Horowitz: falsifying students' words, too
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Ever have one of those moments when you've had to stop and ask yourself, "what the...?"
I had one of those moments today. A colleague of mine at Free Exchange was researching the distortions and manipulations in David Horowitz's book The Professors, and came across a doozie.
Apparently, a student at Ball State University (BSU) wrote an article for BSU's website criticizing a lecture given by Professor George Wolfe. Horowitz, apparently trolling the BSU site, wrote the student an email asking him to submit the piece for publication on his website, FrontPageMag. Naturally, Horowitz also took the liberty of suggesting a few additions to the student's piece.
The student made the changes and submitted the piece. Two days later, a piece appeared on FrontPageMag under his name, about the same professor. But that's where the similarity ends. Horowitz re-wrote the student's piece in its entirety, amped up its inflammatory tone, added inaccurate information - and published it under the student's name.
As the student himself writes, the piece that appeared on FrontPageMag "was 100 percent different than the story that I wrote."
When he says "100 percent," he means it. Horowitz deleted everything the student wrote and replaced it with his own words. See for yourself: here is the piece the student submitted, and here is the piece that appeared on FrontPageMag.
The student continues, "FPM essentially took the gist of my article, completely re-wrote it in a much more inflammatory tone and then attributed it to me without my consent. It's absolutely unethical and unacceptable for such conduct to occur, worse yet, the published information is inaccurate. I never was enrolled in any class taught by George Wolfe.
"I find myself both outraged and shocked that David Horowitz would falsify a student's work and then publish it nationally. He is an embarrassment to both the media and the Conservative movement."
I couldn't have said it better myself, friend.
I suppose one has to laugh, both at the absurdity and the arrogance. It's like an elementary schooler who forges an absence note in crayon and thinks he won't get caught.
But at the same time, the sad truth is that Horowitz and his small army of fanatics have to be taken seriously. They're well-funded, they won't stop until they get their way, and sadly, they've got the ears of few misguided - but powerful - legislators.
More on that later.
I had one of those moments today. A colleague of mine at Free Exchange was researching the distortions and manipulations in David Horowitz's book The Professors, and came across a doozie.
Apparently, a student at Ball State University (BSU) wrote an article for BSU's website criticizing a lecture given by Professor George Wolfe. Horowitz, apparently trolling the BSU site, wrote the student an email asking him to submit the piece for publication on his website, FrontPageMag. Naturally, Horowitz also took the liberty of suggesting a few additions to the student's piece.
The student made the changes and submitted the piece. Two days later, a piece appeared on FrontPageMag under his name, about the same professor. But that's where the similarity ends. Horowitz re-wrote the student's piece in its entirety, amped up its inflammatory tone, added inaccurate information - and published it under the student's name.
As the student himself writes, the piece that appeared on FrontPageMag "was 100 percent different than the story that I wrote."
When he says "100 percent," he means it. Horowitz deleted everything the student wrote and replaced it with his own words. See for yourself: here is the piece the student submitted, and here is the piece that appeared on FrontPageMag.
The student continues, "FPM essentially took the gist of my article, completely re-wrote it in a much more inflammatory tone and then attributed it to me without my consent. It's absolutely unethical and unacceptable for such conduct to occur, worse yet, the published information is inaccurate. I never was enrolled in any class taught by George Wolfe.
"I find myself both outraged and shocked that David Horowitz would falsify a student's work and then publish it nationally. He is an embarrassment to both the media and the Conservative movement."
I couldn't have said it better myself, friend.
I suppose one has to laugh, both at the absurdity and the arrogance. It's like an elementary schooler who forges an absence note in crayon and thinks he won't get caught.
But at the same time, the sad truth is that Horowitz and his small army of fanatics have to be taken seriously. They're well-funded, they won't stop until they get their way, and sadly, they've got the ears of few misguided - but powerful - legislators.
More on that later.
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