I had dinner and drinks the other night with Hitchens, Tom Frank, and Bill Ayers, former SDSer and husband of Bernardine Dohrn, among other people. Studs Terkel was supposed to show but didn't. Hitchens says he plans on challenging Horowitz to a debate - I believe he said via Vanity Fair - and in effect call him on it. But I seem to remember reading on this list that another non-black challenged Horowitz and he declined.
Have you read his new book Unacknowledged Legislation? The Trial of Henry Kissinger is out now. They decided not to go with the photo of Henry with his finger up his nose.
best, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> To: lbo <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Cc: Scott McLemee <mclemee at igc.org>; Dan Benbow <danbenbow at hotmail.com> Date: Monday, April 09, 2001 7:33 PM Subject: Fw: > Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch)
> Say it ain't so Hitch... www.mediawhoresonline.com
>Peter Kilander, you still around? http://www.enteract.com/~peterk/
>Speaking to the Judicial Watch convention, now this? Is this Stalinesque
>fascist baiting? Defensiveness of a Liberal Democrat pissed at Christopher
>for the book on the Clinton's?The book by Conason and Lyons has lotsa stuff
>on the Arkansas Project, should read now that it is pb. And a new book by
>poli sci guy, Peter Merkl (expertise Euro far right), on the impeachment,
>might have some useful data on Scaife. Seem to remember a good piece in
CJR,
>"Citizen Scaife, " a while ago. Given the secretiveness of Scaife, and how
>he does not funnel his gazillions through orgs like 501(c)3's that gotta
>file reports with State Secretaries of State and/or Charities watchdogs,
how
>does one follow the $ ??? Manhattan Instutute appearance? Maybe, Michael
>Tomasky has some juicy stuff on this?
>http://www.tnr.com/040901/grunwald040901_print.html
>http://www.tnr.com/040901/crowley040901.html
>Michael Pugliese
>P.S. Is the Vanity Fair piece of Hitchens on Irving online? BTW, see the
new
>book on Irving from Richard J. Evans Looking forward to D.D. Guttenplan
book
>on same, expanded from The Atlantic.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Benbow" <danbenbow at hotmail.com>
>To: <debsian at pacbell.net>
>Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:35 PM
>Subject: Re: Fwd: RE: Fwd: FW:
>
>
>> Michael: did you see this? does it have merit?
>> it's from mediawhoresonline.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Scaife 'n' Snitch
>>
>> Is Christopher Hitchens receiving money from Richard Mellon Scaife -
>> who bankrolled the now infamous
>> (Ted Olson) Arkansas Project?
>>
>> AN OPEN LETTER TO CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
>> FROM MEDIA WHORES ONLINE
>>
>> Dear Chris:
>>
>> Please come clean.
>>
>> MWO would like to know how much money you have received
>> from the right-wing zealot billionaire, Richard Mellon Scaife.
>>
>> If you have taken money from your good friend David
>> Horowitz, for participating in an anti-Hillary Clinton forum
>> at a right-wing think tank before the New York election for
>> the US Senate -
>>
>> And..
>>
>> If you have taken money from the same David Horowitz
>> for speaking at a right-wing gathering against President
>> Clinton and the Democratic Party in Los Angeles during the
>> Democratic Convention. (The person who introduced you
>> was the crackpot Ann Coulter.) -
>>
>> And..
>>
>> If Horowitz is heavily funded by Scaife..
>>
>> We would like to know how much of Scaife's money ended
>> up in your pockets.
>>
>> Come clean, Hitchens. Tell your Naderite pals and the world
>> just how much cash from Scaife sources you've taken.
>>
>> Did you, for example, get Scaife money
>> when you accepted an award from the far
>> right-wing group Judicial Watch, and stood
>> on-stage at their fundraiser embracing
>> Larry Klayman, the notorious wing-nut who
>> represents Linda Tripp? (Klayman and
>> Judicial Watch are also funded by Scaife,
>> who financed the scurrilous multi-million
>> dollar Arkansas Project of dirty tricks
>> against the Clintons). Incidentally, is this
>> occasion the reason why you are called
>> Linda Hitchens?
>>
>> How much money from Scaife, Hitchens? And did you use any of
>> it to cater the dinner you gave at your place for the pro-Nazi
>> historian and your fellow Holocaust denier David Irving?
>>
>> Fess up, Hitchens. Nobody left to lie to? Or to lie about?
>>
>> Afraid to tell the truth to all of your progressive, left-wing
>fans?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> MWO
>>
>>
>> Write to The Nation, the publication that Hitchens uses to
>launder
>> his right-wing allegiances and
>> gain the progressive credentials he hawks to the Horowitzes,
>Chris
>> Matthewses, Freepers, and anyone
>> else - when the price is right. Ask them to find out the truth
>> about the Scaife-Hitchens connection.
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course we are not the only ones to notice/be disgusted by
>Hitchens's
>> talent for bashing
>> liberals/Democrats, or The Nation's willingness to provide him the
>> means:
>>
>> MWO reader Steven Day's March letter to The Nation
>
>
>