Comments on: Action Alert: NPR Brings on David Horowitz to Trash Howard Zinn http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/01/29/action-alert-npr-brings-on-david-horowitz-to-trash-howard-zinn/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:27:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Recover HYIP Money http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/01/29/action-alert-npr-brings-on-david-horowitz-to-trash-howard-zinn/comment-page-8/#comment-114280 Recover HYIP Money Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:29:58 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13603#comment-114280 <strong>HYIP Scam Dispute LR...</strong> [...]FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Action Alert: NPR Brings on David Horowitz to Trash Howard Zinn[...]... HYIP Scam Dispute LR…

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]]> By: Seeker http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/01/29/action-alert-npr-brings-on-david-horowitz-to-trash-howard-zinn/comment-page-8/#comment-91973 Seeker Mon, 02 May 2011 22:46:36 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13603#comment-91973 So Howard Zinn, as one commentator above put it, was "a gentle advocate for the disenfranchised?" My foot. Professor Zinn's America was one in which a tiny, money-hungry plutocracy perpetually lords it over vast multitudes of virtuous, helpless victims of capitalism, colonialism and racism -- as if we hadn't heard that tune enough. Wake me up when it's over. Yes, I have read a lot of Zinn's work. It's not all bad, but it is highly skewed and usually wrong-headed. Put simply, he just wasn't that good. I will allow that some of David Horowitz's comments had an unpleasant tone. And NPR should have brought aboard a supporter of Zinn as a counterweight. But in substance Horowitz overall was right about Zinn's legacy. Horowitz knows all about being a "good Leftist" -- he spent the first 40 years of his life in that territory. He moved away not for the money, but for the integrity. He knew all too well what happens to a society when its Howard Zinns seize the apparatus of state power to create Social Justice. As for "right-wingers" -- I guess there are no "left-wingers" -- they most certainly do have a right to be represented on NPR. Their tax dollars, as much as anyone else's, help support the network. If our noble progressive revolutionaries don't like it, tough luck. They should tune into Amy Goodman's show and give generously. Problem solved. So Howard Zinn, as one commentator above put it, was "a gentle advocate for the disenfranchised?" My foot. Professor Zinn's America was one in which a tiny, money-hungry plutocracy perpetually lords it over vast multitudes of virtuous, helpless victims of capitalism, colonialism and racism — as if we hadn't heard that tune enough. Wake me up when it's over. Yes, I have read a lot of Zinn's work. It's not all bad, but it is highly skewed and usually wrong-headed. Put simply, he just wasn't that good.

I will allow that some of David Horowitz's comments had an unpleasant tone. And NPR should have brought aboard a supporter of Zinn as a counterweight. But in substance Horowitz overall was right about Zinn's legacy. Horowitz knows all about being a "good Leftist" — he spent the first 40 years of his life in that territory. He moved away not for the money, but for the integrity. He knew all too well what happens to a society when its Howard Zinns seize the apparatus of state power to create Social Justice.

As for "right-wingers" — I guess there are no "left-wingers" — they most certainly do have a right to be represented on NPR. Their tax dollars, as much as anyone else's, help support the network. If our noble progressive revolutionaries don't like it, tough luck. They should tune into Amy Goodman's show and give generously. Problem solved.

]]> By: Jack Adler http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/01/29/action-alert-npr-brings-on-david-horowitz-to-trash-howard-zinn/comment-page-8/#comment-48668 Jack Adler Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:56:21 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13603#comment-48668 The folks at NPR should be ashamed to have allowed the substanceless abuse of Howard Zinn to take place by a "man" who chooses to use the cheap rhetoric to run down the life work of this great American on the eve of his passing. Case in point is the troll-like threats of "princetrumpet" who like Horowitz, can only use cheap threats, smears and low brow innuendo to make his schoolyard bully case. God Bless Howard Zinn. The folks at NPR should be ashamed to have allowed the substanceless abuse of Howard Zinn to take place by a "man" who chooses to use the cheap rhetoric to run down the life work of this great American on the eve of his passing. Case in point is the troll-like threats of "princetrumpet" who like Horowitz, can only use cheap threats, smears and low brow innuendo to make his schoolyard bully case. God Bless Howard Zinn.

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