Last Days of an Academic Fraud?

Apropos of our mentioning Ward Churchill in yesterday's post—which concerned a leftist academic's call for the University of Tennessee to fire law prof (and Instapundit) Glenn Reynolds for proposing a provocative way to wind down the Iraq war effort—we alluded to the still grinding process being conducted by a reluctant University of Colorado to remove the tenured-in and multi-level academic fraud Ward Churchill from his post.

Leftist academics similar to flamer Paul Campos—who was quick to urge the essentially libertarian Reynolds' banishment to the rice paddies—have been manning the barricades to protect the fanatically Stalinist Churchill who lied and plagiarized his way to tenure. The latest from Judith Weiss' Kesher Talk:

Remember faux-Indian "Ethnic Studies" professor Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill? His case continues to inch through the bureaucracy of the University of Colorado....Churchill's advocates are making a last-ditch effort to mobilize supporters in academia, via an Open Letter calling on the U of Colorado to reverse its decision. The signatories include the usual suspects Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, also controversial academics Rashid Khalidi and Juan Cole. Both Khalidi and Cole have recently had to defend their academic credentials in pursuit of professional advancement, and their participation in Churchill's defense gives credence to their detractors. (In a truly moronic convergence of nutty professors, Deborah Frisch (fired from U of Arizona for stalking a blogger and threatening his child) defended Churchill at CounterPunch in 2005.)

We'd observe that loons of a feather flock together, but then we'd probably irritate our friends in Canada, which we're not eager to do with the Conservatives back in power.