Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Ward Churchill Apologizes for his Viet Nam Service
Speaking at the New School in Manhattan, whose president is Democrat war hero and former Senator from Nebraska Bob Kerrey, disgraced, faux Indian, University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill bit the hand that fed him by calling Kerrey a "mass murder and serial killer to boot." Class act always. The New York Post went on to report: Mr. Churchill also served in Vietnam, an act for which he said he has spent the rest of his life apologizing.
What is he apologizing for, failing to insert the film strip the right way up? Although Churchill had bragged about his stirring faux exploits in Viet Nam, he was never in combat. Denver's own "Gunny" Bob Newman (on KOA radio) last year tracked down Churchill's military records. Key paragraphs:
Using his own sources and calling upon the investigative skills of FOX News Channel’s Rita Cosby, Mr. Newman was able to verify that Professor Churchill, despite his public claim (in a 1987 Denver Post interview) of having been a paratrooper (Airborne qualified) who conducted long-range reconnaissance patrols (LRRPs; extremely dangerous missions conducted by some of the most elite soldiers in the US Army) hunting North Vietnamese in Vietnam during and after the Tet Offensive of 1968, and despite his claim that he was a point man in an infantry combat unit, was in fact trained only as a jeep driver and projectionist (he was trained to operate film-strip machines and movie projectors), according to official documentation from the National Personnel Records Center, the US repository for military records.
Denver attorneys Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, both colleagues of Mr. Newman at Clear Channel Colorado, then acquired Professor Churchill’s original resume that resulted in his being hired by the University of Colorado. That resume matched exactly the resume Gunny Bob had acquired from his confidential source. On that resume, Professor Churchill cited no combat experience whatsoever, no Airborne training, no infantry training or experience and no winning of the Combat Infantry Badge. Instead, it said his experience in Vietnam consisted of his duties as a “Public Information Specialist,” as which he “wrote and edited the battalion newsletter and wrote news releases.”
Why is this guy still a CU professor?
What is he apologizing for, failing to insert the film strip the right way up? Although Churchill had bragged about his stirring faux exploits in Viet Nam, he was never in combat. Denver's own "Gunny" Bob Newman (on KOA radio) last year tracked down Churchill's military records. Key paragraphs:
Using his own sources and calling upon the investigative skills of FOX News Channel’s Rita Cosby, Mr. Newman was able to verify that Professor Churchill, despite his public claim (in a 1987 Denver Post interview) of having been a paratrooper (Airborne qualified) who conducted long-range reconnaissance patrols (LRRPs; extremely dangerous missions conducted by some of the most elite soldiers in the US Army) hunting North Vietnamese in Vietnam during and after the Tet Offensive of 1968, and despite his claim that he was a point man in an infantry combat unit, was in fact trained only as a jeep driver and projectionist (he was trained to operate film-strip machines and movie projectors), according to official documentation from the National Personnel Records Center, the US repository for military records.
Denver attorneys Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, both colleagues of Mr. Newman at Clear Channel Colorado, then acquired Professor Churchill’s original resume that resulted in his being hired by the University of Colorado. That resume matched exactly the resume Gunny Bob had acquired from his confidential source. On that resume, Professor Churchill cited no combat experience whatsoever, no Airborne training, no infantry training or experience and no winning of the Combat Infantry Badge. Instead, it said his experience in Vietnam consisted of his duties as a “Public Information Specialist,” as which he “wrote and edited the battalion newsletter and wrote news releases.”
Why is this guy still a CU professor?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:48 AM 
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You people have no credibility. People know how you operate, why and how. You feed on each others' blindness.
# posted by 
: 9:42 AM
: 9:42 AM
Thanks for the less than clear but repeititve comment with a mixed metaphor to boot. Great job getting all that done in under three full lines.
I thought I'd heard that Churchill finally got the boot. I guess that's not the case?
(How does one feed on blindness, anyway?)
(How does one feed on blindness, anyway?)
They're slowly working towards firing him but it is agonizingly slow. Mixed metaphors that obscure rather than iluminate are bad.
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