I hear that David Horowtiz spent half a million bucks on developing his conspiracy site, “Discover the network,” which purports to document the “subversive” activities of anyone he disagrees with. If so, his donors should ask for their money back, because if the entry on me is any indication, he manages to get everything — even the smallest easily-checkable details — flat-out wrong. Among my alleged sins:
“Administers the website Antiwar.com.”
Wrong. I’m not the webmaster of Antiwar.com, nor am I an administrator, alas, but only a mere writer. The real administrators keep me as far away from administrative affairs as possible — and that’s just the way I like it.
“Once sought notoriety as a leftist, but now poses as a rightist.”
This is puzzling. I was never a leftist, of any sort: National Review was my bible as a teenager, and I actively campaigned for Barry Goldwater for President in 1964. From there I joined Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), and then founded my own youth group, “Young Radicals for Capitalism.” We had a huge chapter at Wayne State University, and put out a single issue of a magazine, The New Radical, that was filled with denunciations of the New Left. From there I joined the Libertarian Party during the presidential campaign of Roger MacBride (1976) and subsequently ran for office (Congress, state legislature, etc.) several times in California under the LP banner. I left the LP in 1983.
Oddly, none of this is mentioned in Horowitz’s looney “profile” of me: according to his weird “alternate reality” version of my political history, my longtime (and continuing) association with the libertarian movement never happened.
In short, never have I “sought notoriety as a leftist.” I think Horowitz is projecting here, since the description fits him and not me.
“Posing as a war-hater, Raimondo defends murderous dictators like Slobodan Milosevic.”
Another lie, as anyone who reads my numerous attacks on Milosevic can see for themselves.
“Presents the Ba’athist party-states in Iraq and Syria as victims of the malicious West.”
As I have said repeatedly, the real victims of our intervention in the Middle East are the peoples of the countries that we target — and the American people, who have to die for and pay for the neocons’ endless wars.
“Openly wishes that Japan had won World War II.”
This laughable malarkey — after all, isn’t it a little late to be cheering for the Mikado? –comes from a comment I made about the calm beauty of the Japanese tea ceremony as opposed to Eminen’s noisy misogyny. Whatever they’re smoking over there in Horowitz-land, it must be some pretty powerful stuff.
“States that September 11 was ‘an enormous defeat for the U.S.'”
Is Horowitz is saying it was a great victory?
“Believes that the Great Satan is America, and the Little Satan is Israel.”
Horowitz doesn’t cite anything I have written or said to back this up. But, then again, what’s evidence for a proven liar and fraud, who knows the Leninist art of lying all too well?
“Author of The Terror Enigma, a pamphlet that insinuates, with no serious evidence, that the Israeli government had prior knowledge of 9/11 but failed to warn U.S. authorities.”
If Horowitz is saying that Fox News is not a source capable of providing “serious evidence,” then I believe there are many on the left who would agree with him. However, their four-part series on Israel’s “vast” (their word) spy network in the U.S. is just one of many sources that I rely on, including The Forward, Die Zeit, Insight magazine, Salon.com, and a host of others.
As if being wrong about everything wasn’t enough, however, the supposedly “interactive” feature of Horowitz’s “database” is broken. When I clicked on the button that is supposed to conjure up a “map” detailing all my alleged links to the “anti-American left,” what comes up on the screen is — absolutely nothing!
This cost half a million bucks? All I can say is that somebody got ripped off — bigtime.
Postscript: If you want to see what kind of dingbats are attracted to Horowitz and his nutty site, go here. Birds of a feather, and all …