HOROWITZ THE ENTERTAINER

Got this email last week, and my comments are in red:

"An Urgent MessageFrom the Desk of David Horowitz: (the last one was urgent too - see here)

Dear CSPC Supporter (er, not a supporter, but that's called oblivion),

We have been given an opportunity to expose the radical left in our universities right now like we've never been able to before. (That's because you have the conservatives' money to play with, under the auspices of an administration headed by the likes of El Presidente.)

Over the past 48 hours a consortium of radical professors, students and like-minded leftist organizations have launched an unprecedented attack aimed at discrediting my just-released book, The Professors, as well as our powerful National Campaign for Academic Freedom.

Over the years you and I have witnessed precisely this type of concerted effort used by America's left when it wants to silence anyone who threatens to expose its Hate America Agenda. (Yes, indeed - you were part of some of these concerted efforts in the past, but I guess you realized the right is more economically lucrative these days.)

At the end of this email, a trusted supporter of CSPC, there is a link to my formal answer to the charges being made by a coalition of some of the left's most powerful groups including the ACLU, the teacher unions, George Soros's university recruitment program (Campus Progress) the rabidly pro-Castro United Students Association and, of course, People for the America Way. (This is just badly written English, truly appalling.)

But right now I'm asking you to immediately help me counter their malicious attempts to smear me, the book, our research and our powerful and growing National Campaign for Academic Freedom. (money money money - this man is right on the money.)

We're already preparing space ads to run in every campus newspaper that features one of the professors in my book, and in such magazines as Editor & Publisher that will call this coalition on the carpet and expose their smear campaign and their ugly McCarthyite tactics! (Oh my - please tell me he is not referring to that McCarthy/McCarthyism - that is a complete historical distortion, and if anything he is the one blacklisting people and resorting to McCarthy's witch-hunt strategies while doing so; unless he is referring to the McCarthyite Party in Canada in the 1800s, which I doubt).

But I need your help. We know that we need to raise at least $25,500 immediately to get our ads produced and published. This will allow us to place ads in 250 campus newspapers. Can you help me today with a special emergency Expose the Censors contribution of $300, $100, or at least $35 right now? (And we're back to money.)

You know that extremist factions like People for the American Way, the ACLU and the far left United Students Association don't truly want genuine academic freedom to gain a foothold on our campuses. If they did they wouldn't accuse me of attacking faculty members for their political associations. (But isn't he attacking faculty members for their political associations? Here is one of these attacks, sent to me on a previous email: "What we’ve exposed will astound and anger you: 1. At Cal State-Long Beach: Ron Karenga is a Professor and Chairman of the Black Studies Department. He’s also a convicted torturer and inventor of Kwanzaa..." - and it goes on.)

The introduction of The Professors addressed that criticism point-blank and states clearly that the purpose of the book isn't to condemn faculty members for their political views. It's to expose the intellectual corruption of the university and the transformation of classrooms into political soap boxes. (right - as his "powerful National Campaign for Academic Freedom" proposes to transform campuses into political soap boxes as well, but with a conveniently conservative outlook.)

Along with the falsehood about attacking professors for their associations, the coalition claims that the book is my attempt to "silence my critics." As you know, that's utter nonsense. And while the professors discussed in my book don't agree with you and me or our call for real academic freedom.... (no, by all means, go on and make a fool out of yourself, Mr. Horowitz. You provide us all with excellent entertainment).

...their criticisms of our campaign or my work don't amount to a hill of beans! The people these professors truly hurt day-in, day-out are the students they ridicule and browbeat and the talented, bright professors they work hard to keep out of their institutions expressly because of their political or religious associations. (Who is writing this stuff for him?!? It is composed for illiterate, ignorant, uneducated people. It is brimming with the worst blend of populism and ideologue nonsense; and on top of that, bad grammar and syntax. Even conservatives deserve better than that.)

As a longtime supporter of our National Campaign for Academic Freedom you know a major goal of our campaign is to get administrations and professors to quit doing precisely that -- attacking other professors or students for their political views... (No comments.)

...it's just that those who suffer the indignity and abuse from these attacks are more often than not conservatives or Christians. Far too many professors -- and my book names names -- feel their classrooms are forums to forward their political agenda! (Let me see if I get this right: it is not okay for professors to express their views on whatever they choose to in the classroom, but it is okay for the Christian conservatives to push intelligent design in science curriculum, school prayer and more. I guess that does not constitute forwarding a political agenda of any kind, right?)

What you and I must repeat and repeat to the American people is that this campaign of slurs and smears that this coalition of leftists has launched is precisely the type of attempts to suppress dissenting views that exists on our campuses today...

...precisely what my book exposes!

Please help me counter these attacks with the truth. You know well that these radical leftists have gotten away with these types of slash-and-burn campaigns for far too long -- we cannot let this stand! (Oh well, I suppose that is spoken from experience...)

As always, I speak for our entire CSPC staff when I thank you for your longstanding courageous support. I look forward to your immediate help again. (Don't hold your breath, you crazy pathetic pseudo-intellectual self-aggrandizing clown.)

Sincerely,

David Horowitz President & Founder

P.S. Below is a link that details the scurrilous attack on The Professors, our National Campaign for Academic Freedom, and on me. You'll also find my exact response to their charges. But please, take any of the blue links provided throughout this letter and make a contribution of $300, $100 or at least $35 to our emergency Expose the Censors ad campaign. Thank you so much." (At least he says please...)