Churchill attacks essay’s critics

Yes, Ward… you’re being targetted for political reasons, not because you’re a lying, malignant stain on the American Public Educational System.

At least some of those present got it right:

Ward Churchill, the outspoken Colorado professor who created a national uproar by comparing 9/11 victims to Nazis, told an overflow crowd at the University of Hawaii last night that he is the target of a right-wing strategy to attack academia.

“I was targeted because they thought I would be an easy target,” Churchill told the crowd of about 800. “That was a mistake.