Does Ward Churchill Exist?

Victor Davis Hanson writes a devastating essay on the fraudulent University of Colorado professor:

Does Ward Churchill even exist?

Dr., Native American, original artist, serious scholar, combat veteran, highly recruited and sought-after academic, ex-Weatherman mentor: How many — if any — of these seven faces of our real-life Dr. Lao are true?

Professors outside the arts at major research universities are supposed to have Ph.D.s. The phantom Ward Churchill does not. How he was hired, promoted, and tenured without a doctorate is a mystery — the equivalent of a high-school teacher credentialed with an AA degree, or a medical doctor operating without an M.D.

This guy has managed to fool a lot of people with his act for a lot of years, but the chickens are coming home to roost, and I'm pretty sure Mr. Churchill will be so marginalized by these revelations that only the wackiest of the wacky left will bother to listen to him. It's a great piece which really nails the motivation behind Churchill's act. Read the whole thing.