Horowitz Replies to Frum

David Frum and David Horowitz debate Glenn Beck's effect on the conservative movement. Today, David Horowitz responds: "[The] remarkable conservative outburst against the broadcaster Glenn Beck... is wrongheaded, absurd, destructive to the conservative cause and a blatant contradiction of the “big tent” philosophy which you otherwise support."

David Frum and David Horowitz debate Glenn Beck's effect on the conservative movement.  To read the earlier posts in this debate, click here.

David Horowitz: I agree with you David that this dialogue is getting more focused, and I find it much more pleasurable (and hopefully informative) as a result.

There are two issues here. One is a remarkable conservative outburst against the broadcaster Glenn Beck which includes you, Mark Levin and Pete Wehner among others, and which collectively wishes for his early self-destruction. The message from the three of you is that for the good of the conservative cause he should be silent — and the sooner the better. Wehner expresses the judgment I detect in all three of your blasts in this sentence: “The role Glenn Beck is playing is harmful in its totality.”

More than anything else, it is this that I am reacting to. I think this attitude is wrongheaded, absurd, destructive to the conservative cause and a blatant contradiction of the “big tent” philosophy which you otherwise support.

To read the rest of David Horowitz's reply, please click here at FrontPageMag.com.