The headline should read: Horrorwitz Outbarnum's Barnum.
There should be no question that Horrorwitz knew exactly what the
reaction would be to his advertisements, and so he gets a million bucks
worth of free publicity and perhaps, something approaching that added to
his bank account from the deep pockets neo-fascist right.
Jeff Blankfort
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:22:46 -0800
> From: radman <resist@best.com>
> Subject: [sixties-l] Horowitz and the Myth of the Radical University
>
> Published on Saturday, March 24, 2001
>
> Horowitz and the Myth of the Radical University
>
> by Robert Jensen
>
> Thanks to conservative author David Horowitz's recent lecture at the
> University of Texas, I have new hope for radical political organizing
> on campus.
>
> Many of us on the faculty with left/progressive values have felt
> rather isolated on what we all thought was a conservative campus. But
> it turns out that all this time we've been working in a nest of
> left-wing radicals who have over-run the place, leaving conservatives
> cowering in silence.
>
> At least that's Horowitz's analysis. University faculties around the
> country, including UT, are "skewed far to the left" as a result of
> conservative professors being "systematically purged," according to
> Horowitz, a one-time leftist turned right-winger.
SNIP
>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:56:56 -0800
> From: radman <resist@best.com>
> Subject: [sixties-l] For David Horowitz, No Middle Ground
>
> Radical Transformation
>
> For David Horowitz, No Middle Ground
>
>
> Former '60s Agitator David Horowitz Has Changed His Politics, But Not His Tone
>
> By Michael Powell
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Wednesday, March 28, 2001; Page C01
>
> BERKELEY, Calif. - The student warriors have pants that pool about their
> feet and tattoos that crawl around their biceps, and more piercings than a
> Dinka chieftain. They're gathered to hear a former high priest of the 1960s
> left.
> "I marched for civil rights not only before you were born," the speaker
> begins, "but before many of your parents were born . . ."
> The audience shifts, restless.
> "Thirty years ago I contributed to the atmosphere here" he pauses; his
> eyes dance "and I'm appalled! This is a place of intellectual terror!
> Leftists have contempt for America."
> So perfect, this David Horowitz moment, the blend of agitprop and
> indignation and intellectual provocation. A week before, the 62-year-old
> Marxist turned conservative Republican firebrand called the Berkeley
> student newspaper and took out an advertisement to advance his new cause:
> "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea for Blacks and
> Racist Too."
> It ran, and a student "coalition of color" confiscated the newspapers and
> marched into the Daily Californian office and demanded that the editor
> apologize for running the ad. Which, they insisted, was hurtful, and
> racist, and oppressive.
> Horowitz's trap was so well laid that its jaws slapped shut before the
> students realized what had happened. Soon newspapers and liberal writers
> and civil libertarians across the country were slamming the radicals for
> political correctness run amok.
SNIP
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