You know who the happiest camper in the world is right now? Eason Jordan. Thanks to Churchill's complete assclownery, that dude is getting off easy.

What a hoot. I made a comment on another message board that mentioned both Chomsky and Churchill (in a short list of leftist assclowns).

Him heapum big Indian fraud.

If CU were looking for an excuse to get rid of Churchill, they may "suddenly" find evidence of academic fraud. Getting rid of him would still be time-consuming and may not work in the end, unfortunately. I have a feeling that CU has known about Churchill's record for a long time and have decided to take no action.

Once again, "evil triumphs when good men do nothing." But then again, nothing like a little arrogance to call attention to yourself, eh, Ward? Can anyone say, "hubris?"

Means and Morris may be neo-Marxist morons, but at least they're Indians. Churchill looks like Glenn Reynolds in a wig. He's just another white dork in love with the "noble savages."

Which is worse, little Eichmanns or hopeless poseurs?

Morons like Churchill need a little Huron treatment, if you know what I mean.

I think we've all heard of smallpox blankets, right? Did this clown make that shit up? Is he the source of that story? I mean, smallpox blankets are part and parcel of the America is Evil brief. It would be too freaking rich if it turned out he was behind the story and just made it up.

Any help?

I always wondered about that blanket story. I mean, supposedly US soldiers handled these things in the days before widespread vaccines* and hazmat suits. So how did US soldiers avoid coming down with it? Simply being white didn't mean immunity (or what else am I doing with this smallpox vaccine scar on my arm?) Also, I was under the impression that smallpox had already been spread throughout the Americas by earlier exporers from Europe, so it wasn't as if this was a disease new to Native America by that time.

*(There was a smallpox vaccine, since at least the 18th century, but I don't know that it was all that efficient in the 1800s when this atrocity supposedly happened -- history buffs and people who have time to google out the facts are free to correct me here.)

Hey spongeworthy,

Here is a link to Deans World covering the topic.

Dean Links to an interesting article here.

They are worth reading.

The smallpox blankets were real, but limited to certain tribes and times. Churchill's just expanding the story in a factually indefensible manner. Kinda like Bellesiles and the gun ownership rates in his now discredited book.

The thing was, most whites were immune from smallpox, either from limited exposure, survival, or vaccine. They could transmit the disease to Indians through many means, but there was a "blanket" program used in at least a few cases.

sponge,

try here, too

Let's say for a second that Churchill is Cherokee.

He's not, but let's say he is. Then his whole Marxist red-panther pose looks pretty silly, because the Cherokee Nation owned slaves before the civil war. They were one of Oklahoma's (then Indian Territory's) Five Civilized Tribes, disdained by other tribes as practically white themselves and as collaborators.

And they supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. The last confederate general to surrender was Stand Watie, a Cherokee.

Yeah, the Cherokees got a rough deal like all the Indians, but please. I believe Ace mentioned the doctrine of 'clean hands' below. If your ancestors owned slaves I think you lose a lot of those sweet sweet victim points.

Otherwise there are going to be some Daughters of the Confederacy asking for reparations.

I remember that 1992 Columbus day incident. That Douchebag Ward and a gang of other creeps physically prevented a bunch of elderly Italian-Americans from laying a wreath infront of a statue of Columbus at the end of their little parade. It stayed with me because one old guy said, plaintively, "this is America, isn't it?"

I hope somebody contacts that group and asks for their opinion. And i hope the name Douchebag Ward sticks.

OK, spongeworthy, just this once:

The origin of the smallpox blanket episode is that the British general Lord Amherst and/or his staff distributed blankets to the indians which had been used on smallpox victims. Francis Parkman published this story in 1851.

Got it?

Now for the fun part: your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to try to verify Parkman's account.

If you can, you will be setting your mind at rest.

Hey everyone,

I just told Zelda this at The Urban Grind, but I wanted you to be aware of another "Looney Ward" item from the "Inside the Beltway" column (9/10/2005) in today's Washington Times. See http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm

Hint: I wonder what he would think of the Northern Plains Indians and their buffalo hunts?

In case you hadn't noticed, Ann Coulter screwed up the story, as usual. She accuses Churchill of falsifying the smallpox blanket story without making it clear that the problem was his extension of that accusation to the Mandan indians. Then she goes on to spout some bullshit about how germ theory hadn't been discovered yet. If she was held to the same standard she applied to Churchill her own ass would have been fired long ago. Germ warfare predates germ theory by centuries. You don't have to know what germs are to know that disease can be spread by contact. Using Coulter's logic, you could claim that they couldn't have used quarantines to stave the spread of the plague because they couldn't have possibly known about germs in the first place.