Justin Raimondo Has His Say

FrontPage Magazine ^ | October 16, 2002 | David Horowitz

[quidnunc]

Justin has lots of class, all of it low.

[The Great Satan]

I think Justin has authority issues, something to do with Daddy. He's a homosexualist, you know.

[Mr. Mojo]

Justin Raimondo, the psychologically tormented, intellectually confused and fact-free editor of www.antiwar.com.

He left out....irrelevant.

[nunya bidness]

FYI

[quidnunc]

If he were the least bit modest I would point out that he has much to be modest about but — to resurrect an old chestnut — Justin Raimondo is a legend in his own mind.

[Askel5]

Third, I am not a "neo-conservative," whatever that means, other than Jew.

Clearly, he's going to stick to the high road in his rebuttal.

I would expect nothing less, of course.

[hosepipe]

Read much Horwitz, always honest, straight forward as I far
as I can see. Horowitz and Peter Collier too are precious additions to the "conservative" ranks. JR's got his straight jacket in a bunch as far as I can see. An apology
might work for starts, and community service for a kicker.
JR, chill, go private with David. You either lead, follow, or get out of way. Theres much to do.

[PA Engineer]

Justin has been helpful in my understanding of why some species of animals eat their young. I'm still trying to figure out how he escaped.

[woofie]

David Horowitz is a wonderfully clear thinker....Buchanan has gone off the deep end if he has hired Justin

[Hugin]

Third, I am not a "neo-conservative," whatever that means, other than Jew.

LOL. I have always wondered what the pitchfork people meant when they talk of the dreaded "neo-cons". When asked they usually just give examples of Kristol, Pearle and Wolfowitz. Now I get it.

[quidnunc]

Woofie wrote: …Buchanan has gone off the deep end if he has hired Justin

Raimondo was Buchanan's press secretary during his Y2K presidential campaign and, I believe, the one in 1996 as well.

[xm177e2]

Justin Raimondo once described Jerry Falwell as a neocon here on FR, because Falwell supports Israel. JERRY FALWELL IS NOT A NEOCONSERVATIVE!

In Raimondo's world, "Neoconservative" means "Jew" or "Zionist Dupe."

[woofie]

scary

[Mr. Mojo]

You got it. "Neo-conservative" is a helluva lot safer term for those anti-semtites to use than "Jew ba$tard."

[D-fendr]

antiwar.com is a blantant apologist site for ChiComs - and that's just its beginning as a Useful Idiot WebRag.

Raimondo admitted in one column that he had lied about an important matter in a previous column. He explained this by needing to subject being truthful to a "cost-benefit" analysis (in that case it benefitted Buchanan more if Raimondo lied).

I haven't understood why even his most ardent admirers didn't kick him to the curb after that. A writer who admits he'll lie to you if he thinks the truth has less benefit.

Come to think of it, where he writes now - and after Horowitz's skillful boot - he is kicked to curb.

[PRND21]

Justin Raimondo Has His Say

Sway?

[Askel5]

How disappointing to read the rest of the article only to find he follows up his baiting in the first to end with a Guilder finish. Either they're taking notes from the Master or he's got the big bucks sufficient to hire Professionals with a chapbook sheen to supply his more insightful Ladies Home Journal psychoanalysis of Jealousy.

In any case, I'm delighted he pinpoints for all who are paying attention the differences between the communism of his parents and his own affinity for the New Left which landed him -- in the end -- looking for a leader under which he could strategize his way toward Erehwon.

Helps explain how this former radical found his true home.

To begin with, the New Left is not so very new and it is not genuinely left either. Its existence, however, cannot be understood without a knowledge of the leftish soil in which the new plant started to grow. Furthermore, this newcomer on our ideological scene must be viewed as a reaction against our present profoundly left-influenced culture and civilization.

Here we also have to face the fact that much of the New Left's critique of our way of life is-unknowingly rather than knowingly-copied from conservative sources. Finally, one can only fully comprehend the New Left if one realizes that it happens to be tied in with the student movement, the "academic unrest," [1] as well as with the worldwide disillusionment with the Classic Left, which by now is morally bankrupt. (Moral bankruptcy, unfortunately, causes physical decline only in the very long run.)

In its refusal to yield to the right, the New Left, moreover, shows us its profile against the background of all the many gruesome failures of the leftist movements, the leftist establishments which have accumulated in the last 200 years. Yet it is equally certain that the New Left cannot take over the receivership, the inheritance of the Great Leftist Drive because it offers no real alternatives: Unlike genuine leftism it has produced neither a coherent ideology nor a concrete utopia.

It offers criticisms but no real answers. ...

The New Left

[piasa]

Horowitz shouldn't have bothered with Justin. All the attention will just inflate the kid's illusion of self-importance... and taking the time to pen something like this is time that cannot be spent on something worthwhile.