In an Oct. 30 FrontPageMag article taking Christopher Hitchens to task for endorsing Barack Obama and criticizing Sarah Palin, David Horowitz repeats numerous false claims about Obama.
— Horowitz references “Syrian criminal Tony Reszko [sic], who gave him his house.” Rezko did not “give” Obama his house; he purchased the vacant lot next door, the sale of which was a condition of Obama being able to purchase the house.
— Horowitz writes: “It was in [William] Ayers’ living room that Obama launched his campaign for Alice Palmer’s left-wing seat.” In fact, Obama formally announced launched his campaign at a Ramada Inn, and numerous home gatherings, like the one at Ayers’ home, were held around the same time.
— Horowitz writes, “it was Ayers himself who hired Obama to spend the $50 million Ayers had raised to finance an army of anti-American radicals drawn from ACORN and other nihilistic groups to recruit Chicago school children to their political causes.” In fact, “Ayers himself” played no apparent role in hiring Obama as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Further, actual educators have said that the CAC’s work actually “reflected … mainstream thinking among education reformers,” not the views of “nihilistic groups.”
— Horowitz writes: “When his benefactor Alice Palmer changed her mind about passing him her senate seat, he refused to give it back. When she and two other black candidates attempted to challenge him in the primaries, he went to court to prevent them from running at all. He preferred to disenfranchise their supporters than win in an election.” In fact, Obama challenged the petition signatures to put Palmer and the other opponents on the ballot — a common procedure used to combat electoral fraud, which is supposed to be a big deal to people like Horowitz when ACORN is allegedly engaging in it.
When he isn’t lying about Obama, Horowitz is engaging in a lengthy anti-Obama screed. But if Horowitz can’t get basic facts right, why trust him on his ranting?