terror attack" against the north plains tribes. Someone ought check to make sure he really did graduate from his master's program!
Anyone but me wondering why the left is obsessed with the life and lies of Jeff Gannon, but not Ward Churchill?
By the way, I met a neighbor of Churchill's parents. Said his folks were good people with middle American values. I asked "what happened?", and he said "it's anyone's guess".
It could be this lying about war exploits is just that, plain lying. I suspect that it is really an expression of their feelings of inadequacy and low self esteem. This is manifested in invented exploits as well as opposition to those things they have been excluded from by their inability to perform. In other words, a perverse form of jealousy that is expressed as bind opposition to the object of this jealousy.
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Wow. Great article, Terabitten.
Other than the pro-Churchill bias of two of the three panelists at UofC who are considering his tenure, and Churchill should be the academic equivalent of the dead-parrot sketch by Monty Python -- he's joined the celestial choir, he's pushing up daisies, he is an EX-professor.
Congressman Billybob
Other than the pro-Churchill bias of two of the three panelists at UofC who are considering his tenure, and Churchill should be the academic equivalent of the dead-parrot sketch by Monty Python -- he's joined the celestial choir, he's pushing up daisies, he is an EX-professor.
Congressman Billybob
When is the U of C gonna cut their losses??
Lefty poseur professors must hate the internet - now their ivory tower of lies really is shown to be built on sand, and it's starting to fall.
"With the hell of war he's come to grips,
Policing up the filter tips,
It makes a fellow proud to be a sol-dier."
Billybob
"I'm beginning to think that lefty-libs are fundementally unable to tell the truth."
Interesting. This comment caused me to realize a couple of things:
#1 - This is why the left never had a problem with Clinton. Clinton is a liar, and has low character, but the left, in general, is cut from the same cloth. So, the left holds their leadership to the same standard they hold themselves.
#2 - This is one of the reasons the left hates the right with such passion. The left fears being held accountable. Truth is not something that stands alone to the left. The left sees truth in shades, and contexts, and naunces. A group of people who subscribe to such a thing as absolute truth, (the right), is a serious threat to the left and the left responds as such.
Anyway, don't you think it funny that he was a bomb and explosives trainer for the 60's radical pukes? Shows how bloody smart they are/were.
Sounds like he should consider running for office on the Dem ticket, since he now is well qualified.
Someone needs to pen a book on Churchill, Rather, Moore, Franken and Co..."Lib Liars, Lies and the Lefties Who Tell Them"
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They blew up three of their own. Not much of a resume, is it?
Nobody will ever see the U of C ANYWHERE admitting they were wrong about someone like Churchill. It is, after all, the UofC system and is very liberal anyway. They LOVE Churchill. He's their boy.
Tom Harkin comes to mind.
"This adds up to sufficient fraud on his resume and representations for the University of Colorado to fire him..."
Given the raging liberal bias in today's college environment and I'd guess that Colorado will stand by Churchill, and if they are forced to fire him by alumni, Churchill won't be unemployed for more than a day. Sadly, I don't see justice coming to this dispicable piece of filth any time soon.
If this can be proven it could effectively yank his stage(s) out from under him.
while I think Churchill is lying scum (and probably a criminal), I almost think it would be more appropriate for CU to retain him and attempt to defend him. It would be a more honest statement to the public of what their values are.
So, does he have a CIA baseball hat to prove that he was in Cambodia?
Face it Ward, you were a REMF. Is there anything about this guy that is real? How does one manufacture an entire career out of nothing but BS - aside from certain unsavory politicians, that is?
And in the category of the specific lefty dirt-bag that Ann Coulter referenced in closing her book 'Slander':
"savagely cruel bigots who hate average Americans and lie for sport." (Opening envelope, dramatic pause . . )
Professor Ward Churchill, c'mon down!
I respectfully disagree. Academic fraud will get a professor canned faster than you can say "plagiarism." Tenure allows him to say whatever rabid barking mooonbat rant crosses his mind, but academic fraud is an automatic stake in the heart. I've even heard of PhD's getting stripped of their degree due to academic fraud.
Wesley is thinking "WTF?"
It seems like the institutes of higher learning aren't so high after all. What a shock.
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I suppose we could look at it that way... ;)
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