Lying Republican Sociopath Horowitz Hits a New Low

Eric Alterman linked to Media Matters for this item concerning one of the three or four worst people on the political right in this country, David Horowitz. (Think about that--one of the three or four worst. Now think about his competition in that category. Sobering, isn't it?) In his fevered determination to destroy progressive supporter George Soros, Horowitz reaches new depths of savagery and sheer viciousness. Examples:

In a book to be released August 8 that otherwise recycles the authors' old attacks from the discredited, Richard Mellon Scaife-backed right-wing website FrontpageMag.com, David Horowitz and Richard Poe newly charge that progressive financier, philanthropist, and political activist George Soros was a Nazi "collaborator in fascist Hungary" and "survived [the Holocaust] by assimilating to Nazism" as a 14-year-old boy.

Soros is a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest. The unsourced smearing of Soros as a Nazi collaborator echoes the obscure anti-Semitic rantings of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche and his followers, who have referred to Soros as a "Nazi beast-man" and a "small cog in Adolf Eichmann's killing machine," aiding "the Holocaust against 500,000 Hungarian Jews." (See, for example, the article "Dope Czar Bids to Buy Up The Democratic Party," from the 2004 LaRouche pamphlet Children of Satan II: The Beast Men).

In echoing the LaRouchite Nazi collaborator smear in their new book The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party -- published by Nelson Current, an imprint of religious book publisher Thomas Nelson Inc. that started as a partnership with conservative website WorldNetDaily -- Horowitz and Poe mark a new low in the long-running Republican Party and conservative movement campaign of scurrilous personal attacks against Soros, a major supporter of progressive causes in the U.S. and abroad.

Vile. Monstrous. Despicable. Words fail me, actually, in describing these insane and shockingly ugly accusations. Read the entire Media Matters post, by the way. It details, in sickening clarity, the utter depravity of Horowitz and his neofascist collaborators. Like so many others on the Right, there is no lie Horowitz will not tell, there is no slander he will not utter, there is no tactic too gutter level for him, and no accusation too ridiculous for him to make. He's the worst, right down there with Coulter and the other Republican members of the Ministry of Propaganda.

In the 1960s, Horowitz was a member of the Idiot Left. Now he is a proud member of the Idiot Right.

But at least he's been consistent in one way.