An exercise for people who read lots of political blogs:
Find someone who expressed a strong opinion about the firing Ward Churchill, yet also expressed a strong opinion the other way about the Berkeley tenure of John Yoo.
(For my part: I strongly defend Yoo's tenure and don't believe anything he did at the White House is sufficient to make his tenure revocable. Churchill, as I understand the story (my understanding may be flawed), got caught lying about his past scholarship. To be sure, the real reason people wanted him fired was his anti-American screeds, but on its face he was kicked out for being a fraud. I claim my positions are consistent; your mileage may vary.)
Posted by Matt Bruce at April 16, 2008 12:54 PMI don't care about academic tenure either way, but it's interesting to compare the media attention given that Ward Churchill was just a random nutjob while John Yoo made policy for the U.S.
Posted by: M.S. at April 16, 2008 05:02 PM