{"id":540,"date":"2006-05-17T22:07:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=540"},"modified":"2006-05-17T22:07:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T02:07:53","slug":"acta-exploits-ward-churchill-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"ACTA exploits Ward Churchill (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/goacta.org\">American Council of Trustees and Alumni<\/a> just issued a &#8220;report&#8221; they call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goacta.org\/whats_new\/How%20Many%20Ward%20Churchills.pdf\">How Many Ward Churchills?<\/a> I&#8217;ll give ACTA a 10 of 10 on the Horowitz Chutzpah Scale for trying to capitalize on the release schedule of the Churchill investigation report with a paper on a topic that was entirely unrelated either to the substantive investigation or to Churchill&#8217;s public remarks about 9\/11. Timothy Burke spent the afternoon reading ACTA&#8217;s &#8220;report&#8221; and has <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=201\">deservedly ripped it apart<\/a>. It&#8217;s shoddy at best and meretricious at worst. As <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/25172.html\">Ralph Luker<\/a> pointed out earlier,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems to me, however, that ACTA&#8217;s title and methods are enormously irresponsible. Insofar as they are to be judged at all, and I think they should be, faculty members are assumed innocent until found guilty&#151;found guilty by their peers and, then, only on a case by case basis. ACTA&#8217;s claim that &#8220;Ward Churchills Abound&#8221; is highly irresponsible. You can dress David Horowitz in an academic gown and call him respectable, if you will. He&#8217;s still a demagogue and I&#8217;m sorry to see ACTA, Erin [O&#8217;Connor, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goactablog.org\">blogs for ACTA<\/a>], and the Phi Beta Cons trying to dignify his tactics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially disappointed that Erin O&#8217;Connor has been willing to put forward this nonsense as anything like respectable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Council of Trustees and Alumni just issued a &#8220;report&#8221; they call How Many Ward Churchills? I&#8217;ll give ACTA a 10 of 10 on the Horowitz Chutzpah Scale for trying to capitalize on the release schedule of the Churchill investigation report with a paper on a topic that was entirely unrelated either to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-8I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}