The promoter of the idea that the WTC and the USA were full of "little Eichmanns" claims _FOR HIMSELF_ that he doesn't work for Colorado taxpayers, who happen to pay him $94,000 a year! He also arrives 20 minutes late for his talk, then talks for only 35 of the promised 60 minutes.
I'm also wondering what Churchill supporters make of this:
"Ward Churchill tells these huge lies," said Suzan Harjo, president of the Morningstar Institute, a national American Indian-rights organization. "He's notorious, and he's not an Indian. In 15 years of being interviewed and investigated, he hasn't come up with a single Indian ancestor."
In past interviews, Churchill has said he is largely of English and Swiss-German descent but is one-sixteenth Cherokee. His critics within the American Indian community don't believe it.
"He hides behind dark glasses and a beaded headband, but he's an academic fraud," said Vernon Bellecourt, an American Indian Movement activist in Minneapolis who has had a long-running dispute with Churchill.
Churchill has claimed to be a member of the Keetoowah band of Cherokee, but Harjo says that tribe at one time was issuing "associate membership" cards to anyone who asked for one, even designating former President Clinton as a member.
Attempts to contact the tribe Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Harjo, who is Cheyenne and Creek, says that as an American Indian, she was deeply offended by Churchill's comments about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"He's besmirched the good name of Native Americans who rushed to ground zero and did ceremonies for the people there and poured money into the relief effort," she said.
Check out his CU homepage, too: http://www.colorado.edu/EthnicStudies/faculty/w_churchill.html
Isn't he posing with an underbite and wrinkled chin to look more like an Indian? If you doubt it, take a look at this one, where he looks like the deranged white guy he is: http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/churchill.html
Hypocrisy, fraud, and terrorism...viva indeed!