[lbo-talk] Who is behind Frontpagemag.com?

[Jim Devine]

Jim F. writes:>... It is said that back when he was a commie leftist,
Horowitz didn't have a penny to his name, and spent years earning a
poverty-level income at most. Then when he became a right-winger, all
sorts of money began to flow in and he has now become quite wealthy. 
On the other hand, the one thing that he has failed to acquire is any
real respect.  After all, in his pilgrimage from the far left to the
far right, he has been preceded by many better men like Max Eastman,
James Burnham, Whittaker Chambers etc.  ...<

though money had something to do with it, H's transition also involved
some weird twists. At a time when most of the Berkeley Left was moving
away from the Black Panthers because of their thuggery (in the 1970s),
H embraced them. He recommended a job to a friend of his as the
Panthers' accountant. When it turned out that the Ps were cheating on
their accounts, she ended up in the San Francisco Bay (with cement
overshoes, I would guess). Naturally enough, he freaked out....
Jim D.