Re: Re: [PEN-L] Churchill Falloutï

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gar Lipow wrote:
> Yes. This. That is why I was one of the people so angry at Brown when
> visited the list. It was not about the specifics of the charges; it
> was that he made them just at the time when they could be used to fuel
> movement against academic freedom.  IMO it would have been bad enough
> if the timing had been accidental; to deliberately speed up publishing
> this to take advantage of the right wing attack against Churchill was
> extrordinary bad judgement or bad faith or both.
Funny thing about Mr. Brown's use of cites. Footnote #8 in Thomas 
Brown's article, 'Assessing Ward Churchillâs Version of the 1837 
Smallpox Epidemic', which is  No Longer Available (hmph!) here:
< http://hal.lamar.edu/~browntf/Churchill1.htm > leads to the article 
from Feb. 9, 2005 'A New Ward Churchill Controversy' < 
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/02/09/churchill2_9 >

From google's cache of Thomas Brown's "Assessment", the footnote:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:7JAOWfzCJC0J:hal.lamar.edu/~browntf/Churchill1.htm+Assessing+Ward+Churchill%E2%80%99s+Version+of+the+1837+Smallpox+Epidemic&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

<...>
Speaking on the Churchill controversy to InsideHigherEd, Thornton 
remarked that: âThe history is bad enoughâthereâs no need to embellish 
it.â[8]
<...>

A fuller and unexpurgated version of the quote used in that footnote 
reads thusly:
> Of U.S. treatment of Native Americans, Thornton said, âThe history is 
> bad enough â thereâs no need to embellish it.â < 
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/02/09/churchill2_9 >

Brown's use of âThe history is bad enough â thereâs no need to embellish 
it.â, which appears to be wielded as an aspersion of Churchill by using 
Thornton's words, is totally out of context and potentially libelous.

Just my $.02 on the level of scholarship, citing prowess, and more 
importantly, integrity, of the hatchet jobs done on Ward Churchill's 
work over the years.

Leigh
http://leighm.net/