Posted 6:06 PM by Scoobie Davis

David Horowitz’s Meltdown: The Full Story

In an 11/20 post for his blog for Salon, Joe Conason wrote about the double standard practiced by prominent members of the right, such as David Horowitz, who tar the anti-war left as unpatriotic while leaving their anti-war colleagues on the right relatively unscathed. Conason cited “Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine [which] features ‘The Fifth Column,’ where political adversaries are smeared with treason.”

Salon gave Horowitz space for a full response; Horowitz made the argument that Conason was wrong for accusing him of "smear[ing] his adversaries with treason.” When I read Horowitz’s response, I was flabbergasted that he cited the web site HorowitzWatch to buttress this contention. I am a contributor to HorowitzWatch and back in July, I read Horowitz’s hypocritical call for the execution of John Walker Lindh (Horowitz previously had admitted to have violated the Espionage Act). So in my typical wise-ass manner, I called Horowitz on it--pointing out how by Horowitz's own logic, he called for his own execution (unfortunately the July archives of HorowitzWatch are down but I wrote something similar on this blog). Horowitz’s response to my posts was wild and bizarre. He accused me of living to betray my country and being friends with the communists who killed millions in Indochina.

I pointed this out on HorowitzWatch; Conason linked to it in his rejoinder to Horowitz’s Salon article. Horowitz’s responses were strange to say the least. On Monday, Horowitz called me a “scurrilous blogger” and gave as evidence that I hate America the fact that I link to MediaWhoresOnline, Eric Alterman, and Bill Berkowitz. Don’t ask me why. Today, Horowitz called me “a deranged blogger from www.horowitzwatch.blogspot.com who claims not to be part of the progressive left.” Don’t ask me about that either. I don’t ever recall denying that I am part of the progressive left. It’s a good thing Thanksgiving break is a couple days away; David is obviously working way too hard.