Couple of real winners: Churchill and Ayers proselytize for media

By Kay B. Day

These are a couple of Bill Ayers' Weather Underground cronies. Courtesy of the FBI.(Denver, Colo.)—A couple of real academic winners, Ward Churchill and Bill Ayers, showed up together in Denver to lecture at the University of Colorado. They allegedly talked about the importance of academic freedom. I say allegedly because I didn’t attend. Listening to these two old socialists (or whatever you might call them) would be like volunteering for a root canal.

The Denver Post said Ayers told attendees, "As a teacher, your responsibility is to challenge dogma and orthodoxy, not to just accept it."

Ayers reconfigured himself as an educator after spending years in his youth as a member of the Weather Underground whose purpose was basically to blow stuff up under the guise of being against the Vietnam War. The FBI has Weather Underground documents on the website. An article notes, “In 1978, however, the Bureau arrested five members who were plotting to bomb a politician’s office. More were arrested when an accident destroyed the group’s bomb factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Others were identified after two policemen and a Brinks’ driver were murdered in a botched armored car robbery in Nanuet, New York.”

Former leaders in North Vietnam have acknowledged groups like the Weather Underground and tinselati like Jane Fonda helped the U.S. get the short end of the stick in the war President John F. Kennedy started after he handed Cuba over to the communists. You can read all about the group at the FBI website.

Ayers got away with anything he did; I figure he was connected politically because as we all know he still appears to be connected politically.

Churchill is the professor who compared victims of 9/11 to Nazis. He also faced allegations of plagiarism. Academics never did take to open source.

Churchill was fired. Ayers speaks frequently to educators and wannabe teachers. I’ve had personal experience with his dogma and if you’re a parent with a kid in public school you probably have too. It’s a collectivism thing—you have a group work on a project. There’ll be a couple kids doing the work but the whole group gets the credit. The approach bears an uncanny resemblance to President Barack Obama’s economic agenda.

Ayers’ influence on education and his position as a professor at the University of Chicago show that even a liberal who hung out with murderers, allegedly colluding with them, will be welcomed by liberal educators. And you wonder why U.S. public schools are in such a mess.

That both these losers have collected checks funded by taxpayer money says it all.

The official title of the lecture: "Forbidden Education and the Rise of NeoMcCarthyism." That’s rather like the pot calling the kettle black.

Meanwhile, anybody in Denver with a lick of sense stayed away. I imagine it’d be more exciting to listen to a vacuum cleaner than to the dogma these two spout. The University of Chicago can be really proud of their aging hippie. He’d be a great resource if somebody wanted to blow something up and he's a real professional when it comes to advocacy for the economic underclass, something he's never been a member of himself.