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

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 20:22:24 PDT 2005


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.



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