Friday, February 25, 2005
The Churchill Crack-Up
The walls are rapidly closing in on Ward Churchill. With his Native American ancestry looking increasingly dubious, there now comes to light some very convincing evidence (proof to all but the campus elite) that he is a thug and a two-bit ripoff artist to boot. He claims to have inked a drawing called "Winter Attack", signing it as his original work, without attribution. It turns out that it is a mirror image of a 1972 piece by Thomas Mails, called "The Mystic Warriors of the Plains."
When confronted with this, by a local news camera crew on the Colorado University campus, Churchill physically lashed out at the reporter and his camerman. It is all captured on tape, and it doesn't paint a very good picture for poor Ward Churchill. He is a pitiful figure.
Read the transcript and see the video of the confrontation here. The link to the video is in the right margin, linked as CBS4 Video: Churchill's Aggressive Response To Artwork Controversy.
When confronted with this, by a local news camera crew on the Colorado University campus, Churchill physically lashed out at the reporter and his camerman. It is all captured on tape, and it doesn't paint a very good picture for poor Ward Churchill. He is a pitiful figure.
Read the transcript and see the video of the confrontation here. The link to the video is in the right margin, linked as CBS4 Video: Churchill's Aggressive Response To Artwork Controversy.
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