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DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER FUNDING

Sarah Meyers has an excellent analysis of the funding of ‘media dissemblers’ including Horowitz, in the Haditha Doctors and the Media Dissemblers.

Media Transparency has the rundown of DHFC’s major funders since 1989. The names listed are the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Adolph Coors’ Castle Rock Foundation, the now defunct John M. Olin Foundation, and several foundations belonging to Richard Mellon Scaife.

DAVID HOROWITZ PROFILES

Being a media provocateur means having a long record of writings and criticism. From his early days as a Marxist Ramparts editor to his much debated conversion to “neo-conservatism,” Horowitz’s personal journey has been well noted and publicized.

Salon (2005) by John Gorenfeld:

When I called to interview him for Salon, listed on his site as an “apparatchik far-left” publication practically in league with Islamists, the former Salon columnist was strangely eager to appease me. Famous for breathing fire in public before admiring college Republicans, he scampered when I confronted him about his site’s claims, even promising to rewrite some of them.

Media Transparency (2004) by Bill Berkowitz:

At Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, “WANTED” posters with a headshot of Professor Abel Alves appeared on campus a few weeks back; a student who took Associate professor David Gibbs’ “What is Politics?” class at the University of ArizonaDavid Horowitz claimed Gibbs “is an anti-American communist who hates America and is trying to brainwash young people into thinking America sucks;” a political-science professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver says she has been the target of death threats and hate e-mail in the wake of the recent debate over the academic bill of rights; a University of Georgia professor is being investigated after allegations he bullied a conservative student. Revenge of the Nerds? Twenty-first century Gipper brigades? No, and No. It’s the Horowistas, a small but hearty band of followers of right wing provocateur, David Horowitz and his Students for Academic Freedom.

CounterPunch (2002) by Kurt Nimmo:

The Horowitz glass is distorted, blackened. When he ganders therein, David observes Ramsey Clark lending a helping hand to Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein. It does not matter, of course, that Clark has denounced Saddam Hussein; what irks David is the fact Clark has called the sanctions against Iraq immoral and barbaric, not the stuff of a civilized people.

The Nation (2000) by Scott Sherman:

These days, not much remains of the student who stood up to defend a conscientious objector in the twilight of the Eisenhower era. The years have transformed Horowitz into a steely gladiator, an indefatigable pugilist in the culture wars, the right’s very own Ahab. “Lapsed radicals like ourselves are always condemned to regard the left as their Great White Whale,” Horowitz and Peter Collier confessed in their 1991 anthology, Deconstructing the Left. “This book is a record of our sightings of the beast. We may not yet have set the final harpoon, but we have given chase.”