Loads of laughs about me from some Leftist blogger--but he gets Fisked

This one is so misguided, that I don't know where to begin. So I'll begin at the beginning. The blog, The Try Works appears to be a Denver based site.

Welcome to the first Marathon Pundit Fisking!!!

Anyway, the post about me, Bill Baar (of Bill Baar's West Side), and Pirate Ballerina begins with this sentence by poster Charley Arthur:

Having just returned from a quick trip to Cuba via Mexico City, I began my day today with a compelling need to get tuned back in to the haps up here in the belly of the beast. You know, the really important stuff, like Ward Churchill's speaking schedule.

Having just returned from a trip to Cuba...lovely.

Next:

In a piece titled "The Weather Underground and Ward Churchill - UPDATED!" Jim Paine's betters over at MARATHON PUNDIT credit KHOW's Dan Craplis (my note, it's Caplis) for "breaking the story" that Churchill has "taken credit" for fellow Weatherman Brian Flanigan's supposedly breaking Chicago corporation council Richard Elrod's neck during Weather's Days of Rage action in 1969. The fable is then recycled on something called BILL BARR'S WEST SIDE, complete with attribution to both Craplis and PUNDIT.

I never claimed that KHOW's Dan Caplis "broke the story" about Churchill's Chicago resisting arrest incident where Ward said "rammed his head into a concrete post." Although I haven't heard the entire tape (just the audio transcript from the Caplis & Silverman show), but Dan said the incident took place in Chicago during the Days of Rage. Hey, I'm going to believe Caplis before I listen to some goof who just returned from Cuba.

Here's the audio once again, http://www.videos.mjsfc.com/10-11-05p1.mp3. Right click, then save. Halfway into the tape is the relevant passage.

Next...

We shall of course proceed to parse, but, first things first: Thanks are due to the PUNDIT for posting the Barr family Xmas card cum portrait. A picture, they say, is work a whole pile of words, and if ever there was a visual living up to that billing, this is it. The Barr group shot should be adopted as a poster image by the Anti-Incest Society of North America.

Liberals are such nice people, aren't they?

Here's that post of mine, about Illinois Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka.

I could ask Bill Baar, but, but I'm pretty sure that Bill is not related to Judy, who is running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois. There is no mention of Bill Baar in that post, nor is he even mentioned.

Arthur brings up the Ward-DePaul misquote from last year. That online publication, as well as this blog, printed an immediate retraction once a better recording of Churchill's speech became available.

More from Arthur King of the Witless:

First of all, not to put too fine a point on it, but there's a rather significant difference between Weatherman (with which both Churchill and the FBI have said he was affiliated in 1969) and the subsequent Weather Underground Organization (of which Churchill has neither claimed to have been a member, nor, so far as I can find, has the FBI ever accused him of being one).

I'm not even going to bother looking up references on this one I'm so certain I'm right. "The Weatherman" became the "Weather Underground," because some of the female members of that group thought the "Weatherman" name was sexist. Arthur is probably referring to the comparatively moderate SDS, the Students for a Democratic Society, which "Weather" splintered off from sometime in 1969.

And about Ward's own Weather report. From the Rocky Mountain News early last year.

The professor has a long history of controversial remarks, including telling a local newspaper in 1987 that he taught the Weather Underground how to make bombs, the Daily Camera said earlier this month.

Damning stuff. A ha! But in that quote, the skeptical reader will cry out, "Ward didn't claim membership in the WU.

True, but I never said in my post that he was a member of that vile terrorist organization.

Arthur also claims that Caplis (and subsequently Bill Barr and I) got the story wrong about Ward Churchill's ramming a cop's head into a concrete post--he says the incident actually took place two years later in Peoria. But there indeed was a head-ramming of a cop, according to Charley Arthur.

It's nice to know that Arthur is keeping track of his idol's assault history.

I have no way of telling if the Peoria angle is true, but I'll try and find out.

Anyway, welcome back home, Arthur.

Oh, one question? Did you consider staying in Cuba?

UPDATE 9am Jan. 9th: Just one question: Did you stay in one of those tourist hotels? Y'know, the ones where ordinary Cubans...unless they work there...are banned?

UPDATE 2:30PM Jan. 9th: From commenter Michele:

I looked up Ward Churchill's criminal record at the Peoria courthouse. He had two misdemeanor charges in 1972 resulting from either one or two incidents on April 18, 1972.

Peoria County Sheriff's Det. Thomas Schuettler complained that Ward Churchill alias 'Ward Debo' alias 'John Doe' (1) commited assault, in that he grabbed the detective by the arm, placing in apprehension of receiving a battery; and (2) resisted a peace officer by struggling with the detective and then running from the officer after being placed under arrest.

Case (1) was dismissed for want of prosecution. Case (2) was dismissed after a motion by Churchill's attorney, Louis Olivero, for the state to produce evidence.


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