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| Post / John Epperson |
| The probe of city employee Glenn Spagnuolo began after he called a radio show to defend CU professor Ward Churchill. |
Posted on 04/29/2005 9:18:05 AM PDT by freespirited
Radio talk show host Dan Caplis on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit against a Longmont city employee who has emerged as a vocal supporter of embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill.
Caplis, who co-hosts an afternoon program on KHOW-AM with fellow attorney Craig Silverman, sued Glenn Spagnuolo, 34, in Arapahoe District Court.
Spagnuolo made the comments Tuesday night during a speech supporting Churchill at a campus rally in Boulder, and they were broadcast Wednesday on the Peter Boyles Show, another KHOW program, Caplis said.
He declined to reveal the comments he cited in his lawsuit, saying it was filed under seal.
But, according to the excerpts played by Boyles, Spagnuolo accused Caplis of assaulting a "pregnant woman of color" during a 1977 melee at CU while Caplis was a student there.
Spagnuolo claimed that Caplis - who had just resigned as one of the student government's tri-executives - suffered a concussion in the melee, which was related to a bill to limit the use of student fees.
Boyles repeatedly played the excerpts Wednesday morning of Spagnuolo's Tuesday night speech, which were recorded by a reporter for KOA radio.
"It's a frivolous lawsuit and Dan knows that," Spagnuolo said. "It's just one more attempt to try to silence truth in this country.
"I believe the statement to be true that I made. I have witnesses (of the incident) . . . and if Dan wants to play this out in court, he'll be the one that is embarrassed by it. I was appalled to hear the man would attack a woman of color."
Spagnuolo, who directs programs for Longmont's at-risk youth, is being investigated by the city for alleged improper use of a city cell phone and for pursuing his political activism on city time.
Caplis and Silverman have declared their intent to see that Churchill is fired from his job as a tenured ethnic studies professor.
Churchill became a center of national controversy for his published essay comparing victims at the World Trade Center to Adolf Eichmann. His academic and scholarship record are now under review.
Spagnuolo is one of numerous local activists to support Churchill.
Brennanc@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-2742
I will be interested to see how this plays out BUMP.
>>Caplis and Silverman have declared their intent to see that Churchill is fired from his job as a tenured ethnic studies professor. <<
Hurray! May their efforts succeed.
If you ever start a Ward Churchill ping list, place me on it. Its going to be interesting to watch this whole sick saga unfold, and to see if he finally gets fired for plagiarism, fraud and other assorted misdemeanors and felonies...
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| Post / John Epperson |
| The probe of city employee Glenn Spagnuolo began after he called a radio show to defend CU professor Ward Churchill. |
I listen to their show just about every day. It's extremely difficult to believe that Caplis actually did this. I don't always agree with his views but he certainly comes across as a very polite law and order type of guy.
I doubt this will actually go to court but I'm going to be fascinated to learn the identity of the "witness", if it does.
good for Caplis,
it is about time these ranting moonbats on the left be held accountable for their lies and spin and insults.....
Spagnulo is defaming somebody on radio based on what he 'heard?' Boy, is that going to be one lousy defense. Can you imagine his response to the complaint citing "the guy that I used to buy pot from told me that he heard that Caplis hit this colored pregnant woman back in 1977...?" Um....right.
Typical.
His implication is that he would NOT be appalled if it was a non-colored woman, or a man.
Can you say "racist race baiter?" Knew you could.
Never mind that the article makes it sound like it was not him, but someone else (can you say "hear say?) who supposedly witnessed this alleged incident nearly 30 years ago.
Isn't that what Lefties try to excuse in the Jf'nKs, Bubbas, & Swimmers of the world as "youthful indiscretions"?
Had to have been someone else who supposedly witnessed it. Spagnuolo would have been only 5 or 6 years old at the time. Of course, he could have been such a prodigy that he was a freshman at CU at the time. Yeah, that must be it!
neat earring ;)
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