Horowitz launches a new tactic against loudmouth leftists like Al Franken. I doubt it works though. Nothing survives history like a false charge though, so he may. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
As it happens I marched in my first civil rights protest in 1948 before Al Franken was born. For more than fifty years I have supported minorities and defended their civil rights in public word and deed, and raised millions of dollars to help inner city minorities whom racism has scarred. In fact there is no single cause — except America's wars against totalitarian foes — to which I have devoted myself more consistently that than that of racial equality. Not a shred of evidence exists to the contrary. I have written more than a million words on racial and political matters -- all of them public record. There is not a single sentence, or phrase, or comment of mine that could be cited to justify Franken's attack.
Nonetheless, Franken isn't alone. A cottage industry has sprung up on the Internet, which is a leftwing version of "Red Channels," the infamous newsletter that provided lists of Communists in the McCarthy era. Sites like Public Eye, NameBase, MediaTransparnecy, People for the American Way and the Southern Poverty Law Center store up distortions like Franken's and keep the witch-hunt going. This version of the McCarthy blacklist could be Franken's source. Their métier is spinning policy differences into questions of character and basic human decency. Their side is the side of reason and virtue, ours that of venality and sin. No matter. My answer to Al Franken is this: I am going to post your photograph on FrontPageMag.com, which is viewed by a million visitors monthly. The photo will be identified with these words: "Al Franken,: Racist." The photo will be prominently posted until you apologize to me publicly for this attack. When you have made an apology, I will disclose my evidence for characterizing you as a racist or withdraw the charge.