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CNews 4March07

From our All In The Family department: On amazon.com, "Truthforce" in Atlanta has some fine compliments [see Update III below for additional info] for the writings of both Natsu Taylor Saito and her husband, Ward Churchill. For example, about Saito's latest book, From Chinese Exclusion to Guantanamo Bay: Plenary Power And the Prerogative State, Truthforce says

This is far and away the best book ever written on racism and plenary power. Startling.

And about Ward Churchill's Pacifism As Pathology, "Truthforce" waxes orgasmic:

It's about time somebody laid this one out the way it is. Churchill is to be mightily commended for exposing the hegemonic politic of white "progressive" privilege for exactly what it is. Thanks are also due to several previous reviewers -- all of them fitting the description just offered -- for having illustrated his points so well. Keep it up, Ward!!!

Okay, de gustibus non est disputandum, you say. True dat, except for one niggling detail: Truthforce's nickname, according to the critic's profile, is "nsaito." Is this merely a coinkydink, or is a Yale graduate really that inept at covering her tracks? We've emailed Professor Saito about "Truthforce" and as always, we'll keep you posted.
(big ht to Waldo Pepper)

Update: Professor Saito responds to our emailed question "You don't by any chance write reviews on amazon.com under the name 'Truthforce', do you?" thus: "No, obviously I don't. Do you?"

Update II: As reader Noj points out, "Truthforce's" Amazon Wishlist page says "this wishlist is for: Natsu Saito." And yet, Professor Saito (the one married to Ward Churchill) tells us she does not write reviews under the name Truthforce... So, apparently, Truthforce is also named Natsu Saito, and just happens to find her namesake's book "startling", and breathlessly calls one of her namesake's husband's books "His Best Ever." Same name, same town, same political philosophy. The mind boggles.

Update III: Seems "Truthforce's" review of Saito's book has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the list of reviews linked to in our first paragraph. Lucky for us we've always wondered what that weird "PrtSc" key was for, so we pressed it to see what would happen—and inadvertently saved a screen-copy of the review. (and for the distrustful among us, there's always the google cache of the review)

Update IV: We should note that it has occurred to us that it's theoretically possible the "Truthforce" reviews were written by an enemy of Churchill/Saito to further discredit them. Precluding that is the fact that the first two Truthforce reviews (lauding two of Churchill's books) were posted on amazon.com in October of 2004—long before anyone outside CU's incestuously idiotic ethnic studies department had heard of Churchill or his then-future fourth wife. To believe a Churchill foe waited two and a half years to spring the punchline on such a shabby little subterfuge as the Truthforce reviews requires a credulity beyond human attainment.

...incidentally, we never suspected amazon.com had a sense of humor until we took a look at the main description page for Saito's From Chinese Exclusion to Guantanamo Bay and noticed this:

Better Together
Buy this book with The Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard A. Posner today!

Buy Together Today: $31.83

'There is no truth.'

The word of the day is saxifrage.

'You carry the weapon.'

From our Thus Spake Churchill department: Urban Infidel has posted video of the Lynne Stewart-Ward Churchill Gloatfest last December. Our favorite part is when Professor Irwin Corey (~~but not~~ yes, that Professor Irwin Corey) steps up to the mike and donates money to some no-doubt vitally important cause. Our favorite Churchill quote (which may have been the result of an inadvertent mixing of Churchill's and Corey's speech notes): "Confusion is the first line of defense of that against which we all struggle... mutually. Confusion. In clarity there is commonality and a means of action of the pooling of common energies, one of our basic humanity that transcends that which we are up against." [we apologize if you're unable to make sense of this quote; it proved tenaciously resistant to the, um, clarifying benefits of punctuation.] BTW: Aside from that gem of wisdom, Churchill's speeches continue to doggedly follow the template we noted two years ago. As prolific as Churchill claims to be, couldn't he at least toss in a topical joke or something? Maybe get the World's Greatest Authority to punch up his stuff?

'You got a trigger finger, so there's one possibility.'

Wildly OT (but nevertheless interesting): US Cherokees vote overwhelmingly to expel descendants of slaves (via the professional appreciator)

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