As should really be expected by now,

the most intelligent opinion on the Ward Churchill brouhaha in Colorado belongs to Dahlia Lithwick: Stupidity as a Firing Offense - Why is Bill O’Reilly chairing our faculty meetings? “One hundred percent of the blame for the Churchill debacle rests with the University of Colorado’s board of regents that hired, granted tenure to, and promoted an individual whose scholarship and personal qualifications are now, and must always have been, in serious question.”