And today, that other Churchill

Belmont Club, as classy a blog as there is, ironically follows its post from yesterday featuring the young Winston Churchill with one today on the instantly notorious Ward Churchill. He's the guy who wrote that the people killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11 were "little Eichmann's," who got what they deserved. Naturally, he's an American college professor. Belmont Club concludes:

But in a week which featured the State of the Nation Address, the release of the Volcker report and news that action figure Cody was held hostage by terrorists, the attention lavished on a relatively obscure academic recalls the inordinate power of the Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson cases to put more newsworthy subjects into the shade. The fascination may not be with Ward Churchill himself but with the Leftist demimonde glimpsed briefly through him. Churchill, Peterson and Jackson are, besides being themselves, gateways into worlds in which the incomprehensible is merely ordinary. It is not that the worlds of the radical Left, the scumbag and high-class pervert are the same; they are different in every particular and yet are somehow identical in a elusive way. The common description I came near to supplying is 'fantasy', though it is not quite that; because deep down those worlds concern themselves with practical gratification. I think the right term is 'sad'; reprehensible yes; disgusting yes; and sad.