Perfect A-Storm
As two perfect a-holes* link up for a joint blatherfest at student protest for “academic freedom” in Boulder. Freedom to lift stuff, make it up, prevaricate and obfuscate about it, I guess. AP on the Ayers/Churchill matchup. It’s like they were made for each other. What took them so long?
DENVER (AP) — William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill became the victim of a “witch hunt” after comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.
“There’s no doubt in my mind he was persecuted because of his politics,” Ayers said before appearing with Churchill at a student rally on academic freedom at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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University spokesman Bronson Hilliard called Ayers’ allegation “absolute nonsense.” He said Churchill was fired because of proven research misconduct, not his statements.
It took the AP seven graphs to get to that bit. Meanwhile, AP again choses to overlook those parts of Ayers’ past that he also has chosen to overlook.
Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground, a radical anti-war group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol that didn’t kill anyone.
That would be the parts in which people got killed.
Malkin: Victims and heroes.
* I generally prefer to avoid introducing terms such as “a-hole” into current events discussions, as it tends to lower the level of discourse. In this case it raises it.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:25 pm on Friday, March 6, 2009
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March 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Ayers and Churchill. Bonnie and Clyde. Leopold and Loeb. MacBeth and his Lady. Boris Badenof and Natasha Fatale. Whatever, an annoying combination of murderousness and ridiculousness.