I consider FrontPage magazine to be sort of my blogging alma mater; I was posting to their forums when I started this site, and those forum posts frequently ended up as blog posts. I stopped reading it after awhile, mainly because I don't like fundamentalists of any stripe, and there are more than a few of those there, and also because editor David Horowitz has the kind of driven stridency that only an ex - convert can muster.
That said: here is an example of Mr. Horowitz's ability to beat you senseless with a big fat p0wnage - stick if you're a) a committed Leftist and b) not all that quick on your mental feet. The intro:
It isn’t often that the Left is forced to reveal itself, but in this transcript of a “Michael Medved Show” segment with David Horowitz and Nation writer Daniel Lazare that is exactly what happens in regard to the Left’s de facto alliance with our terrorist enemies in Iraq and elsewhere. Lazare begins by denying the reality of this "unholy alliance" – the title of David Horowitz’s book – but ends up by professing his support for both the “insurgents in Fallujah” and the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan in the 1980s, as well as expressing his view that the terrorists who are fighting us are to be compared to the French Resistance fighting the Nazis during World War II. The transcript has been slightly edited for readability. No sentence of Lazare’s remarks has been substantively altered or omitted. — The editors.
Read the whole thing. Mr. Lazare should be embarrassed; I would be. Not because he's a "Leftist" and I'm "not." Because he can't argue his way out of a wet paper bag, even about something that apparently rests upon the cornerstone of his political and moral thought. Whether he's at all representative of "the Left" is quite beside my point. The man's a lightweight.
And: from the leftish side of things, arguing the "I'm not, you are!" position with convincing nuance and a firm command of detail, we have Mr. Moulitsas and his, uh, fellow - travellers.
