Lies Don't Matter to Leftists

That is the unsurprising conclusion we have to draw from the Leftist reaction to the sacking of academic faker Ward Churchill:

"The University of Colorado has fired an academic whose comparison of victims of the September 11 attacks to Nazis triggered a debate over free speech and scholarship in the US. The university insisted its decision was unrelated to an essay written by Ward Churchill in 2001 that called workers in the World Trade Centre "little Eichmanns", a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of sending Jews to death camps. They said he was fired because he had committed plagiarism and fraudulent research in other writings.

Professor Churchill, 59, and his backers argued the dismissal was motivated by his leftist views, and that it would keep other academics from discussing unpopular subjects. "This is a political firing with academic camouflage," said Tom Mayer, who teaches sociology at the university.

The professor has vowed to fight to regain his position. His lawyer, David Lane, said he would file a lawsuit this week challenging the dismissal as a violation of the First Amendment. The message of the university's action, he said, "is there will be a payback for free speech".

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According to Leftists, the First Amendment does not protect criticism of homosexuals or Muslims but it does protect lies and misrepresentations. There would be no libel laws were that true.

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