{"id":2022,"date":"2005-04-20T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-20T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T22:41:05","slug":"horowitz-blog-expires-of-its-own-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/20\/horowitz-blog-expires-of-its-own-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Horowitz Blog Expires — of its own silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, as I sat down to the computer, I did what I do every<\/i> morning: went straight to David Horowitz’s Frontpage<\/i> website<\/a>. I need a good laugh first thing. This particular morning, however, I noticed something rather odd. Something seemed to be missing. At first, I couldn’t quite figure out what it was, but as the fog of sleep slowly dissipated with an infusion of live-saving caffeine, I realized what it was: the newly-installed “blog,” called “Moonbat Central” (out of a general lack of any sense of irony) by Horowitz and his employees, was … GONE!<\/p>\n

My heart sank. Omigod, I thought: am I to be spared nothing<\/i>?! <\/p>\n

After all, when I think of all the … good times we had: the stupid smears, the juvenile name-calling, the kooky rants posted by the inimitable Steven Plaut, crackpot ultra-Likudnik and defender<\/a> of the terrorist followers of Meir Kahane<\/a>… well, I was in shock<\/i>. Who will soon forget the time he made up a phony “quote”<\/a> purportedly from Middle East scholar Juan Cole, and then refused to acknowledge that he did it out of sheer malice — or even that he did it at all? Then there was the well-meaning but essentially clueless Richard Poe<\/a>, Jacob “Smarty Pants<\/a>” Laksin, and that cute little stud-muffin Myles Kantor<\/a> (oh, those Cubanos!) — where oh where are they now?, I wondered. What’s become of them and their testy little tirades? When I think of all the fun I had with “Moonbat Central” the tears gather at the corners of my eyes and shyly trickle down — you know, it’s the little things in life<\/i> that give us the most pleasure, and this example of the neocon-ized “conservative” movement’s utter nuttiness gave me many hours of hedonistic abandon. And to think that it’s all gone — GONE! — without even an acknowledgement from The Horowitz.<\/p>\n

Oh, the sheer awfulness of it all! <\/p>\n

The smears, the conjuration of senseless fears, the demagoguery, the intricate weaving of nonexistent conspiracies — all of it wiped out, with not a trace left behind.<\/p>\n

Go ahead: go there and look<\/a>. There’s a friggin’ real estate<\/i> ad where my heart’s desire used to be. Go there — and weep!<\/p>\n

P.S. Thanks to Google, we can still go visit classic posts of the past, and the old links still work: but the erasure of “Moonbat Central” from the front page of Frontpage<\/i> — what can it mean? Is it temporary, or are we permanently consigned to this Moonbat-less Hell? <\/p>\n

UPDATE: There is<\/i> a God! The erasure of “Moonbat Central” was due, I guess, to a technical error, or maybe an overly strenuous pillow fight over in Horowitz-land. In any case, the Moonbats are back in the bellfry — and all’s right with the world!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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