Posted on 04/25/2002 8:39:19 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CARVILLE: Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. It's said the pen is the mightier than the sword. Then our next guest wields a mighty deadly weapon. Through is writings, he introduced us to Paula Jones and took on Anita Hill. Now he says he was blinded by the right.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
You never appeared on FOX News, David? You are a LIAR!!! Here is a full account of your recent APPEARANCE on FNC to discuss your lying book.
CARVILLE: How many talk shows have you been on let's just say the Fox network?
BROCK: I have not been on Fox at all.
See that, Mr. e-mailer. Brock said that he wasn't on FOX "at all."
BROCK: None of the book is made up. And I read the Tim Noah piece. He's right that I had one date of an article off by a few months. And that's all he's right about.From the piece:
In scanning the letters column of the Washington Post's March 24 "Book World" section, Chatterbox encountered an unambiguously deliberate Brock lie, this one having to do with an unfavorable review of Brock's book that "Book World" published the week before. Here is Brock's letter of complaint:So Brock misrepresented his own book. Very hard to be wrong about something like that. In Brock's response to Noah, he fails to refer to this at all (and in also makes a terribly unconvincing case for why he didn't lie about something else).Bruce Bawer, The Post's reviewer of my book Blinded by the Right, a memoir of my years at the American Spectator (Book World, March 17), a magazine I criticize as an example of conservative excess, is himself a former Spectator writer. My book also contains a passage that puts the credibility of Bawer's published account of his controversial departure from the magazine in question. Neither of these facts are disclosed in Bawer's review.Brock makes it sound as though Bawer were some sort of Spectator partisan who took offense at Brock's criticisms of the magazine. But as Brock's book makes clear, Bawer (whose time at the Spectator did not overlap with Brock's) left the magazine to protest an editor's deletion of a passing reference to homosexuality in his review of the play Prelude to a Kiss. (Bawer is gay, Prelude's author, Craig Lucas, is gay, and the play has a much-discussed gay subtext.) Contrary to Brock's claim, Brock's book does not question the credibility of Bawer's published account of that departure. Rather, Brock writes that when he read Bawer's account (in Bawer's 1993 memoir, A Place at the Table), he asked the editor in question whether it was true, and the editor "awkwardly denied" it. Brock elaborates: "I shrugged it off and probed no further, since I didn't really want to know the truth. … I wasn't going to let possible prejudice against another writer, whom I did not know, upset my world. Some gays can be awfully hypersensitive, I told myself." The clear thrust of this passage is that Bawer's published version was right, and that Brock, in refusing to believe Bawer's version at the time, had been wrong. As this online chat shows, Brock managed to con Post Editor Leonard Downie and former Post Managing Editor Robert Kaiser, neither of whom must have actually read Brock's book, into thinking he'd somehow been wronged by "Book World." As a result, "Book World" editor Marie Arana ended up publishing a completely unnecessary apology.
BROCK BREAKS BLACKLISTNow the "media horse" clearly believe that Fox is a "conservative media outlet" (they apparently believe CNN is one)... and even they buy into the lie that he has never appeared there. Sheesh.
Author To Appear On Crossfire TonightFor weeks, David Brock's Blinded By The Right has been perched in national newspapers' bestseller lists including The New York Times list, where it will be reported next week at #7.
It has received excellent reviews in places ranging from The New Yorker to The Los Angeles Times.
Yet none of the conservative media outlets have responded with anything more substantive than personal attacks on Brock.
Mostly, they have tried to ignore Brock's truthful revelations, putting him on what looks like a blacklist, refusing to review his book, refusing to have him appear on their broadcasts, hoping that he and his book will just GO AWAY.
But tonight, Brock will appear on Crossfire -- and at last have the chance to take on some conservative pundits in a fair exchange.
Finally, Brock and Blinded have broken through the right-wing blacklist.
Watch Crossfire tonight. It should be especially interesting.
Of course, the transcript is wrong and Serpenthead means the ultra-left-wing hate site mediawhoresonline.com. But note how he says "WE'RE going to post it there..." Does this indicate that either Carville personally is involved in that site, or that perhaps the Clintonoids and/or the DNC are behind it? Does this mean it's a RAT dirty tricks site? If so, this should be exposed widely.
This one, actually, is not that hard to figure out. Brock is lying. Here's a link that will actually show you a photograph of Brock being interviewed on Fox News about his book on March 18. Who are you going to believe? David Brock or your own lying eyes?
What will Brock's response be to this proof of yet another of his LIES?
ANDREW SULLIVAN this morning highlighted this latest Brock lie that he told last night along with a link to the transcript of Brock getting his clock cleaned on Fox News. Hopefully the publicity from Brock's latest lie will bring more attention to that Fox News inteview by David Asman where Brock got his clock cleaned.
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