Posts with the tag Horowitz

Welcome To Logic 101 -- Your Instructor Is David Horowitz

Jesse Singal — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:07:00 EDT

Islamo-fascism-awareness-raiser and noted liberal-lister David Horowitz, in an interview on National Review Online:

But the larger agenda is create a national movement to stand up to the coalition between Islamo-fascists and American liberals at home who are running interference for the terrorists. [*] The coalition attacking Islamo-fascism Awareness Week extends from the Iranians and CAIR through the Revolutionary Communist Party to Campus Progress (an offshoot of the Hillary-Soros-Podesta operation) and College Democrats.

That is too cute. You see what he's doing here?

Horowitz knows the real problem with the War on Terror

Ben Regenspan — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:38:47 EDT

...which is that no one's making enough oversimplistic, excruciatingly poorly-produced Cold War-style videos about the enemy.

Thankfully the David Horowitz Freedom Foundation (named for, and by, Mr. Horowitz) is helping to ensure that we win this war like the one before it. Presenting: "Know About Jihad," the Freedom Foundation's latest subtle effort at boosting global awareness of terrorism, a problem that goes completely ignored by the mainstream media.

Indoctri-nation!

pdelatorre — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:58:58 EDT

Recently Stephen Colbert commented on a great evil plaguing college student all over the country: exposure to ideas you do not agree with.

Academic Freedom Conference: David Horowitz Says Hello From Alternate Universe

Rao — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:09:49 EST

The Second Annual Academic Freedom Conference came to an unceremonious close with a "debate" between David Horowitz and President of the American Association of University Professors Cary Nelson. And by "debate," I mean "an oppurtunity for Horowitz and his supporters to make ad hominem attacks against the AAUP and liberals."

Horowitz chided Nelson for not partaking in intelligent discourse on at least three occasions, and, each time, preceeded to call the AAUP anti-freedom, supporters of terrorists, or holocaust deniers. And I guess that's what passed for intelligent discourse, since one of the 30 people still in the room after the debate confronted Nelson about AAUP taking "a third of its budget" from terrorist groups. My guess is that the only way this could have been less intelligent is if Horowitz and co. insulted the moderator -- oh wait, that happened. Now Scott Smallwood of the Chronicle of Higher Education knows that he, too, is opposed to academic freedom.

Horowitz had obviously lost his grip on reality, but by his closing statements, he really let loose. He began by complaining that he was only one man and therefore couldn't be expected to actually verify anything he says (even though he has his own magazine, a student organization, and a budget of $14.5 million). He then went on a tangential rant about how corporations are funding....liberals? Some great moments:

"Everyone knows that businesses fund liberals."
So thats why businesses gave over $600 million to Republican candidates in 2004, $200 million more than they gave to Democrats and more than 65% of the republican party's budget. It was an elaborate ruse, some sort of double-cross -- good work, Horowitz!

"Businesses do business, not politics."
Just because the Students for Academic Freedom can't walk and chew gum at the same time, doesn't mean that corporations can't do it. They gave more 60% of all political donations in 2004, totalling more than $1.5 billion and far surpassing any other group.

"95% of all CEO's are liberal."
This is just a dirty, dirty lie. Business associations provide more than 80% of their political donations to Republicans, and CEO's of the automotive, tobacco, food, chemical and waste industries all give substantially more money to Republicans than Democrats. Out of top 20 most pro-Democratic industries, the only groups with CEOs to speak of are the entertainment and media industries.

Now this all would have been insulting if anyone cared. But Cary Nelson, who looks like Santa Claus raised in the 60's, spent the whole debate chuckling, and our undercover blogger contigent already had their brains melted by four hours of wingnuttery. So congratulations, David Horowitz, you successfully preached to the choir and that one guy watching you on C-SPAN. You can put this one in the win column.

Academic Freedom Conference: Chairman Horowitz

Rao — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:21:31 EST

Finally, David Horowitz' membership in an American Maoist Communist group at Columbia University is paying off.

His attempt at indoctrination:

And Mao ZeDong's attempt at indoctrination (and violent revolution, I guess):

COINCIDENCE?

Rule number one of youth indoctrination: Don't call your philosophical manifesto the "little red book." Needless to say, David Horowitz broke this rule within 30 seconds of taking the mic at the Second Annual Academic Freedom Conference this Saturday -- and seriously, did a movement that wants to muzzle free speech on campus really need more authoritarian overtones?

Academic Freedom Conference: Haters of Freedom, Sign Up Here!

Rao — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:12:28 EST

Good news everyone! Democrats are invited to join the Students for Academic Freedom, and all they have to do is to concede that they are bad people who hate America! While Joe Lieberman may still want to join up, it was pretty clear to everyone at the conference that Democrats were either a) not fit to be in the presence of Mr. Horowitz or b) too busy aiding terrorists to come out to the conference.

David Horowitz introduced the second panel by saying that "it was always my ambition to make this a nonpartisan organization" -- and then the panel proceeded to tell us that we should join the College Republicans on campus and make 9/11 memorials that aren't "politically correct" like the liberals want (I'm still trying to figure out what the difference is between a liberal and a conservative 9/11 memorial). Only one speaker talked about professor bias at all, and even he explained that College Republicans was "a great organization."

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Gib Armstrong out-wingnut-ed the rest of the panel, though, by saying that "it's a great irony that people whose fundamental instinct is totalitarianism are called liberals." He also explained that liberals "hate freedom" because they want to allow professors to express their opinions in the classroom and that its no wonder that they support terrorists. He also said that "those who trade freedom for security deserve neither" -- which was totally irrelevant to the rest of his speech and a wonderfully ironic move for a Bush "let's wiretap and torture everything" Republican.

This is a conference where, when a veteran was explaining how he was called a "baby killer" by a socialist (who has no connection to the college's administration, but its somehow their fault anyway), a member of the audience called out "just like those abortionists!" Horowitz, who admits to getting millions of dollars from conservative donors, is pretending to be non-partisan; but when liberals are treated as totalitarian, evil, anti-american baby killers at his conference, its a hard sell.

Horowitz is at it again

alimae — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:57:59 EST

David Horowitz, founder of Students for Academic Freedom, editor of conservative website FrontPageMag.com, and author of various liberal and conservative books, released his latest book, Indoctrination U, yesterday.

Horowitz, a once influential writer and activist for the left, began speaking out for issues of the right in the late 1980’s. His main focus today has been advocating for the ABOR, an 8 point plan to keep political bias out of the classroom. This plan in theory is reasonable, professors shouldn’t be able to push their political views onto students, but in practice can be quite dangerous. With the implementation of the AOBR any student who is ever offended by what their professor says in class can then call for disciplinary action against, including the dismissal of, that professor. Furthermore, state legislatures have found that colleges and universities in over 20 states already have sufficient policies in place to protect students from infringements on their rights as students.

But that has not stopped Horowitz from promoting his cause by calling out those he feels “indoctrinate” rather than educate. First in his 2006 book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, which named and mischaracterized courses and liberal professors on campuses across the United States. Horowitz used poor internet research to make unsupported claims that these professors were indoctrinating students into their leftist activities. He is now at it again with the release of Indoctrination U yesterday, blaming indoctrination for his inability to have his voice heard. This time Horowitz skips the lists and uses this book as a public forum to publish stale speeches given at various colleges and universities, and to recycle old attacks on professors and departments.