Posted on 03/08/2007 6:11:28 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Mad Max: An Inherited Genetic Disorder Returns
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 8, 2007
[Editors' note: the article below is David Horowitz's defense of Matt Sanchez, a Marine corporal and Columbia student, who is now the target of the Left's campaign of personal destruction.]
I am generally a forgiving soul. If treated half-decently by my opponents I am prepared to overlook many of their indecencies because I understand they come from a place of self-righteous zeal that often overwhelms their better judgment and inspires them to be nasty and dishonest in their service of their political agendas. After all, they’re saving the world.
It is their delusional fantasies of social justice that not only prompted progressives to invent the “politics of personal destruction” but to resort to it as their first and often only weapon. It is also what inspires them to have so little loyalty to community or country, and no respect at all for the truth.
Max is the latest in a line of Blumenthal character assassins who invent the facts to feed their malicious designs. His father once compressed four lies about me in a single sentence. I don’t know if Sid actually instructed his son to continue the dirty work he had begun on my case, but one day little Max showed up on my political doorstep so to speak.
By now I have lost track of how many times he went into print or onto the web to defame me but his last column falsely cast me as the godfather of the ABC miniseries “Path to 9/11” in order to misrepresent it as a right-wing anti-Clinton plot. In fact, the ABC producer who fought hardest for the film was a gay liberal who voted for Clinton (to whom the film was overly tender). As for myself, I was not even aware of the film’s existence until after it was completed. These Max mistakes were bad enough. But when I posted a response correcting the errors, he simply ignored it.
When Max Blumenthal shoves a camera or microphone in your face, as he did mine at the recent CPAC convention, he has no interest whatsoever in reporting the facts, or even in spinning actual facts afterwards. His agenda is to put words in your mouth and use them against you. Character demolition is his business and he has no respect whatsoever for the truth. Naturally, this is not exactly visible to the viewer, because of the way he cuts the product. You don’t get to see him ramming his words down your throat. You just get to see the effort to spit them out. By the time we reached the point in our non-conversation where he asked me what motivated the Left, I was pretty stoked. I explained to him that leftists are driven by envy and resentment and a self-adoring sense of themselves as social redeemers. This is what explains why Max’s heroes have murdered tens of millions of innocent people whose misfortune it was to get in the way of their salvational schemes. After our non-interview was over, I gave Max a copy of a Monster – a pamphlet about progressive icon and mass murderer Che Guevara. It’s the last shot in my YouTube segment.
When I was ambushed by Max, I happened to be standing next to Matt Sanchez, a Marine corporal and Columbia student who had been harassed by Columbia Marxists from the International Socialist Organization. These bozo progressives who wanted to were keen to save Saddam Hussein and fervently believe that Islamofascists are freedom fighters while American soldiers like Matt Sanchez are servants of the Great Satan. This does qualify, Max, at the very least, as treason of the heart.
Yesterday, Max filed a column on these episodes at The Huffington Post. The column quoted sources in the gay Left “outing” Matt Sanchez with the revelation that 15 years ago, he was a gay porn video star and alleging that he was a male prostitute, as well. As conservatives know from first-hand experience, viciousness – the politics of personal destruction – is the progressive middle name. There is no conservative outing machine. The invasion of a person’s privacy – the reckless disclosure of private information that could potentially have untold consequences on a person’s career, relationships, friendships, and family – are all easily justified if you are a Progressive, of course, because you are on a mission from God: to save the world. That’s how the Gestapo worked and the Khmer Rouge Marxists, and that’s how Max and his friends work, too. It’s all for the good of the cause. In fact, it’s required by the good of the cause. The more noble the cause, the more people you can justify destroying to make it a success.
For the record, I have no particular concern about adult pornography and personally could not care less what Matt Sanchez did with his life when he was a young man. Who among us is without pieces of their lives, or without actions in their past that they did or did not do, that they now regret? Unlike Max, moreover, Matt Sanchez wasn’t born with a silver spoon up his ass. He didn’t have an insufferable daddy to inspire him to be a verbal assassin or to connect him to like-minded intellectual thugs so he could make a good living at the same time.
If pornography doesn’t involve children, it’s what Progressives like to call a victimless crime, and therefore not a crime. I happen to agree. I think pornography should be regulated and kept from children and criminalized where children are involved, to protect their innocence. I also respect religious people who consider pornography sinful and even religious people who think that any female flesh visible, even ankles, is pornographic. But I don’t agree with them. The American freedoms that Max and his friends find so oppressive are about this diversity, too.
I find it appalling that people who actually call themselves Progressives would attack an Hispanic American and accuse him of being an exploited minority because he chose to serve his country. I find it appalling that gay leftists – who otherwise think Bush is destroying the constitution by tapping the phones of our terrorist enemies – would open an American citizen’s buried past and make it public in an attempt to destroy him. But I’m not surprised. That’s what the Left does. All day and every day. It’s for the cause.
I once read that Sid Blumenthal is a wife beater.... Which makes perfect sense.
The guy is a mouse.
are all easily justified if you are a Progressive...
Brings back the C.S. Lewis quote: "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
Self described progressives... are the opposite.
Sid Blumenthal is beyond human description. When he's gone somebody has to make sure the stake they're going to pound in his heart is firmly in place before the coffin lid is dropped.
Though George was not able to fight overseas, he did his part battling old Potter's profiteering on the homefront.
Well, in my book, Horowitiz is one of the most able conservatives we have these days on the homefront, battling the fifth column Academia/MSM.
Horowitz re: Sanchez ping.
That little bit of socialist dogma has always irritated me about that movie:
What does a "profiteer" do?
He raises the prices on scarce goods.
As a result, consumption of those scarce goods is reduced dramatically.
What would happen otherwise?The goods would be consumed much more quickly.
"Anti-profiteering" laws just try to substitute the judgment of government for the laws of supply and demand.
And government NEVER gets it right!
""Anti-profiteering" laws just try to substitute the judgment of government for the laws of supply and demand."
Yup. My father is always griping abvout how awful it is that the Boston Red Sox can charge so much for tickets and accompanying sundries, " the little guy can't afford to go". And every year, I have to explain to him again that his quarrel is with the 45,000 people trying to get one of 35,000 seats, not with the people selling the seats, and remind him that when the team was giving away tickets to kids, the team was so bad they should have been paying people to go. He forgets that there were fewer people at Ted Williams' last game than there are ate the average AAA game. And he shakes his head, because he does understand, but then goes right back to blaming the powerful people he loves to hate and resent. Because when it comes down to it, people don't think, they feel. They like the power and the simplicity of it. It's what the Neomarxists understand so very, very well.
And it has the ring of death to me.
Well, I think Potter in this case was taking advantage of people who were experiencing war-related hardships, instead of looking after the nation's interests first in a time of war. IE., he wasn't pitching in/sacrificing anything for the war effort, but taking advantage of those who were.
Take heart: I don't thinks libs today sit around watching one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time, with God and Angels, to get a dose of Marxism...
Although Horowitz doesn't refer to it, the leftist use of the politics of personal destruction is simply one of the 'end justifies the means' strategies of Saul Alinski.
Yes, the same Saul Alinski that was so lauded in Hillary's controversial college thesis that was buried for years by pressure on Vassar by the Clintonites like Blumenthal.
And the Blumenthal's are past masters of executing the strategy in attacking their enemies.
Funny how all this ties together, isn't it?
It's all part of the vast Leftwing conspiracy. The Clinton's are masters of deceit.
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