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MORE LINKSMediaMatters.org Horowitz falsely claimed he doesn't attack professors' "political speech" outside the "classroom"Right-wing activist David Horowitz falsely claimed that although he has criticized what university professors teach in the classroom, he has refrained from criticizing "professors' political speech" outside the universities at which they teach. Horowitz added that he makes "a very clear distinction between what's done in the classroom" and "what professors say as citizens." In fact, in his most recent book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, Horowitz criticizes numerous professors for their political views and participation in political events outside the classroom.
Joshua Frank Horowitz's Gang Smears the DeadDavid Horowitz and gang never cease to amaze. From their crackpot intellectualism to their red-baiting antics, it's clear the folks over at FrontPageMagazine.com are nothing short of fascist Also see:
Graham Larkin David Horowitz’s War on Rational Discourse...these twistings of the truth are part of the same campaign of Horowitizian bullshit, lies and doublespeak. It’s a dirty job all right, but we need to keep exposing this fraudulent talk for what it is.
Michael Berube Why Horowitz Hates ProfessorsHorowitz isn’t just a far-right ideologue. He’s also a sorry old fraud
CampusProgress.org "Students" for Academic Freedom? Right.The organization is actually just a wing of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture and it is staffed by a recent graduate...SAF is working closely with the American Legislative Exchange Council to pass legislation. SAF's website has a list of existing legislation. Look out California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee, legislation is already introduced.
MediaMatters.org Horowitz admits Colorado exam story is phony[David Horowitz] has admitted that a story highly publicized by his group concerning alleged events at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) "appears to be wrong," and that "our presentation of this case appears now to have had several faults."
MediaMatters.org Media repeat unsubstantiated Horowitz tale of anti-conservative bias on campusThis incident is not the first time that Horowitz has trumpeted dubious anecdotes in the service of his ideological agenda
MediaMatters.org David Horowitz paid controversial Jesse Helms advisers to advise himDavid Horowitz -- the right-wing pundit who has recently sought to defend himself against charges of racism by baselessly branding one of his critics, radio host Al Franken, a "racist" -- paid nearly $300,000 to Rotterman & Associates, a Republican media consulting firm that helped run the racially divisive campaigns of former Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), a review of the tax filings of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture shows.
Associated Press Bills in several states aim to counter perceived liberalism of college professors...legislation being pushed in Ohio and several other states by conservatives would prohibit public and private college professors from presenting opinions as fact or penalizing students for expressing their views... ... Similar legislation failed in California and Colorado last year...The Ohio legislation is based on principles advocated by Students for Academic Freedom, a Washington, D.C.-based student network founded by conservative activist David Horowitz.
Justin Raimondo The Neo-AuthoritariansDavid Horowitz whines about a lack of 'academic freedom' – and calls for government regulation of campuses to ensure 'diversity'
Jesse Walker Chilling EffectsDavid Horowitz tries to redefine "academic freedom" The Republican firebrand David Horowitz is mad at the Colorado media. Seems that when the Centennial State started mulling ways to enact the Academic Bill of Rights, a document devised and promoted by Horowitz's group Students for Academic Freedom, the local press suggested that it would amount to a quota bill for right-wing professors.
Rocky Mountain News GOP takes on 'leftist' educationTop Republican legislators are working on a plan that would require Colorado colleges and universities to seek more conservatives in faculty hiring... ...In hatching the idea, Gov. Bill Owens and Republican legislators quietly met in June with David Horowitz, a controversial and outspoken Los Angeles conservative who is leading the national effort with his group called Students for Academic Freedom...
BlogCritics.org Horowitz in denial: The flamethrower as victimThe Southern Poverty Law Center...published a recent report depicting Horowitz' Center for the Study of Popular Culture as one of several groups that promote bigotry.
Scoobie Davis David Horowitz is a big fat liarIn response to the excerpts of Joe Conason's new book Big Lies published in Salon, David Horowitz responded by calling Conason a liar
HorowitzWatch Horowitz WatchGreat new Horowitz tracker website from Scoobie Davis and others
Justin Raimondo HOROWITZ GOES HAYWIREPro-war 'Think Twice' speaking tour starts on a weird note
RockyMountTelegram.com A contradictory positionUltra-conservative activist David Horowitz shot through North Carolina last week to take aim at his favorite target: left-wing college students and professors. But his intent was quite a turnaround from his quest earlier this year, when he argued that free speech often is stifled by the political correctness practiced at many of the nation's universities.
Scott Sherman Horowitz's Long MarchDavid Horowitz's career evokes the familiar "God that failed" trajectory of the disillusioned leftist who swings violently to the right
Eric Alterman Stealing Blurbs and Other Progressive Causes"Horowitz is being forced to relive yet another painful event in his recent past: the disowning of a blurb he featured in his self-promotion campaign...We eagerly await the next chapter in the adventures of the world's first serial blurb thief."
Jack E. White Horowitz "A Real, Live Bigot""Horowitz's real message: a blanket assault on the alleged moral failures of African Americans so strident and accusatory that it made the antiblack rantings of Dinesh D'Souza seem like models of fair-minded social analysis" Also see:
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PERSON PROFILEDavid HorowitzDavid Horowitz represents one of the right's favorite kinds of people: lapsed leftists (See Marvin Olasky). He is the president and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly Center for the Study of Popular Culture - CSPC), which is a well-funded ($350,000 + from the Bradley foundation alone in 1998) launching pad for his and others attacks against supposed liberals, the supposedly liberal media, and public television in particular. Horowitz was paid $330,000 in 2003 by the CSPC, according to their IRS 990 From his perch at the CSPC, Horowitz frequently appears on TV and radio to denounce the left and attack it for various "falsehoods." Shortly after graduating from Berkeley Horowitz became a leader of what was called the " New Left " movement, editing the influential left wing magazine Ramparts. Horowitz's big career move came in the 1980s, when he and his partner Peter Collier reversed their ideological perspective, coalescing in their 1989 book, "Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties." Collier and Horowitz also created a project of the CSPC called the Committee on Media Integrity (COMINT), designed specifically to attack Public Television. People for the American Way (PFAW) has reported that: While Horowitz claims he does no direct lobbying, he takes credit for legislative attacks on PBS: "Probably Senator Dole and I are the two individuals that had the most to do with the present hold" [on reauthorization of PBS funding]. Buying a Movement, from People for the American Way. PFAW has also reported that more than 50 percent of the CSPC's budget in 1992 came from three foundations: Olin, Bradley and Sarah Scaife (joint contributions totaling $482,500). COMINT itself was begun with $125,000 in start-up funds from the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 1988. Grants to the CSPC. Grants to the National Forum Foundation. Horowitz and Collier first received money (at least $825,000 -- money you wouldn't see as going to Collier and Horowitz were you to just search for grants to the CSPC) from the right wing movement through the NFF.
Max Blumenthal The Demons of David HorowitzSince David Horowitz switched his political allegiance from the radical left to the authoritarian right, he has engaged in one embarassingly paranoid crusade after another. Each one is designed to stifle a liberal conspiracy which exists only in the hollow canyons of his own mind, and each one fizzles out in a mist of his own petulant frustration. Each time, insidious liberal influence is to blame for his own failures. MediaMatters.org Horowitz: "There are 50,000 professors ... [who] identify with the terrorists"On MSNBC's Scarborough Country, right-wing activist David Horowitz claimed that "[t]here are 50,000 professors" who are "anti-American" and "identify with the terrorists." There are just over 400,000 tenured and tenure-track full-time university professors in the United States. If Horowitz's numbers are accurate, that means approximately one out of every eight tenured or tenure-track college and university professors is a terrorist sympathizer. MediaMatters.org LA Times continues to publish David Horowitz despite his history of misinformationThe Los Angeles Times printed an op-ed by David Horowitz regarding academic freedom on college campuses despite his history of false statements and unsupported allegations on this very topic. The op-ed marked the 29th time Horowitz has been published in the Times, according to a Nexis search. Nicholas Lemann On Balance...to carry out [David] Horowitz’s program would require our asking prospective faculty members (and, perhaps, students, too) to tell us their political views, which we don’t do, and which seems intrusive to me...most of what we teach does not have any obvious ideological content. There is not a liberal or conservative way to teach students how to write clearly and accurately and quickly, or how to work by high ethical standards...To follow Horowitz’s prescription would be to make our school more ideological, not less...[taking] us away from our core assumption, which is that reporting can get you meaningfully closer to the truth. Not a version of truth -- the truth. June Kronholz Congress Wades Into Campus PoliticsRepublicans Push for Academic Bill of Rights To Ensure 'Dissenting Viewpoints' in ClassCollege campuses can be political hotbeds. And that has some members of Congress thinking they should get involved. Frederick Sweet David Horowitz: College Assassin for HireFormer left-wing radical turned right-wing gadfly David Horowitz is engaged in a well funded mission to seize control of America's so called "liberal" universities to silence their opposition to the radical right. Jennifer Jacobson What Makes David RunDavid Horowitz demands attention for the idea that conservatives deserve a place in academe[Horowitz] claims he would make more money as a liberal, too, "at least three times," what he earns now. According to the center's most recent available tax form, Mr. Horowitz received an annual salary of $310,167 in 2003. Dr. Graham Larkin / American Association of University Professors Legislating Academic Freedom: The Larkin-Horowitz DebateGraham Larkin "More Than a Stretch": David Horowitz's Imagined Supporters Speak OutMichael Bérubé, Stanley Fish, Todd Gitlin, and Eugene Volokh respond to David Horowitz's contention that they are behind his Academic Bill of Rights ThinkProgress.org Horowitz's Politically Correct DatabaseA lot has been said...about David Horowitz’s proposed "Academic Bill of Rights," now being considered as a law in the Ohio State Senate. Horowitz says it is necessary because political bullying occurs regularly in college classrooms. Here are some examples of what he is apparently talking about, from his Academic Student Abuse Center.. David Corn Is David Horowitz a "Lunatic"?...after [CSPAN] aired a tape of Ward Churchill's recent defiant speech at University of Colorado, it cued up what it billed as "another speech about academic freedom." This was a tape of Horowitz addressing a sparsely attended meeting of College Republicans in July 2003. In a talk purportedly on ideological diversity on campuses, Horowitz referred to Howard Zinn, a progressive historian, as a "lunatic." MediaMatters.org Horowitz's "racist" habit...Horowitz has a conspicuous record of freely applying the "racist" label to a wide variety of people and organizations, including [Al] Franken; Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai; the Democratic Party... MediaMatters.org Horowitz: Kerry "basically was happy to see" Communists win in VietnamDavid Horowitz...claimed on August 2 that, during a debate more than 30 years ago on The Dick Cavett Show, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) indicated that he thought "Communists were just nationalists and basically was happy to see them win." Horowitz made this false accusation as a guest on C-SPAN...Kerry said nothing of the sort. In fact, Kerry was quoted expressing exactly the opposite sentiment to Horowitz's assertion in a December 12, 1971, Boston Globe article: "I don't like Communists," Kerry said. "In fact, I hate them. I hate all totalitarians. I'm totally dedicated to representative, pluralistic, free democracy." New York Daily News Richard Cohen on what's wrong with Horowitz's ad"Even someone who might agree with Horowitz calls him "smug," "cold," and "dismissive."...What's wrong is the message between the lines. What's wrong is its casual breeziness, its failure to acknowledge the pain of racism, the horror of slavery, and instead to treat the commerce in human beings as something akin to a drought — a Dust Bowl for blacks...It's been a while, so get over it — that's the attitude...if I were a student editor, I would not have accepted the ad. I'd be under no obligation to do so. Newspapers reject ads all the time, sometimes simply to avoid offending readers. The student editors who thought the First Amendment gave them no choice were mistaken. Alicia Montgomery Brothers under the skinLike his nemesis Al Sharpton, David Horowitz seems more interested in inflaming racial tensions than resolving themPoor David Horowitz! He's been thrown against the barricades once again for standing up to the "racial arsonists" who advocate reparations for slavery. Or that's what he wants everyone to believe. Perhaps he even believes it himself But he shouldn't be able to shrug off the "racial provocateur" label so easily. He's spent years earning it. He's done more than his share to lower the level of discourse on racial issues in Salon's pages, and his recent self-defense was no exception. Rhetorically, Horowitz has much more in common with rabble-rouser Al Sharpton than he cares to admit. Horowitz delivers a speech to the College Republicans (natch) at U Cal Berkeley on March 16, 2001. Daily Californian What About The Debt Blacks Owe To America?David Horowitz asks (in full page ads in college newspapers)Pimping his newest book (with tax-exempt funds?) Death of the Civil Rights Movement, Horowitz is taking out full-page ads in college newspapers. According to the Daily Californian, which apologized for running it: "The ad, titled 'Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea - And Racist Too,' proclaimed that slavery was self-inflicted by blacks and that efforts for reparations should be stopped." The "ad allowed the Daily Cal (Berkeley) to become an inadvertent vehicle for bigotry," the paper's apology said. Horowitz has a long history of racism himself. In marketing his last book, modestly titled "Hating Whitey and other Progressive Causes," Horowitz was caught and had to apologize - for the second time - for twisting critical quotes about his awful books so he could use them as blurbs (one of the authors whose words he had twisted subsequently called Horowitz a "demented lunatic"). Daily Cal stands by its apology. (March 6, 2001)
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Paul Schmelzer Horowitz's vast leftwing conspiracy and me.Apparently, I keep interesting company: I'm like peas in a pod with Joseph Stalin, Garrison Keillor, Fred Phelps, Osama bin Laden, The Pulitzer Prize, and Bruce Springsteen, according to neoconservative David Horowitz whose website Discover the Networks (DTN) includes me in a recent update to its "Guide to the Political Left."
MediaMatters.org Echoing Lyndon LaRouche, Horowitz and Poe smear 14-year-old George Soros as Nazi "collaborator"; new book features doctored quotes, factual errorsEchoing the rantings of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche and his followers, David Horowitz and Richard Poe charge in their new book that George Soros was a Nazi "collaborator in fascist Hungary" and "survived [the Holocaust] by assimilating to Nazism" as a 14-year-old boy. Horowitz and Poe further smear Soros and other progressives by doctoring or distorting quotes and falsely or misleadingly portraying events and statements.
MediaMatters.org Horowitz baselessly suggested that domestic spying led to foiling of NYC tunnel plotIn his latest column, David Horowitz baselessly suggested that U.S. officials were able to uncover an alleged "attack by radical Islam" to bomb tunnels leading into New York City by monitoring the communications of Americans, an apparent reference to the controversy over The New York Times' reporting in December that the administration was monitoring domestic communications without a warrant. In fact, there is no indication, in any reports, that the FBI engaged in the kind of domestic eavesdropping on which the Times reported to uncover the alleged tunnel plot; the communications made in connection with the purported plot apparently did not involve a party inside the United States.
Justin Raimondo David Horowitz: It’s All About HimInspired, perhaps, by the recent prominence of North Korea in the news, over in the Land of the Neocons David Horowitz is doing his Kim il-Sung imitation. His “Center for the Study of Popular Culture” has been renamed: it is now the “David Horowitz Freedom Center.”
Alan Jones Connecting the DotsBy all objective measures, the dawning of the 21st century should be a golden era for American higher education...A recent review article by Jonathan Cole, provost at Columbia University, meticulously documents the preeminence of U.S. higher education in the world today as an established fact.
MediaMatters.org Horowitz: "Ann Coulter is a national treasureOn The O'Reilly Factor, David Horowitz called Ann Coulter "a national treasure" and stated that the "point" of Coulter's controversial remarks on the widows of the victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks was "right on the mark."
MediaMatters.org David Horowitz debunks David Horowitz: a Media Matters analysis of The ProfessorsRight-wing activist David Horowitz has attacked Media Matters for America for noting -- contrary to Horowitz's denial on the April 6 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes -- that his recent book contains numerous instances in which he cited the purported extracurricular activities of the professors he criticized in the book. Horowitz has conceded that there is a "sliver of truth in the Media Matters statement" that documented his inconsistencies, but he downplayed this, claiming that "my book is a series of profiles of 101 professors" that includes "general perspectives, [that] may or may not be expressed outside the classroom." However, a detailed Media Matters study of the book shows that Horowitz's suggestion that his book does not rely heavily on professors' activities and speech outside of the classroom is false.
Todd Gitlin Horowitz: Old Whine, ContinuedI suppose that somewhere out in the vast outback of the Republic there are readers who have not yet made up their minds on the credibility of David Horowitz, America’s prime abstinence-only crusader for the lost virginity of the American university. To those tender souls I dedicate these words.
Patrick Kerkstra Hearing into bias falls short of billingThe probe of professors said to inject politics into classes at Pa. public colleges drew just one student speaker. Yesterday's hearing on academic freedom at Pennsylvania's public universities was hyped by conservative activists as a "historic moment," in which school administrators would finally be "called to account" in front of state legislators for allowing student "indoctrination and abuse" by leftist professors.
MediaMatters.org Horowitz falsely claimed that Senate report "exonerated" Bush on African uranium claimDavid Horowitz falsely asserted that the Senate Intelligence Committee has "exonerated" President Bush for saying, in his 2003 State of the Union address, that "[t]he British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
Discover Your Moma's Network.orgParody of Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetwork
Dr. Graham Larkin / American Association of University Professors What's Not To Like About The Academic Bill of RightsDon't believe the doubletalk; Mr. Horowitz and the so-called Students for Academic Freedom are enemies of free thought and free speech
Richard Silverstein Restoration Weekend: Give Me a Home Where the Far Right RoamsDavid Horowitz has Clinton envy. He must've gotten jealous seeing the political spotlight on Bill Clinton's Renaissance Weekend concept. So he decided to start a hard right version which he creatively named Restoration Weekend... If you're going, head for the Boca Raton Resort & Club on November 11, 2004...
Glenn J. Sacks Horowitz's "Letter to Anti-War Demonstrators" Is Poor History Lesson"Horowitz's ad campaign is simply a bad history lesson, because the Vietnam War was lost not at home due to student demonstrators but instead on the battlefields of Vietnam, due to the bravery and almost fanatical dedication of America's enemies"
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Center for the Study of Popular Culture becomes David Horowitz Freedom Center
