Posted on 08/06/2009 6:17:24 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Terry at ConWebWatch took issue with David Horowitzs appearance on the Glenn Beck Show and my defense of it:
Then, in a July 23 appearance on Glenn Becks Fox News show, David Horowitz responded to complaints by Becks black crew members about racial profiling by saying: If hes on the New Jersey Turnpike or in that area, 70 percent of the drug dealers are black. And who do you think theyre dealing the drugs to? Poor blacks in the in Newark, in the inner cities there. So the fact that they stopped him I mean, its an inconvenience. I have an inconvenience. I get searched every single time every time I jump a plane take a plane because I have an artificial hip, but I put up with it.
David Swindle reiterated and sycophantically defended Horowitzs remarks in a July 25 post at the (Horowitz-operated) NewsReal blog:
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Are Kessler, Horowitz and Swindle really claiming that racial profiling is not racist? And Horowitz having black family members somehow give him a free pass to advocate racial profiling? It appears so.
David Horowitz had a great one-line response to Terrys inability to even bother engaging our arguments for discussion:
What is it you dont understand about protecting black people from black predators?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
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