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It just infuriates me to think that Mike Littwin (“Rock-star Churchill holds court before heading there,” July 26) and Bill Johnson (“Freedom of speech took a hit along with Churchill,” July 27) think that all Americans are stupid when they wrote their columns about Ward Churchill.
What is wrong with the decision to finally clean up some of our colleges? Maybe both Littwin and Johnson are OK with fake and phony people teaching their kids, but some of us want credentials that are honest and have some integrity.
Educators are supposed to be mentors to our youth, not hatemongers. Maybe it’s time to revisit the whole concept of tenure. Is it really in the public’s best interest?
Both Littwin and Johnson should get in touch with the common, ordinary, working American.

Barbara A. Steward, Littleton

READER COMMENTS

Ok lets get real here you are talking about two of the biggest morons at the news. neither one has any idea of what the common person is thinking because they are so full of themselves and that their ideas are the best, they dont care what common people think.

Littwin is a left over from the 60's. He also hasnt bathed since the 60's. If you have ever had the displeasure of speaking to him in person. After gagging from his bad breath you will find that his opinions are truely his beliefs. Littwin lives in a fantasy world of a utopian concept where human reality does not exisit.

Yep damn hippie radical liberals both of them. But perhaps you forget that the earliest radical liberals in the US were the patriots that founded this country. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, etc..who all opposed the rule of England. The conservatives, were the Tories who wanted to protect their riches & wanted to play it safe and stay away from such radical ideas as revolution and starting a new country, democracy were the common man had a say in his fate (as distasteful to the Tories then a sthe Republicans now). The Tory/Conservatives called these liberal thinkers ‘traitors to England’ (doesn’t that sound familiar? Oppose my thinking and you must be a traitor). Well, I am a liberal and proud of it. I find it more satisfying to think for myself and care about my fellow man. I’d rather give people I disagree with, like Churchill, their say to be sure we ALL get our say, I'd rather pay 400 billion dollars to feed OUR poor and give every American healthcare, than to spend 400 billion dollars to invade a country because we don’t agree with their politics and religion.

I wonder if this person even read the columns?

What wall did cjc bounce off of?

If Ms. Barbara A. Steward had read Mark Littwin's article, she would have seen that rather than defending Churchill, he was actually condemning the converage of the events that took place. Everyone is so mad at Ward Churchill for being famous for what he has done that no one can see that they are the reasons he is so popular. If you want him gone, stop paying him the attention he so desperatly craves.
Meanwhile, Johnson was arguing for Churchill's right to say what he said. This is an inalieble right of every American, and anyone with half a mind can figure out that this media circus surrounding Churchill would not be had he not wrote his infamous essay. You do not have to agree with Ward Churchill, but you must respect his right to say whatever he wants in a truly free America.

If Ms. Barbara A. Steward had read Mark Littwin's article, she would have seen that rather than defending Churchill, he was actually condemning the converage of the events that took place. Everyone is so mad at Ward Churchill for being famous for what he has done that no one can see that they are the reasons he is so popular. If you want him gone, stop paying him the attention he so desperatly craves.
Meanwhile, Johnson was arguing for Churchill's right to say what he said. This is an inalieble right of every American, and anyone with half a mind can figure out that this media circus surrounding Churchill would not be had he not wrote his infamous essay. You do not have to agree with Ward Churchill, but you must respect his right to say whatever he wants in a truly free America.

Like I said Travis, I wonder if the letterwriter even read the columns

Litwin and Johnson are classified as a person of borderline intelligence in a former classification of mental retardation or in a word "moron" by someone who won't attach his name to his sentiment with further aspersion following. Join the club: I've been called a prostitute, an ass, grimey in need of medicine to cure what causes delusion in me. You should hear what the "Great One" Mark Lavine, conservative talk show host, calls Tim Russert, Hillary, Harry Reid, Obama and all those he alludes to as liberals. Oh well! Let the name-calling continue: What the hey! We, as humans, all have needs.

Deicide Corner: “My views have changed from a belief that my prayers were heard to clear atheism. . . . Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. None of the beliefs in gods has any merit.” -- Paul D. Boyer

Amen Travis, Amen...

I have to say that anyone who reads Litttwin and Johnson should be generally reading for entertainment value, not news value. However, Johnson was simply defending WC's right for free speech, as abominable as it may have been. It was not dangerous in the sense of yelling fire in a theater.

Littwin lives in a dreamed about ideology circa mid-60's. While he's an excellent writer, his thought process usually leads him to some rather bizarre conclusions.

Johnson is more of a pragmatic liberal with a little more reality mixed in. Unfortunately, with his track record one always has the question in the back of the mind as to whether the story is based on fact or fantasy.

Everybody's right on this one-except CU.CU was perfectly OK with WC's junk scholarship for a long long time.Until WC made an odious public spectacle of himself and made clear to all that CU was purveying garbage education on YOUR dollar.Now they want more of your dollars.It's as if a pederast were in charge of a kindergarten.

Letter writer Barbara writes "Maybe both Littwin and Johnson are OK with fake and phony people teaching their kids".The reason that they were against Ward Churchill being fired is because they wanted him to spread his hatred for the US to his students.Littwin and Johnson are in the US hating wing of the Democrat party.The only time they support freedom of speech is if it promotes hatred for the US.These two individuals are also probably trying to help the terrorists win the war against the US.

Mr.American said "The reason that they were against Ward Churchill being fired is because they wanted him to spread his hatred for the US to his students.Littwin and Johnson are in the US hating wing of the Democrat party.The only time they support freedom of speech is if it promotes hatred for the US.These two individuals are also probably trying to help the terrorists win the war against the US."

You forgot to mention that they sacrifice babies, drink blood, and worship satan, and are also Catholics, Atheists, and naturally, Communists.

Do you think that you are contributing when you say this nonsense, or do you do it just for a laugh?

Bango

"An American" is mentally disturbed and/or deficient. Or, as another poster mused on another thread, he's a shill for the Democrats attempting to PO everybody and gain sympathy for the party faithful.

He calls everyone a coward that doesn't agree with him while refusing to explain when and where he served in the military which gives him the credentials to venture such utterances. He's the little sniveling coward (unless he is a shill).

He's a little man with a big chip his shoulder; and cow chips between the ears.

He'll now attack me and label me a coward, etc. Just ignore him. Let him crawl back into his hole and amuse (or abuse) himself with thoughts of intellectual grandeur. Responding to him only encourages the "unhinged one".

Riptide, did you have someone read the letters to you? You seem pretty brief and ignorant. Easier to simply criticize I suppose, it takes less thinking. Or is it You are a Repukican and writing in from prison?

Travis,
Ward Churchill indeed has the right to say whatever he wants. He does not have the right to get paid to say whatever he wants. He also does not have the right to plagiarize. It is that last point which, despite the issue of his infamous essay, he should be expunged from the university. People are so wrapped up in the whole free speech issue, they consistently overlook Churchill's ethics in plagiarizing works and inventing sources. If Johnson had any journalistic integrity (and working in a journalism field, he should understand the basics of verified sources and plagiarism), he wouldn't be defending Churchill's actions.

Bango Skank, I realize that what I am saying bothers the people that fit into these categories.Sometimes the truth hurts.Let me give you an example .Carl is full of hate for me because he has had to face the truth of what he really is ,a coward or US hater.I know it sounds harsh but look at the way he responds to the accusations.Many Democrats have acted the same way.I ,on the other hand ,am not bothered by what they say because it is not true.These people need to know what they are so they can understand why they think the way they do.It will help them understand why they lie about the issues.It may even lead them to become"An American".Also all the Democrats' postings have attacked the mentally ill,farmers,people that live in trailer parks[the poor] and even people that drink beer.My point being these people do not stand for what the Democrat party claims they stand.I am exposing them for what they are phony cawards and US haters.

I forgot some Democrat postings have even gotten down on uneducated Americans.This is the party that wants to help the underclass?

cjc,says something to the effect that our Founding Fathers were liberal.The only problem is the Founding Fathers believed that the citizens should have the right to own firearms.The liberals today are doing everything they can to ban guns and restrict everybody they can from owning them.That is more in line with the communist party not our Founding Fathers.

I see that An American coward still hasn't answered questions put to him directly. While he's educating the rest of us poor ignorant fools so that we can be proud Americans, he's still hiding behind has pseudo intelligence and false bravado.

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