Horowitz Responds

David Horowitz responds to my recent criticism of his limited defense of Mel Gibson:

To describe me as someone who operates on the principle of "no enemies to the right" is very unfair. I took on the entire leadership of the Christian Right, writing three widely quoted articles on the subject, when they attacked Marc Racicot for meeting with the Human Rights Campaign, I have whacked Falwell, Bauer, Lott, Armey and Weyrich by name for anti-gay positions and comments, I have stated that Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory and has no place in the academic curriculum, I have opposed a Republican bill in Arizona that would force teachers to assign different books to students who were offended by those they assigned first, I defended Ward Churchill’s right to publish reprehensible stuff on the Internet and not be fired and then criticized the Republican governor of Colorado (who happens to be a personal friend) for demanding that Churchill be fired – and I did this in an op-ed in the Denver Rocky Mountain News at the height of affair. My magazine, Frontpage, has slammed Pat Buchanan, Lew Rockwell and the paleo-right time after time over the war and in exactly the same terms we have employed when dealing with the Counter-punch left.