Huffington Promotes McCarthyite Liar
Rarely have I seen so much guilt by association underpinned by so many lies in such a small space as in Max Blumenthal's McCarthyite smear appearing on Arianna Huffington's new Web site The Huffington Post ("In Bed: Horowitz, Hitchens and A Few Neo-Nazis," May 21, 2005). The smear is directed at a post by Moonbat blogger Lowell Ponte which exposes the hypocrisy of the left.
Ponte's idea was that, for the left, Communist socialists are good while national socialists are bad (and of course they're not even socialists). This innocent send-up was converted by Blumenthal into Horowitz's "support" for a Nazi ("Horowitz has taken up his cause") which is a shameless lie.
Blumenthal then contrives to drag Christopher Hitchens into the mess he has concocted from absolutely nothing because Christopher agreed to be a speaker on a trip I organized (the trip btw has been cancelled). Blumenthal then drags in Debbie Schlussel who wrote a negative piece on the late Marla Ruzicka (which I hadn't read when it was posted), neglecting to mention that I responded by writing (with Ben Johnson) a long piece on Marla Ruzicka myself ("Who Killed Marla Ruzicka?" May 3, 2005). Blumenthal doesn't mention it because it refutes his smear.
Arianna has apparently joined the bottom feeders in the political wars: no standards, no ethics, no shame.
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"Arianna has apparently joined the bottom feeders in the political wars: no standards, no ethics, no shame."
Funny, I had that feeling about her years ago, even when she was a so called "conservative". I always thought she was a little too ambitous.
I wonder how this bears on our earlier discussion regarding the moral and other pitfalls of Andrew Breitbart's work for Mrs. Huffington.
wonder how this bears on our earlier discussion regarding the moral and other pitfalls of Andrew Breitbart's work for Mrs. Huffington.
Does he believe what was posted was a lie?
And if he continues to hang his hat there, even after seeing a lie up on the blogroll, and does nothing to encourage a public countering of the lie, then what does that say about him?
J
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