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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Jelperman
Published Letters: 92
"Some of what Churchill did probably goes on all the time. Distorting sources to agree with you and such. But the wholesale fabrication and the lengths he went to to make it happen are just over the top. Ghostwriting sources? Are you freaking kidding me?!?
-- Bassopotamus "
Academia is chock full of fraud and hucksters, and these charlatans are protected by their fellow professors and administrators. Plagiarism? Let's see: Alan Dershowitz plagiarized a known fraud, and then accused the mother of the man who exposed him of being a Nazi collaborator, which is vile beyond belief and not just because it's a lie. Maryla Finkelstein's entire family was murdered by the Nazis and she was a witness for the prosecution in the trial of the guards. Harvard supported Dershowitz's smear campaign against a dead woman. Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose were also caught red-handed committing plagiarism. Neither was fired.
Falsifying their background? Joseph Ellis claimed that he fought in Vietnam and was traumatized by the experience, when the closest he came to fighting in Vietnam was watching China Beach.
Falsifying evidence? Guenter Lewy claimed that the Winter Soldiers were fakes, based on a document he received from the Navy. Media Matters has the rest:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200409030004
"Conservative historian Guenter Lewy claimed in his 1978 book, America in Vietnam, that a Naval Investigative Service report into the Winter Soldier allegations had discredited many of the witnesses and accounts, and in some cases impostors had assumed the identities of real veterans who were not present at the investigation. But no one can seem to locate a copy of it: "We have not been able to confirm the existence of this report, but it's also possible that such records could have been destroyed or misplaced," Naval Criminal Investigative Service public affairs specialist Paul O'Donnell told the Tribune. In a February 14 Baltimore Sun article, Lewy himself admitted that "he does not recall if he saw a copy of the naval investigative report or was briefed on its contents." Apart from Lewy's allegations, a Media Matters for America search turned up no other reports of evidence that any Winter Soldier witness was an impostor."
Lewy also claims that the Armenian Genocide didn't happen, as well as the holocaust against Gypsies and the genocide against American Indians. He's David Irving with tenure.
All these frauds and fakes about events that happened in living memory, and Churchill gets raked over the coals over events that happened over 170 years ago? Dershowitz commits academic fraud and other unethical conduct to foment war crimes that are taking place right NOW!
The main thing that separates Ward Churchill from the likes Of Lewy, Dershowitz, Goodwin and the others is his political views. If he had supported the Iraq War, or was a shameless fanboy of Israel, there would have been no witch hysteria and no investigation. If he had attained some level of celebrity with the mainstream media (no, the occasional clip on Pacifica doesn't count), he could get away with far worse than anything he was ever accused of doing. Others certainly have.
BOOK 'EM DANNO!
When the Republicans wanted an investigation into Whitewater, they made it a point to talk about nothing else. No matter what the issue, it was always brought back to Whitewater. Obama and Holder need to be hounded over this until they leave office.
Obama and Holder, by refusing to even investigate, let alone prosecute war crimes that the perpetrators BRAG about committing are now neck deep in it themselves for trying to cover it up. We need to make it a point to bring it up in every interview and every public appearance. If Condoleeza Rice can be heckled by a guy wearing dressed up as an Abu Ghraib victim, then so can Eric Holder. He's just as complicit as she was.
Someone should ask Meacham:
What exactly would a President have to do to be prosecuted (aside from getting blown by an intern, I mean)? Human sacrifice? Cannibalism?
Meacham is such a toadie that I get the impression even those crimes would be pooh-poohed as well.
Call a spade a spade: these charlatans were lying and they knew they were lying. The fact that they were lying to cover up war crimes makes them accomplices after the fact. It also explains why they're so hysterical about the idea of prosecution for the torturers: their role might be exposed and they might be held responsible.
Janet Cook was fired for making up a story about a drug-addicted kid (one that didn't exist) in the Washington Post. The idea that these hucksters might be punished for their own lies has them wetting their pants and bringing up the ultimate bogeyman: The Left (AKA -Dirty Fucking Hippies).
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
