ward churchill
Posted on 02/13/2005 3:00:16 PM PST by withteeth
Did anyone catch Ward Churchill on C-SPAN Saturday night? (Shows how boring my life is if I’m watching C-SPAN on a Saturday night. . .) Three observations:
1) If this is the face of the Left today, they haven’t much of a future. Pathetic.
2) What’s with the burly security perimeter around the dude? The audience was whooping and hollering for the guy; there was no threat of disruption or harm to the speaker. The security people, with their fake paramilitary-looking vests, made the thing look like a low-rent Nuremberg rally--which is what it was, come to think of it.
3) When the Italian-American chap asked why he shouldn’t have his free speech rights to hold a Columbus Day parade, Churchill offered an absurd explanation involving the Ninth Amendment and international treaties. To repair once again to the Gertrude Stein-on-Oakland remark, "There’s no there there" with this guy. It is all posing and hatred. At least the SDS in the 1960s had a manifesto, the Port Huron Statement. This guy probably writes in crayon.
Prediction: Whether this guy is fired or not, he is going to be a leading Left celebrity for the next few years. Watch for book contracts, appearances with Michael Moore, TV shows, T-shirts, etc. But all the while don’t ever forget how American represses dissent.
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.
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.
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!
There's something very David Koresh about Ward.
I have to say that I'm sorry I missed this even though I do not generally enjoy train wrecks. Thanks for the report.
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.
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.
Excellent, he serves the right-minded thinkers very well. The more he talks the better.
Farrakhan syndrome.
LOL! Churchill looks like Tony Perkins' mother in Psycho!
That was something else again too. I got the image of a martyr who is proud to go to the sacrifice, amidst great celebrations.
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I would think so. I guess they'd never let me in.
Can you say putz?
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.
And from this morning..................
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I'm Post #7.
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How old is this guy? He looks like he could be Janet Reno's uglier sister.
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).
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