COME OFF IT, DAVID

I can barely believe that David Horowitz is now refusing to pay the Daily Princetonian for running his ad. His reason? The Princetonian ran a hostile editorial calling his ad racist and pledged to give the money to a local branch of the Urban League. That seems to me to be perfectly fair, if obnoxious, comment – and completely in tune with open journalism. Horowitz is upset by the editorial which he calls “slanderous.” Poor baby. I’m a fan of Horowitz’s ideological bomb-throwing, but this kind of prima donna attitude is troubling. It suggests his agenda isn’t simply to debunk racist leftism or to champion free speech, but to enforce his point of view on people by intimidation and sulking. He should pay up and chill out. Or he’ll begin to resemble the old David Horowitz – the one that once patronized the authoritarian left.