Radical left-wing professor Ward Churchill continued to make incendiary remarks about 9-11 victims by once again comparing them to infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann in an appearance on Fox News' "The Kelly File" on Monday night.
Churchill, who faced national criticism for writing an obscure 2001 essay called "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," refused to back down from previous statements in which he had compared victims of the terror attacks to "little Eichmanns," additionally saying that the United States deserved the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks because of "ongoing genocidal American imperialism," the Blaze reported.
As the country deals with the growing threat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and the recent beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Stephen Scotloff, the controversial former ethnic studies professor could be listed as one of those people who would categorize all the above in proverbial terms as "chickens coming home to roost," claiming that if we keep bombing our enemies, we should expect more of the same.
"To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in - and in many cases excelling at - it was because of their absolute refusal to see," Churchill, who had taught at the University of Boulder before being fired in 2007, previously wrote. "More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants."
However, host Megyn Kelly refused to let those comments slip by.
"You sound, like not only do you blame them, like you dislike them," Kelly told Churchill in Monday's first-part interview.
"What I'm saying is for effect, in addition the essence, is this is what it feels like to be treated this way," Churchill responded, saying the victims were "knowingly involved" in making money in "criminally sanctioned" ways.
For her part, the Fox News host strongly rebuked Churchill's hateful rant by pointing out that "our military doesn't target civilian facilities. They may target dual facilities that serve both the military and other purpose, but they do not intentionally target civilians as the terrorists did to us on 9-11."
As the segment continued, Churchill insisted that he had no regrets about comparing 9-11 victims to Eichmann, who devised the "final solution" to exterminate the Jews in Europe.
"You do not have to be the one who turned on the gas if you're making it possible for the gas to be there and someone to turn the knob...If you're part of that process lending your proficiencies to making it more efficient, you are culpable in the process," he said.
Churchill became the poster child of the radical left in higher education when he claimed that 9-11 victims deserved to die, that al Qaeda terrorists were courageous, even "gallant," and that he believed his ideas would be welcome on college campuses across the country, Fox News Nation reported.
After gaining national attention for his controversial essay, "administrators at CU-Boulder, where Churchill taught, concluded that Churchill's essay was protected under the First Amendment, and so the school would have to keep the tenured professor employed," according to the Daily Caller.
However, it was all downhill from there for Churchill's career since he was fired in 2007 on allegations of academic fraud and plagiarism in other writings unrelated to the provocative "little Eichmanns" essay.
In Monday's interview, Kelly posed the question to Churchill about why he had to be so "glib" and "callous" in his statements about the 9-11 victims.
"My responsibility is to do exactly what I did, which is show you what it feels like. If you are too dense to get it - OK," he said. "I think the United States, by its own rules, is subject to being bombed."
Perhaps the biggest question of the night was when Kelly asked if the United States deserved to be bombed, repeatedly pushing him and saying "Why can't you have the courage to just answer honestly? Yes or no?"
"If you open yourself up under rule of law for reciprocation in kind, it's quite likely going to happen," Churchill answered.
Kelly also pressed him on his claim that the World Trade Center was a fair target, by the United States' own standards, for terrorists to hit on 9-11, because there were CIA offices in the building. But Kelly pointed out the CIA offices were in WTC 7, which was not directly attacked, just taken down by debris. Churchill, however, sidestepped and said it's just as accurate as U.S. targeting, according to Mediaite.
"How could you draw a moral equivalence between 3,000 dead Americans and a murderous Nazi like Adolf Eichmann?" Kelly later asked.
Churchill deflected, prompting Kelly to ask if he plans to ever apologize.
"No," Churchill responded.
The first-part interview ended with political commentator Dinesh D'Souza analyzing Churchill's radical stance, Western Journalism reported.
"On the face of it, these guys are extremists, and some people might say, well why are you featuring these extremists? The reason is extremists on the left do not occupy the same position as extremists on the right," D'Souza begins.
"On the right, if you have some skinhead or Ku Klux Klansman, that guy has zero influence on the Republican party, zero influence on conservatism, but on the left, these extremists, who make claims like, 'America is evil,' 'America is a force for genocide,' they are in a sense the moral conscious of American progressivism."
Churchill finally lost the battle of trying to get his job back late in 2013 after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal without comment.
His attorney David Lane has mentioned that the former ethnic studies professor has found work lecturing in Atlanta, but provided no further details.
The full transcript of the interview could be read here.
