Representative Press Blog

Attacking C-SPAN

emails and posts regarding the attacks on C-SPAN:

Dear Mr. Maoz:

Bellow is a copy of an email I sent to Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. It applies to you as well:

Dear Mr. Cohen:

C-SPAN is the best thing on television, you should do some research before you start attacking and slandering a great resource.

C-SPAN is doing a terrific job and it is wrong of you to try to intimidate the people working there.

C-SPAN's decision to allow David Irving to be heard was fair, not a "cockeyed version of fairness" as you described it. It is not "mindless" to give the C-SPAN viewers the chance to hear the facts some people are ignorant of or unwilling to let others know.

C-SPAN viewers might discover that use of the term "Holocaust Denier" to describe David Irving is grotesque, manipulative and dishonest. Mr. Irving has documented evidence of the massive shooting of Jews and has written and talked about gassings taking place at Auschwitz. Withholding these facts is journalistic malpractice. What you and Deborah Lipstadt are doing is wrong. You and Ms. Lipstadt owe C-SPAN an apology. I hope to see a correction in your paper.
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my post over at Lipstadt's blog:

You gloat, "Methinks they have been inundated with protests." Ms. Lipstadt, what you are doing is a disgraceful, how dare you try to intimidate C-SPAN.

Your use of the term "Holocaust Denier" to describe David Irving is grotesque, manipulative and dishonest. Mr. Irving has documented evidence of the massive shooting of Jews and has written and talked about gassings taking place at Auschwitz.
You don't make these facts clear to people.

You do such harm to public discourse and now you have the nerve to attack C-SPAN.
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my email to C-SPAN:

Dear Ms. Doebele:

Ms. Deborah Lipstadt is now gloating about people criticizing C-SPAN. She writes on her blog, "Methinks they have been inundated with protests."

I hope you don't let people that want to suppress free speech intimidate you.

I support you and C-SPAN's efforts at fairness and with regard to Mr. Irving, you are correct again. Those not wanting Irving to receive a fair hearing are using manipulative and dishonest tactics. It would come as a surprise to many, I am sure, to learn that Mr. Irving has documented evidence of the massive shooting of Jews and has written and talked about gassings taking place at Auschwitz so the term "denier" is simply slander. Lipstadt's game only works if people don't get to hear these facts which is why she goes to such lengths to keep Irving from being heard.