I know of at least one man who got an SBA loan because he claimed to be a full-blooded Kiowa (you know, that branch of the tribe that grew up on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx).

Here in California, we had a sister and two brothers who suddenly discovered they were a “tribe” when they wanted to start a casino. The state licensed them, the two brothers killed each other in a drug deal and now this “tribe” of one woman has her own casino.

“Native American” status will definitely get you preferential treatment under affirmative-action programs.

And it’s a great intimidator to the chardonnay-sippin’ set in the faculty lounge.

An interesting question. Ward Churchill doesn’t call himself an Indian…it’s ‘Native American’ or (and this is preferred) ‘indigenous’. However, it’s the American Indian Movement that is saying he isn’t an Indian, and the Indian Country Today is explicit in stating he isn’t an Indian and that his claims to both Indian ancestry and prominence as an activist are fraudulent. Neither use any term other than Indian.

It seems the whole Native American/Indigenous Peoples thingee is a Progessive Leftist schtick. Which makes sense, because it is becoming very clear that Churchill carried no credibility with his “own” people. It is also becoming clear that the Leftists he ran around with (Chomsky, Zinn and the like) only cared about his ancestry to the extent it was useful in promoting Anti-Americanism.

Mr. Jordan clearly thinks soldiers under-fire should treat a proven deadly-threat with the same respect as a truck with a big red-cross/crescent on it. And that the press has some privileged position (better than, say, women and children). Times and circumstances change. He screwed up and his lack-of-forethought (or outright bias) is responsible many for these deaths (esp. if he paid for, or even just encouraged, non-embedded video reporting). And I’d wager these (unvoiced) regrets are the reason for his (increasingly shrill) lashing out at anyone else in an attempt to shift the blame, if only to help him sleep at night. Or perhaps worse, he does not even see it – in the same way the left deludes itself by being unable to learn that the worst-ends results are often precisely due to their best-intentions (i.e. violent crime is inversely proportional to ability of the law-abiding to protect themselves).

To say nothing of condemning Saddam’s sons-in-law (and others) to death through his own sin-of-omission (and greed). Where this is the biblical definition of greed (not the great good of companies sharing the wealth with their people for winning the affection of their customers’ wallets by cut-throat commercial competition).

Jordan will get his reward. If not in this life, the next. If there are surviving children or relatives of the sons-in-law he allowed to be murdered they should sue him and CNN in the U.S. for whatever profits they made (times three) during the years these fools wittingly gave aid and comfort to the Baathists. Were it not for CNN (and others) propaganda (for Saddam, against sanctions, promoting Hamas’ and other “insurgents” in the region grievances as righteous) the Baathists might have fallen with “just” no-fly-zones, economic and diplomatic pressure, covert operations and the threat-of-direct military action. Imagine where we could have been if CNN had been a force for good instead, disinfecting the UN scandal, shaming old Europe, and exposing the Baathist enablers (the French 1T$+ commercial oil entanglement, other countries’ weapons deals, etc.).

Shame on him and those like him. This is why morality (an unwavering internal compass) is so important, much more important than written law. He must have started down this path in small steps and equivocations.

“It is the lair of the Gnome Chomskys,the belfry of a myriad Ward Churchills,the font of political correctness,the breeding ground of the Eason Jordans and recruiting station for the next generation of one world socialists.

The Comintern did its work well and laid the foundations for the exemplary work done by the KGB during the Vietnam War,the problem is institutional not just one of infiltration.”

Exactly!

DTP:

“a M.A. from Bongwater Tech”.

Oh, that’s good!!

Has any one noticed that the word “Indian”,

is consistently used in the coverage of this story?

What happened to “Native-American”?

Did it get dropped from the PC lexicon??

I think he should keep his job and get promoted.

He can be the poster boy for what had become of so-called higher education.

What does it say about the institutional integrity of either journalism or academia that either of these men were even in the position to do what they did?

Eason Jordan has admitted to acting as a paid surrogate and propagandist for Saddam Hussein. Was he sanctioned professionally? No. Instead he’s making speeches at the WEF for CNN.

Ward Churchill is a fake Indian, a fake professor (a M.A. from Bongwater Tech, in effect) in a fake humanity, and a fake revolutionary/activist. And the ugly fact is that all of this has been quite well known in the Boulder and Indian communities for some time. Did that interest anyone at U. of C.? No.

How is it that their respective professions have allowed them to thrive?

It is the lair of the Gnome Chomskys,the belfry of a myriad Ward Churchills,the font of political correctness,the breeding ground of the Eason Jordans and recruiting station for the next generation of one world socialists.

The Comintern did its work well and laid the foundations for the exemplary work done by the KGB during the Vietnam War,the problem is institutional not just one of infiltration.