Posted 3:35 PM by Scoobie Davis

I Owe My Friend A Six-Pack of Corona Thanks to David Horowitz

I lost a bet. The prize: a six-pack of delicious Corona beer (screw those Miller Beer ads that badmouth putting a lime in one’s beer). Here’s the back story: Horowitz wrote an article for his web site calling his former friend David Brock a liar because Brock wrote that an editor friend claimed that Horowitz made an anti-gay slur. Since Horowitz didn’t hear the conversation between Brock and the unnamed editor, it is difficult to tell who is telling the truth about what Horowitz said or hadn’t said.

I thought it was ironic that Horowitz would be so concerned about an alleged anti-gay slur when Horowitz admitted that he was Brock’s “supportive friend” when Brock was engaging in full-fledged smear campaigns against Anita Hill, Bill Clinton, and Vince Foster—funded by Richard Mellon Scaife (who currently funds Horowitz). So last Thursday, I wrote a reasoned response to Horowitz’s article, detailing his inconsistencies. I told a friend that it was a moral victory since it was unlikely that Horowitz would print it in his correspondence section. My friend bet me a six-pack of Corona that Horowitz would print it. Finally, on Sunday, Horowitz printed my letter along with a lame and incoherent rejoinder.

So for those of you who are interested, I wrote a response to Horowitz’s nonresponse.
[Click here to read it.]