Ward Churchill's Painting: Fake but Accurate

Ward Churchill is getting himself into more hot water. This time over copyright infringement of a famous painting called "Winter Attack." If you place Churchill's work beside that of renowned artist Thomas E. Mails, you can tell they're exact mirror images of each other. But one is a copyrighted drawing. The other is an autographed print by Churchill.

When Foxnews reporter (Chohan) questioned Ward Churchill outside of his office about the fake paintings he certainly wasn't happy:

"Get that camera out of my face," Churchill said.

"This is an artwork we've got called 'Winter Attack.' It looks like it was based on a Thomas Mails painting; it looks like you ripped it off. Can you tell us about that?" Chohan asked.

That prompted Churchill to take a swing at Chohan while he held a stack of papers in his hand.

Then after Ward Churchill calmed down a little bit he had this weak defensive reply reminiscent of CBS' Dan Rather's "Fake but Accurate" response using a mirrored response of "Accurate but Fake" reply:

"It is an original art work by me, after Thomas Mails," Churchill said.

"Original art work" ? It's an accurate piece, but it's certainly a fake one off of a truly original art work. Nobody would get away with that if one tries to pass off a Mona Lisa art work as their own.....a signed copy, that is.

When contacted at his home in North Carolina, Ryan Mails, the son of the late Thomas Mails said the family still retained the copyrights to the drawings of the Mystic Warriors book, and that his father fiercely defended the copyrights."My father invested a great deal of himself in his work, and from that he developed a great fierceness in defending his work," Mails' son said. "I cannot imagine he would ever grant permission to anyone to copy one of his pieces."

So, Churchill lied about him being in the indian ancestry by masquerading as a indian for years. A wanna-be. Aren't all Liberals like that? And now he lied about his "original art work" as if it his work was THE orginal art work along with 150 signed copies of his "original" art work.

Now, I respect the Indian culture and have a fascination over the various cultures. Even my wife is 1/60th indian but we haven't found out which tribe, yet. Still investigating. But as for Ward Churchill he has gone delusional over the years pretending to be an indian in his books and articles. Churchill has described himself as a member of the Keetoowah Cherokee tribe in Oklahoma. In past interviews, he's claimed to be one-sixteenth Cherokee. He certainly seems trying to be one with the long hair.
How INANE is that?

By the way, be sure to check out the video clip of Ward Churchill attacking the Foxnews camera man and reporter at the bottom of CBS4 webpage. Or go here for the shorter version of the attack story.