Since Some Of You Have Been Curious

April 8th, 2008

Okay, one of you anyway: why I love Ward Churchill’s 9/11 essay, with some Thoreau thrown in.

All in the context of Madeleine Albright, of course.  Don’t miss the fun.

Posted by Benjamin
Filed in Ward Churchill, Madeleine Albright

10 Responses to “Since Some Of You Have Been Curious”

  1. Snapple Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 5:30 am

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  2. Snapple Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 5:30 am

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  3. Law Professor Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 10:52 am

    Was that Grant Crowell again?

  4. Benjamin Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 11:51 am

    I think that was the real Snapple. But one can’t ever be positive.

  5. Sybil Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    Ha - Fox News is showing all the either ethnic pride or pro-communist chinese scuffling with tibetans at the Olympic torch thing, and they’re already is covering the senior citizen nudists who want to do an ancient greek style olympics run w/o clothes, and they haven’t even spotted them yet. They just read their announcement that they plan to do it in about an hour. If you guys want to make the local news with Albright, recruit some sort of shameless naked person.

  6. Benjamin Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    That’d be me, unfortunately for all concerned. I’ve been made spokesman for one of the local activist groups, with the caveats that I never appear before the media sober, and I never wear pants.

  7. Metroplex Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    Far better that than having to witness a naked Albright, Ben.

  8. Sybil Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    historical note: “The first torch run was the brainchild of Dr. Carl Diem, the organizer of Adolf Hitler’s 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He convinced Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, that 3,422 young Aryan runners should carry burning torches along the 3,422 km route from the Temple of Hera on Mount Olympus to the stadium in Berlin. The event would be captured by the regime’s filmmaking prodigy, Leni Riefenstahl, and broadcast over radio.

    In fact, Rogge’s dream that the torch be a symbol of “peace, harmony and global unity” is reminiscent of Hitler’s own words in 1936. “Sporting chivalrous contest,” Hitler proclaimed before the torch’s inaugural lighting, “helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore, may the Olympic flame never expire.”
    –Dave Zirin

  9. Anonymous Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    Well done, Benjamin!

    Thanks for making the connection between the writings of other American authors and that of Ward Churchill.

    Daisy

  10. Hilda Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    Have the Young Conservatives at Boulder done illegal immigrant tag yet? I heard it is the incredibly clever provocation this year- last year it was bake sales.

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