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Is Salon.com playing Russian Roulette?
David Horowitz: A One-Man Plague on American Values
By Jeff Koopersmith
Thursday, June 13, 2001 - Palm Beach (APJP) -- As a political commentator
for nigh on twenty years now, I've seldom come across a bigger blowhard than
David Horowitz, who today finds himself happy as a clam pumping his Neonazi
rhetoric into the veins of age-young Americans stupid enough to believe
anything they read, courtesy of Salon Magazine.
However, his latest trash -- "THE PLAGUE ABETTORS" -- served up by the
ever-astounding bad taste of this well-known Internet rag -- only rivals the
on-air swill of Rush Limbaugh and online dreck of professional he-bitch
Camille Paglia. In fact, it drove me to my keyboard so that I could ream him
a new journalistic orifice. If I ever actually meet this bastard, I promise
to clonk his chubby bearded head in as many places as possible before the
Gestapo rips me off him.
"THE PLAGUE ABETTORS" is a George-DumbBellYuh-Bush-kind-of-tribute
"memorializing" the 20th "anniversary" of the onset of AIDS in the United
States. Whoever came up with such an "event" -- even if it was a leader in
the gay community -- should have their heads examined; so stupid is it to
celebrate or even decry the disease that has killed so many of our brothers,
sisters, mothers, fathers and friends -- and with some fictional anniversary
date.
But leave it to pudgy Horowitz to seize the opportunity in order to display
the sad fact that he outshines even Goering in his ability to lie and twist
the truth into something desecrate except in Hades.
Horowitz gleefully points out that AIDS levels are reaching the epidemic
proportions of the late 1980s and are highest amongst blacks and Hispanics.
He doesn't bother to explain that this is likely because blacks and
Hispanics are undereducated -- by fiat from a decade of a
Republican-controlled Congress -- and that most young people populating this
underclass seem to give up on life before the age of nine, so stunned are
they by the poverty and paucity of opportunity that yet surrounds them.
Horowitz twists statistics with the artfulness of Adolf Eichmann. He tells
us that 50 percent of the AIDS-dead are blacks and Hispanics -- but when the
epidemic was young, only 10% were members of minorities. Of course, gay men
and women have always counted themselves as a minority and well they should.
They have certainly been treated similarly, and sometimes worse than
ex-slaves and the men and women our "proud farmers" use as slave labor in
the fields of California and Texas today. The worst aspect of Horowitz's
sleazy diatribe is that the period he writes of witnessed less than one
thousand cases nationwide.
Horowitz cautions us that this month, we may learn that all the research
done over the past two decades has not yet produced a vaccine for AIDS.
Naturally, he fails to point out that the AIDS survival rate is at an all
time high nonetheless.
He calls the higher AIDS infection count (among a greater population, I
remind you) a "failure" which HE predicted at the very outset of the
epidemic -- and then applauds himself for writing about that prediction at
the time. Horowitz, of course, was at the time most likely cooking up a
palatable scheme to lock all homosexuals in camps a la Americans of Japanese
heritage during World War II. He cloaks this subliminal scheme in the
assertion that AIDS should have been handled through "public health"
methods.
Let's examine those methods -- as Horowitz reports them.
He claims that gay activists blocked any and all "tried and true" methods
used by public health agencies to combat epidemics through the ages. He
sneers at the education campaigns favored by a gay community that had
already been besieged by the minions within the Reagan Administration at the
time, and their fear that the federal government would step in and begin to
control their lives.
Horowitz wants us to believe that Democrats and what he depicts as those
filthy gay activists were actually able to dictate their formulae to Ronald
Reagan and the conservative-leaning federal department heads and secretaries
he controlled. Naturally, this is premeditated nonsense. Reagan was himself
a gentle man who had little or nothing to do with AIDS policy -- in fact, he
may well have been oblivious to the problem. Nancy Reagan was privately
stunned and profoundly saddened not only by the growing AIDS statistics but
by the loss of friends in the arts, couture, and film. Meanwhile, George H.
Bush and the rest of the morons from Connecticut-via-Texas quietly
celebrated with their football-jerseyed sons as one after another gay man
fell six feet into a dirt ditch.
Horowitz, in an amusing jaunt into Left Wing Conspiracy Lunacy, claims that
public health officials gave gays and the Democrats a "veto" over the
correct methodologies they had chosen to fight this terrible killer and
"colluded in subverting
