Posted on 06/06/2015 3:39:08 AM PDT by No One Special
Last month, Diana West submitted an article to National Review, after it published an attack on her book, American Betrayal. The magazine refused to run her response to the piece, which is reprinted below:
Dear National Review Editors,
The submission below is self-explanatory; however, I wish to make a request for publication.
I appreciate the space you have given me in the past to respond to NRO's many attacks on my book.
My first response, however, was posted at The Corner blog so it disappeared from sight quickly. My second response was posted as "Letter to the Editor," and thus had little chance of drawing readers to it.
This time, I ask that you run my response as an article on the homepage with the headline as written and my name as author.
Please confirm receipt of submission, and please also let me know if you accept my request for appropriate display.
Sincerely,
Diana West
"Why National Review Should Retract `FDR, Truman, and Ike: Not Communists, Just Naïfs' by Ron Capshaw"
By Diana West
On April 18, 2015, nearly two years after my book American Betrayal was published by St. Martin's Press, National Review Online published its fifth piece attacking it. The article is by Ron Capshaw. It is also Capshaw's fifth attack on my book. Aside from a previous attack in passing also appearing at NRO (which brings NRO's tally to six attacks in all), Capshaw has published three other attacks on my book at three different outlets.
Capshaw is not alone in having written multiple attacks on American Betrayal. (I will explain below why these attack-pieces do not constitute reviews.) Ronald Radosh has published at least five. Conrad Black, four. David Horowitz, four. Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes have weighed in on three occasions in ancillary fashion. In this quite peculiar fraternal order, the motto seems to be:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This was David Horowitz being taken to task on his criticism of West and her book and his explanation of his viewpoint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRvLiW1dTQQ
The late, great M. Stanton Evans came to her defense? That’s good enough for me.
I’ll be buying her book.
Patton was right about Stalin, and IKE backed out on the nationalization of the Suez leaving our allies in a learch...makes me think the book has merits.
The progressives have infiltrated National Review. They have dumped Derbyshire and Steyn. It is no surprise that they now endorse homosexual marriage. Their circulation must be suffering but that is not important to progressives.
One of the editors, Jason Steorts, has endorsed homo marriage. The other editors wrote a column stating that is not official position of NR. However, a number of their writers said they have no problem with homo marriage. But I’ll repeat, it is not the official position of the mag.
Operation Keelhaul.
He’s the same guy who chased Steyn out.
Thanks for the link.
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