Comments on: David Horowitz is dead at 86: RIP

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:15:49 +0000

Lee Smith with an extraordinary tribute….

“David Horowitz, 1939-2025”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/remembering-david-horowitz

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:43:15 +0000

Which is the curse of Affirmative Action: the fear—nay, the knowledge— that you were chosen not because of your ability, but because of the color of your skin.

Gringo:

I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head.

I was astonished at the insecurity she displayed in her senior thesis at Princeton:
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“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before,” the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction.

“I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”

–“Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide”
https://www.politico.com/story/2008/02/michelle-obama-thesis-was-on-racial-divide-1529833

By: Gringo

Gringo — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:55:42 +0000

huxley
“Going through therapy is getting me to look at the fact that maybe, maybe finally I’m good enough,” [Michelle Obama] added.”

Which is the curse of Affirmative Action: the fear—nay, the knowledge— that you were chosen not because of your ability, but because of the color of your skin.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 01 May 2025 10:28:16 +0000

I suspect Mooch’s problem is that from age 17 to the present, she’s been absurdly overpraised and overvalued and does not know who she is. The one notable exception was her departure from the legal profession in 1991, which I’ll wager was preceded by a mess of negative feedback from partners at Sidley, Austin about the work she was doing for them. (I suppose you could add the nonsense spewed about her senior thesis at Princeton and the stupid potshots by people who call her ‘Big Mike’). The idiot path in race relations this country has been on since about 1969 means that you see some of this as a matter of course in the lives of black professionals and managers. In her case, the avalanche of it is rare and bizarre. Same deal with her husband. If she’d had a normal life, she’d have landed a berth at one of Illinois’ five state research universities and earned a living in a small law practice or real estate agency. She’d have married, had children, divorced. She’d be living in a small and elegantly appointed home in suburban Chicago with a granny flat for her mother. And she’d know who she was.

By: Dax

Dax — Thu, 01 May 2025 05:47:14 +0000

Great post, Neo, thanks!
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“Going through therapy is getting me to look at the fact that maybe, maybe finally I’m good enough,” [Michelle Obama] added.”

“You like me! You really like me!” (from Sally Fields’ Oscar acceptance speech)

By: J.J.

J.J. — Thu, 01 May 2025 03:33:03 +0000

David Horowitz was a town crier. He has been sounding the warning about Marxism/Communism for many years.

Thanks to Paul Nachman for posting the passage from “Radical Son.” Words of great wisdom.

He gave his all to trying to warn people about the myth that an egalitarian, government planned economy is possible. I hope his successors keep the effort going.
May he RIP.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 01 May 2025 03:05:48 +0000

@Geoffrey Britain quoting Horowitz: “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”

See, this is why I’m so disappointed in Michelle Obama. 🙂

Where was she in 2020 when the Revolution needed her to be the POTUS cutout for Obama so he could put the finishing touches on “the fundamental transformation of America”? Or maybe even in 2024?

Instead she’s become even more of a whiny silly woman. Her new podcast, “IMO,” is pathetic.
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In the years since she and her family left the White House in 2017, Obama said she’s been digging deep in therapy to find out how the experience affected her.

“We made it through. We got out alive,” she shared. “I hope we made the country proud. My girls, thank God, are whole. But what happened to me?”

“Going through therapy is getting me to look at the fact that maybe, maybe finally I’m good enough,” she added.

https://people.com/michelle-obama-breaks-silence-skipping-trump-inauguration-11720055
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She almost makes me feel sorry for Barack. Hang in there, Michelle, Al Franken is with you!
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I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!: Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 01 May 2025 02:22:22 +0000

Neo’s 2005 post added a lot of context to my understanding of Horowitz’s change story – thanks.
As usual, the commenters also expanded on Neo’s ideas, including relevant personal stories.
There is even a relatively sane comment by our erstwhile contributor Ymarsakar.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:35:45 +0000

I too have long held David Horowitz in high regard. It was he who first opened my eyes to the truth that on the left, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”

By: Shadow

Shadow — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:41:28 +0000

I was sad to hear this news earlier. David Horowitz was influential on me as I was forming my political opinions. He also gave a voice to other writers who have been an influence on me, like Daniel Greenfield. I actually read “The New Leviathan” when it was first published. It is a very fact-based book, not heavy on theory, but it was helpful in enabling me to see through all the leftist nonsense about “grassroots” movements over the past decade or so. I’ve always wanted to read the “The Black Book of the American Left” series, and now perhaps I will.