David "Cream Pie" Horowitz: "I treat people the way they treat me."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/12/horowitz_database/index.html

David Horowitz has lived a rich, and contradictory, life. He once contributed to seminal leftist magazine Ramparts and hired for the Black Panthers, but then bitterly split with his leftist friends and reinvented himself as a conservative who may be the leading scourge of left-leaning professors nationwide. His crusade to make liberal "indoctrination" a statutory offense has seized the backing of Republican lawmakers and the imaginations of campus followers. Recently, Horowitz launched a new Web site, DiscoverTheNetwork.org, to catalog and expose his enemies on the left.

Purportedly a serious counterbalance to liberal sites that track conservatives, Horowitz's online "Guide to the Political Left" lays out what he considers the extensive connections between liberals and terrorists. Its controversial picture gallery of "leftists" runs the gamut from movie critic Roger Ebert and Omar Abdel Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, to crushed Holy Land protester Rachel Corrie and even Sen. John Kerry.

Columbia journalism professor and longtime liberal activist Todd Gitlin calls the site the "venomous" product of Horowitz's 1950s childhood as the son of Stalinists, and of his lasting guilt over the killing of a friend by his former allies, the Black Panthers. "The psychodynamics here are not pretty" says Gitlin, whose squashed face appears on the site. As No. 376 on the list, he's accused of "harboring the belief that his country is ultimately unworthy of his respect and even allegiance." The Web site, Gitlin says, reflects "a demonology that's about as unsubtle as the one pursued when he was a Marxist in the '60s, except the terms are inverted."

Is Horowitz concerned that people might read his site the wrong way and believe that Mohammed Atta and a local college professor are literally co-workers? "I can't be accountable for people who misread what's here," he says. The professors he has criticized, he says, complain, "'I'm getting death threats or whatever.' I get death threats all the time. The level of our political rhetoric is horrible, and I don't think very much can be done about it." He adds: "I treat people the way they treat me."

[Ron Green]

1. He's not quite clear on the concept of the Golden Rule, is he?

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. Roger Ebert is a Horowitz target? An issue with thumbs, maybe?

Good Lord! What a frigging cry baby.

I take back what I said before--Horowitz DOES need to be hit with a pie.
(Preferably a day-old store brand pie. Don't waste a Marie Callendar's on him.)

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. I have two fingers up as a salute to Horowitz

...and they ain't thumbs.

[KansDem]

3. Yeah, well, Dave, make mine chocolate cream...

or that new tasty European truffle pie served up at a local restaurant near me, if ever you see the need to hurl a pie at me... :9

But chances are, you'll never need to (:() since I'm not a partisan, media whore hack "journalist" doing the nefarious bidding of the NeoCons/PNAC/Bush Family crowd...

[JAbuchan08]

4. That guy is odious.

"a demonology that's about as unsubtle as the one pursued when he was a Marxist in the '60s, except the terms are inverted." exactly.

On edit: His list reminds me of a blacklist or something. I'm not sure this guy is interested in anything except destroying other people, the philosophy justifying it doesn't matter.

[smoogatz]

5. "I treat people the way they treat me."

Right. By conducting an a national smear campaign based on lies, gossip and wild allegations against a few allegedly "leftist" college professors who are just trying to teach their students how to think for themselves. Horowitz deserves to be hit with a pie or two every time he appears in public.

[NoPasaran]

6. So now he'll be assailing the Left with cream pies

Instead of his usual Stalinoid paranoiac vitriol? Sounds delicious!

[Cats Against Frist]

8. That man has lost it

The Salon writer was not-so-subtley calling Horowitz a "looney tune."


Did you see all the dead people that he listed in the "data base?"

The good people of America better watch out, or Stokley Carmichael is going to rise from the dead and make you all take African names!!!!

Oh, god, Todd, not that...

[SmileMaker]

9. He was on with Hannity last night, blaming professors

for orchestrating the pie throwing. Give me a break!!

After hearing that, my suspicion grew that this was a Rove op to blame academia for tolerating this harrassing activity.