Horowitz’s disgrace, one year later

A year ago yesterday David Horowitz published at FrontPage Magazine a brief article by me—the first piece he had published by me in a year, he had turned down several other pieces by me during that year—in which I quoted Department of Justice figures on interracial rape in this country. The next morning, May 4, 2007, David Mills, a.k.a. the Undercover Black Man, published at Huffington Post a May 2006 e-mail from Horowitz to Mills saying that unspecified statements and positions of mine were “racist and offensive” and that he would no longer publish me. Horowitz’s e-mail to Mills was in reply to a long selection of excerpts from my VFR articles which Mills had sent to Horowitz in a effort to get me dismissed from FP. The reason Mills published Horowitz’s e-mail was that he was angry that Horowitz, after telling Mills a year earlier that he would not publish me any more, had published my article on interracial rape.

When, a year ago today, I found out about Horowitz’s May 2006 correspondence with Mills that had been published at Huffington Post, I wrote to him in stunned surprise asking what this was about. Specfically I asked him, since he had decided back in May 2006 that he considered my writings racist and that he was not going to publish me any longer, why had he not told me about this but instead had given this damaging statement to a leftist who was out to harm me? In reply, Horowitz, the self-styled political warrior against the left, who over a period of four years had published 35 of my articles and had exchanged hundreds of e-mails with me on a variety of topics, called me a “big pain in the ass” and told me, “I want you to go away.”

Horowitz to this day has never apologized for his stunningly unethical and conscienceless behavior.

But, at least, after I threatened to take his organization to court over it, he paid me for my 2003 article on racial differences in intelligence which (as I discovered at the time of the events last year) he had published, without my knowledge, at another website of his—the same article, ironically, which was the main source of my statements that he called “racist and offensive” and for which he had dismissed me from his magazine.

Here are VFR entries that were posted about this at the time.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 04, 2008 04:27 PM | Send