Howard Zinn, Peter Jennings - both great Americans and posthumous victims of David Horowitz

[alp227]

After reading yesterday's Eric Alterman column "Zinn-ophobia at NPR" in Thenation.com, I realized something: in 2005, after veteran ABC News anchor Peter Jennings died, David Horowitz publicly attacked Jennings too. (That attack was on an old DU thread.) Horowitz said about Jennings in a column:

Peter Jennings is dead, may he rest in peace. Lest we forget, however, while he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.

(Source: Media Matters, "David Horowitz's attack on Peter Jennings", August 8, 2005)

Brent Baker, vice president of the Media Research Center, said something insulting but a little less tasteless about Jennings:

The MRC's archive is packed with documentation of liberal bias from Peter Jennings, who was frequently cited in CyberAlert, but on this day after his passing we'll focus on how a couple of times he acknowledged the media's liberal tilt.

(Source: Media Matters, "MRC's response to news of Peter Jennings's death? Promote its political agenda", August 8, 2005. Ironically, on the very same day, Baker criticized CBS and NBC for reporting on the wartime deaths of Ohio Marines to report on anti-war sentiment in the state.)

But the next day, MRC president L. Brent Bozell III did the right thing: post a note of condolence and honor on the MRC front page...AFTER Media Matters called out the MRC.

Last month, after historian Howard Zinn died, Horowitz appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and said:

There is absolutely nothing in Howard Zinn's intellectual output that is worthy of any kind of respect. Zinn represents a fringe mentality which has unfortunately seduced millions of people at this point in time. So he did certainly alter the consciousness of millions of younger people for the worse.

(Source: FAIR, NPR Ombud: 'Critics are right' on Zinn obituary, February 5, 2010)

When the next great, honest, intelligent American dies, be prepared to hear a substance-free, loaded attack by that sleazeball David Horowitz, who also wants American colleges to be houses of right-wing fundamentalist indoctrination.

[Cleita]

1. When Horowitz dies, count on me dancing on his grave. n/t

[devilgrrl]

2. +1

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[peggygirl]

3. Horowitz is sub-human, schmuck. nt

[fujiyama]

4. I've stopped listening to NPR

They can go fuck themselves. What were they thinking having that douchebag on the day after Zinn dies?

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Jennings was a great Canadian and American.

The latter for the last 2-3 years of his life. :mapleleaf: