UPDATE:
Indybay has photos and audio of the event. Go take a look, especially if you didn’t get a chance to see this in person.
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Res Ipsa Loquitur has a writeup of today’s event featuring Ward Churchill. As a bonus, extra outrageous statements from some of the other panelists. Check it out. Here’s a sample:

Churchill:

* Newt Gingrich is “ethnically-impaired”… apparently implying that white people don’t have ethnicities.
* Claimed that he’s being criticized because of his fight against “empire”, not his statement about “little Eichmanns”. Further elaborates that this must be the case because they’ve obviously “taken it to heart”. Because, of course, no one would take to heart his comparison of 9/11 victims to Nazi’s.

I also want to point out this article from the Rocky Mountain News covering Churchill’s appearance at another lefty landmark: “the 10th annual San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday at Golden Gate Park.”

The fair’s exhibits offered more than just books. There was clothing, including baby jumpers bearing the words “Future Queer” and T-shirts featuring a familiar fast food franchise logo and the words “Murder King.”

There were even games to play, including “Pin the Molotov Cocktail on the Cop Car.”

Here, there is nothing Churchill has ever written, said or thought, that would raise a pierced eyebrow.
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“The people who were killed September 11th were not ‘little Eichmanns,’ ” a woman shouted, invoking the phrase Churchill included in his article “Some People Push Back” to describe many who worked in the World Trade Center.

“Shut up,” another countered.

Churchill smiled. “Well said,” he offered. “Succinct, to the point.”

Score one for thoughtful academics!