March 07, 2005

Not So Churchillian

I haven’t written a lot about the controversy involving Ward Churchill, the Colorado college professor who has drawn fire for referring to September 11 victims as “Little Eichmanns.” I feel it’s best to treat Churchill as the minor, inconsequential figure that he always has been and deserves to continue to be, so therefore his ravings are best left ignored, much as one would treat the bleatings of a belligerant vagrant, muttering to himself in a subway car.

But Fox News, which has devoted about ten segments a day to Churchill for the past two months, obviously disagrees. And so, unfortunately, does Bill Maher, who had the laughable prof on his show last Friday (I missed it, but Jeff Jarvis is all over it). And unfortunately, Andrew Sullivan wasn’t around to dress down Churchill, as he did when Noam Chomsky appeared on Maher’s show last fall.

An interesting nugget in Jarvis’ comments: apparently Jeff’s anti-spam software blocks comments that include the word “socialist.” A piece of subversive anti-leftist propaganda? Actually, no… “socialist” is banned because it contains the word “cialis,” the anti-impotence drug that is- deservedly- is on the blacklist.

Posted by Stephen Silver at March 7, 2005 09:36 PM
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