Yeah, plagerism, lying, and his leftwingnut alterations of history had nothing to do with his firing.
Background on Churchill in a previous post: http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/churchill-gets-canned/
William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill became the victim of a “witch hunt” after comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.
“There’s no doubt in my mind he was persecuted because of his politics,” Ayers said before appearing with Churchill at a student rally on academic freedom at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
……In an essay and a follow-up book, Churchill argued that the (9/11) attacks were a response to a history of U.S. abuses. He said the victims of the World Trade Center collapse were “little Eichmanns,” referring to Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,505905,00.html
Churchill also used his classroom to spew his ‘creative revisions’ of American history, thus exposing a new generation of college students to some of the most contrived nihilist bullshit on record.
I bet the two of them hook up for a speaking tour.