> What is the deal with Bérubé standing in front
> of "The Gates" in his black jacket?
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> Give him credit, the Horowitz piece is very good.
I'll second that.
Despite the exhaustive buffet of lunacy that stretches from one horizon to its opposite when it comes to Horowitz, Michael Berube nails what originally enlisted the catering service:
> The real issue is this. Some years ago, I
> referred to David Horowitz as a former member
> of the “far left.” By this I meant that he
> stayed with the Panthers for years after every
> sane leftist in America realized that they’d
> degenerated into a handful of paramilitary thugs,
> and now he goes around blaming the rest of the
> sixties left for his own hideous political
> judgment.
The little bugger is indicting all of us, with the broadest conspiranoid conception of "us," for his own poor judgment. (Pardon my sloth; I haven't scoured the Nation's website for the old Nation article that documents his credulity past.) He indicts "the left" to exonerate himself.
-- Shane